crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 5, 2012

The image above is taken in Takotna, Alaska during the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race on March 9, 2011. More phenomenal photos from 2011 are in the Other section below. The State of Social Marketing 2011 – 2012 – [link]. Social network addiction around the world (Israelis are the most addicted) – [link].

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

APRIL 28, 2011

website asking for women mobile developers to apply to win 1 of 5 free conference passes and a demo pedestal for APPNATION SF. The judges were from ReadWriteWeb, Mashery, Churn Labs, Samsung Developers, Wireless Industry Partnership, Pockergamer.biz, and Mobile Monday London. Some people whom I met: Android game developers.

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David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

The first panel will focus on public markets and will discuss the use and effectiveness of social media tools and data mining technologies in harnessing the wisdom of crowds to generate investment ideas. Howard Lindzon is Co-Founder and CEO of StockTwits, a social network for traders and investors to share real-time ideas and information.

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Technical Review Technology North Carolina Switzerland 128

VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2012

Applicaster’s solutions are adopted by a constantly growing number of world leading content owners, format developers, broadcasters, cable companies, and MNOs. Utilizing a recently developed innovative technology, BetterView leads a revolution in the content world. Betterview - Company Website. Brandsforce - Company Website.

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Agile VC

OCTOBER 27, 2011

October 28, 2011. 3) UI/UX Matters in B2B - For decades, B2B application developers could skimp on innovating in the presentation layer. And as B2B selling is increasingly done over the web, SalesCrunch is becoming one of the arms dealers to sales forces everywhere. © 2011 GenuineVC - All rights reserved.

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www.readwriteweb.com

MAY 10, 2012

iPad and Android tablet apps for magazines have been a big trend over the past couple of years, spurred on by dwindling print magazine sales. After launching iOS and Android apps in January 2011, Technology Review ran into development, sales and other difficulties. All of that work and for disappointing sales.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Or, rather, more offensively to Facebook and Google employees, less offensive to.NET developers, though the underlying message is the same.). They write everything from assembly to jQuery, on PCs to mobile phones, doing hard core computer graphics to high level social networking. March 25, 2011 at 7:00 am. Very good post.

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mashable.com

JULY 18, 2012

The search giant’s VP of Corporate Development, along with CEO Larry Page, signs off on the dozens of acquisitions and acqui-hires made every year, large and small. in June 2011 for $400 million. Googles most recent and expensive acquisition to date occurred August 15, 2011 with its purchase of Motorola Mobility.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Social networking is a very important marketing channel at some startups – [link]. Nearly 50% of surveyed retail shoppers use social networks – [link]. Ad Networks Next? Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template tco use today) – [link].

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 96

Sophia Perl of Wisdom

APRIL 28, 2011

website asking for women mobile developers to apply to win 1 of 5 free conference passes and a demo pedestal for APPNATION SF. The judges were from ReadWriteWeb, Mashery, Churn Labs, Samsung Developers, Wireless Industry Partnership, Pockergamer.biz, and Mobile Monday London. Some people whom I met: Android game developers.

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Portland Oregon Mobile Incubator 40

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 27, 2011

It is also an excellent platform to address the questions from prospects and help clarify issues and objections for any sales process, which is one of the primary ways Voluble is seeing some of its major early customers using it. The next event will be on Tuesday, November 22, 2011, at 8:00 AM (PDT), register to attend here.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Contact Us Submit News Contact Us Write for Us Spark of Genius Series Mashable | The Social Media Guide Business Mashable on Facebook Join Us! If you find you need a developer to work with you, do you reach out to a freelancer or do you call an agency? DIY Tools There are quite a few do-it-yourself options for the thrifty entrepreneur.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Contact Us Submit News Contact Us Write for Us Spark of Genius Series Mashable | The Social Media Guide Business Mashable on Facebook Join Us! Topics are divided into IT, marketing, sales, finance, customer service, operations and human resources sections, which makes it easy to search for the latest discussions on your interest area.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 15, 2014

In the last five years, I’ve managed to find the time to write, publish and promote multiple books, including two award-winning bestsellers , develop a web application, maintain a blog, and present at conferences. I developed a simple mantra: “The only person I have to cheat is myself.” The Only Person I Have to Cheat is Myself.

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Technical Review Technical Cofounder Software Review Cofounder 195

Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

To compare the two, in 2011 U.S. By comparison, in 2011 Chinese VC’s invested $13 billion in all deals. China has essentially closed its internal search, media and social network software market to foreign companies who wouldn’t play with the government rules on the Great Firewall. China now has plenty of both.

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Silicon Valley China Venture Capital Merger 267

Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 21, 2011

SIMPLE, EFFECTIVE AND AFFORDABLE SMALL BUSINESS MARKETING Home About Consulting Products Programs Workshops Blog Resources Contact Subscribe by RSS Subscribe to Duct Tape Marketing by Email Small Business Week 2011 Our winners! The Referral Engine – Teaching Your Business to Market Itself – by John Jantsch.

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Small Business Marketing Software Review Portland 66

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

By Carla Freberg, Sales Manager – Vendor Services Group, Balboa Capital. It is referred to as Black Friday, and it brings out shoppers in droves who are looking for special promotions, door-buster deals, one-day sales and free giveaways. This year, Black Friday is expected to once again set new sales records.

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mashable.com

MARCH 24, 2011

That’s one of the things we might develop during the summer program. Ignoring Your Faults You might have all sorts of shortcomings — it’s your first startup, you’re inexperienced, ignorant about how “sales&# works, you have buggy software, etc. May 12th - 14th, 2011. an iPad 2 Killer?

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Programming Startup Technical Review Software Review 86

View from Seed

APRIL 21, 2015

Georgiades (Zumper): I started working on Zumper seriously in the summer between my first and second years at HBS (2011), supported by generous HBS startup grants. Poort (Rescale): Most important to my personal development, HBS was extremely helpful in building confidence in myself. Clark: Competing through Social Networks.

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venturebeat.com

JULY 12, 2012

Developers. Social media. Social networking. Social games. Additionally, Microsoft will provide its startups with four to eight months of advice, design and development help, discounted access to Microsoft’s Azure Data Marketplace APIs, and introductions to potential partners or customers. Enterprise.

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Detroit Incubator Technical Review Venture Capital 69

thenextweb.com

OCTOBER 17, 2011

16th September 2011 by Harrison Weber. Despite this, developing a physical presence can attract a lot of attention. Check out this social media strategy for startups for more specific techniques on leveraging Twitter and Facebook. #9 Sources: The Social Network Screenshot. United States. Previous story.

Social Media 67

Social Media Stealth India Startup 67

Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

To compare the two, in 2011 U.S. By comparison, in 2011 Chinese VC’s invested $13 billion in all deals. China has essentially closed its internal search, media and social network software market to foreign companies who wouldn’t play with the government rules on the Great Firewall. China now has plenty of both.

Silicon Valley 159

Silicon Valley China Venture Capital Merger 159

VC Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2011

For the third consecutive year , VC Cafe puts the spotlight on the Israeli companies exhibiting in the MWC 2011 event. Interested to meet any of these companies face to face at the WMC 2011? Below are the 56 Israeli companies who will exhibit at the 2011 Mobile World Congress: 3G Vision. IPgallery.

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Mobile Securities and Exchange Commission Flash IP 103

Software By Rob

JANUARY 25, 2012

That I’ve had a few “exits” and instead of hunkering down and writing code for 6 months I opted to talk to a few of my buddies at the yacht club and purchase a primed and growing social network for somewhere in the mid-seven figures. After co-hosting MicroConf in early 2011 I was on the prowl for the next big thing.

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Acquisition Software Review Fresno Algorithm 63

www.inc.com

JULY 9, 2010

500|5000 Conference Honorees Resources Press Apply 2011 ); Topics > Leadership and Managing > Human Resources > Recruiting and Hiring Employees > How to Attract Talent to Your Start-Up At a start-up, you need employees that are in it for the long haul and fit your unique culture. 500|5000 The 2010 Inc. 500|5000 List The 2010 Top Lists Inc.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 9, 2016

Recently, Facebook has doubled down on social commerce. and even Messenger is being used by companies to interact with consumers (both pre- and post-sale). Experiment to see what works for you, but remember that Facebook is a social network and not everyone is sold on this social commerce concept, yet.

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Social Media eCommerce Media Audience 48

Occam's Razor

JUNE 4, 2018

I mean developing and inserting a subtle collection of gentle nudges that can help increase the conversion rate by a statistically significant amount. Social cues to the rescue. The last couple of months have not been great for social networks. A minority might believe that the whole social media thing is going to die.

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Conversion eCommerce Artificial Inteligence Aggregator 124

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. Social networking. Social/Sharing. s helpful to find an developer tool that allows you to write html/css and renders the view in real time, so you donâ??t Social Buttons : Want to add Twitter, Facebook, Google, buttons? s easier to use/develop with.

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Software Review Technical Review Startup 53

techcrunch.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Yes, you have good working knowledge of accounting, an idea of how to bring in sales leads, run a marketing and PR campaign, recruit people and build a great company culture, but that won’t help you build a product that customers want. Part of the problem when you know nothing about the tech is that you think you just need “a web developer”.

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Technical Cofounder Cofounder San Antonio Europe 49

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

by Christopher Wallace, Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Amsterdam Printing. Not surprisingly, they developed a loyal following and grew rapidly. In 2011, Microsoft bought Skype for $8.5 In lieu of the sale, they elected to go public and the $20 IPO share price initially valued Groupon at $13 billion.

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IPO Exit Strategy San Francisco Startup 162

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 13, 2012

With the theme of “Driving Asia’s Digital Development”, ad:tech Singapore 2012 featured a conference that discussed issues such as “Digital Trends, Tools and Technologies”, “Digital Adoption and Execution Trends of Emerging and Developed Markets” etc.

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VC Cafe

JULY 2, 2012

has acquired Israeli face recognition technology developer Face.com for $100 million. The two companies have collaborated for a long time, with Facebook using Face.com’s technology to help users tag the faces of friends in pictures they upload on the social network with Face.com’s Photo Tagger service. Facebook Inc.

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The Equity Kicker

MARCH 16, 2012

of US games developer Riot Games, a $400m deal last year): Sales growth from subscription fees and virtual items on Tencent’s social networking platforms slowed to a fifth year on year in its fourth quarter, from 25 per cent during the same period in 2010. Related articles.

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Acquisition Merger Social Network Revenue 104

betashop.com

OCTOBER 8, 2012

As the questions came in, I realized that my 2010 list was great for what I had learned as of 2 years ago, but it also was in desperate need of an update to include what I’ve learned more recently, especially as we’ve pivoted from fabulis to Fab in 2011 and then scaled Fab to more than 7.5 Your customer is growing up on social media.

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Technical Review Technology Software Review Valuation 108

grasshopperherder.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

We’re testing a viral loop, direct sales, and affiliate marketing.&# Reply Josh Strike says: January 18, 2011 at 10:50 am Tristan, the only thing I disagree with on an emotional level is the NDA business. Reply Tristan says: January 18, 2011 at 1:04 pm Josh, I totally agree with you. A: “I don’t know.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

Despite the ongoing recession, I took to my kitchen table in 2013 to launch Digital Air Strike — an award-winning automotive social media and digital engagement company. Tapping into my knowledge of and experience in automotive marketing, I identified a need to monetize social networks for businesses. 24) 9-5 Scares Me.

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Entrepreneur Australia Technical Review Community 48

Professor VC

APRIL 7, 2011

Thursday, April 7, 2011. Others will attempt fire sales. April 25, 2011 11:00 PM. May 14, 2011 2:39 PM. June 7, 2011 11:58 AM. ▼ 2011. (7). Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? ProfessorVC. The last blogger in Silicon Valley. Anonymous said.

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