crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 30, 2017

William Hurley, co-founder of Honest Dollar , an Austin-based provider of retirement plans to small businesses, says creative talent is abundant : It’s got the music, the university scene, the hippies and the rule-breakers… It’s very easy to hire people who want to push the limits. million dollars.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

To this day, although New Frontier Data has been successful, Aguirre de Carcer still feels the effects of biases against women that are often held by the business and tech communities. According to Fortune , in 2006, female founders were involved in only 2.95 Teams of male and female founders and the implication for team composition.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Airbnb founders Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia had difficulty securing funding, so they launched a mini project to build some funds and catch investors' attention. Using this capital , the founders launched and enjoyed exponential growth in their first year, with 10K users and thousands of listings. Photo Credit: Jack Underwood.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Dan is the Co-founder and president of Podcast Movement, the world’s largest conference and trade show for the podcast industry. Podcasts are and will continue to be an amazing marketing tool that gives you a way to build a community and gives you a platform to advertise your products and services. This is John Jantsch.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 29, 2013

2013 has been quite a year for the startup community and social and technology-related businesses in particular. In just a few months, Twitter went public , Google Glass showed up on our train route to work, and YouTube hosted ‘live’ music video awards. The year for Google+ in social is 2014. John Hall , Influence & Co. .

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

GrowthHackers founder and former Head of Growth at Dropbox, Sean Ellis , coined the term: “A growth hacker is a person whose true north is growth. In his course on Growth Mindset (part of CXL’s Growth Marketing Minidegree ), WeTheFuture.org founder John McBride describes three key components of a successful growth marketer: 1.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Dan is the Co-founder and president of Podcast Movement, the world’s largest conference and trade show for the podcast industry. Podcasts are and will continue to be an amazing marketing tool that gives you a way to build a community and gives you a platform to advertise your products and services. Duct Tape Transcript.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 30, 2017

William Hurley, co-founder of Honest Dollar , an Austin-based provider of retirement plans to small businesses, says creative talent is abundant : It’s got the music, the university scene, the hippies and the rule-breakers… It’s very easy to hire people who want to push the limits. million dollars.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 20, 2018

How we got into Y Combinator (OwnLocal W10) OwnLocal received seed funding from Y Combinator in 2010 and has grown to work with 279k+ businesses through 3,500 local newspapers This is a repost from my self-hosted blog that mysteriously disappeared in 2014. We will never know. And not just hard, but stressful.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 20, 2014

But I continue to learn that there are a host of other factors, maybe not even related to you or your business, that could keep you from getting the funding that you need. Obviously, a key factor is always the state of the economy and the mood of the venture capital community. More founders generally means more money.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Answering questions on behalf of the Dashtag is Dirk van den Berg , the CMO and co-founder of this startup. The first idea started at the end of 2014, but we incorporated DashTag in October 2015. We’d love to connect with sport-minded investors and advisors and possible influencers for our community. We’ve got students!

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

My co-founder and I came up with the idea for Cuddle Clones in an entrepreneurial-focused MBA program. Historically, if you were hosting a large event in our city, you had to call a tent company, a party rental company, a sound and lighting company and a stage rental company. Don’t forget to join our #IamCEO Community.

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Gust

OCTOBER 12, 2014

But I continue to learn that there are a host of other factors, maybe not even related to you or your business, that could keep you from getting the funding that you need. Obviously, a key factor is always the state of the economy and the mood of the venture capital community. More founders generally means more money.

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VC Cafe

MAY 21, 2021

This is a guest post by Kevin Baxpehler , co-founder and Managing Partner at Remagine Ventures. One conflict is with Hamas, the terror organization running Gaza, which barraged Israeli communities with over 2,000 rockets over 11 days. At the time of this writing Israel and Hamas just signed a ceasefire. The conflict with Hamas.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

by Alon Alroy, co-founder and CMO of Bizzabo . This three day conference has become the “must-attend” event for anyone who is active or new to the startup-community. Immerse yourself in the tech community at Techweek. Below, we at Bizzabo have compiled a list of the 20 upcoming US tech conferences you must attend.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2014

Not just Y Combinator and TechStars but a host of other accelerators across the country. and I thought if we brought the community together for common purpose we could create more of a sense of community to help new entrepreneurs get funded, assemble teams, raise profiles and help with biz dev, product, etc.

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Mike Michalowicz

MAY 11, 2015

Jill Salzman, founder of “The Founding Moms” joins us for Episode 27 of the Profit First Podcast. Assign a label for your community that makes them feel and realize they are distinct, and they will be attracted to your business. Also Available On. Show Summary. Show Quotes. There is power in labels.

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David Teten

APRIL 18, 2014

In early 2012, my HBS Alumni Angels colleagues and I launched the Venture Capital Access Program (VCAP), an initiative to help women and minority-led businesses to raise capital from the Harvard alumni angel community. Competitiveness Project , which challenged the HBS alumni community to address America’s declining competitiveness.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 22, 2015

These community-led experiences were so much fun -- and became a source of such serendipitous, fruitful connections -- that we’ve decided to iterate on the idea for the 2015 conference and make it a core part of our program. There were two big lessons that we learned in 2014. Share your toughest problems, and we’ll help you solve them.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

I am the founder/coach of Never Settle Coaching, LLC a coaching business. I began my business in 2014 because, well, it was just time. So I cut the corporate cord and co-founded Finespun Clothing. Thanks to Dean Cycon, Dean’s Beans Organic Coffee Co. ! #19 Thanks to Adam Hergenrother, Hergenrother Enterprises ! #12

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

This post was co-authored with Omri Stern and originally appeared in Harvard Business Review. In 2014, for example, 18 IPOs raised a record-breaking $9.8 The founders have started companies before. Despite hosting a rich startup ecosystem, Israel is simply too small a country for entrepreneurs seeking to build big companies.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 11, 2020

He was president of the startup accelerator YCombinator from 2014-2019, and is currently the CEO of OpenAI, which he co-founded. They need to reduce volatility, be more bearish on what might happen, and also prioritize their obligations towards their employees, communities and themselves as people. (29:24)

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 22, 2020

They co-founded it with former U.S. Jen is the founder and former executive director of Code for America. Deputy Chief Technology Officer in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy from 2013–2014, where she founded the United States Digital Service. 35:50) Building community on text messages and threads. (38:30)

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Up and Running

JANUARY 6, 2015

How did 2014 go for you? Podcaster Meredith Eisenberg of Paycheck to Passion works with fellow host Jasper Blake to get out the word on tools and technology for solopreneurs, and how to make a profitable business out of something you’re passionate about. Of course, being an entrepreneur, you’re also doing some reflection.

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