crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Here’s a complete, 10 step guide on how to start a photography business. Write a business plan. Decide your legal business structure. Purchase business insurance. Build a web presence. Create a sales plan. Grow your business. Write a business plan. Build a web presence.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 6, 2017

Your business name , your logo , your web design should all grow from the concepts you laid out here. Once you define your brand, you can begin to think about the vitally important details of actually starting and running a business. First, you will need to choose the legal structure for your new business.

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View from Seed

APRIL 21, 2015

Matt Prince , Co-Founder and CEO, CloudFlare (Web performance and security to protect and accelerate websites; $72.1 million raised, per CrunchBase): It was January of second semester of my second year, and Michelle [Zatlyn, Matt’s co-founder] and I were brainstorming different ideas to enter into the business plan competition.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 18, 2012

Now, with open source software components, and low-cost development tools, the same job can be done by one good hacker for a few thousand dollars. I now see and believe business plans that budget $1K for all this, versus a previous $20K or more. Facilities and staff. Savings can be huge in these areas.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

Some combination of the dot-com crash and a just terrible business plan prevented us from having to take our scalability problems to the next level. Our open source counterparts who did solve the scale problem, had some serious hardware costs to deal with. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0.

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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Business model viability, in the majority of startups, will come down to balancing two variables: Cost to Acquire Customers (CAC) The ability to monetize those customers, or LTV (which stands for Lifetime Value of a Customer) Successful web businesses have long understood these metrics as they have such an easy way to measure them.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 25, 2010

In the last decade open source software (e.g LAMP ) emerged for building web servers. Next, each one of the 9 business model canvas boxes then directly translates into a set of Customer Discovery hypotheses that are described in Customer Development and the Four Steps to the Epiphany. Soon standard operating systems (e.g.

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

Web Startup Lessons Advice from a CTO and Entrepreneur Home About Startup Advice: When to Use a Consulting CTO There are not many to be found. Most likely, this is a person who is a serial entrepreneur and was the chief technology officer for two or more web startups. .&# But I’m not the only person who does this kind of work.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Now, with open source software components, and low-cost development tools, the same job can be done by one good hacker for a few thousand dollars. I now see and believe business plans that budget $1K for all this, versus a previous $20K or more. Facilities and staff. Savings can be huge in these areas.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 16, 2012

For angel investors, early-stage means there is a good business plan and maybe a prototype, but no customer revenue. This is a concept coined (and trademarked) by Eric Ries a few years ago, primarily for software and web applications. For VCs, early-stage means customer revenue is less than $10M. Lean startup.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2011

For angel investors, early-stage means there is a good business plan and maybe a prototype, but no customer revenue. This is a concept coined (and trademarked) by Eric Ries a couple of years ago, primarily for software and web applications. For VCs, early-stage means customer revenue is less than $10M. Lean startup.

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www.frozennorth.org

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

. * The basic business model is a business-to-business service bureau (this from their website, and is consistent with what they told us in discussions). One of the cofounders has been active on a mailing list for Asterisk , an open-source Linux-based PBX. They are actively hiring Perl programmers.

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Gust

JUNE 10, 2012

Now, with open source software components, and low-cost development tools, the same job can be done by one good hacker for a few thousand dollars. I now see and believe business plans that budget $1K for all this, versus a previous $20K or more. Facilities and staff. Savings can be huge in these areas.

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Cost Burn Rate SEM Startup 139

Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

The Business Plan (Concept- Alpha-Beta - FCS ) became the playbook for startups. This next wave of web startups; Social Networks and Mobile Applications, now reached 100’s of millions of customers. Tech IPOs were a receding memory, and mergers and acquisitions became the only path to liquidity for startups.

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Gust

JULY 8, 2012

For angel investors, early-stage means there is a good business plan and maybe a prototype, but no customer revenue. This is a concept coined (and trademarked) by Eric Ries a few years ago, primarily for software and web applications. For VCs, early-stage means customer revenue is less than $10M. Lean startup.

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Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2019

Steve Blank: When I first starting teaching, the capstone entrepreneurship class was how to write a business plan. But years ago, we had no alternative – how to write a business plan was it. Today, people laugh if somebody says that’s a capstone entrepreneurship class. Distribution channels, brand loyalty, etc.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 13, 2010

Now, with open source software components, and low-cost development tools, the same job can be done by one good hacker for a few thousand dollars. I now see and believe business plans that budget $1K for all this, versus a previous $20K or more. Facilities and staff. Savings can be huge in these areas.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Here’s a 10 step complete guide for starting a consulting business from scratch. Fill in the business blanks. Build a web presence. Create a sales plan. Once you define your brand, you can begin to think about the vitally important details of actually starting and running a consulting business.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

WordPress is an open source project that was started by Matt Mullenweg leaving a comment on a blog. And that’s really the spirit of WordPress is this open source collaboration by people volunteering their time. You take that business plan to a bank, you’ll never get a loan. John Jantsch: Yes.

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www.virtuosimedia.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Businesses. Business Articles. General Business. Business Services. Web Design. Business Tools. Home ▶ Businesses ▶ Startup Business Advice ▶ Current Page How To Find A Technical Cofounder For Your Online Business Idea. MooTools Plugins. Accounting. Copywriting Tips.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

For those of you who have been following the discussion, a Lean Startup is Eric Ries ’s description of the intersection of Customer Development , Agile Development and if available, open platforms and open source. It is about when in the life of your company you do the spending.

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news.ycombinator.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

If youre in a market like pharmaceuticals, where all user testing can be done in a lab, execution in a bubble makes sense, but if your startup is a web product it sounds like hubris. For three years I worked at Bug Labs (open source hardware company). Ideas are worthless when theyre another spin on a web 2.0

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discuss.joelonsoftware.com

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Right now, my business is just myself and a part-time employee who does support, testing, and product usability design. I intend to rewrite my internal 50-page business plan into an investors proposal. Ive actually heard people say this: "Its like working on open source but it might actually pay off one day!"

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Googles plan, for example, was simply to create a search site thatdidnt suck. They had three new ideas: index more of the Web, uselinks to rank search results, and have clean, simple web pages withunintrusive keyword-based ads. Like most startups, we changed our plan on the fly. I learned something valuable from that.

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mashable.com

DECEMBER 29, 2011

We’re increasingly comfortable overlapping our online and real lives, and web services that figure out how to make our real lives easier will do well. Meanwhile, some of the web’s best-known companies increased their presence in New York City — likely bringing investor money and capable engineers with them.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

You need to hear this from someone who has used.Net extensively, and then happily walked away from it to go open source: You are a wanker. And before you say.net is only for windows, checkout https://github.com/mono , it’s not an open source application. It’s an *freaking open source*.net

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Contact Us Submit News Contact Us Write for Us Spark of Genius Series Mashable | The Social Media Guide Business Mashable on Facebook Join Us! The Small Business Tips Series is supported by Bantam Live , a web-based collaboration workspace with “Social CRM&# for small business teams.

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Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

For products that are simply “bits” delivered over the web, a first product can be shipped in weeks rather than years. 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. Founders Need to Run the Company Longer.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

Useful blogs and links for startups Click Here ————– 2.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

VC Cafe highlights everything you need to know from hosting your code in hackathons to open source legal docs. Amazon Web Services. High Quality, and open sourced! Web Tools: Hereâ??s We have an iOS SDK as well, for web-web, mobile-mobile, web-mobile video chat and video messaging.

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