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]. Why We’re Pivoting from Mobile-first to Web-first – [link].

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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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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. Ideas are worthless when theyre another spin on a web 2.0 It was yet another Web 2.0 social network/web analysis/etc. Shocking, I know.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

The key contributors to an out-of-control burn rate is 1) hiring a sales force too early, 2) turning on the demand creation activities too early, 3) developing something other than the minimum feature set for first customer ship. This “get out of the building” activity is the Customer Discovery step of the Customer Development Model.

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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.” Revenue is the new black | Gigaom – [link]. Revenue Doesn’t Matter – [link].

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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. We never even considered that approach.

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 18, 2010

The only thing that seemed to be consistent about my growth was that my revenue was relatively flat while my user base kept growing. So in a desperate attempt to get things moving in the right direction, I experimented for a week by killing my free plan. This turned out to be a good move since it doubled their revenue that month.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

I would focus on one product and set a goal to generate $1M in yearly revenue from it. Near shoring development with your team (ex: your team is based in Canada / India) is cool, but not outsourcing. Outsourcing is something a big company, with a known customer / problem (that has revenue & traction) does to save cost.

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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. Maybe we can’t rely on our freemium, advertising-based, viral revenue model, though.

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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. In particular, I want to bring on a full-time marketing person, and a full-time developer.

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 5, 2010

They cover topics like how to pivot your product and/or revenue model to find market fit, how to test a business idea before building the business, how to find a business model for your company, and how to build great companies. As a serial entrepreneur these books should be right up my alley. Or Proctor and Gamble.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

" Web Development Startups Solo Founders I am a creative guy with a startup idea. Where is the best place to find a rockstar developer to bring it to life? you can steal an idea just from hearing it, it is not really a good defensible business idea. Very few web sites or other start-ups will have the same impact. (I

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MAY 22, 2012

And since the sales effort isn’t much different between 75 seats or 750, this is a lot more work for the revenue. Sign up for AppSumo 's daily deals specifically for web geeks & entrepreneurs. Or looking at it another way, the total number of employees of mid-sized companies is 26m, whereas large is 60m.

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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. We now understand that’s wrong.

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