crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Chicago’s startup engine roars | Chicago Tribune - crowdspring.co/16aYZLL. Gartner: Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends For 2014 | Forbes - crowdspring.co/H47XhY. Fewer US startups now than in 1999. Global study: World not ready for aging population – Yahoo News - crowdspring.co/19LsRt2. 16aXflK. .

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Nowadays nearly every online shop utilizes some sort of product recommendation engine, which is no wonder, as these systems, if set up and configured properly can significantly boost revenues, CTRs, conversions, and other important metrics. What is a recommendation engine, exactly? How Recommendation Engines Benefit Sites.

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Ben's Blog

JANUARY 31, 2012

After raising our first round of funding for Loudcloud in 1999, we went to visit our new venture capital firm and meet their full team. They might know executives, but not engineers. These presentations resulted in more than 3,000 introductions between portfolio companies and prospective Fortune 500/Global 2000 senior executives.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 25, 2018

Her vision for how cloud based technology could enhance our communication efforts produced a high-quality tool that I never would have envisioned. Keith Martino is head of CMI, a global consultancy founded in 1999 that customizes leadership and sales development initiatives. Don’t settle for an illusion!

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Keith Martino is head of CMI, a global consultancy founded in 1999 that customizes leadership and sales development initiatives. Martino is the author of “ Expect Leadership “, a series of leadership books – The Executive Edition, in Business, in Engineering, and in Technology. Leverage diversity to create unity!

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 28, 2010

I did 5 years of building large computer systems and computer networks for global corporations and 3+ years as a “strategy consultant.&# In many of the meetings you’d meet clients who would tell you everything you needed to know, would offer to help you and then would never follow up on the help that they had offered.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 11, 2013

The previous post described how China built its science and technology infrastructure. This post is about the how the Chinese government engineered technology clusters. This enabled Torch to evolve with China’s rapidly global economy. – The Torch Program. Innovation Clusters.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 11, 2013

The previous post described how China built its science and technology infrastructure. This post is about the how the Chinese government engineered technology clusters. This enabled Torch to evolve with China’s rapidly global economy. – The Torch Program. Innovation Clusters.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 30, 2015

For creatives, it is a global stage for creativity where title and experience don’t matter. In January of 1999, I co-founded a marketing agency with a former boss. For buyers, it is a place to post a creative project, name their own price, watch the world contribute ideas and choose the one they like best.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

APRIL 18, 2012

I have worked for 3 ‘internet startups’ over the past 14 years (my first.com was in 1999) and the two that relied on ‘free’ models (even with ‘freemium services’) did not survive. Our vision is that this kind of technology is going to improve the experience for both populations,” she said.Ms.

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Pascal's View

MAY 13, 2011

This is a good example of technology driven market change being accelerated by new securities regulations). 1999 : Provisions that prohibit a bank holding company from owning other financial companies were repealed on November 12, 1999, by the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act. cents or 6.25 cents or 6.25

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 18, 2011

Moshe Lichtman, the man once in charge of all of Microsoft’s technology development in Israel, says that the time has come to build a billion dollar Israeli company. about Moshe Lichtman, and why he is one of few men or women capable of leading an Israeli startup to global billions. In this post I break down an article by TheMarker.co.il

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

In 1999, Jack Ma created Alibaba , a Chinese-based B2B marketplace for connecting small and medium enterprise with potential export opportunities. Without the proper technology to match people who wanted a ride with people who could provide that service, taxi and chauffeur companies were drastically underserving the potential market.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

Of course articles like these are going to inflame people because not everybody who is running their own business (or aspires to) wants to believe that you need to go all out to compete and win on a global scale. But … global tech does require an absolute, singular commitment level. We were based in London. I thought that, too.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Keith Martino is head of CMI, a global consultancy founded in 1999 that customizes leadership and sales development initiatives. Martino is the author of “ Expect Leadership “, a series of leadership books – The Executive Edition, in Business, in Engineering, and in Technology. Don’t let him shake your confidence in you!

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Reid Hoffman

MAY 16, 2020

Already, thousands of people had started creating their own globally accessible web pages focused on whatever they wanted. Behind every new breakthrough technology, every new industry trend, there are people. It was 1999. They were posting constantly updated photos of their coffee pots. And how do you do that?

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Reid Hoffman

OCTOBER 10, 2017

For decades, technology entrepreneurs have had an affinity for pirates. Piracy became so associated with startups that when, in 1999, the cable network TNT released a movie about the heated rivalry between Steve Jobs and Apple, and Bill Gates and Microsoft, it was titled, “Pirates of Silicon Valley.”

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Technology. Personal Technology. TECHNOLOGY. Craig Walker, co-founder and CEO of Firespotter Labs, a technology incubator, said it feels unnatural to bestow so much voting power on one executive. This time around, technology entrepreneurs are being more assertive. WSJ Classroom. Ran gold Resources Ltd. My Journal.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

Wired Magazine has crowned Tel Aviv the world’s second largest center for technology start-ups after Silicon Valley. In its September issue, the science and technology magazine created a list of 10 European cities that constitute significant centers for high-tech activity. See the headlines below. . Chipmaker Qualcomm Inc.

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Start Up Blog

JUNE 6, 2019

I’m a self confessed lover of technology and how empowering it can be. I make my career from evangelising the benefits of technology and I wrote my first lines of code on a 16k RAM-only computer, way before any of this was trendy. After the Dot Com crash of 1999, most yet-to-be-disrupted big firms got back to business.

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Marc Andreessen: So the computer industry started in 1950 and basically ran for 50 years with the same model, which was a model where all of the new computers, all the new technology, all the new software started out being sold for the highest prices to the biggest organizations. So originally the customer was the Department of Defense.

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Austin Startup

MAY 3, 2017

Today’s economy is substantially more freelance for one, but as it pertains to technology and innovative entrepreneurship, we find ourselves in an era that is bringing tech to traditional industries that have yet to have fully embraced what the internet has caused: data, connectivity, globalization, scalability, and efficiency.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 28, 2010

Juniper Networks Inc acquired Altor Networks, a company specializing in security for virtualization technology. Virtualization technology is increasingly in demand as large corporations try to cut back on hardware in their data centers. The technology was developed in collaboration with Bar-Ilan University.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

Don’t spend like it’s 1999. We have the inability to hire engineering in Silicon Valley or brand sales people in NYC but the country still has very high structural long-term unemployment. The last big recession was in the early 90′s where IT and globalization were in their infancy in terms of impact.

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Scalable Startup

MAY 16, 2015

Each circle represents one of the fifty largest technology companies in the city, the size of each circle determined by the number of the company’s employees. A Variation on the Global Economic Crash of 2008? They begin on the eastern edge of the city near the Ferry Building and spread westward along Market Street.

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