crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 25, 2013

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! How One Startup Grew a $100M Business Without Spending Venture Capital | Forbes – [link]. Coworking builds productive communities | GigaOM Pro – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 10, 2010

These posts and videos are about design, startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! How to Kill the Design Community – [link]. Venture-Capital Firms Caught in a Shakeout – [link]. Here are some of the links that I’ve liked and shared this past week!

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2011

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! An AMAZING amount of funding activity in Chicago – [link]. Good data from @msuster on The State of Venture Capital and the Internet – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! The image to the left is a fun look at what a movie poster for an Oscar-nominated film would be like if it literally wanted to communicate what the movie was about.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Venture capital remains white boys club – [link]. Kevin Willer Shares His Experience Building Google’s Culture In Chicago – [link]. – [link].

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

There was one in Silicon Valley, unsurprising, one in Chicago, and there was this group out of the south of France that served all of Europe. So then when I wanted to go into venture capital, they said, “You can’t do that, you need to be in EIR.” That leadership trait is just not innate in everybody.

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David Teten

APRIL 18, 2014

In early 2012, my HBS Alumni Angels colleagues and I launched the Venture Capital Access Program (VCAP), an initiative to help women and minority-led businesses to raise capital from the Harvard alumni angel community. ff Venture Capital) for investment consideration. Sheila Marmon, CEO, Mirror Digital.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

Our community colleges are excellent as well, including the Alamo Colleges, Austin Community College, the Dallas College and the Lone Star Community College. In San Antonio we take great pride in our diverse, artistic, affordable and culturally rich community filled with a young and burgeoning creative class workforce.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 26, 2019

Last Friday, June 21st I sent the following message out to our community of users, colleagues, friends and supporters. Our venture was selected for competitive accelerator spots & recognition from media and mentors from Austin, Chicago and Silicon Valley to work on this problem and capture the value its solution provided.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2020

Ryan Sarver was a partner at venture capital firm Redpoint. Thanks to thousands of donations, the people who are dedicated to feeding their communities have the opportunity to serve their food to the people providing critical healthcare. Have you found ways to be in a community of practice, in spite of those obstacles?

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

It was an ad supported virtual community. I had MIT, Harvard, Chicago, and other top-tier schools interested in buying it and Wharton actually using the solution (and they kept it for four years). Depending on how competitive and capital intensive your market is, the best thing you can do is be open to all options to fuel growth.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 21, 2017

We regularly share our favorite posts on entrepreneurship, small business, marketing, logo design , web design , startups, leadership, social media, marketing, economics and other interesting stuff! Good to see a terrific new class @Techstars Chicago! — Ross Kimbarovsky (@rosskimbarovsky) July 18, 2017. cc @loganlahive [link].

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Steve Blank

MAY 30, 2016

Steve: Is the problem with these institutions leadership, technology, bureaucracy that has no incentives to change, all of the above? . Moulton : It’s all of the above, but I’ll tell you, from my background in the Marines, I think a lot of it does come down to leadership. The leadership is starting to change.

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Seeing Both Sides

OCTOBER 21, 2011

Yet I really respect what Mason and the Groupon leadership have built and, in truth, I wish them well. I want more young companies to succeed, break through the IPO glass ceiling, and continue to prove out the venture capital-backed company-creation process can work. the start-up community is a very snarky one.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2009

— [link] (excuse my shameless self plug) Reply Sam , on June 18, 2009 at 11:06 am Said: I’m an undergraduate currently interning at a Chicago-area startup. Thanks for being such a great thinker and advisor to the startup community! I’ve found your writing (from 4 steps to the blog) really helpful.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

But I’ve seen some recent comments that this post might have upset and offended the SMB community that we serve, and that I cannot abide. In fact, the open source community can learn a lot from Microsoft in terms of backward compatibility and tools for productivity. same thing goes for the majority of the Java community).NET

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 1, 2020

"Uber’s ascent to the largest rideshare company in the world was fueled by a recurring cycle in which it blatantly ignored state and local laws, became entrenched and widely used in a community, and then tried to use its largesse to change the laws it was breaking." Venture capital is supposed to make a high multiple of return for the risk.

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