crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 91

Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

What are they, how do they differ and what can startup do to take advantage of them? Paths to Liquidity: a quick history of the four waves of startup investing. 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.

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Internet IPO Silicon Valley Agile 334

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 11, 2017

If your startup is looking for an angel investor, it makes sense to present your plan to flocks of angels, and assume that at least one will swoop down and scoop you up. This is another very popular website for raising equity or debt investments for startups. In addition, they serve as a jobs available site for 24,000 startups.

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Angel Investor North America Accredited Investor Angel Groups 167

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. .&# I’ll list other consultants I know about, as well.

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Fractional CTO CTO CTO Hire Fractional VPE 40

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 20, 2013

If your startup is looking for an Angel investor, it makes sense to present your plan to flocks of Angels, and assume that at least one will swoop down and scoop you up. It boasts more than 1,000 member-managed groups and VCs, with 40,000 investors, and over 1,800 startups funded in the last 12 months. Or does it? and Dave McClure.

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Angel Investor North America Rhode Island Accredited Investor 270

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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Java Database Argentina 79

www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

25 Best Startup Failure Post-Mortems of All Time. Update – As a followup, we analyzed all of these startup failure post-mortems to identify the top 20 reasons for startup failure. Also worth a read after you review these startup failure post-mortems. Post-Mortem Title : How My Startup Failed.

Software Review 79

Software Review Startup Technical Review Vesting 79

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

It is with that in mind that each year the World Economic Forum selects a group of startups to honor as Technology Pioneers. The startups selected are rated in terms of innovation, impact, growth, proof of concept, and leadership. Many of the startups address energy, environmental and health issues. World Economic Forum.

Technology 128

Technology Warrant Social Network Startup 128

Agile VC

APRIL 13, 2012

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. Urbanization of Startups. I spent some time with some startups in San Francisco proper, as opposed to the heart of Silicon Valley (see Note 1). Also all the big anchor companies that a startup might want to partner with at that time (eBay, Google, Oracle, Yahoo!, April 13, 2012.

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Silicon Valley San Francisco San Jose Startup 185

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 15, 2009

This is part of my ongoing series Startup Advice. When you’re an early-stage startup that hasn’t raised any institutional money you end up doing almost every job function of the company yourself. When I founded my first company along with Brian Moran (whose idea it was) I had no real experience running startups.

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Founder Technical Review Startup Venture Capital 299

maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

189 Answers To The Top Startup Questions On Your Mind. 189 Answers To The Top Startup Questions On Your Mind. Written By Dan Martell on February 2nd, 2012 | Category: Hiring LeanStartup Marketing Metrics Startup Life | 6 Comments. I love startups. Here’s my high-level approach for startups. No, I have many ideas.

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Technical Review Startup Cofounder Software Review 44

Steve Blank

APRIL 15, 2011

The Stanford Lean LaunchPad class was an experiment in a new model of teaching startup entrepreneurship. Many of the students had heard phrases that fall under Customer Relationships before; “customer acquisition, SEO/SEM, public relations, Social Network, Advertising, Loyalty programs, cross-sell and up-sell” etc.,

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Customer Cloud EC2 Channel 247

crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 1, 2013

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). Social Media Marketing.

Small Business 107

Small Business Marketing Affiliate PPC 107

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.

Software Review 78

Software Review Social Media Social Network Software 78

Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

The Future of Startups 2013-2017, beginning of a series. Marc Andreesen gave a great interview about a year agi about “The Future of the Enterprise” and where the next startups will be playing – Hadoop, Big Data, BYOD, etc. Some of these next big startups are in L.A., You mean startups?

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Software Review Startup Venture Capital Stock 22

Seeing Both Sides

OCTOBER 24, 2017

When Julisa Salas told me she wanted to join a startup, I was worried. Capable, smart and personable, she was also the type of candidate that most startups shy away from — no technical background, zero startup experience, and a young woman of color trying to break into an industry dominated by white men.

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Startup Boston Vertical Community 20

Seeing Both Sides

OCTOBER 24, 2017

When Julisa Salas told me she wanted to join a startup, I was worried. Capable, smart and personable, she was also the type of candidate that most startups shy away from — no technical background, zero startup experience, and a young woman of color trying to break into an industry dominated by white men.

Startup 20

Startup Boston Vertical Community 20

Cracking the Code

JUNE 24, 2021

How did you end up heading to Silicon Valley from France to join a startup? But the Valley in 1999 was a new world of startups, venture capital, and stock options. I never went ahead with the PhD – I joined a startup instead, as it felt like the right thing to do. It was entirely by accident to be honest!

Global 62

Global Europe France Cofounder 62

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

Nevertheless, if you share too much in your funding process or meet too many VCs expect a certain amount of your ideas to spread around the startup community. The following was available: “I kept hearing about startups that raised VC funding, but which hadn’t filed Form Ds (nor issued a press release).

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Stealth SEC Advertising Accredited Investor 285

Software By Rob

FEBRUARY 10, 2009

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. February 10th, 2009 | Micropreneurship , Startups Building your startup? Follow me Startups for the Rest of Us. If youre trying to grow your startup youve come to the right place. Check out my book Like this post? Subscribe via RSS On Twitter?

Design 51

Design Software Review Marketing Software Developers 51

VC Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2011

Israeli startups in the mobile space are once again showing impressive attendance levels, with 56 Israeli companies exhibiting in the Israeli Pavilion. 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.

Mobile 103

Mobile Securities and Exchange Commission Flash IP 103

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. In the era of social networks, LinkedIn, Facebook messaging, Quora and email addresses that are easily guessable, it’s easy to think that maybe you should just approach a VC directly. They seem so reachable.

Developer 366

Developer Silicon Valley PR Las Vegas 366

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. ” “Mark has a vested interest in talking down valuations of startups.” What is the True Sentiment of VCs? All of these are false.

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Valuation Down Round Startup Later Stage 150

SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

Some great content around the intersection of startups and being a Startup CTO in June this year. This continues my series of posts: Top 30 Startup Posts in June 2010 Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010 Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March The following are the top items based on social signals.

Software Review 217

Software Review Startup Venture Capital Technical Review 217