crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 6, 2010

2000+ Illustrator Symbols for Illustrators and Animators – [link]. 50 Beautiful Print Advertisements for Inspiration – [link]. Web Designers: A Guide To Using Custom Scrollbars On Your Site – [link]. Purple In Web Design: A New Trend? Maps In Modern Web Design: Showcase and Examples – [link].

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

APRIL 12, 2010

In retrospect we say that Google transformed how people find information, and further, how advertising works on the Internet. We took a simple problem (when server rooms get hot, the gear fails) and provided a simple solution (thermometer with a web page that emails/pages you if it's too hot).

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! 7 Incredible Web Design, Branding, Digital Marketing Experiences – [link]. 7 Incredible Web Design, Branding, Digital Marketing Experiences – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 11, 2017

Sometimes called “Gen Y”, millennials are the much sought after generation born between 1980 and 2000. Millennials spend an average of 25 hours per week online, so starting with relatable web-based content is your best bet. Millennials believe that advertising is largely spin, and definitely not authentic.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 15, 2010

Bill Gross is the man responsible for the overwhelming amount of monetization on the web. I don’t believe that search is the only answer in 2010 as it was in 2000. I think the best solution for the social networking era is “in-stream&# advertising. High Profile Deal of the Week: 1. This is “Adsense for Twitter.”

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 17, 2019

Polls, surveys, quizzes, personality tests – these formats which engage the user and encourage shares have been proven to deliver quality leads and drive web traffic. It might seem like an unusual solution to the uninitiated, but engaging content like quizzes is gaining traction in advertising. Quiz me this.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 5, 2013

Many merchants are finding that fan pages eliminate the need for web sites, and that clicking like is very much a replacement for filling out a form to get on a mailing list. Web sites already offer the option of logging in with Facebook or creating an account with an email address and password. A new paradigm.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 14, 2013

Now I realize that for most a term like semantic query relevancy might as well be the name of computer programming language, but the fact is Google’s customers, the searcher and the advertiser, are no longer content with results based on related page keyword content. Web Marketing Google Hummingbird Semantic search SEO'

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Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

Silicon Valley is still emerging from the tech bubble and massive downturn of late 2000-2002. The market size for online advertising, e-commerce, and web premium services are 1/10th to 1/3rd the size they are today. It’ll be nearly two years before the concept of “Web 2.0″

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K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

Kumar was the Founder, President and CEO of SneakerLabs, a company which developed software and services for web-based customer interaction. He then served as the Chairman and CEO of iMeet, a provider of web-conferencing services. Direct Revenue, meaning no three-way business models and no advertising, media, or content.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

In 1998 there were around 850 VC funds and by 2000 there were 2,300. By 2000 the total LP commitments had mushroomed to more than $100 billion. So of course returns from 2000-2010 were subpar on average for the industry. In 1998 it was 150 million, 1999 250 million and by 2000 it had crossed 350 million.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Advertising. Jumpstart was one of Grahams first clients; it signed on shortly after he founded Arizona Bay, in 2000. Arizona Bay, after all, had built the IT infrastructure and Web applications that Jumpstart needed to hit it big. Personal Finance. LEADERSHIP & MANAGING. Leadership. Strategy and Planning. Human Resources (HR).

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The Equity Kicker

MARCH 17, 2014

Tony Haile, CEO of analytics business Chartbeat has a great post up on Time with the provocative title What you think you know about the web is wrong. As a result publishers and advertisers often misunderstand their businesses and invest in clickbait and articles that people don’t read that don’t perform for advertisers.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 18, 2011

than it is to explain how the 1999 UETA and 2000 ESIGN Acts and our https framework help keep us secure. The best advertisement is happy customers. It’s a lot easier to tell customers “Try our FREE signing website, you can sign documents with a mouse or on your iphone!&#

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 22, 2012

By day he works on web and social media for HP. The same spreadsheet also predicted we’d see a music downloading service in 1999 or 2000. Who will sell the advertising space in our brains? I also like to calculate these figures myself, even though you can research similar data on the web. Napster arrived in June, 1999.

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www.usatoday.com

JULY 16, 2012

To greet renters and hand over the keys, Hertz sometimes hires a stand-in through TaskRabbit, a Web-based company that matches time-deprived people in need of temporary assistants with freelance errand runners who have passed criminal background checks and are looking for extra income. Advertisement. Thats real money." Most Popular.

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ConversionXL

MAY 22, 2017

In early 2000, the diffusion of Personal Computers transformed the way users made decisions and the paradigm buyer/seller changed again. Back to those (early) days when Marketing Automation was just born, the world was web-centric. This happens in advertising all the time. Marketing automation fatigue. Data Accessibility.

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Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

Back when we were all trying to figure out the real value of traffic on the web, we investors – and acquiring companies – got a bit crazy with metrics used to value acquisitions and investments. But, when the bubble burst in 2000, most of us quickly grew up. Email readers, continue here.] a month for a subscription.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 15, 2011

This week they were testing one of the most confusing sections of a company’s business model – Customer Relationships - the activities used to “Get, Keep and Grow” customers in a physical or virtual (web or mobile) channel. If their team was a web or mobile app they actually had to buy Google or Facebook ads and create demand.).

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

I soon found that yoga taught me 2000-year-old strategies, to be more present with my kids, be more patient with my family and feel more calm and energized at the same time! I would love logging in to Second Life to sell marketing and advertising to businesses trying to make it in a virtual setting. It turned out that there was!

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 8, 2019

web address today, go to launchwith.us John Jantsch: You know, I love sharing tips and resources with small business owners and one of them is you’ve got to choose the right web address for your business and it’s gotten harder. web address today. That’s it, 10 chapters, 20,000 words, 2000 words per chapter.

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Software By Rob

OCTOBER 15, 2009

The masses have grown weary of the blog “fad” just as they grew weary of the “email” fad in the late 90s, the “internet” fad in 2000, MySpace and Friendster in 2007/2008, and how they’ll grow tired of the Facebook and Twitter fads in 2010 and move on to something else. And that’s why now is a fantastic time to start a blog.

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BeyondVC

SEPTEMBER 28, 2005

I have shared many of these thoughts in earlier posts like " The web-based platform " last October and " Web-based businesses circa 2004." " Web 1999/2000. Spend $$$, advertising. It is no wonder why VCs are quite excited about next generation web companies. Critical Mass. Tech platform.

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VC Cafe

JULY 27, 2017

According to the Interactive Advertising Bureau, podcast industry ad revenue will reach $220 million in 2017, up 85 percent from 2016’s $119 million ( source ). The show starts with the history of Podcasts and ends with where they may be headed. Interestingly, Podcasts are starting to become a big business too. The third wave of podcasting.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 1, 2016

Podcasting has the ability to reach people all over the world with any message that you want to give while building a community of people that want to help each other and in turn make money by doing business with other great businesses with outstanding products through advertising. Thanks to Clay Bradley, Skilled Gentlemen Podcast. #8

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

What I want to answer with this post (long though it may be) is: Why did Web 2.0 billion in annual subscription revenues not including advertising or eCommerce). Social Networking in Web 1.0: By the mid-nineties we had the World Wide Web, which gave us a standard way to publish web pages using HTML.

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BeyondVC

APRIL 14, 2009

"  In the piece, James gives a historical perspective on companies that thrived and grew during previous recessions by increasing spending on on advertising and R&D.  When everyone is advertising, for instance, it’s hard to separate yourself from the pack; when ads are scarcer, the returns on investment seem to rise.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

I was living in Europe in 2000 when the first WAP phones (Wireless Access Protocol) were introduced. I had just returned from living in Japan where I witnessed the hugely successful launch of i-mode by NTT DoCoMo so I knew the potential that the mobile web would ultimately bring, but I saw so many flaws in the launch of WAP.

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www.huffingtonpost.com

MAY 10, 2011

HuffPosts QuickRead. Hiring the best developers is essential because a great developer is easily 3 times as productive as an average developer, yet their salaries are usually similar. ­om migrated off Drupal.

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Software By Rob

DECEMBER 10, 2008

How much would an extra $1000 or $2000 per month help during that time? Im a serial web entrepreneur here to share what Ive learned in my 11 years as a self-funded startup founder. I cover topics that affect software and web startups of all sizes, but mostly relating to startups you can fund yourself. The average U.S.

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VC Cafe

JULY 27, 2017

According to the Interactive Advertising Bureau, podcast industry ad revenue will reach $220 million in 2017, up 85 percent from 2016’s $119 million ( source ). The show starts with the history of Podcasts and ends with where they may be headed. Interestingly, Podcasts are starting to become a big business too. The third wave of podcasting.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

With that implicit assumption, startups hire a VP of Sales with a great rolodex and call on established mainstream companies while marketing creates a brand and buzz to create demand and drive it into the sales channel (web, direct salesforce, etc.) This was possible because in 2000, Donna and Handspring were in an Existing Market.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 31, 2010

It’s also financially rewarding, with up to $2000 in rewards for a great idea. What we are doing is extending the social web into that same arena, creating a new global marketplace for online ideas and knowledge. In 2008, I decided to take this concept and implement it as a web site, so Molecular Thinking was born.

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Occam's Razor

MAY 2, 2017

They are from my post The Biggest Mistake Web Analysts Make… And How To Avoid It! With advertising revenue in a tailspin, it is more important than ever. This limits a little bit what we can track in web analytics tools. Let your competition be lame and play by 2000 worldviews. It is not hard to pick New Subscriptions.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 24, 2012

The old-fashioned advertising may or may not work for your business, reason why Facebook now bets on promoting your posts instead. Users are not on Facebook to be exposed to advertisements, so if unsure, choose an image that would be representative to your company but still generic enough. The results are well worth the effort.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

From PopCityMedia (circa 2007) : In the fall of 2000, when Skurman was a college junior, the seed for the College Prowler was planted when he enrolled in the Entrepreneurship Program at Carnegie Mellon Business School. The result?

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ConversionXL

APRIL 27, 2019

Start with specific goals and make sure your web analytics software is tracking those goals. Where to advertise/promote, free or paid; The right message. Be it dogs, fashion, or web design, you have to spend years analyzing them to separate the good from the bad, and know exactly why. (If for web hosting, server space).

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