crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 17, 2013

5 Things Founders Don’t Talk About | Forbes – [link]. “As a founder, your job isn’t to make a great product. Good post by Ben Milne about focus and the challenges of having enough mental “bandwidth” – [link]. Every Entrepreneur’s Least Favorite Question | HBR – [link].

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David Teten

JANUARY 11, 2020

We market to four populations: High-potential founders. High-potential prospective employees of portfolio companies. Executives of large companies which may acquire or become clients of our portfolio companies. I don’t have bandwidth to engage in substantial conversations on Twitter. . Hootsuite. Crunchbase.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

Use that intelligence to inform product portfolio and investment choices.”. The temptation, therefore, is to stop everything, to clear bandwidth for some very real and very pressing crisis management. Survey design. Building a method for production that makes this efficient enough for profit. Here are some things you can do.

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K9 Ventures

APRIL 14, 2020

My inclination was that “this is a team of scrappy founders, and I like how they think.”. Several months ago I was having a conversation with my friend and former co-worker @ HiHello, Leith Abdulla , about how I am frustrated with Slack and want a tool that removes the friction for communication with the remote team.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 1, 2017

This is most clearly highlighted in the “unicorn” boom we all saw over the past few years, where founders raised very large rounds, with terms very onerous to the underlying common stock, hoping they could eventually justify billion dollar valuations to skeptical acquirers or public market investors. One Shot” incentives.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

Founders instinctively think that pursuing the “best” people in any category is always what’s best for their Company. Who advised the founders of Uber and Facebook? I use this reasoning a lot in helping founders work through what VC funds they are talking to. Background reading: Not building a unicorn. Ask the users.

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BeyondVC

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

This reminds me of a conversation I had last month with a founder and former CTO of one our of our prior portfolio companies who said his goal was to have a highly successful SAAS play with 1 operations guy instead of 20. There is a great BusinessWeek article outlining Amazon’s ambition to be a utility for web businesses.

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K9 Ventures

APRIL 25, 2012

Over a decade ago, the big bottlenecks for web performance were server load and network bandwidth. If that wasn’t enough Torbit lets you tie in your site’s conversion rate to show what impact speed has on the bottom-line. Lots of companies sprung up in the Web 1.0 era to help resolve these problems. Speed on.

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K9 Ventures

APRIL 25, 2012

Over a decade ago, the big bottlenecks for web performance were server load and network bandwidth. If that wasn’t enough Torbit lets you tie in your site’s conversion rate to show what impact speed has on the bottom-line. Lots of companies sprung up in the Web 1.0 era to help resolve these problems. Speed on.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2011

Operators and customers to easily migrate for HSPA+ and LTE based networks with improved bandwidth connectivity and provide richer value added services packages. RADWIN 2000 is a portfolio of carrier-class products providing high-capacity, long-range connectivity at highly competitive prices. IXI Mobile. - Rad Data Communication.

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