crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2012

In Silicon Valley, Hardware Is Hot Again | Businessweek – [link]. Inside the IPO pipeline: It’s all B2B, all of the time | GeekWire – [link]. Mobile SEO Is Not A Myth: 8 Popular Claims Refuted | Search Engine Land – [link]. Fortune Exclusive: Larry Page on Google | Fortune Tech – [link].

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

After this initial success, Airbnb then reverse-engineered Craiglist forms with a tool that allowed users to repost their listings: By communicating benefits and removing barriers to success, they gave users a reason to get involved. One of these colleagues happened to be author and Silicon Valley venture capitalist Guy Kawasaki.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 29, 2013

by Meng Weng Wong, co-founder and social engineer at JFDI Asia. Better to decide now that you would rather pursue a career path in engineering than in entrepreneurship. Because we’ve learned the hard way that $100,000, which is six months of runway in Silicon Valley, is a retirement jackpot in half of Southeast Asia.

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techcrunch.com

MARCH 8, 2012

My experience: I exited my last company, an award-winning B2B telecoms operator, and knew that I wanted to build a SaaS product. I wanted to go back to my roots (my first business was ecommerce) and start something scalable that solved some kind of management or collaboration problem for businesses. Crunchboard.

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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. May 14, 2009 5:23 AM David said. It was a disaster.

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Hippoland

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

B2B, for example, hasn’t even even really started as a category yet. This really resembles the era when in Silicon Valley we had Yahoo, EBay, and Craigslist. But for B2B, for example, decision makers for older businesses can’t be found easily online. more on this below). And that sales cycle can be long.

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Hippoland

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

B2B, for example, hasn’t even even really started as a category yet. This really resembles the era when in Silicon Valley we had Yahoo, EBay, and Craigslist. But for B2B, for example, decision makers for older businesses can’t be found easily online. more on this below). And that sales cycle can be long.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 22, 2010

Look at some of the uber-successful icons of Silicon Valley / Technology: Larry Ellison, Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Larry/Sergey, Eric Schmidt, Andy Groves, John Doerr. Now is the time that you need “all hands on deck.&# That awesome gal you hired in engineering has job options and she knows it. Not job hoppers.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 26, 2019

I recruited a top-flight engineer and serial entrepreneur to build our MVP, on equity?—?and Our venture was selected for competitive accelerator spots & recognition from media and mentors from Austin, Chicago and Silicon Valley to work on this problem and capture the value its solution provided. in a huge $77b market.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 19, 2013

Find More Customers for Your B2B SaaS Product with These 5 Distribution Hacks – [link]. Billions have been spent trying to replicate Silicon Valley, with little to show for it. | 2013 Search Engine Ranking Factors | Moz – [link]. Mobile traction is getting harder, not easier. Here’s why – [link].

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Reid Hoffman

AUGUST 17, 2021

Greylock investor Sridhar Ramaswamy , who co-founded search engine startup Neeva , says it’s more important for startups to think about creating a product that is useful and resonates with people before worrying about whether a large incumbent is doing it. Costco, it turns out, is the ultimate subscription engine. How did HBO innovate?”

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Reid Hoffman

AUGUST 17, 2021

Greylock investor Sridhar Ramaswamy , who co-founded search engine startup Neeva , says it’s more important for startups to think about creating a product that is useful and resonates with people before worrying about whether a large incumbent is doing it. Costco, it turns out, is the ultimate subscription engine. How did HBO innovate?”

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Hippoland

AUGUST 20, 2017

But my perspective, as a high school student growing up in the Silicon Valley at the time, was different. Existing software engineers and tech entrepreneurs needed to retool both their skills as well as their way thinking about how software should be set up and software business models. B2B companies are also consolidating.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

TechCrunch Europe ran an article in November of last year that European startups need to work as hard as those in Silicon Valley and I echoed the sentiment in my post about the need for entrepreneurs to be maniacal about their businesses if one wants to work in the hyper competitive tech world. And at the 11th hour they pulled out.

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Steve Blank

JULY 27, 2015

Venk Shukla , president TiE Silicon Valley and general partner, Monta Vista Capital. — In the next segment, I spoke with Venk Shukla about his journey from bureaucrat in India to Silicon Valley entrepreneur. My sister was frustrated because she thought every electronics engineer should be in this country. …

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Microsoft bought visual identification video search engine Videosurf , which developed a technology that locates video clips on the Internet. MICROSOFT ACQUIRED ISRAELI START UP VIDEOSURF .

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David Teten

MARCH 18, 2021

“Tech” means B2B Saas/Fintech or Consumer apps. But you must be doing real engineering of some kind. For example, Point Nine Capital focuses on B2B SaaS and marketplaces at the seed stage, across many industries. B2B vs B2C) within the business model preference. . No ideas or prototypes.

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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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Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Rising tide When I was in Silicon Valley, I spent most of my time investing in SaaS companies. Even with the difference in cost base (engineers in Europe are cheaper than in the Valley), the funding gap has not been closed yet, and European companies have less firepower than their US counterparts on average.

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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? Reply Jarek , on February 27, 2011 at 11:51 pm said: What about CRM?

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abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 2, 2021

According to an interview with Elon Musk, this campaign cost Paypal about $60 million , which most Silicon Valley historians would consider money well spent. Silicon Valley founders and executives routinely say, “well the banker said we have to do this, or we can’t do that.” The others are all B2B companies.

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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. Firebase : Are all your developers front-end engineers? Google Custom Search Engine.

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