crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2014

| MODE Blog - crowdspring.co/Nv3KYE. Our Love Affair With the Tablet Is Over | Re/code - crowdspring.co/Nv1PDw. Most active venture capital investors of 2013 in the US by stage – pic.twitter.com/cfCFXWmpbH. Court Rules Yelp Reviewer Guilty of Defamation: Review At Your Own Risk? - crowdspring.co/NeImqH.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2013

Why Good-Better-Best Prices Are So Effective | Rafi Mohammed-Harvard Business Review – [link]. Will Software Eliminate Physical Retail? Inside Google’s Culture of Success and Employee Happiness | KISSmetrics Blog – [link]. How should one go about pricing their software product? LinkedIn – [link].

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FEBRUARY 7, 2014

4 Steps to Starting a Web Business Without Knowing Coding | The Next Web – crowdspring.co/1ep8F6R. Amazon is surprisingly quiet/inactive when it comes to acquisitions | Re/code – crowdspring.co/1dhwOrm. 4 Steps to Starting a Web Business Without Knowing Coding – crowdspring.co/1ep8F6R. – crowdspring.co/1fkwYB1.

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DECEMBER 21, 2012

crowdSPRING Blog - [link]. When You Should (and Shouldn’t) Outsource Your Marketing | Hubspot Blog - [link]. Key Digital Marketing Trends For 2013 | crowdSPRING Blog – [link]. The Power of Thinking Long-Term | crowdSPRING Blog – [link]. Bonnstetter-Harvard Business Review - [link].

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JULY 25, 2013

Book Review: Ctrl Alt Delete, by Mitch Joel – [link]. Inside the Development Process of Our My Analytics App | KISSmetrics – [link]. Create a Crowd Competition That Works | Harvard Business Review – [link]. The Right Way to Hire Your Customers | Bill Lee – Harvard Business Review – [link].

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DECEMBER 14, 2012

crowdSPRING’s Small Business Spotlight of the Week: miiCard | crowdSPRING Blog – [link]. Vision | Jordan Cooper’s Blog – [link]. Bonnstetter | Harvard Business Review – [link]. Nine Ways Successful People Defeat Stress | Heidi Grant Halvorson -Harvard Business Review – [link].

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JANUARY 18, 2013

Don’t Hire the Perfect Candidate | Lance Haun-Harvard Business Review – [link]. What Company Culture IS and IS NOT | Rand’s Blog – [link]. The 6 Marketing Metrics Your CEO Actually Cares About [Cheat Sheet] | Hubspot Blog - [link]. 8 Major Mistakes Entrepreneurs Will Make In 2013 | Forbes – [link].

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JULY 19, 2013

MIT Technology Review – [link]. Increase Your Team’s Curiosity | Harvard Business Review – [link]. Can you Crowdsource Your Employee Reviews? Nextiva Blog by Barry Moltz – [link]. The Dinosaurs of Cannes | by John Winsor, Harvard Business Review – [link]. – [link].

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JANUARY 25, 2013

The Work/Home Möbius Strip | crowdSPRING Blog – [link]. SMB Marketing in 2013: 68% of small businesses to increase marketing budget | MarketingSherpa Blog – [link]. Startup Business Development 101 | A VC – [link]. The Work/Home Möbius Strip | crowdSPRING Blog – [link].

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MAY 17, 2013

Martin – Harvard Business Review – [link]. Good reminder from Fred Wilson that your instincts should sometimes guide you when due diligence does not – [link]. Martin – Harvard Business Review – [link]. 25+ New Indesign Tutorials of 2013 | Dzineblog360 – [link].

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NOVEMBER 23, 2012

Great Customer Experience Is the Root of Brands and Businesses | OMI Blog - [link]. The Law on Fonts and Typefaces: Frequently Asked Questions | crowdSPRING Blog - [link]. 6 Ways You Can Improve Churn Rate and Increase Revenue | KISSmetrics blog - [link]. The Blog Post on What It’s Really Like – [link].

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APRIL 12, 2013

Bonnstetter-Harvard Business Review – [link]. Bonnstetter-Harvard Business Review – [link]. Bill Gates says you should read these 5 books in 2013 | GeekWire – [link]. 11 Things I Wish I Knew Before I Started My First Blog | QuickSprout – [link]. Lean Business: Pivot Point – [link].

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JUNE 13, 2013

Why You Should Be Crowdsourcing in 2013 | by Marc Levesque – [link]. Why You Should Be Crowdsourcing in 2013 | by Marc Levesque – [link]. Why Successful Companies Stop Growing | Ron Ashkenas – Harvard Business – Review [link]. Why You Should Be Crowdsourcing in 2013 | by Marc Levesque – [link].

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JANUARY 4, 2013

Five Linking Myths That Need To Go Away In 2013 – [link]. Five Linking Myths That Need To Go Away In 2013 – [link]. 8 Major Tech Predictions for 2013 | Business Insider – [link]. Will 2013 Be Harder For Startups Than 2012? (by Will 2013 be the year of conversion optimisation? Quora – [link].

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AUGUST 29, 2013

Best Small Business Blogs – [link]. After reviewing 300 startup applications, this is what I learned – [link]. 20 Awesome Fonts for 2013 | Vector Diary – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link].

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MARCH 8, 2013

Publicity Stunts: When Good Ideas Go Bad | crowdSPRING Blog – [link]. 5 Customer Experience Metrics Every Successful Company Tracks | The Buffer blog – [link]. The Ultimate Guide to Customer Acquisition | KISSmetrics Blog – [link]. Publicity Stunts: When Good Ideas Go Bad | crowdSPRING Blog – [link].

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FEBRUARY 22, 2013

Mean – Small Business and Responsibility | crowdSPRING Blog – [link]. Why Being First to Market Isn’t Always Best | SCORE Small Business Success Blog – [link]. How should one go about pricing their software product? Misfit Entrepreneurs | Dan Pallotta-Harvard Business Review – [link].

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APRIL 5, 2013

Small Business Marketing Tip: Send Email Campaigns At Night To Increase Revenue | crowdSPRING Blog – [link]. Four Ways to Market Like a Startup | Brian Gregg and Vivian Weng-Harvard Business Review – [link]. Seven Rules for Managing Creative People | Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic-Harvard Business Review – [link].

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MARCH 1, 2013

– Conversion Tips and Examples | KISSmetrics Blog – [link]. How To Rewire Your Brain for Positivity and Happiness | The Buffer blog – [link]. Don’t Spend More Money Than You’re Bringing In | Sprouter Blog – [link]. – Conversion Tips and Examples | KISSmetrics Blog – [link].

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OCTOBER 18, 2013

You Can’t Be a Wimp—Make the Tough Calls | Harvard Business Review – crowdspring.co/H4gLnT. 140 Quirky and Serious Free Fonts of 2013 | 1stwebdesigner - crowdspring.co/1gqp3Ey. 10 Brand New and Free Tools for Designers | Vandelay Design Blog - crowdspring.co/GZCqP8. 25 Mindblowing Typography Illustrations - crowdspring.co/19h9SbI.

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blog.alinelerner.com

JUNE 21, 2013

Aline Lerner's Blog. Jun 21, 2013. Because I used to be an engineer, one part of my job was conducting first-round technical interviews, and between January 2012 and January 2013, I interviewed roughly 300 people for our back-end/full-stack engineer position. making technical recruiting suck less. News and World Report).

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www.theenterprisearchitect.eu

MARCH 26, 2014

The Enterprise Architect building an Agile Enterprise Home MDD PaaS Startup Presentations About The cloud landscape described, categorized, and compared October 12, 2013 Johan Den Haan 10 comments “I work for a PaaS company” I answered him. Contents: Layer 1: the software-defined datacenter. Layer 3: deploying code.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

Small Business and Startup Tips: Hire and be Human | crowdSPRING Blog – [link]. Signup and Trial Process Benchmark Report: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly | Totango Blog – [link]. Signup and Trial Process Benchmark Report: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly | Totango Blog – [link]. Can enterprise SaaS products be viral?

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MAY 31, 2013

Inside the Inventive and Entrepreneurial Mind of Elon Musk | KISSmetrics Blog – [link]. Four Lean Advertising Campaigns That Went Viral | Harvard Business Review – [link]. 13 Excellent Photoshop Tutorials to Learn in 2013 – [link]. How to Nail the Opening of Your Blog Post | Copyblogger – [link].

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JULY 12, 2013

How and Why to Be a Leader (Not a Wannabe) | Harvard Business Review – [link]. “Less than half of US display ad impressions delivered between May 2012 and February 2013 were in-view” – [link]. 40 Fresh Best Illustrator Tutorials From 2013 | Creative Nerds – [link].

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NOVEMBER 1, 2013

Entrepreneur PSA – Advertising Businesses are Hard | Seth’s Blog - crowdspring.co/1aHHgHS. 11 Ways Big Companies Undermine Innovation | Scott Kirsner – Harvard Business Review – crowdspring.co/1aksObQ. Entrepreneur PSA – Advertising Businesses are Hard | Seth’s Blog - crowdspring.co/1aHHgHS. 1ioAoDm.

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APRIL 26, 2013

The secrets of body language: why you should never cross your arms again | The Buffer Blog – [link]. 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2013 | MIT Technology Review – [link]. Why developers are leaving the Facebook platform | by Andrew Chen – [link]. 13 Resources And Tools For Web Developers – [link].

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OCTOBER 11, 2012

How to Build Trust in a Virtual Workplace | Harvard Business Review – [link]. 1 Enemy of Creativity: Fear of Failure | Harvard Business Review – [link]. Seth’s Blog: Cycle worse, cycle better – [link]. The Danger of Celebritizing Entrepreneurship | Harvard Business Review – [link].

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MAY 3, 2013

The science of colors in marketing | The Buffer Blog – [link]. Well written Google Glass review from Engadget – [link]. The science of colors in marketing | The Buffer Blog – [link]. The science of colors in marketing | The Buffer Blog – [link]. The 2013 Creative Employment Snapshot – [link].

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JUNE 13, 2014

Entrepreneurs Need a Better Way to Cash Out | Kanyi Maqubela – Harvard Business Review – crowdspring.co/SKltNW. US non-Internet media advertising outlook, 2013-2018. You just need some smart bots | MIT Technology Review – crowdspring.co/1hLIBY3. tl;dr: They all suck. pic.twitter.com/0JXrl9vfVR. 1hLIBY3. .

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 21, 2014

I came up with the idea for Hazel Lane in November 2013 and we launched our first box in December (with subscribers and everything!), It’s good to review your goal and determine if it is still SMART. Without a good team, you’re only as good as the slowest person, especially in software development. T=Time bound.

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conversionxl.com

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

It’s Not a Conversion Problem, It’s a Customer Development Problem. I feel like “conversion rate optimization” is in 2013 what “social media marketing” was in 2009. Sep 06, 2013 @ 12:24:13. Extra Lucrative Conversion Advice. Conversion Optimization Services. Website Analysis. Follow @peeplaja.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

I feel like “conversion rate optimization” is in 2013 what “social media marketing” was in 2009. The traditional method of product development, known as the waterfall model , the design and creation of a product follows a very liner, and sequential process. Most startups fail.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

The 13 Biggest Failures from Famous Entrepreneurs and What They’ve Learned from them | The Buffer Blog – [link]. The 13 Biggest Failures from Famous Entrepreneurs and What They’ve Learned from them | The Buffer Blog – [link]. Billion On Bot Traffic In 2013 – [link]. 57 startup lessons – [link].

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 21, 2014

When they met to discuss and attempt to address the issue in January 2013, they realized they had little insight into exactly why customers were leaving. Often, however, they’re unable to see the benefit of using the software. Basecamp and Mavenlink) or accounting software (eg. The Research. The Execution. image source.

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