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! Three ways to measure your new startup idea to decide if it’s good enough to pursue – [link]. What You Need to Know About Agile UX – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 4, 2013

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! How One Startup Grew a $100M Business Without Spending Venture Capital | Forbes – [link]. Funding startups that rely on advertising (by @bijan) – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 1, 2015

We just love sharing articles about fonts, logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, economics and other interesting stuff! Small Business and Startup Tips: Analyzing Your Search Data | @crowdSPRING Blog – bit.ly/1EFd59a.

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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! crowdSPRING’s Small Business Spotlight of the Week: Nurturing Wisdom – [link]. Is Your Service Agile? How to Hire in Chicago – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 28, 2016

A lot of time can be spent choosing the perfect startup name. Startup names can be descriptive (PayPal), suggestive (Amazon), or even fanciful (Apple). Once you find the perfect name for your startup, it’s hard to think that any other name could fit the company you are building. Unsure if your startup is in need of a new name?

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2014

We like to talk about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, economics and other interesting stuff! Why We Love Small Business Saturday | crowdSPRING Blog – crowdspring.co/15dPZpS. The Discipline of Business Experimentation – crowdspring.co/1veSF09.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

Useful blogs and links for startups Click Here ————– 2.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 7, 2021

And we charge money for it.” – Eric Ries, The Lean Startup. Like Apple, your strategy will require significant marketing investment in content, traditional media, and PR. Strategy expert, Gary Fox , defines growth marketing as: “An agile and adaptive marketing methodology that focuses on how to get, grow and keep customers.”.

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Product Marketing Software Review Social Media 142

Transformify

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Some early-stage startups rely on freelancers to optimize costs and extend the time until the next funding round. Red Stag Fulfillment is a pretty agile company, and right now we're still at the point where despite a lot of growth, we don't have room to bring anyone on full time. Why do you hire gig workers and freelancers?

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

To give you a better idea of what entrepreneurs in this industry are thinking about during each phase of the startup process, I interviewed SaaS entrepreneurs from all over the world, including our own COO Noah Parsons. Eric Ries, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and author of The Lean Startup, popularized this strategy for web applications.

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Software Review Software Delaware Forecast 74

crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 12, 2012

Brand-building is key to successful political campaigns as it is for businesses, and politicians build their own personal brands using tactics that all of us use everyday. In short, small businesses and startups can draw many valuable lessons from politics, politicians, and political campaigns. Politicians adjust.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 8, 2015

We just love sharing articles about fonts, logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, economics and other interesting stuff! Small business Congress-watch: Some Pending Bills (and Why They Matter) | @crowdSPRING Blog – bit.ly/1DPsePt. – buff.ly/1EY9ktL.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 15, 2015

As a small business owner I worry a great deal about productivity: how to achieve it, how to maximize it and how to maintain it. We just love sharing articles about fonts, logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, economics and other interesting stuff!

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 27, 2016

(I love my new company name, because of its simplicity and it’s clarity – you cannot see my business card and NOT know what it is I do.). I was a PR professional working for a large corporation and making plans to start my own PR company. Thanks to Shakeema Bouyer, The Queen’s English PR.

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Up and Running

JULY 24, 2012

In the broadest sense, Olympic athletes are small business owners. An athlete is their own product and their business is to be the best in the world. Is this any different than an entrepreneur working every day to make their startup or small business a success? Be Flexible & Agile.

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mashable.com

MAY 9, 2011

a New York-based sizzle reel production company specializing in promotional videos for PR and marketing professionals, and the Young Entrepreneur Council. I asked a panel of successful young entrepreneurs what fledging tech startups should be looking for in a CTO hire to ensure founders get the right person for the job.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2018

This is the most comprehensive guide online to creating a strong brand identity for your business or organization in 2019. A brand identity is the most effective way any organization (startups, small businesses, agencies, nonprofits, or others) can gain a competitive edge in an increasingly crowded marketplace.

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Brandanew

JULY 9, 2015

Tim Berry recently wrote a great post on why content marketing is getting harder from a very personal and a business focused perspective. With many small businesses and Startups getting into the Content Marketing fray- along side the big brands, it is getting crowded indeed. Image source: Flickr.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 1, 2016

Ninjas are agile, fast, and efficient. Business networking is typically the exact opposite. Yet, while many people avoid it, networking is one of the most important tools in a business owner’s toolkit. This is why networking events or conferences are so popular in the business world- especially for startups and small business.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

(a guide for hackers) (This post was inspired by a conversation with Nivi from Venture Hacks , but is otherwise not his fault) There has been a proliferation of frameworks and metaphors lately that are designed to help startups avoid the all-too-common fatal mistake of failing to find a market. People dont want to buy a quarter-inch drill.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

You become so steeped in tools and techniques that have absolutely no relevance outside of.NET that you are actually less valuable to a startup than had you just taken a long nap. Two things: If you ever want to work in a startup, avoid.NET. But what they do is very, very rarely startups. It does you no favors.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

If you live in an area that has "hacker" or "startup-weekend" type events where idea people are teamed with developers, it can be great way to get some free (or low cost) experience in what it is like to work with a team of developers, narrow the scope of your project, and understand what it takes to get to v1.0

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