crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

Silicon Valley’s Hottest Commodity: The Design-Savvy Founder | Inc – [link]. 6 Things That Can Kill Your City’s Startup Community | ReadWrite – [link]. Almost All B2B Marketers Do Content Marketing, But Only 36 Percent Think It’s Effective [STUDY] – [link]. TechCrunch – [link].

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 15, 2019

I originally provided pro-bono public relations services to artists and non-profits due to my love for the community and the arts. I wanted to make the community and the world aware of the talent, businesses and resources that thrive within my city. 12- Solve a problem in international B2B payments. Photo Credit: Sandeep Todi.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 12, 2014

This week marked the annual b2b marketing frenzy known as the Consumer Electronics Show (URL) in Las Vegas. Consumers will repay you by sharing their brand “pictures” with their communities. Create Communities that Share. 155,000 visitors, a record, trundled across an Exhibition Area the size of 37 football fields.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Recommendations from family and friends are the most trusted source of information , and B2B companies that use them experience higher than average conversion rates. One of these colleagues happened to be author and Silicon Valley venture capitalist Guy Kawasaki.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 26, 2019

Danny Haber is the founder of oWOW, a B2B and B2C concern which is directly involved in building modular units for resale to property developers, and as new housing for consumers. The housing crisis in the San Francisco Bay area is particularly severe, given the boom in Silicon Valley hires since the 2009 recession.

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

Investment Criteria: B2B SaaS or tech-enabled services with proven, recurring contracts. Founders First Capital Partners : “Founders First Capital Partners, LLC is building a comprehensive ecosystem to empower underrepresented founders to become leading premium wage job creators within their communities. ARR of $500K+. ScaleWorks. “We

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View from Seed

JANUARY 11, 2023

The smaller size also allows the space for teams to get to know each other within the cohort and develop a true sense of community and friendship on a founder-to-founder level, which has proven to be an invaluable resource during and after the program. . Think alumni advice circles from founders who have successfully fundraised post-program.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 2, 2019

I saw this movie in Silicon Valley?—?where But I would argue in B2B SaaS (Software as a Service) businesses if you really know the market?—?and I smile thinking about how community member and customer centric we’ve been. It is about the damning nature of an overcapitalized business. where I lived for four years?—?play

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

I know that in B2B world you are dead in the water without CRM tool… We are using our own stuff – [link] Reply Josh , on February 28, 2011 at 12:12 am said: Thank you for all the great links, how can i get an invite to quora? I’d like to add [link] as a community for founders. Very easy to use and share.

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View from Seed

JULY 28, 2015

This is expressed by people outside of Boston, but it often comes from those within our community too. Even ignoring Silicon Valley, places like New York and LA seem to have an edge relative to Boston because of its proximity to media outlets and the prevalence of marketers from big and exciting consumer brands or entertainment companies.

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Rob Go

OCTOBER 14, 2012

9 that are B2B. The others are mainly in Silicon Valley with some exceptions. Stepping back to the big picture, it’s remarkable to see how quickly things change in the VC and entrepreneurial community. In only a handful of cases has there been significant traction prior to our investment. OUR INDUSTRY.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 14, 2009

Using examples drawn from his own experiences in the startup hub of Silicon Valley, Eric Ries unravels the myths and misconceptions that guide most startups, and paints a picture of a new way forward for the industry. We changed our model to B2B and adopted Agile around 2002. Let me know. Keep doing what you are doing.

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Agile VC

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

Just under half our portfolio is B2B in nature, slightly more than half is consumer-facing in some way. These include many of our colleagues in the VC industry, folks from our prior firms, and a handful of people in the LP community who offered constructive guidance. Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC.

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conversionxl.com

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

By the end of this article, you should have a better understanding of how to develop new products or tweak your existing offerings by working with existing or prospective customers to incorporate their feedback to create viable solutions to their problems, and clearly communicate their value. So What is Customer Development? 6 Comments.

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Ben's Blog

MAY 15, 2020

People saying, “This is what’s happening to B2B SaaS or this is what’s happening to this category.” Brian : I know it’s like an old Silicon Valley message, talk to your customers, but honestly this is one of those times where you need to be talking to at least a couple customers a couple times a day.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

And for those in the coveted in-crowd, Silicon Valley, San Francisco and the greater tech community become a world of opportunity where you’re only limited by the quality of your idea and the caliber of your friends. The “haves&# possess money, power, influence, or the right friends with those qualities.

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Reid Hoffman

AUGUST 17, 2021

Obviously one of the things we talk a lot about within Silicon Valley is network effects as a differentiator – and there are a lot of different kinds of network effects and things I call strong and weak and much other things, and not all networks have network effects and all that, so it’s sometimes used very loosely.

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Reid Hoffman

AUGUST 17, 2021

Obviously one of the things we talk a lot about within Silicon Valley is network effects as a differentiator – and there are a lot of different kinds of network effects and things I call strong and weak and much other things, and not all networks have network effects and all that, so it’s sometimes used very loosely.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Startups for startups – the top B2B tools used by Startups – Includes the list of top 50 startup vendors in 2012 by Vendorstack , a reviews and Q&A platform on enterprise vendors for startups and mid-market companies. Ning Communities. On-line Communities. Siklu Communication. Silent Communication.

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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 13, 2021

And the way that Entrepreneur First is finding founders, bringing them together, matching them together, and having that sponsor B2B business ideas. What can the tech community do to help? So when I came to my partners and I said, Hey, I think we should try this thing Entrepreneur First.

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