crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 5, 2010

An Insider’s Guide to Venture Capital Financing – [link]. Smart thoughts on importance of audience size as measure of our reach – [link]. The Life of a Startup Founder’s Significant Other – [link]. Is Your Service Business Too Squishy? – [link]. The Role of Education in Entrepreneurship – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

This Is Already The Third Biggest Year In The History Of Venture Capital – [link]. Good reminder on importance of marketing to broad audience & not falling into a trap of marketing only to tech people – [link]. The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail – [link]. – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 1, 2013

Building an audience for first-time entrepreneurs – [link]. Venture Capital Returns – [link]. Building an audience for first-time entrepreneurs – [link]. Don’t Spend More Money Than You’re Bringing In | Sprouter Blog – [link]. Startup identity & the sadness of a successful exit – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

Want Venture Capital Funding? Venture-Backed Commerce Sites Banking on TV Ads to Lure in Audiences | AllThingsD – [link]. Venture-Backed Commerce Sites Banking on TV Ads to Lure in Audiences | AllThingsD – [link]. What’s the secret to a great team? Barking Up The Wrong Tree – [link].

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Steve Blank

APRIL 9, 2009

But my favorite was when the public relations manager said, “we’re here to write press releases and answer the phone in case the press calls.” My new head of Public Relations quickly learned that my admin could answer calls from the press. The same was true for PR. The same was true for the Product Marketing group.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 28, 2010

Max will be talking about how to properly resource an integrated marketing effort over the lifetime of a company and Eric will help you focus on narrowing down your target audience—and finding them. Tags: First Round Capital Venture Capital & Technology nextNY. Mandatory RSVP Here!

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Steve Blank

JULY 13, 2009

Every generation of new technology seems to find a willing audience in naïve journalists and eager readers. Believing Your Own BS is Toxic Lots of noise and smoke before a product ships seems to be a toxic byproduct of enthusiastic entrepreneurs. Hindsight is wonderful.

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VC Cafe

MAY 29, 2014

America’s Army pushed the first person shooter genre into the service of recruitment and public relations. This is a great trend and in addition, it helps widen the audience for the games industry with many non gamers joining in. Both companies are backed by venture capital funds.

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Hunter Walker

AUGUST 26, 2022

From Box to Glossier, and Comms to Venture Capital, Ashley Mayer Is Carving a Pretty Unique Path. Ashley Mayer: I was two years post-college and working at a public relations agency in San Francisco, a job and career path I stumbled onto when I was rejected by my top law school picks.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 4, 2017

You also need to understand your audience. Describe and/or quantify the problem to help your audience understand that a change needs to happen. This presents the opportunity that your startup will capitalize on. The members of your audience are investing in you and your team as much as they are in your company.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 11, 2010

Your audience looks at a million brand messages a day and to cut through, you can’t be a different thing everytime someone experiences you—or worse yet, everything to everyone. Startups need to do this more with both their product and their public relations strategy. Tags: Venture Capital & Technology.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Choose your specific calling and then market your skills to that niche audience. Public relations consulting. How to identfy your brand's audience, and more! How to identfy your brand's audience, and more! Write copy with your target audience in mind. Every business needs accounting. Advertising consulting.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 24, 2011

Similarly, making it a point to regularly release videos, podcasts, and blog posts with code snippets will generate a similar audience. In other words, provide content that is commentworthy and tailored to a specific audience that you're trying to hire--without necessarily being solely focused on the hire.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

It was the wrong audience. And, the audience that did actually read it likely has none of the people he is complaining about in it. There are as many half-ass php programmers as there are Msft platform developers because the target audience has been the same for the drone users (asp, vb, web forms). It is ironic.

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