crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 15, 2013

Money matters: why women founders struggle in Silicon Valley | The Verge – [link]. Why Your Marketing Campaign Sucks | TechCrunch – [link]. “Silicon Valley loves to talk big about innovation; it’s just not as good at following through.” Paid Search: Are You Wasting Your Money?

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 9, 2013

And I think of it as a failure of Silicon Valley startups (and occasionally SV VCs who lack an understanding of enterprise purchasing) to assume you don’t need a sales process and sales reps. Or thinking about how much capital you have and therefore how many people you can hire – you rigorously prioritize.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, November 5, 2008 Learning from Obama: maneuver warfare on the campaign trail I had the privilege of volunteering for the Obama campaign in swing states for a few weekends during the final push towards victory. Im quite confident I got more out of the experience than the campaign got from me.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

I don’t have an MBA and I don’t live in Silicon Valley. Moreover, only 13% of these successful campaigns raised over $20k. Taking a campaign online and encouraging non-accredited investors to use a crowdfunding platform is a great way to show their support, manage the volume, and market your business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2019

For example, one of the first home grocery delivery companies, Webvan, was so enamored with early traction in Silicon Valley, it raised and spent nearly a billion dollars and went public, before filing for bankruptcy three years later. Suddenly you face new overhead, with hiring, office space, benefits, and new advertising campaigns.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

So much excess in hiring by Silicon Valley startups. Amazon’s secret $90 million ad campaign – [link]. Clever and Creative Sticker Advertising Campaigns – [link]. Clever and Creative Sticker Advertising Campaigns – [link]. Some frustrated workers quit in weird ways – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 26, 2013

What is the best time to send email campaigns? 5 Hiring Mistakes That Can Crush Your Company’s Culture – [link]. What is the best time to send email campaigns? Don’t let Silicon Valley fool you—millenials are the least entrepreneurial generation | Quartz – [link]. Great data – [link].

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

ROBLOX ( www.roblox.com ) is a web/game startup in Silicon Valley that you have probably never heard of--unless you were an eight year old boy, in which case you're probably not qualified for this position. Unfortunately, you cannot be told what ROBLOX is, you have to see if for yourself.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2012

If your small business or startup sends email newsletters or other email marketing campaigns, what is the best time of day to send those emails? Why Bravo’s ‘Start-Ups: Silicon Valley’ Is Bad for Entrepreneurship - [link]. Startups should look to hire from agencies | Technori- [link]. The Series A crunch is hitting now.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 28, 2013

Hire People Who Make Things Happen (get rid of the rest) – [link]. Hire People Who Make Things Happen (get rid of the rest) – [link]. If you think Silicon Valley can’t innovate, you’re not looking hard enough — [link]. Google uses Big Data to prove hiring puzzles useless and GPAs meaningless – [link].

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

Thus began my marketing campaign. People often ask me what VCs look for when we hire partners and many have asked how to become VCs themselves one day. Kara has worked in finance in Boston, NYC and Silicon Valley. We didn’t hire a recruiting firm – it was always going to come from our network.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2012

Don’t hire them | Pando Daily – [link]. In Silicon Valley, Hardware Is Hot Again | Businessweek – [link]. Don’t hire them | Pando Daily – [link]. 20 Effective and Amazing Ad Campaigns | PelFusion – [link]. The Science of Persuasion: How To Persuade Others To Do What You Want – [link].

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pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

There simply won’t be soft-landings and acqui-hires for all of them. Others have blamed the brutal hiring environment on everyone being able to start a company — whether they should or not — and argued that concentrating resources on fewer ideas would make the Valley a lot stronger.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

Hire for potential, says Jason Fried of 37signals - crowdspring.co/1aHHrTp. Hire for potential - crowdspring.co/1aHHrTp. Why the Midwest is better for startups than saturated Silicon Valley | VentureBeat - crowdspring.co/1akquBC. A Collection of Intelligent Print Ad Campaigns - crowdspring.co/1bPatCX.

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Hunter Walker

JULY 29, 2017

When I freed up time, I asked the partners if I could start attending the trading classes even though I hadn’t been hired into that role, and that’s how I became a trader. RD: Everything is a marketing campaign now, even policy ideas—they’re just marketing campaigns for an issue.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 30, 2014

High-quality new startups with no connections to Silicon Valley have a shot at getting discovered on Product Hunt. GigaOm’s Derrick Harris used BigML to analyze what makes a successful Kickstarter campaign , and discovered that smaller crowdfunding campaigns with a wide base of supporters are the most likely to succeed.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 21, 2018

If you need to build a team to grow your business, who are the key people that you’ll need to hire? Or, make sure that you get the kind of funding that’s needed for large marketing and PR campaigns. Both Silicon Valley startups and Main Street small businesses need to know how they are doing. Key partners and resources.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. Reply Jarek , on February 27, 2011 at 11:51 pm said: What about CRM? Let me know what “stuff&# is old, and I’ll update it. steve Reply Leave a Reply Cancel reply Order Here. For International Orders Now In Print!

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, November 7, 2008 Using AdWords to assess demand for your new online service, step-by-step If you want to build an online service, and you dont test it with a fake AdWords campaign ahead of time, youre crazy. Start an AdWords campaign. Just put in your credit card. I used to use $.05,

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Up and Running

JULY 11, 2014

It’s the poor quality version of HBO’s Silicon Valley. Attracting angel investment and getting ‘Valley’ respect is. Run an Adwords campaign targeting keywords that are relevant to your idea – make sure to set up conversion tracking or the whole exercise is pointless.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 4, 2012

By the 1960’s, the MPPA achieved regulatory capture (where an industry co-opts the very people who are regulating it,) when they hired Jack Valenti , who ran the studios’ lobbying efforts for the next 38-years. ” We wonder, “Why can’t the film industry innovate like Silicon Valley?”

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 15, 2009

They hired a consultant to help them with the review. It just so happened that the consultant they hired to chose a software vendor worked for a company that had owned one of our competitors. In a sales campaign you always need to call as high as you can. We fought hard to stay in the game. The momentum had shifted.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2018

An early Human Rights Campaign board member and longtime Austin LGBTQ leader, Eugene co-chaired President Obama’s & the DNC’s LGBTQ Leadership Council. In this role, she leads the team that creates strategies and campaigns that support the company’s position as a leader in Corporate America for diversity and inclusion initiatives.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

To give visibility to these companies to: Sources of funding (angels / VCs), business development partners, mentors who have themselves built successful companies, the press and potential employees to hire. To show these companies that they can remain in LA. where he worked on projects for Samuel L. ” And we agree with that.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 5, 2013

Small Business Marketing Tip: Send Email Campaigns At Night To Increase Revenue | crowdSPRING Blog – [link]. Why I No Longer Advise Startups to Hire M.B.A.s | The Accelerators-WSJ – [link]. Why Silicon Valley needs critics like Morozov | San Francisco Chronicle – [link]. Tribute to Ridiculous Voices!!

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Reid Hoffman

JUNE 8, 2021

I came to Silicon Valley when I was 25, turning 26. And I think one of the things that we’ve learned is, when I came to Silicon Valley in 2007, we were starting Airbnb in 2008, it was a marketplace. And I hired a COO, Belinda Johnson , and she said, “No, if people don’t like you, you should meet with them.”

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 2, 2012

Kadanoff, who has served as the Chief Marketing Officer for numerous startups in Silicon Valley and got her start doing marketing at Apple, says that any inbound marketing campaign has three main elements: First is getting found and requires search-friendly content at the heart of your marketing campaigns.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Steve Blank, a serial entrepreneur in Silicon Valley, developed a methodology for creating businesses that runs in parallel with the traditional product development process. If you want to see startups in the Concierge phase, follow what happens after a Kickstarter campaigns get successfully funded.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

After volunteering for the Obama campaign last year, a friend of mine insisted that I write a letter to our new President telling him what I thought he should do. Asked to help, I am confident that Silicon Valley and every other innovation center will step up. Ill explain in a moment. This post is the result. They are nerds.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 2, 2021

And I had hired and fired two people who didn’t work out. Look, one thing that everyone tends to do (in the whole cult of culture in Silicon Valley) is to establish one and then you stay there, almost like the 10 commandments. Because that’s something that we all in Silicon Valley [need to do]. I’m 0 for 2.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 23, 2009

If it was a very big mistake, I blamed the VP of Sales. “This marketing campaign didn’t work? Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. Zen moment #1- Admitting a mistake and asking for help Up until this point in my career I had one response anytime I screwed something up: blame someone else.

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www.usatoday.com

JULY 16, 2012

To greet renters and hand over the keys, Hertz sometimes hires a stand-in through TaskRabbit, a Web-based company that matches time-deprived people in need of temporary assistants with freelance errand runners who have passed criminal background checks and are looking for extra income. Silicon Beach emerges as a tech hotbed.

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Hearpreneur

MAY 12, 2015

We aren’t some Silicon Valley giant. Pathak, Relationship Center of Silicon Valley ! I really enjoy designing a bikini, choosing the colors and prints, building a campaign and all the creatives behind it, as well as creating the website and forming new partnerships with retailers. Thanks to Shirani M.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

One of the things we hear a lot about in Silicon Valley is how cheap and easy it is to launch a startup these days. For example, my company decided early on to hire a UI designer, which has helped tremendously with our product development. We also provide custom campaigns for companies looking for something a bit more expansive.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Include testimonials from satisfied customers and hire a professional photographer to capture your venue at its best. . You can refine your campaigns to target specific users based on certain criteria. Having adequate capital for growth is a foundational principle of startups in Silicon Valley.

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Reid Hoffman

JUNE 8, 2021

I came to Silicon Valley when I was 25, turning 26. And I think one of the things that we’ve learned is, when I came to Silicon Valley in 2007, we were starting Airbnb in 2008, it was a marketplace. And I hired a COO, Belinda Johnson , and she said, “No, if people don’t like you, you should meet with them.”

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

The extreme human temptation to compromise on hiring (and to fail to confront mistakes) is one of the main entropic forces conspiring to ensure that great companies rarely stay that way. Smart Widen+Kennedy campaign for RXBar … This is an article about Wieden+Kennedy’s clever ad campaign – No B.S This is cool.

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