crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! The economic logic behind tech and talent acquisitions – Chris Dixon – [link]. The computer design has left the building | Thought Gadgets – [link].

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 3, 2010

As I’ve written in the past, I encourage companies I’m an investor in to continually explore small acquisitions when entrepreneurs have created something that is on their roadmap. AgileZen was one such company and the acquisition has been a successful one for everyone. Why did you start AgileZen ?

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 22, 2018

He also shared that, initially, he was leaning toward building an experience management solution in-house, and that it was only at the insistence of the firm’s CMO that he relented and engaged our firm. There are two significant paradigm shifts in software development which have altered the equation.

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Software By Rob

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

→ Free Website Feedback, Custom Card Designs, Finding Good Domain Names, and more… Cool News, Links & Reviews If youre trying grow your startup youve come to the right place. Concept Feedback – Free feedback for marketers, designers and Micropreneurs. Professional and elegant designs from a paper craftsman.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 1, 2020

In very few specific cases, depending on the nature of the business, the business model might demand a considerable gestation period or extensive research and development. Any custom manufactured IoT device would require software development as well as hardware customization. Both of which are expensive and time-consuming.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 20, 2007

I also read - The Difference Between Apple and Microsoft Marketing that tells us: Apples marketing is designed for Time Poor buyers, while Microsofts is designed for Time Rich buyers. I would agree that Apples product design would suggest that it aims at Time Poor buyers. Its certainly something to keep in mind.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 17, 2017

Internship Title: Marketing Intern Compensation: Unpaid, minimum of 10 hours per week Description: The Marketing Intern will work closely with the Marketing Manager to generate and implement campaign ideas and measure their effectiveness. You will be creating and scheduling social media posts for our Facebook, Pinterest, and Twitter accounts.

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andrewchenblog.com

MARCH 10, 2010

However, there’s the other side of the coin, which is the product design. After you’ve added a ton of new features and stuck them all on the homepage, you create Product Design debt. Arguably, MySpace is a company that never paid down their product design debt, and their traffic has been impacted as a result.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

.” —  Jim Colson , CTO, IBM Watson Solutions Jim Colson Their charter is to see the big picture and develop it into a roadmap, adjusting for insights from customer discovery and driving towards product market fit. They adopt, measure, and manage key product performance metrics. Autonomy to self-manage.

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Software By Rob

JULY 24, 2009

Startup Marketing Advice, “Failure,&# Things I Learned the Hard Way, and more… → Transitioning from Developer to Software Entrepreneur Micropreneurship , Startups If youre trying grow your startup youve come to the right place. They are: entrepreneur, manager and technician (discussed in more detail here ).

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Software By Rob

JULY 22, 2010

Micropreneur Academy member Ruben Gamez launched Bidsketch five months after joining the Academy, and has experienced quite a bit of success with this niche application for designers. But the design of this email is branded, yet simple. So I am presenting them here as tips for getting people to read your email newsletter.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Before founding MobileMonkey, Kim founded WordStream , the world’s leading PPC (pay-per-click) marketing platform managing over a billion dollars of annualized ad spend for tens of thousands of businesses. Anyone can use easy to use tools from a company like MobileMonkey to create chatbots in minutes without any help from software developers.

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Software By Rob

JULY 13, 2010

It wasn’t until the past decade that a designer or developer could leave the safety of a salaried position in pursuit of a career as a solo entrepreneur. at 1:01 pm >It wasn’t until the past decade that a designer or developer could leave the safety of a salaried position in pursuit of a career as a solo entrepreneur.

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Software By Rob

MARCH 25, 2010

What I’ve found during the last year of running the Micropreneur Academy is that once you’ve seen hundreds of websites and run fifty A/B tests you develop a sixth sense about how a site can be improved. You begin to do this almost without thinking (unconscious competence for those in know).

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Software By Rob

MARCH 17, 2010

Software by Rob Passionate about Startups and MicroISVs Lessons Learned by a Serial Entrepreneur home about press micropreneurs archives ← Free Website Feedback, Custom Card Designs, Finding Good Domain Names, and more… Paying the Price of Success → Joel on Software is Shutting Down. Long Live the King.

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Software By Rob

MAY 24, 2010

You need reasonable graphic design skills, the ability to shoot and edit a screencast, respond to customer feedback, and work on the messaging/marketing. at 8:46 am The sign-up page doesn’t say much, but the FAQ makes it pretty obvious that it’s yet another on-line to-do list manager. #2 2 Ian Ozsvald on 05.24.10

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Software By Rob

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Coolest Business Card Ever – How am I not stealing this design right now? at 11:11 am Rob, Thanks for linking to my business card design. CrossLoop – Mom calling you for tech support? Send her to CrossLoop, affordable online computer help. Know Thy Audience – And look at creative funding sources.

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Software By Rob

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

He spoke about risk (development, market, financial and execution), social media, how you must create content (most likely through a blog) to win in today’s “search&# economy.

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 25, 2010

Companies like Zynga, Groupon, Gilt Groupe, etc etc, some of the most prominent software companies of our time were/are maniacal about cash management and revenue growth, and always have been since day one. Simple high level concepts like these need to be at the forefront of small-company and product design. #7 at 12:20 am [.]

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 2009

After 20 years of working in startups, I decided to take a step back and look at the product development model I had been following and see why it usually failed to provide useful guidance in activities outside the building – sales, marketing and business development. Read the preceding sentence again. It’s a big idea.)

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Software By Rob

MARCH 30, 2010

However, if they check their analytics and they have more than a few people hitting their site with 1024 or below, they should adjust the design. #4 IMO this is fine since they are selling to a techie audience. 4 Chris on 03.31.10 at 1:55 am I’m enjoying the reviews. 5 Craig on 04.01.10 at 3:01 am Great reviews.

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Software By Rob

MARCH 25, 2010

at 12:09 pm Some good insights into design #6 Rob on 03.28.10 Do you have any experience with such webpages, any thoughts how high is percentage of users who donate money for the project? #4 4 Jamzest on 03.26.10 at 12:24 pm Great Review. 5 Jon on 03.27.10

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Software By Rob

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

On the web we marvel at the forward-thinking genius of Paul Graham or the design expertise of 37 Signals. November 19th, 2009 | Micropreneurship , Software Development , Startups Building your startup? As a web designer I struggle to pull this passion out of people and turn that into writing/content for their site.

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Software By Rob

APRIL 6, 2010

We all make similar mistakes designing and developing our own sites. For more on my story and the purpose of all this, visit the about page. 3 comments ↓ #1 Martin on 04.06.10 at 9:38 am Good and very useful review – keep up the good job it is really helpful! #2 2 Mitch on 04.06.10 at 11:10 am Nice info!

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Software By Rob

DECEMBER 9, 2009

Good Marketing Looks Easy The most likely reason is that good marketing, as with good design, looks easy. Just like when you look at an incredible website design it seems so simple – totally stripped down. The designer likely started with a more complex design and whittled his way down for hours to arrive at the simple look.

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Software By Rob

JULY 17, 2009

Top 200 Blogs for Developers – I’ve moved from 40 to 88. Paymo Time Tracking – A well-designed, free time tracking app with one of the coolest screenshot galleries I’ve seen. The Future of the Web is Small – A case for Micropreneurship. I need to increase my posting schedule.

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Software By Rob

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

It’s written by an internet marketing consultant, but the message applies to web design, web development, and software development just the same. I’d like to know how you think this applies to software development. MileMeter – Auto insurance by the mile. 2 James C on 11.27.08

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Software By Rob

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

A few weeks ago a Micropreneur Academy member asked about getting started as a freelance developer since freelance development can be more conducive to getting started as a Micropreneur. September 29th, 2009 | Software Development Building your startup? And that’s the position you want to be in.

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Software By Rob

MARCH 2, 2009

Software by Rob Passionate about Startups and MicroISVs Lessons Learned by a Serial Entrepreneur home about press micropreneurs archives ← Marketing is Design: Three Words that Increased My E-commerce Sales 1000% Overnight A Glimpse of the Future → Something Big is Coming… Micropreneurship If youre trying grow your startup youve come (..)

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Software By Rob

APRIL 7, 2009

Makes Fresno Web Design look like something out of 37Signals. Imagine, a laptop you could open on an airplane and not hit the seatback in front of you. A Look Back at the Internet ’96 – A short walk through the Internet Archive. Check out the awesome background on Pepsi.com. 8 Core CPUs on The Horizon – Even with 2.3

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Software By Rob

OCTOBER 6, 2009

I’m a 31 year old Norwegian software developer. By day I work in a small startup specializing in mobile software. This is very useful for thought processes like brainstorming, planning, outlines and design. Thanks for taking the time to appear in the Spotlight. Can you tell us a little bit about yourself?

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Software By Rob

MAY 4, 2009

As a developer you have the ability to build/hire out/buy applications and websites, where the margin is huge and you have something unique. Whether you’re selling invoicing software or performance management software your gross margin is going to be close to 100%. at 9:58 am [.] 6 Jannik on 05.06.09

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Software By Rob

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

Now Back to Software Let’s translate this to being a software developer / entrepreneur. If you’re not a good public speaker and you don’t enjoy it, don’t take a position in management where you have to present to executives every month. Most people have no idea about their strengths and weaknesses.

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Software By Rob

JANUARY 12, 2010

at 5:35 am For me making traffic is hard period, as a web designer I’m no stranger to SEO and I know it’s a whole different ball game, the amount of articles I’ve read on how to gain traffic via social networking etc is ridiculous. 12 Neil on 08.23.10

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Hunter Walker

APRIL 17, 2020

cocktails and product management war stories ensued. But when Airbnb can knocking, we quickly realized that our most likely long-term outcome was going to be an acquisition, and that we couldn’t think of a single better company to end up at. A DM-slide and poof! So we sold. What has riding along that experience been like?

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

It’s why reputation management and following good business practices is a critical but unseen part of a company’s brand. Trello is only able to do this because it’s using social listening to gauge and manage brand sentiment. Customer acquisition cost. Image source. Adoption of loyalty and referral programs.

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www.theenterprisearchitect.eu

MARCH 26, 2014

In a Software Defined Datacenter these elements are all provisioned, configured, and managed by a central software solution. Server virtualization is the most mature part of a Software Defined Datacenter. Network virtualization is often referred to as Software Defined Networking (SDN). When people talk about â??cloudâ??

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