crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 18, 2013

Thanks To Facebook, Strongest Year For IPOs Since 2000 With $21.5 Lots of important lessons for entrepreneurs - [link]. 8 Major Mistakes Entrepreneurs Will Make In 2013 | Forbes – [link]. Facebook Has Some Tips | Search Engine Land - [link]. Why You Should Give Yourself Permission to Screw Up - [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Small Business Spotlight of the Week: Fearless Women Entrepreneur Network – [link]. Twitter claims it’s not a social network – [link]. 2000 Absolutely Free Textures – [link]. Search Engine Marketing Secrets From a Former Bra Specialist – [link]. image credit: Coletivo Mambembe.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

I raised money as an entrepreneur, like you, in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2005 for two different companies. I never suggest that entrepreneurs just randomly pitch VCs. As I like to say, in the era of social networks and transparency if you can’t figure out how to get introduced to a VC then hang up your cleats now.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

As an entrepreneur, you simply use their investor search engine to find appropriate investors for your business according to location, industry interest and other relevant criteria. This one claims to be the world’s largest single Angel investor network, with 1,100 accredited investor members throughout 27 chapters on t3 continents.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

Dot.com Bubble ( 1995-2000): “ Anything goes” as public markets clamor for ideas, vague promises of future growth, and IPOs happen absent regard for history or profitability. VC’s worked with entrepreneurs to build profitable and scalable businesses, with increasing revenue and consistent profitability – quarter after quarter.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 11, 2017

As an entrepreneur, you simply use their investor search engine to find appropriate investors for your business according to location, industry interest, and other relevant criteria. AngelList has featured over 3 million businesses for potential investors in a format that is, effectively, a social network for entrepreneurs and angels.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 20, 2013

As an entrepreneur, you simply use their investor search engine to find appropriate investors for your business according to location, industry interest and other relevant criteria. New England Investment Network. This software platform is used by most local Angel organizations for managing deal flow. Keiretsu Forum.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 7, 2011

“Provigent is a unique asset with world-class microwave backhaul technology and strong engineering talent developing innovative and highly integrated semiconductor solutions for the microwave segment.&# – Rajiv Ramaswami, executive VP at Broadcom. Israel’s index of leading economic indicators rose a preliminary 0.4%

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

Web Startup Lessons Advice from a CTO and Entrepreneur Home About Startup Advice: When to Use a Consulting CTO There are not many to be found. Most likely, this is a person who is a serial entrepreneur and was the chief technology officer for two or more web startups. .&# Why are consulting CTOs so scarce? Try Google.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

We love a good entrepreneurial success story – entrepreneur as protagonist overcomes obstacles and builds a thriving, successful company (and become wealthy while doing so). I would advise any entrepreneur or investor considering content to think twice, as Howard Lindzon from Wallstrip warned us. It’s free.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 1, 2013

Many small business owners and young entrepreneurs are intimidated by marketing. Search Engine Marketing. Search engine marketing focuses on promotion through search engines (Google, Bing). There are two distinct forms of search engine marketing: organic (search engine optimization or SEO) and paid (pay-per-click or PPC).

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

ScheduleOnce – Scheduling engine to get everyone who needs to meet together at one time. Ximdesk – Collaboration and social networking platform for enterprise. GroupSwim – Social collaboration and community tools to bring your employees, customers, and partners together.

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Cracking the Code

JUNE 24, 2021

1999/2000 was the startup heyday, and I was in the hot space of telecoms – it all looked promising. There were no social networks, let alone sharing economy then, so it took a while to take off. What would you advise entrepreneurs expanding globally? And that was the start of an interesting journey.

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Agile VC

APRIL 13, 2012

The kinds of places where you have to sign an NDA when you walk in the lobby… When I lived and worked in the bay area (2000-2005) virtually all the startups were down on the peninsula somewhere. Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

I’d like to explain as best I can my opinion on what is going on because most of what I hear from entrepreneurs is not only wrong but is reminiscent of what I heard in 1997-2000. ” “This will be great for VCs and bad for entrepreneurs.” What is the True Sentiment of VCs? All of these are false.

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Software By Rob

FEBRUARY 10, 2009

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. Im a serial web entrepreneur here to share what Ive learned in my 11 years as a self-funded startup founder. Also, go with the social network route and start a Facebook group to get people involved. Check out my book Like this post?

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

If you’re an Entrepreneur, you can do it from any place in the world. How important is education when I know I want to be an entrepreneur? If you’re looking for a designer, engineer, or biz marketing guy – go to meetups / conferences that those people would go to. If you’re a young entrepreneur, than congrats!

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2011

In addition, Cellguide’s GPSense engine is chip agnostic and could use pseudo- ranges from any GNSS receiver thus creating a fully featured locaiton and navigation engine. Dasur’s solution is based on a unique, patented pattern recognition engine. Series ORG-2000 is OriginGPS smallest fully featured GPS receiver.

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Seeing Both Sides

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Founders receive all the accolades and attention, but it’s employees number 2 through 2000 that turn a great idea into a great business. Julisa spoke to entrepreneurs, lawyers, headhunters, VCs and professors in the Boston startup ecosystem and pushed them to name their favorite dirt road stage, SaaS companies.

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Seeing Both Sides

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Founders receive all the accolades and attention, but it’s employees number 2 through 2000 that turn a great idea into a great business. Julisa spoke to entrepreneurs, lawyers, headhunters, VCs and professors in the Boston startup ecosystem and pushed them to name their favorite dirt road stage, SaaS companies.

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

And that’s been reflected in the entrepreneurial community, where entrepreneurs, especially between 2000 and 2008, entrepreneurs really only wanted to do — for the most part wanted to do consumer software, because that’s the only software that they could actually get anybody to adopt. That’s the entrepreneur we are looking for.

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

Many of our job postings for Engineering positions describe the company as a place “where the word ‘millions’ is used frequently and in many contexts&#. Wannabe entrepreneur symptoms and cures - Gabriel Weinberg , July 25, 2010 I was once a wannabe entrepreneur. I got a taste of that within my first weeks on the job.

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