crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

It’s important to evaluate existing businesses in the market niche of your choice. Market analysis. This looks at the target market for your product or service. It has a breakdown of your market segments, their geographic location, and what their needs are. Sales and marketing plan. Do market research.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 23, 2014

As an investor for the past 20 years, I’ve had this happen many times. When I first started investing as an angel investor in 1994, I was focused on a very simple set of criteria. He looked at me and gave me that “yeah – we should do this” look. And that was it.

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Technical Review Angel Investor Partner Database 154

David Teten

AUGUST 15, 2013

At the end of the program, “each team will present to Nike executives, mentors, angel investors, venture capitalists, and tech industry leaders.” The SAP Startup Focus Program functions as an accelerator for startups using SAP HANA as their application database.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 16, 2014

Angel investors, like me, have long figured out that asking to see the prototype is a quick way to separate the ‘wannabes’ from serious players. Every entrepreneur has to deal with the realities of constant change in today’s market, and it’s much easier to pivot the pre-production prototype than to dispose of unsellable inventory.

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Gust

JANUARY 4, 2012

Many thanks to David Rose , Ilana Grossman , Justin Stanwix , and the whole Gust team for making the Gust Blog such a valuable platform and resource for entrepreneurs and angel investors. Building and populating databases of user-supplied information and content (copyright). Easier said than done!)

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 10, 2018

Angel investors, like me, have long figured out that asking to see the prototype is a quick way to separate the ‘wannabes’ from serious players. Every entrepreneur has to deal with the realities of constant change in today’s market, and it’s much easier to pivot the pre-production prototype than to dispose of unsellable inventory.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2014

This will include the first version of many critical processes that can be split out later, including market opportunity, requirements, product definition, business model, sales process, and organization. How do you access the Internet, what servers do you need, applications required, databases designed, and backups scheduled?

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Scalable Startup

AUGUST 26, 2014

As further market proof of the power of Drupal in the enterprise, Acquia has received about $100 million in funding in the past 3 months, which puts its valuation at over $1 billion. There’s a lot of buzz about the Amazon acquisition of TWITCH this week. more info on the funding round from @thewhir [link].

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 27, 2014

In order to be competitive, a company needs to have just about everything in place, from its product to its team to market traction, before it is ready to seek funding. As such, the competition from an entrepreneur’s standpoint is very, very tough. Given this imbalance, the fact is that most VCs are reactive rather than proactive.

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Angel Groups Elevator Pitch Software Review Deal Flow 159

Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

MITX : Non-profit trade association hosting many events focused on digital marketing and internet business. Not Boston focused, but definitely follow his reports of PE and VC financings and the state of the venture market. @danprimack. Cloudant - Database as a service (backed by Avalon). Next major event? Future M on Oct 16.

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Boston Technical Review Community Cofounder 71

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 31, 2013

This will include the first version of many critical processes that can be split out later, including market opportunity, requirements, product definition, business model, sales process, and organization. How do you access the Internet, what servers do you need, applications required, databases designed, and backups scheduled?

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Institutional Investors Angel Investor Bootstrapping Database 230

Up and Running

APRIL 13, 2016

The National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, or NORML, has a database of detailed marijuana laws and penalties for every state in the U.S. NORML has a database of lawyers from all over the U.S. Identifying a target market can help you choose a good location for your store. Conduct market research.

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San Diego Colorado California Business Plan 60

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 23, 2015

Angel investors, like me, have long figured out that asking to see the prototype is a quick way to separate the ‘wannabes’ from serious players. Every entrepreneur has to deal with the realities of constant change in today’s market, and it’s much easier to pivot the pre-production prototype than to dispose of unsellable inventory.

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Startup Angel Investor Database Cofounder 120

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

This will include the first version of many critical processes that can be split out later, including market opportunity, requirements, product definition, business model, sales process, and organization. How do you access the Internet, what servers do you need, applications required, databases designed, and backups scheduled?

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Startup Institutional Investors Angel Investor Bootstrapping 255

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

They get together with a few buddies, bounce around ideas, build some code (sometimes internally, sometimes through contractors), start talking to potential angel investors and then register their company. I know he’s smart but you wouldn’t hire a Javascript developer to do your database design – would you?

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 1, 2010

This will include the first version of many critical processes that can be split out later, including market opportunity, requirements, product definition, business model, sales process, and organization. How do you access the Internet, what servers do you need, applications required, databases designed, and backups scheduled?

Startup 239

Startup Institutional Investors Angel Investor Bootstrapping 239

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

In Oracle’s early days Kathryn Gould was the founding VP of Marketing, working there from 1982 to 1984. Portability (databases had previously been shackled to the specific machines they ran on). Which is why I had OEM sales as part of marketing—we had to earn our keep.). Angel investor Don Lucas had his office above ours.

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Technical Review Venture Capital Software Review Database 334

Up and Running

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Before you can get funding, there are several steps to making sure your idea is solid and marketable. If you have a great idea but no funding yet, here are five steps you’ll need to take on the road to wooing investors. Step 2: Perform market research. You will also need to gather direct data from your target audience.

Entrepreneur 135

Entrepreneur Venture Capital Angel Investor Campaign 135

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. Shama Kabani , Marketing Zen. From a technical standpoint, in addition to being a skilled programmer, the CTO should have a background in architecture and database design.

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CTO Hire Fractional CTO CTO Technical Review 73

Steve Blank

AUGUST 8, 2016

Lane served as Executive Vice President at Disney for five years before returning to his entrepreneurial roots to become an angel investor and launch FreshGrade. . So we started in the academic market — because they would actually buy. Still, academics made up Qualtrics’ core market for five years.

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Cofounder New York City Entrepreneur New York 148

www.drowningamerican.com

JUNE 22, 2012

While our industry is the educational sector, our target market is primarily high school students, undergrad and graduate students. Database Expertise: MSSQL/MySQL – Relational database design and programming, stored procedures, triggers, reporting, and administration.

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Sweat Equity Equity Hiring Technical Review 40

Steve Blank

AUGUST 8, 2016

Lane served as Executive Vice President at Disney for five years before returning to his entrepreneurial roots to become an angel investor and launch FreshGrade. . So we started in the academic market — because they would actually buy. Still, academics made up Qualtrics’ core market for five years.

Cofounder 120

Cofounder New York City Entrepreneur New York 120

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

In liquid markets, most of the calories expended on technology and analytics are focused on trade selection, or “ origination ”. I use another live Google doc to maintain my database of companies I’m marketing to other VCs. 2) Market . Many tools designed for B2B marketing in general are also relevant to investors.

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Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

I'd like to hear from venture capitalists, angel investors, incubators, and accelerators on this topic. Investors are optional in this equation. Very few businesses address large enough market opportunities to warrant professional investor involvement, especially VCs. Who are my most profitable customers?)

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Incubator Silicon Valley Idaho Entrepreneur 116

BeyondVC

OCTOBER 27, 2009

Phase 2 - Rise of open source - I would call Phase 2 the rise of open source software over the last 10 years - most of which is hardcore infrastructure type software such as databases, virtualization software, and the like.

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EC2 Open Source Cloud Angel Investor 99

Professor VC

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

It did not show how many scores were on the list, but given the number of blackberrys in the market, it has to be a big number. What does it take to be an Angel Investor? I am an active angel investor and on the board of Sand Hill Angels. My score was #471. Do they have jobs? December 27, 2008 11:28 AM.

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San Jose Technical Review Angel Investor Silicon Valley 28

Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Security, Cloud, NoSQL databases, etc. And then five years later computers became — they dropped half in price and then the big insurance companies could buy them, and that’s when Thomas Watson, who ran IBM at the time, was quoted as saying, “There’s only a market need in the world for five computers.”. So that’s how it started.

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Software Review Startup Venture Capital Stock 22

VC Cafe

AUGUST 11, 2014

Whether you’re a startup founder, angel investor or VC, you’ve probably had the need to quickly understand an industry. Here’s examples from Google Market insights, Cisco , Microsoft Research , IBM Research or this IHS report on Wearable tech.Usually, Steve Jobs. 2) Infographics and LumaScapes.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

They all use the same simple-minded model.They seem to have approached the problem by thinking about how todo database matches instead of how dating works in the real world.An The market price is less than the inconvenience of signing an NDA. The best odds are in niche markets. Andyet theres a lot of money at stake.

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Startup Cofounder Software Stock 105

mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Gary Vaynerchuk: Personal branding master and creator of Wine Library TV, Gary Vaynerchuk is also an angel investor with an expanding portfolio of companies. Paige Craig: Adrenaline-junkie Paige Craig is a former marine and intelligence consultant who’s now a prolific angel investor and startup advisor based out of Los Angeles.

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Angel Investor Startup San Francisco Social Media 80

online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

Loading… Markets. Loading… Market Data. Media & Marketing. Marketing & Strategy. How well a failed entrepreneur has managed his company, and how well he worked with his previous investors, makes a difference in his ability to persuade U.S. Find opportunities in our business and franchise databases.

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Venture Capital Software Review Rhode Island North Dakota 107

techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

So what ends up happening is great programmers are led sheepishly into the arms of suggestive Angel Investors, VC’s or mentor hybrids like yourself who guide the product into what they’d like to see. Not everybody can, especially if they need to run with the idea to get to market. link] steve Interesting article.

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Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder Software Review 84

blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

While.NET can no doubt service the enterprise market, so can everybody else. Its called flamebait marketing, and this is *exactly* how it’s done. Big ideas and creative stuff either aren’t coming out of the.NET world, or.NET based projects/startups suck at marketing. March 25, 2011 at 2:51 pm. Help your business out.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

Home Books for Startups Guide Secret History-Bibliography Steve Blank Startup Tools Steve Blank Entries RSS | Comments RSS Email Subscription Get Steve Blank via your RSS Feed RSS - Posts RSS - Comments Categories Air Force (12) Ardent (10) Audubon (1) Big Companies versus Startups: Durant versus Sloan (39) Business Model versus Business Plan (..)

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Software Review Startup Silicon Valley Analytics 110

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Whether you’re wondering what site search you should use or what is the best email marketing tool, knowledge is power. From premium paid subscription databases to free tools showcasing new startups and startup maps, The Ultimate Startup Intelligence Tools List is guaranteed to help you get your research done. Email marketing.

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Software Review Technical Review Startup 53

pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

I’ve been hearing about the so-called Series A Crunch for at least six months, and in recent weeks, I’ve spoken with more than 20 venture capitalists, angel investors, incubator heads, lawyers, and other necessary cogs in the ecosystem trying to get some details about it. On November 28, 2012. Source GigaOM ]. -

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