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. The Psychology of Lines in Logo Design.

Design 48

Design Vertical Software Review Wichita 48

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

I’m teaching my first non-lean start up class in a decade at Stanford next week; Technology, Innovation and Modern War : Keeping America’s Edge in an Era of Great Power Competition. This was our first step in fostering a more agile, responsive and resilient, approach to national security in the 21st century.

Artificial Inteligence 370

Artificial Inteligence Technology North Korea Iran 370

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 8, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, August 8, 2009 Revisiting the Software Design Manifesto (and whats changed since then) My recent article on technical debt and its positive uses generated a fair bit of controversy. The argument itself got me thinking a lot about design and its role in building products.

Software Review 87

Software Review Design Software San Francisco 87

ConversionXL

JUNE 19, 2019

Alexa Hubley: “How to Compete in a Saturated Market”. So how can we make timeless content (or salvage a non-performing piece of content)? As marketers, we compete for revenue and conversions. André Morys: Why “Agile Teams” Fail (And You Might Be the Only Savior). Agile teams usually focus on efficiency.

Agile 90

Agile Analytics Algorithm Software Review 90

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Brand momentum can be calculated similarly to physical momentum (mass x velocity): Brand momentum = brand mass (your company’s size, reputation, and relevance) x brand velocity (speed of growth, agility in keeping up with industry changes). Take Tesla. Or they might take the opposite approach, and double down on what is working.

Metrics 157

Metrics Marketing Campaign Audience 157

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Remedy: Amazon distinguishes between non-reversible decisions with substantial sunk costs (like e.g. investing in a new warehouse in Amazon’s case), and reversible decisions like experimenting with a new offer. The latter requires speed and agility. The rules to compete in the digital age are completely different.

Non-Compete 330

Non-Compete Agile Business Model San Francisco 330

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.

Technical Review 47

Technical Review Design Las Vegas Product 47

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 13, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, July 13, 2009 The Principles of Product Development Flow If youve ever wondered why agile or lean development techniques work, The Principles of Product Development Flow: Second Generation Lean Product Development by Donald G. Product development deals in designs, which are fundamentally intangible.

Product Development 153

Product Development Developer San Francisco Product 153

The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 25, 2021

To meet the accelerated digital needs, companies will both need to hire new, competent talent and fall back on their existing teams, offering them ample opportunity to re-skill and up-skill in order to meet the organization’s new needs. The answer has never been so straightforward. Naturally, this is easier said than done.

Non-Compete 167

Non-Compete Employee Leadership Cofounder 167

mashable.com

MAY 9, 2011

Leadership Abilities Are A Must It’s natural to want a tech savvy and competent CTO. As a non-technical founder of an IT company, it’s important to know when to dish responsibilities off. Be sure you find someone who is not just competent in understanding technology, but someone who is passionate about technology.

CTO Hire 73

CTO Hire Fractional CTO CTO Technical Review 73

Steve Blank

JUNE 23, 2016

ARM, a competitor, not only had a better, much lower power processor, but a better business model – they licensed their architecture to other companies that designed their own products. Their size lets them adopt flatter and more agile organizational structures while providing incentives that reward risk-taking and collaboration.

Architecture 227

Architecture IRR Balance Sheet Liquidity Event 227

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Remedy: Amazon distinguishes between non-reversible decisions with substantial sunk costs (like e.g. investing in a new warehouse in Amazon’s case), and reversible decisions like experimenting with a new offer. The latter requires speed and agility. The rules to compete in the digital age are completely different.

Non-Compete 120

Non-Compete Agile Business Model San Francisco 120

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 28, 2008

Its different from selling a product, because it is not part of our regular business practice, is not something that relates to our core competence, and tends not to happen in a repeatable and scalable way. Ill exclude those non- lean startups who basically exist for the purpose of raising bigger and bigger sums of money. Expo SF (May.

San Francisco 128

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC 128

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

His book Toyota Production System: Beyond Large-Scale Production is a fascinating read, even though its decidedly non-practical. Hes a new employee, and he was not properly trained in TDD So far, this isnt much different from the kind of analysis any competent operations team would conduct for a site outage. Expo SF (May.

Software Review 167

Software Review Technical Review San Francisco Continuous Deployment 167

Steve Blank

JULY 28, 2011

government agency that supports research in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering - is changing the startup landscape for scientists and engineers. They’ll explore the best way to deliver the product to customers, the resources required, as well as competing technologies. Until today. billion U.S.

Engineer 280

Engineer Silicon Valley United States Intellectual Property 280

semanticuniverse.com

MARCH 9, 2010

Web technologies need to be accessible to non-technical people as well as technical people. Among techies, the Semantic Web bears some similarity to a number of common technologies, including relational databases, XML, and Object-Oriented design. At first blush, this appears to be a technical detail of the language design.

Semantic 40

Semantic Technical Review Web XML 40

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Their product development team is hard at work on a next-generation product platform, which is designed to offer a new suite of products – but this effort is months behind schedule. This approach is fundamentally non-scalable. Go on an agile diet quickly. Labels: agile , customer development 15comments: Scott Shapiro said.

Customer 167

Customer San Francisco Lean Hockey Stick 167

Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2019

My contribution has been, “Why don’t we design classes more closely modeled to what innovators and entrepreneurs actually do.” In the 21st century companies are no longer competing for this tech and talent with their corporate peers, but with startups. Today, people laugh if somebody says that’s a capstone entrepreneurship class.

Incubator 331

Incubator Lean Programming Government 331

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Design/Front End: Twitter Bootstrap : Include this in your website, and you are half finished. LiveRoad : A Great IDE for design is very helpful. Color Scheme Designer. questions and answers for non-programmers. online/offline, extensible wireframing tool w/design library. Traffic Research. Startup Threads.

Software Review 53

Software Review Technical Review Startup 53

sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

2010-06-19) # What about design mockups using eg. Sometimes non-programmers arent very good at anticipating where there might be problems, so it makes sense to give a very high-level overview of what you expect to happen after the first milestone, and the programmer will know if any follow-up is necessary. mockingbird? Insightful.

CTO Hire 84

CTO Hire Hiring Software Review Technical Review 84

Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 24, 2009

The solution for app developers caught in this vicious cycle is to develop competency in positioning. I would bet (although I don't have the data) that for normal (non-hyper-addict) Facebook users, the time between logins is strongly correlated with the number of high-quality notifications they receive. So, in summary: 1.

Metrics 88

Metrics San Francisco Lean Viral 88

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Policy makers need to know: regulations designed to manage big-companies actually protect those companies by stifling innovation (and competition) from startups. You can see the design of the program here. September 8, 2009 6:25 PM dbsaid. Big companies can afford entire departments dedicated to compliance. conference attendees.

DC 90

DC Washington San Francisco SBIR 90

www.women2.org

MARCH 8, 2012

Damsels in Design, a professional networking group for women in design, along with General Assembly, the collaborative workspace and technology incubator, are hosting “Women in Design & Technology,” a conversation series dedicated to celebrating and highlighting successful female entrepreneurs in New York City. Palo Alto, CA.

Cofounder 47

Cofounder Technical Review San Francisco Founder 47

ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 1, 2011

government agency that supports research in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering, is changing the startup landscape for scientists and engineers. They'll explore the best way to deliver the product to customers, the resources required, as well as competing technologies. billion U.S. Introducing the Innovation-Corps?.

Silicon Valley 118

Silicon Valley Intellectual Property Balance Sheet Lean 118

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 11, 2008

Some products, like Habbo Hotel or World of Warcraft, employ professional artists and designers to create compelling virtual goods that players want to buy. If you have a non-trivial amount of goods for people to buy, they are going to have to find ways to sort through them to find the ones they want. Appreciate your insights.

San Francisco 68

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC 68

Steve Blank

MAY 4, 2009

I’ve encountered finance organizations with budget processes designed to simplify their lives, but not the rest of the company’s. I loved to compete against these companies. Their own internal culture would tie them up in knots, and agile startups could run rings around them. Don’t let this happen to your company.

Silicon Valley 127

Silicon Valley RSS Non-Compete California 127

Reid Hoffman

JULY 11, 2017

individuals, foundations, and corporations donate around $47 billion a year to non-profit organizations that focus on child welfare, food security, homelessness, and other areas that fall under the domain of "human services." Every year in the U.S., But is the relationship between philanthropy and democracy really so zero-sum?

America 28

America Government Non-Compete California 28

blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Microsoft started down this path when they were the only game in town, explicitly to maintain their monopoly by making it as hard as possible to either port Windows apps to non-Windows platforms, or to even conceive of how to do it in the first place. Because.NET is designed to extend, not disrupt. Alcides Fonseca. Get a grip.

Java 107

Java PHP Software Review Coder 107

SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Put likable, competent and passionate people on the front line. Competing To Win Deals - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , November 7, 2010 The venture capital business is highly competitive. We're looking to choose a design put together by one of our readers as the official t-shirt for OnStartups. This doesn’t make sense.

Technical Review 175

Technical Review Technology Product CTO Hire 175

crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Chapter 4: Brand Identity Design: the Building Blocks of Your Brand Identity. Chapter 5: Designing Your Brand Identity. Put another way: a designer’s job isn’t to design a brand. Designers design the brand identity (explained in Chapter 5 ). Chapter 2: Creating Your Brand Strategy. style guide.

Marketing 162

Marketing Charlotte Naming Design 162

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

Usually there are different segments that are loyal for different, even competing, reasons. or their privileging of only certain designers featured in Showcase and promos. I can't do anything for the hurt you experienced in the past, other than to apologize on behalf of all platform designers out there. Expo SF (May.

Community 158

Community Management Lean Software Review 158