crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 28, 2010

Inspiration: Book Cover Archive – [link]. The Art & Science of Evidence-Based Design – [link]. These posts and videos are about design, startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Here are some of the links that I’ve liked and shared this past week! – [link].

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

It’s an art. Customer Development is Not a Focus Group « Steve Blank (tags: entrepreneurship startups) [.] steve bits and pieces » Blog Archive » infographics , on February 21, 2010 at 6:37 pm Said: [.] Customer Development is not a giant focus group. I’m a designer.

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Reid Hoffman

JUNE 28, 2016

Artificial Intelligence is about to transform management from an art into a combination of art and science. Meetings will be recorded, transcribed, and archived in a knowledge repository. Show me a tag cloud of the topics my predecessor was spending his time on. What were the meetings where it was discussed?

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prosperati.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

There is this delusion that certification in a computer language or vendor technology (Microsoft etc) equates to mastery of the art of programming itself. Hence instead of focusing on the artist, the industry focuses on the art supplies to determine quality. Leave a comment Trackback Tags. Tags: startupcto. WHERE ARE YOU?

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 16, 2015

10 toys to build c onfidence: This talent is pretty much a given for success in any format, be that business, athletics, or arts. And if you think there’s no future application for this skill, think again—check out Robert Lang’s incredible origami art. The only drawback is the price tag. What is it?

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Altgate

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Raising Capital: 5 Reasons Convertible Debt Sucks HOT The Collapse of the VC Ecosystem & What It Will Look Like Post Recovery 10 Tips On Negotiating With VCs Dating…er…Fundraising Etiquette The Science & Art of Term Sheet Negotiation HOT How Liquidation Preferences Work HOT How Much Money Should I Raise?

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

An example of wares from SageLike Studios, featuring hand-knit items and art prints. Make sure your Etsy tags and keywords are those which people can easily find you, both on Etsy and when searching for a particular item on Google. Tips from Etsy sellers. Get to know the community. Etsy-Related Resources.

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The Equity Kicker

JUNE 22, 2012

Once you decide to check email, follow this pattern: Quickly scan your inbox for important emails and mark them as ‘Priority’ (using a tag or star). I use tags in Gmail for this. Archive them all. Mark any other emails that are important, but not time sensitive, as ‘Later’.

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Altgate

JANUARY 5, 2009

Share and Enjoy: This entry was posted in Current Affairs , Entrepreneurship , Green Business , Management , Startups , Technology , Venture Capital , Venture Debt and tagged top posts. Tips: $75 Killver VC Pitch Deck Not much to learn here. Bookmark the permalink. ← Layoffs In Venture Capital Be Glad You Are An Entrepreneur!

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Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2009

Filed under: Customer Development , Family/Career , Technology | Tagged: Steve Blank , Entrepreneurs , Tips for Startups « Am I a Founder? Great art and great programming are fostered within a community that shares an ethic of care for its members. The Adventure of a Lifetime. Balance is important. It’s not easy.

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Steve Blank

JULY 16, 2009

Meanwhile our company was pouring an enormous amount of dollars into building tools and video compression technology, while also hiring a lot of high-priced Hollywood talent like art directors, and script and story editors. We Don’t Need Domain Experts When I looked around at our executive staff, there wasn’t a single founder who was a gamer.

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mobile.smashingmagazine.com

JANUARY 16, 2013

The bottom line is to keep information that is vital; question information that either is popular or has priority; archive and remove information that is neither. Put another way, when was the last time you favored tags written into HTML over font properties in a separate CSS file? Oddly enough, this doesn’t mean removing pages.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 4, 2008

tags: lean startup ) Labels: customer development , events , lean startup , slides 8comments: Nivi said. For customer development, start with Steves book The Four Steps to the Epiphany or take a look at his recent Entrepreneurial Thought Leader Lecture. Im working on a post that links to those videos too.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 16, 2010

Although you can watch the video archives on Justin.tv (and Paul Graham says he'll be posting the essay version of his remarks online soon), here are some of the highlights from my lecture notes: Andy Bechtolsheim: Founder, Arista Networks, Sun Microsystems. You're building a tool, not a piece of art. Tags: Events.

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

For the non-expert businessperson, this means advice about “what software to use&# but also guidance through the arcane arts of software development, including advice about programming languages, software development methodologies, web application frameworks, software architecture, revision control systems, and other hacker black magic.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

We did find some specific industry verticals where the model works (some high schools, some boxing and mixed martial arts events, some exclusive conferences), but not enough to warrant a large market and an independent company. October 4, 2010 | Brian | Tags: Business, entrepreneur, start up | No Comments » [.]. Company : IonLab.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 30, 2009

When we had mastered the art, then I was ready to outsource it again, but not before this became a core competency of my department. Oh yes, and retail sales doubled with the new product packaging.

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Altgate

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Share and Enjoy: This entry was posted in Entrepreneurship , Startups and tagged Accounting , Banking , design , Engineering , marketing , Outsourcing. You must balance short term constraints (human, capital, etc.) with long term requirements. And remember, anything is possible with hard work and the right attitude. Bookmark the permalink.

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Steve Blank

MAY 6, 2009

BTW, I don’t know to be hopeful or concerned that that this is the state of the art of analytical thinking at this agency. Customer Analytics – From Those Who Should Know « Steve Blank (tags: reasoning philosophy Thinking) [.] It’s a useful read to explore and challenge analytical arguments and mind-sets.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 12, 2009

If youre emitting HTML, as 99% of all PHP apps are, its just so damn convenient to throw in PHP tags along with your layout tags, all inline on the page. I didnt find such help on other programming language except Java and.NET April 4, 2009 7:21 AM Web Art Sense said. Web Art Sense Team [link] May 2, 2009 8:14 AM Jeff said.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 20, 2009

Startups are – and will remain – an art, not a science. Helena Reply Process for the Enterprise » Blog Archive » Sometimes Leadership Means Executing the Plan , on August 25, 2009 at 6:48 am Said: [.] Reply steveblank , on August 21, 2009 at 10:20 pm Said: David, No advice is applicable in all cases.

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Steve Blank

MAY 15, 2009

People reject simple-but-clean-home-made, thinking that art-college-designers have something better to offer. Lessons Learned N ew buildings are a distraction. I only once moved into a new apartment that did not have someone else’s wear and tear to fix. That one posh place made no difference to my misery/happiness index.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

Our engineers built a series of test tags, so you could quickly run a subset of tests in your sandbox that you thought were relevant to your current project or feature. We had a comprehensive set of unit, acceptance, functional, and performance tests, and practiced TDD across the whole team. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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blogs.computerworlduk.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

Tags: development , enterprise , web services Subscribe to this blog Print They havent put their press release on a web page anywhere as far as I can tell but WS-I ("Web Services Interoperability Organization") has finally run out of runway and will now be absorbed by OASIS according to their PDF. Goodbye, WS-I. startupcto

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 29, 2010

(<30 sec) Write your local newspaper & tell them you support the Startup Visa Act Call your senators & let them know you support Startup Visa legislation Add the Startup Visa Widget to your blog or website Follow the #startupvisa hash tag on Twitter and voice your support Contribute to Startup Visa so we can spread the word!

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 4, 2009

We change the code to have all of the queries identified in step 3 tagged with the apporpriate entity URL that they affect. Did a DB term of art come from UO? The better your internal APIs and data architecture, the easier this step will be. But even for total spaghetti code, this doesnt take more than a few hours.

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www.readwriteweb.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

I have worked on hundreds of projects, many of which were embarrassingly bad design-wise -- either because someone else designed it poorly, or the client "art directed" it into the ground -- and its almost a universal rule that the worst looking designs convert the best. Tags: startupcto. See Also Elegant.ly

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2009

If you haven’t figured out the ecosystem, growth is useless – whether it is a acquisition-only viral loop, like Tagged, or an advertising blitz like countless dot-bombs. This isn’t helpful either, as countless companies have shown. Let’s consider one last example, a sticky-growth company like eBay or World of Warcraft.

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Altgate

AUGUST 20, 2010

A couple of years ago I wrote this post on the science and art of negotiating a term sheet , which turned out to be a fairly popular post. Share and Enjoy: This entry was posted in Entrepreneurship , Venture Capital and tagged angel financing , entrepreneur , founder , fund raising , negotiation , startup , term sheet , venture capital.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 24, 2009

Most people are going to hear about the site for the very first time via an organic notification, when a friend signs up for the site (or tags them in a photo, etc). For example, consider a site like Facebook in its early days. No positioning exists yet in the mind of the prospect. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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alexpoole.info

AUGUST 14, 2012

This entry was posted in Articles , legibility , reading , Research , sans serif , serif , typography and tagged linkedin. Pingback: Elionstar » Blog Archive » Blogosphere Trends + Improving Readability. Pingback: allonlinework.com » Blog Archive » Blogosphere Trends + Improving Readability. Protextuel.

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www.igda.org

JULY 24, 2012

Electronic Arts is no different than many high-tech companies in this regard. Archived at Mischievous Ramblings. Actually, working 9am to 10pm, six days a week, plus 9am to 6:30pm one day a week comes out to (6 * 13 = 78 + 9:30 = ) 87.5 hours per week — but after that many hours, whos still counting? hour-per week super crunch.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 16, 2008

Facebook , LinkedIn , and other successful social networks have elevated this technique to a high art. But its exponentially more engaging to have each person tag their friends in each picture, because the notification is so much more interesting: "youve been tagged in a photo, click to find out which one!"

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Steve Blank

JUNE 3, 2009

Being able to sort out which common wisdom you want to listen to versus which you want to ignore, makes starting a company an art, not a science. They both have offer startups a path of getting it wrong often and early without go out of business. The next Vertical Markets post will put all the pieces together.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

AUGUST 2, 2011

Copywriters of course would argue that there is plenty you can teach about how to write good headlines, but having never studied the art of copywriting to any great depth, nor really desiring to do so, it has been an area I have tried to stay clear of. There are very few replicable elements I can talk about – it just happens.

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techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Just wrote about this at [link] Dave Hanna Sorry Kameko- digital life archiving is thriving. Just Because Google Exists Doesn’t Mean You Should Stop Asking People Things » © 2010 TechCrunch Powered by WordPress.com VIP About Advertise Archives Contact Events Jobs Network Staff. Tags: startupcto.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 7, 2010

Or, if youd prefer to do it by video, you can upload to YouTube - just use the "startup visa" tag. Or, if youd prefer to do it by video, you can upload to YouTube - just use the "startup visa" tag. Weve created a place where you can tell your Startup Visa story anonymously if youd like. For now, take my word for it.

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