A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

So Member Desk is a virtual and yet it can also be physical, literally sitting in the front of the co- working space inexpensive way to do that for pretty much any organization. But the answer is the co-founder’s been in the industry for 30 years and he’s somebody and so they can get meetings. Jason: Right.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 26, 2013

by Pabla Ayala, cofounder of pFunk Media Is your holiday gift-giving list becoming longer and pricier than your current wallet can handle? Paul, San Francisco, LA, San Diego, Seattle, Chicago, Boston, and Washington, DC. TaskRabbit is available in San Francisco, New York, Boston, Los Angeles, Chicago and Miami.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 30, 2017

William Hurley, co-founder of Honest Dollar , an Austin-based provider of retirement plans to small businesses, says creative talent is abundant : It’s got the music, the university scene, the hippies and the rule-breakers… It’s very easy to hire people who want to push the limits.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 25, 2018

We’re partial to Chicago. Chicago is home to many successful startups, including crowdspring, Chicago boasts a thriving startup scene, an incredible 10 times a return on investment, and pretty outstanding hot dogs. Beyond Chicago, there are many other great cities in the US for startups and entrepreneurs.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! How to Spot & Avoid Bad Web Hosting Companies | InstantShift – [link] crowdspring.co/YqAyHQ. 5 Signs You’ve Got the Wrong Co-Founder – crowdspring.co/1u17ovZ.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 23, 2010

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Why Finding Technical Cofounders Is Hard – [link]. 10 Insights From SocialDevCamp Chicago – [link]. 5 Lessons from 150 startup pitches – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

We like to talk about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and various random stuff! We are so proud to be a part of the entrepreneurial and technology community in Chicago where we are based. Tony Robbins… The CEO Whisperer – crowdspring.co/1sSkuW5.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! 7 Incredible Web Design, Branding, Digital Marketing Experiences – [link]. How do I find good technical co-founders? Will Software Eliminate Physical Retail?

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 4, 2015

3 Advantages to an Experiential Web Presence written by Guest Post read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. Yana Nirshberg is the Co-Founder, Managing Partner and Creative Director at ParadigmNEXT, Inc. I spend a lot of time online.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

That evening, there will be a casual talk followed by a book signing at Town Hall Seattle (co-sponsored with Lean Startup Seattle). Never fear, I'll be back in a big way in October, centered around the Web 2.0 Co-sponsored by the Rock Center & the Harvard innovation lab. Employees only. Register here.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 4, 2013

In a recent post , Ev Williams (co-founder of Twitter, Blogger and Medium), suggested that all startup advice is wrong (presumably, including his own post on this subject). I mentor other entrepreneurs informally and also through TechStars (Chicago) and Founder Institute. We are unable to run Monte Carlo simulations.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 21, 2016

If you’re a technical startup founder, one of the painful lessons is that it’s not enough just to build a great product. The show follows the journeys of founders who share what it takes to build a startup – from restaurants to rocket scientists, to online gifts to online groceries and more. Clay Hebert.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 30, 2017

William Hurley, co-founder of Honest Dollar , an Austin-based provider of retirement plans to small businesses, says creative talent is abundant : It’s got the music, the university scene, the hippies and the rule-breakers… It’s very easy to hire people who want to push the limits.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 25, 2018

We’re partial to Chicago. Chicago is home to many successful startups, including crowdspring, Chicago boasts a thriving startup scene, an incredible 10 times a return on investment, and pretty outstanding hot dogs. Beyond Chicago, there are many other great cities in the US for startups and entrepreneurs.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Why Chicago is One of the Best Cities for Entrepreneurs | @ Technori – [link]. You Can’t Add Value If You Don’t Have Values | Built In Chicago – [link].

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Over the past decade we’ve had high-profile exits at many companies that pioneered monetization techniques now used across the web including Commission Junction, Value Click, ShopZilla, Price Grabber, LowerMyBills and a newer breed including Invoca, Burstly, Shift, Rubicon Project, Gravity, Convertro, Retention Science and so forth.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 3, 2016

A startup founder needs to never lose sight of the vision, but be extremely adaptable to pretty much everything else. And realizing your vision as a founder takes equal parts determination and flexibility. And realizing your vision as a founder takes equal parts determination and flexibility. Lots of people have visions.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 3, 2016

A startup founder needs to never lose sight of the vision, but be extremely adaptable to pretty much everything else. And realizing your vision as a founder takes equal parts determination and flexibility. And realizing your vision as a founder takes equal parts determination and flexibility. Lots of people have visions.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 21, 2020

As part of The Startup Magazine founders interviews series , we sat down with entrepreneurs Sam Simon and Nasutsa Mabwa, the co-founders and owners of ServiceMaster By Simons. This philosophy is deeply ingrained in their company culture and helps set this husband and wife co-founder team apart as leaders and entrepreneurs.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

Andy Crestodina is the Co-Founder of Orbit Media Studios , a web development company in Chicago. In the end, it usually backfires and makes us look insecure. Let’s listen more than we talk and check our ego metrics at the door. He teaches content marketing both as a speaker and on the Orbit blog.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 12, 2010

Some of the most active: SF , New York , DC , Chicago - but there are many more listed here. Some of the most active: SF , New York , DC , Chicago - but there are many more listed here. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, Expo SF (May. .

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 9, 2013

Many of those revolutions are brought about by innovators and entrepreneurs of every stripe who has leveraged on the power of the Web, and gone on to make positive change in the world. Since then, thanks to the availability of high speed Internet, has brought about revolutions – of all kinds – to the world.

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The Next Web

MAY 6, 2015

Pep Rosenfeld is co-founder of comedy theater Boom Chicago and Boom Chicago Creative in Amsterdam. I was a good waiter too, serving fancy veal scallopine to fancy people at a fancy Italian place just outside of slightly less fancy Chicago.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 16, 2014

Mikael Cho is the co-founder of ooomf , a network that connects short-term software projects with handpicked developers and designers. But as researchers at the University of Chicago discovered , this can be a good thing for creativity’s sake. I didn’t know what I was going to write about today.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 5, 2012

But while there is plenty of great educational material out there on the Web, the problem is locating it; in fact, it is said that about 66-percent of time spent learning online is wasted simply looking for the right Internet sources. With MentorMob , you spend more time learning and less time searching.”.

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www.huffingtonpost.com

MAY 10, 2011

I was lucky to sign on as advisor and investor the founder of a very high-profile consumer Internet site who happens to also be a former engineer, who I will call Richard. HuffPosts QuickRead. The first thing I did was to find an advisor who I could trust.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2009

I remember thinking then how much better it was than Chicago, where I'd spent the previous 8 years. More recently it's skewed to software & web. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, August 29, 2009 8:54 AM Ben Casnocha said.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 23, 2015

Long-tail keyphrases – web design ohio, seo guest posting strategies, local marketing chicago illinois, responsive wordpress theme templates (more focused and specific to target audiences). 3) Co-create content with other authorities in your niche market. 2) Don’t write content for the search engines.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

My co-founder and BlueVine’s Chief Technology Officer Nir Klar was himself a veteran entrepreneur. Having worked in venture capital before starting my own company, I understand the importance of having a founder, CEO, or management team that can provide both direction and inspiration.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

O’Reilly’s article describes two businesses from his own career at O’Reilly—the Global Network Navigator (GNN) web portal, which he sold to AOL, and the Website web server, which eventually fell by the wayside. On the other hand, web servers are not a blitzscalable market. Today, there is no one dominant player in web servers.

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The Next Web

JUNE 20, 2015

It was August 2013 when my co-founder at SportsManias called to tell me that we had raised $1 million in angel funding. I was a second-year in college on my way to the library at the University of Chicago; she was back in Miami, where our company is based. When co-founder relationships break, they make a mess.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

Case , you may recall, was co-founder of AOL. He correctly identifies the reasons why Chicago, Denver, Cincinnati, and other smaller cities are becoming vibrant centers of start-ups. Like many good ideas it’s been politicized, and so, South Korean children have better web access at schools than Americans.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 19, 2019

Listing the co-founders initials and adding Realty would project the same old. I chose DevBev Co. Thanks to Devin Beverage, DevBev Co. ! #6- My co-founder and I came up with our company name by getting really drunk one night. Basically we charge 1% per side on a transaction instead of the normal 2.5%

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 29, 2011

Marc Andreessen, co-founder of Andreessen Horowitz, Opsware Inc. Marc Andreessen, co-founder of Andreessen Horowitz, Opsware Inc. From there, the tour goes through Los Angeles, Seattle, Toronto, New York, Boston, Chicago, DC, and culminates back in San Francisco at the Commonwealth Club on September 27.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 29, 2017

And fun we’ve been having crossing the the country helping companies communicate better with their customers and co-workers. I remember hearing the Spanx founder, Sara Blakely, talk about brand names and how having a strong K sound in your name made it more memorable. He said, “let’s go get it registered…we’re gonna have some fun”.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 3, 2010

Im excited to announce the first six confirmed simulcast locations: Delft, Netherlands [link] Provo, UT [link] Boulder, CO [link] Chicago, IL [link] Barcelona, Spain [link] Vancouver, Canada [link] Please RSVP so our organizers can plan capacity accordingly. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Expo SF (May. .

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 3, 2011

Recognizing the need for connecting contractors with buyers, the founders of PVPower recently embarked on SolarBear, a web platform for bringing the two together. PVPower co-founder Nick Yecke answered some questions I had: 1. Much of that momentum was created by the Excelerate Labs family here in Chicago.

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