crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 11, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! How to Increase Trust for a Landing Page Design – [link]. Better Agile Than Smart – [link]. Better Agile Than Smart – [link]. – [link].

Social Media 92

Social Media Small Business Design Media 92

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Joe Felter , Raj Shah and I designed a class to examine the new military systems, operational concepts and doctrines that will emerge from 21st century technologies – Space, Cyber, AI & Machine Learning and Autonomy. Acquisition, technology, and logistics. You won’t find that written down in any acquisition document.

Technology 397

Technology China Agile Acquisition 397

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 30, 2009

Insist on high levels of usability, UI design, and polish. Build the product in stealth mode to build buzz for the eventual launch. Stealth is a customer-free zone. Without conscious process design, product development teams turn lines of code written into momentum in a certain direction. We can skip the chasm.

San Francisco 150

San Francisco Lean Agile Continuous Deployment 150

Lightspeed Venture Partners

DECEMBER 10, 2014

We had seen Lightspeed portfolio company Nicira disrupt networking layers 2-3 with an architecture that consisted of highly distributed scale out software elements coupled with centralized control, culminating in an acquisition by VMWare for $1.25B in the summer of 2012.

Architecture 113

Architecture Stealth Agile Distribution 113

Agile VC

JUNE 25, 2012

The company has been in stealth mode for the last couple months but I wanted to take this opportunity to talk about NextView’s investment in the company and our enthusiasm to be working with co-founders Dan Foody and Alex Cote. Our Investment in Cloze. June 25, 2012.

Cofounder 140

Cofounder Stealth Silicon Valley Mobile 140

Steve Blank

MARCH 28, 2009

Soviet Air Defense – PVO Strany The B-52s had to get through a massive Soviet air defense system that had been built and evolved over two decades and was designed to shoot down manned bombers. All of this designed to make the plane if not invisible to Soviet radar, at least really difficult to lock onto and shoot down.

Silicon Valley 202

Silicon Valley Thailand RSS Michigan 202

Occam's Razor

APRIL 23, 2012

Choose the right metric and they'll create the most glorious digital experience in the universe, the perfect acquisition campaign, the most amazing customer service channel. But the " buy now, buy now, buy now, buy now " design and merchandising on their websites makes that amply clear. It is a standard metric.

Metrics 152

Metrics Analytics Search Channel 152