crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 15, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! The above image is a banner ad designed by someone in five minutes using Microsoft Paint. More Than Half of Small-Business Owners Go Without Pay – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Start With a Business Model, Not a Business Plan | WSJ – [link]. Must-read for marketers … Reverse Engineering Facebook EdgeRank – [link].

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Social Media Small Business Central African Republic Design 100

crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 4, 2013

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! “your business plan cannot be secret anymore.” Search Engine Watch – [link]. Favorite Book Cover Designs of 2012 | NYT – [link].

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 100

Up and Running

MAY 10, 2021

Mobile app development trends — what to expect. First, there are global (long-term) trends that concern IT giants and are designed for a mass audience. In 2021, Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) will be one of the main trends for mobile app development. Suppose you want to design a room.

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Artificial Inteligence Developer Development Team Review United Kingdom 150

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 6, 2012

Students will even receive a minor in entrepreneurship as they develop their own business plans. At Boston University, there’s an incredible array on business incubation opportunities. Engineering Translational Technology Center. Syracuse Student Sandbox. Innovation Depot.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Customize your website using one of the tools above, selecting one of the standard templates for design and layout. Now the real work begins – promotion, marketing, blogging, and all types of search engine marketing. The next step in complexity is building a software product that you can offer as a service to your customers.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

These posts and videos are about design, startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! 30 Free Fonts Best for Business Logos – [link]. 15 Tips for Designing Terrific Tables – [link]. 50 Beautiful and Stunning Beer Bottle and Can Designs – [link].

Social Media 95

Social Media Small Business Design Media 95

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 10, 2013

Customize your website using one of the tools above, selecting one of the standard templates for design and layout. Now the real work begins – promotion, marketing, blogging, and all types of search engine marketing. The next step in complexity is building a software product that you can offer as a service to your customers.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 28, 2010

These posts and videos are about design, startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Understanding and the Meaning of Color Within Design – [link]. SEO and logo designers – [link]. SEO and logo designers – [link]. We’re all in this together.

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 91

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Customize your website using one of the tools above, selecting one of the standard templates for design and layout. Now the real work begins – promotion, marketing, blogging, and all types of search engine marketing. The next step in complexity is building a software product that you can offer as a service to your customers.

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Steve Blank

MAY 6, 2015

Back then, an entrepreneur used a serial product development process that proceeded step-by-step with little if any customer feedback. Best practices in software development started to move to agile development in the early 2000’s. activities necessary to implement the business model. Microsoft Windows 3.0).

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Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

A company developing software would have to buy computers and license software from other companies and hire the staff to run and maintain it. Today open source software has slashed the cost of software development from millions of dollars to thousands. Not kind of wrong but going out of business wrong.

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 27, 2021

When I decided I wanted to start a company, I realized that I needed to pick up certain skills first, like product management, knowledge of online services, and a practical understanding of commercial software development. Going to business school is one of the worst places to accomplish this.

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 27, 2021

When I decided I wanted to start a company, I realized that I needed to pick up certain skills first, like product management, knowledge of online services, and a practical understanding of commercial software development. Going to business school is one of the worst places to accomplish this.

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Silicon Valley Venture Capital Balance Sheet Cofounder 69

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Marketing demand creation programs (Search Engine Marketing, Public Relations, Advertising, Lead Generation, Trade Shows, etc.) The Customer Development process says preserve your cash by not hiring anyone in sales and marketing until the founders turn hypotheses into facts and you have found product/market fit.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

There's a thriving geek culture in Paris, and no lack of software development expertise, thanks to superior universities that produce superior engineers. OSEO can be involved during very early stage activities, such as business plan creation and feasibility studies. that businesses normally pay to the government.

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France Technical Review Incubator Early Stage 163

Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2009

Present at the Creation It was early 1991 and Apple’s software development team was hard at work on QuickTime , the first multimedia framework for a computer. In less than a month they designed a low-cost video-capture board that plugged into the Mac and allowed you to connect a video camera and VCR.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 2009

The first hint lies in its name; this is a product development model, not a marketing model, not a sales hiring model, not a customer acquisition model, not even a financing model (and we’ll also find that in most cases it’s even a poor model to use to develop a product.) release of the product. All of this is usually a bad idea.

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Customer Development Developer Customer Silicon Valley 238

Up and Running

MAY 10, 2017

We didn’t know anything about small business accounting or finance. We didn’t even know how to write a business plan. I had some limited knowledge about search engine marketing, but knew nothing about marketing in a more general sense. After several meetings with the developer, I was ready to get moving on it.

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

Why Use a Consulting CTO A consulting CTO can help you complete a business plan by estimating costs and timelines for the company’s technology development and deployment. He can help you determine whether to outsource development (locally or overseas) or build an inhouse team. Try Google. Beware, however!

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

This is precisely the dilemma that the doctrine of minimum viable product is designed to solve. When people start using quality, reliability, or design as an excuse to delay, it used to make me nervous, even when these suggestions were well intentioned. Rules of thumb can be infuriatingly unhelpful. And it’s really hard.

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San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment Software Review 167

Software By Rob

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

The approach involves going to a source of (often public) data and finding out how many X’s there are in the world, where X is your target consumer…be it a barber shop, web design firm or male under the age of 34. This provides the most accurate results for people using that search engine. Bad news for you.

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Marketing Software Review Matching Bootstrapping 64

www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

He , Srikanth Narayan , Ben Werdmuller von Elgg , Jo Vi Ko , Justin Lee , Giovanni Tardini , David de Weerdt , Vineet Thanedar , Ryan Brideau , Jonathan Meiri , Rob Weedn , Krzysztof Kowalczyk , Greg Pilling , Kevin Leland , Parham Michael Ossareh , Dan Loewenherz , Mary Specht , Engin Erdo?an "I am a creative guy with a startup idea."

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Developer Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder 42

www.virtuosimedia.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Design Articles and Tutorials. Graphic Design Theory. Design Downloads. Developers. Businesses. Business Articles. General Business. Business Services. Web Design. Business Tools. Software development is like an iceberg – 90% of it is under the surface.

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Technical Cofounder Cofounder Technical Review NDA 41

blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Because.NET is designed to extend, not disrupt. NET is designed to tightly integrate with and seamlessly extend the Microsoft stack in extremely powerful but ultimately incremental ways. Some us have evolved past the visual designers. Did you confused the Visual Studio WinForms designer with C#, then accidentally call it.NET?

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Java PHP Software Review Coder 107

maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

If you’re looking for a designer, engineer, or biz marketing guy – go to meetups / conferences that those people would go to. With that live, you’ll be able to show other smart engineers and advisors that you’re willing to take some risk and build something. I’m studying design. Should I require and NDA?

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Technical Review Startup Cofounder Software Review 44

news.ycombinator.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

His friends at General Electric said he was wasting his time on the gas combustion engine because the world was going electric. -- ErrantX 215 days ago | link. The story of the v-8 engine is a bit different. Think about that, people wont even steal your ideas if you give them the plans. From "Think and Grow Rich".

Stealth 41

Stealth Technical Review Startup Software Review 41

Software By Rob

AUGUST 5, 2010

The thought that kept running through my mind as I read them was: “This information would be helpful if I needed to generate a huge business plan to impress a business-school professor.&# at 9:12 pm Rob – I guess it depends what your definition of the term “business book&# is. Or Proctor and Gamble.

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Founder Startup Software Review Software 78

www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

So if you want to invest two years in something that will help you succeed in business, the evidence suggests youd do better to learn how to hack than get an MBA. [3] Some believe only businesspeople can do this-- that hackers can implement software, but not design it. Thats nonsense. Well, it doesnt.

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