crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 13, 2011

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Mobile Web Design: 10 Tips To Better Usability – [link]. 16 Magazine Covers and Layouts Design Examples – [link]. Vintage Label Designs – [link].

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 23, 2017

ProductCamp Austin bringing the product community together. Upgrade From This Old Unnecessary Process David Hawks , CEO, Agile Velocity Main take-away — focus on discovery, not as much delivery. Most of the Agile world is in the perspective of delivery focus. I personally am a conferences nerd. User Stories Suck!

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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].

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 30, 2012

The class teaches founders how to dramatically reduce their failure rate through the combination of business model design, customer development and agile development using the Startup Owners Manual. We now know how to crack the entrepreneurial code by creating an Entrepreneurship API - a standard language for entrepreneurs.

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 24, 2011

Karl is a software engineer with more than 10 years of experience who specializes in agile web development and web services integrations. He authors a software development blog at [link]. There comes a time in a software developer’s career where they reach a crossroads and ask themselves, “What next?

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Austin Startup

APRIL 12, 2018

“M” by Igor Bastidas As providers of design and creative services, we’re constantly sized up for client projects. As clients, we’ve done our fair share of portfolio reviewing and research. It’s developed an amazing sense of capability and confidence in the whole design team. Visibility is important, it makes the challenge real.

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andrewchenblog.com

MARCH 10, 2010

You often end up with lots of half-done experiments lying around, an infrastructure that isn’t built to scale, and a mishmash of code that needs to be refactored. However, there’s the other side of the coin, which is the product design. Another great article is from Joel on Software called Duct Tape Programmer.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 6, 2011

Cloud solutions come in three key different flavors, being IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service), PaaS (Platform as a Service), and Saas (Software as a Service). With cloud, it is less necessary to own your IT infrastructure, much less your own software. The Cloud Community Comprises both Small and Big Players.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 31, 2018

Then we paired it with a cool icon that represents wisdom and agility, Owl. My partner and I joked about being night owls so it all came together to become Infinite Owl Marketing and Design Studio, our full-service marketing agency for content and creative strategy and execution. Don’t forget to join our #IamCEO Community.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2009

Ive written a little bit about the origins of Silicon Valley because I think its important for us to understand how we got here in order to make sure we preserve what is best about our community. The companies I spoke to all agreed that the community there was extremely supportive, especially in the critical ulta-early-stage.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 3, 2017

I was a developer so I could write code, but not blog posts. The Hacker Chick Blog ended up becoming one of the top agile software development blogs on the Internet. That makes us work all the harder to perfect our designs. So when I decided to write a post for the company’s blog, the manager flat out rejected it.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

Since the term “cloud computing” was coined in 1996—at least as we have come to understand its meaning—the software as a service industry has exploded. If you use software like LivePlan, you can create this initial “lean plan” in under an hour and then spend your time where it really matters—on validating your idea.

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Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

We’re a how-to site and community for small business on marketing. . We’ve had a supportive board and encouraging metrics and a helpful climate for our community news notion (now 51 sites in 3 states). Is it a case of just design it, code it, build it, deploy it, trademark it, copywright it and then go for funding? .

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 14, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, May 14, 2009 The Lean Startup Workshop - now an OReilly Master Class My rate of posting has been much lower lately, and this is mostly due to preparations for the upcoming Lean Startup Workshop on May 29. We changed our model to B2B and adopted Agile around 2002. Let me know. It is valuable.

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Altgate

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

The presentation was on outsourcing generally, not just software engineering and the audience was very early stage companies (some yet to be founded). Almost certainly accounting is a support service and should be outsourced (unless, perhaps, you’re selling accounting software and you need to eat your own dogfood!).

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

See Paul Grahams Why Nerds are Unpopular to learn more) Take a look at this article on a programming Q&A site: How old are you, and how old were you when you started coding? We also learned that law is code , and that leadership was needed to build thriving communities in a digital age. Can I send you a review copy?

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 21, 2017

He also didn’t believe in supporting the community and supporting local organizations through our skills. More importantly, we continue to help the community through pro-bono projects, supporting non-profits and charitable campaigns, and giving back where and when we can. Six years in business later, we continue to grow.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Playground designers intend for you to slide down the slide, but, of course, children always want to climb up the slide. We might have medium-term goals like “adopting agile methodologies” or “getting everyone on the same page with a project kick-off” as the outcomes for the reader. What’s the right way to play on a playground?

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

When I reviewed a recent product development book, it immediately shot up to Amazon sales rank 300. For example, the best book reviewers only review books published by the best publishers, which only accept manuscripts from the best agents. And how could they possibly review a blog? Is that a lot? Is that good?

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 11, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, February 11, 2009 The free software hiring advantage This is one of those startup tips Im a little reluctant to share, because its been such a powerful source of competitive advantage in the companies Ive worked with. Especially for a startup, not taking maximum advantage of free software is crazy.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 17, 2018

It’s in your best interest to make sure that every logo design choice is intentional and communicates the message you want to convey. Thoughtless design choices lead to misleading or confusing logos. The Psychology of Fonts in Logo Design. The Psychology of Shapes in Logo Design. Lines appear everywhere.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Where possible, use endorsements from industry influencers or positive reviews from customers who’ve tested your MVP. It’s a strategy used by software providers like SAP and IBM i2 , whose systems are vital to companies’ operations. . Leadpages did this ahead of its Center marketing platform introduction: . Image source.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 17, 2018

It’s in your best interest to make sure that every logo design choice is intentional and communicates the message you want to convey. Thoughtless design choices lead to misleading or confusing logos. The Psychology of Fonts in Logo Design. The Psychology of Shapes in Logo Design. Lines appear everywhere.

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Design Vertical Software Review Wichita 48

SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

The United States is now a debtor nation to China and that the bill is about to come due. Five Reasons You Haven’t Launched - Software By Rob , November 10, 2010 Photo by stevendepolo. These are probably the two sites where I've posted the most reviews. The scene is the siren song of the innovation community.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

AUGUST 30, 2010

He blogs to 10,000 web entrepreneurs at Software by Rob and co-hosts the podcast Startups for the Rest of Us. More than two years ago, my business partner and I discussed launching a hosted version of our ASP.NET invoicing software, DotNetInvoice. Agile Development, meet Agile Business. Introduction.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 13, 2010

These posts and videos are about design, startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! 5 Photoshop & CSS Tricks for Killer Web Designs – [link]. The Dying Art Of Design – [link]. 30+ Excellent Photoshop Web layout Design Tutorials – [link]. – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 13, 2010

These posts and videos are about design, startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! 5 Photoshop & CSS Tricks for Killer Web Designs – [link]. The Dying Art Of Design – [link]. 30+ Excellent Photoshop Web layout Design Tutorials – [link]. – [link].

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 95

ReadWriteStart

APRIL 15, 2011

It's challenging to build, design and deploy software. It's also challenging to attract and retain a loyal community of customers and users. Use Solid Agile Process for Estimating Development Timeline. Almost every software engineer I've ever worked with is irrational in how fast they believe they can build software.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 20, 2009

The formation of the military/industrial/university relationships during the Cold War and the relationship between Stanford and the intelligence community in particular, went on untold and out of sight. Most of the ability to create a radio industry in the 1920s was due to the accident of ionospheric radio propagation.

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www.women2.org

MARCH 8, 2012

My delusions of coding grandeur quickly subsided and realized that I was not going to hack it. A warm intro from a friend or participating in events and communities that specifically frame “finding a co-founder” (not just “startup happy hour”), you will — and I did — have better results. Acquisition.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 26, 2011

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Best Practices and Tips for Restaurant Web Design – [link]. Is Your Service Agile? 100 Unique Business Cards Design Inspiration – [link]. – [link].

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 95

bhargreaves.com

MARCH 7, 2010

Read the scenarios and give yourself points accordingly: 3 Points: You actually do not know any software developers. 5 Points: You are developing software for government or major corporate clients. Actually any shop that does agile development with daily and weekly releases should. Scissor.com is another agile option.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 25, 2019

Some of my projects that I burnt the midnight candle never saw daylight either due to a sudden shift in the organization structure or my projected was de-funded due to another competing project. You collect customers’ reviews and testimonials and show them on your website – it’s that easy. 13- Be around for my kids.

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The Next Web

JUNE 29, 2012

The first step is to understand how customers are implementing software like ours. Also, if they are platform based (such as Magento, for example), they are looking for plug and play review solutions like our company. ?These Make sure our design is amazing and stands out inside the website. Truly understand your market.

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uxdesign.smashingmagazine.com

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

If designed well, the website will meet that goal and align it with the goals of the organization behind the website. As Luke Wroblewski states in his book Web Form Design: Filling in the Blanks , every form exists for one of three main reasons: commerce, community or productivity. Smashing Directory. Designinformer. Newsletter.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 3, 2009

At IMVU , these were quite common (after all, were shipping code 50 times a day). They are collected and reviewed after an appropriate interval (e.g. In response to Sean - Intel still runs a very formal process of setting expectations, evaluating employees and reviewing progress on a quarterly basis. love your openness at IMVU.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2009

I had a lot of use for this concept back when I worked on game design and virtual worlds. In order to maintain game play balance, game designers have to take into account the needs of customers who have an excess of four different assets: time , money , skill , and passion. Having a balanced ecosystem is what game designers strive for.

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