crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 5, 2012

Five Tips To Improve Employee Performance Reviews – [link]. Stop whining and start hiring remote workers – [link]. Five Tips To Improve Employee Performance Reviews – [link]. CEC’s Startup Forecast – “Never been a better time to start a company in Chicago” – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 22, 2013

The Fundamental Challenge of Your Startup’s First Hire: Leading and Learning at the Same Time – [link]. Chicago’s most active entrepreneurial networking groups | Crain’s Chicago Business – [link]. Entrepreneurs always ask for help with hiring – here is some great advice: Hire Slowly – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

Why Good-Better-Best Prices Are So Effective | Rafi Mohammed-Harvard Business Review – [link]. Will Software Eliminate Physical Retail? Why Humility is Essential for Every New Startup Hire – [link]. How should one go about pricing their software product? Will Software Eliminate Physical Retail?

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

The Perpetually Vexing Problem of Hiring Programmers – [link]. How to build your startup without learning code – [link]. The Chicago FireStarter Venture Capital Fund – [link]. The Perpetually Vexing Problem of Hiring Programmers – [link]. 33 Photography Business Card Inspirations – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 2, 2011

5 things that suck (about hiring new employees) and 10 things companies can do about it – [link]. How to Avoid a Disaster When Outsourcing to an Overseas Web Developer – [link]. 5 things that suck (about hiring new employees) and 10 things companies can do about it – [link]. – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 1, 2011

Startup Mantra: Hire Fast, Fire Fast – [link]. Study shows Chicago lacks strong tech investor base – [link]. Inspired By The Start Fund, New World Ventures Offers Chicago Excelerate Startups $50K – [link]. Thinking about selling your small business or startup? Do ad agencies struggle with social?

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 5, 2013

Four Ways to Market Like a Startup | Brian Gregg and Vivian Weng-Harvard Business Review – [link]. Seven Rules for Managing Creative People | Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic-Harvard Business Review – [link]. Four Ways to Market Like a Startup | Brian Gregg and Vivian Weng-Harvard Business Review – [link].

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

They do that by aggregating America’s startups, providing them with pro bono services, and promoting regional ecosystem development. They’ve developed over 50 partnerships, and are now launching a series of Connection Programs to introduce start-ups to some of America’s largest companies. The real goal is growth; no one else hires. •

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

It says that selling an airplane ticket for $500 and getting paid a $5 fees by the airlines (1% gross margin) is not the same thing as selling $500 of software that you built (>90% gross margin). Sam did all this analysis before even deciding to build V1 of his software and before we put serious money behind him launching.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 18, 2013

Don’t Hire the Perfect Candidate | Lance Haun-Harvard Business Review – [link]. 30% of Excelerate Labs CEO’s have been women – Chicago more diverse that most and growing! - [link]. Scaling Your UX Strategy | Robert Fabricant-Harvard Business Review - [link]. Billion Raised | TechCrunch - [link].

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

Welcome back to Smart Bear Live, the call-in show with Jason Cohen, sponsored by Software Promotions. And please tweet your thanks to Software Promotions for sponsoring Smart Bear Live! Dan: Member Desk is a hosted membership site software. In this episode, we share three more interviews from our AZ Disruptors meeting last fall.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

It’s like people arguing that there’s a beautiful beach house in 2006 that represents great long-term value due to scarcity of similar property. Huge structural under-employment in much of the country and full employment in some niche tech markets where it’s impossible to hire developers, designers or sales professionals.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 30, 2017

As someone who owns eight successful daycares in the Chicago area, I know the strategies and approaches that work when it comes to developing a sound business plan for a daycare center. You want to review all the different components of your business model. What criteria will you use in hiring staff? Software costs.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

Why Chicago is the Best Place to Start a Digital Startup - [link]. desperation for software talent has moved even small and midsize tech companies to make acqui-hires.” – [link]. desperation for software talent has moved even small and midsize tech companies to make acqui-hires.” – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2011

An AMAZING amount of funding activity in Chicago – [link]. Interesting thoughts from Wieden+Kennedy: Why We’re Not Hiring Creative Technologists – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template tco use today) – [link]. Want To Upend An Entire Industry?

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

Business Development for Early Stage Startups – [link]. How to hire a programmer when you’re not a programmer – [link]. Chicago Entrepreneurism: Four Ingredients To Help Your Business – And This City – Dominate – [link]. Small business and startup issues: net neutrality and H.R.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Bplans and Palo Alto Software are strong supporters of entrepreneurs and small business owners. You review the logo samples, provide feedback, and select the one that’s the right fit for you. Develop your brief based on the information the provider requests (below we’ll also cover what to keep in mind to write a rock-solid brief).

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

It wasn’t always perfect, but it was way more right than wrong, It informed our product development to a great degree and kept us working on more or less the right stuff. Basically if you didn’t code or sell, you were semi-worthless. Hired the Smartest People. Back then he advocated for. This was cool! I had to go meet him!

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

He lives in Chicago with his wife, daughter, dog, and bike. Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! He lives in Chicago with his wife, daughter, dog, and I bet you it's more than one bike if I had the gas. Since leaving GrubHub, he founded Fixer.com, an on-demand handyperson service focused on social impact.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 21, 2017

I founded SilkRoll in 2015, I spent 10 years developing my style and taste in fashion while working around the world as an investment banker. 9 – Developing an Entrepreneur Program. After graduating high school, I was hired by the Maryland State Department of Education, Division of Rehabilitation Services (DORS).

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2009

And do your customer development. Im also excited to share two long-form reviews from actual attendees. 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. Revisiting the Software Design Manifesto (and what.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 31, 2021

Hiring an expert or a coach to walk you through this stage can help you minimize the chances of failure although identifying the problem first can be a great way to create a long-lasting strategy. Durant lost control of GM to a bankers' trust just two years later, in 1910, due to enormous debt and a crumble in automobile sales.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

It is theorised that the growth in this sector will largely be due to an increase in air travel. If that accident goes beyond your insurance and ends up in the courtrooms; you are definitely going to need the best Chicago car accident lawyer in town. Don’t wait for it to happen, hire a car accident attorney on retainer.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

AUGUST 8, 2012

Welcome back to Smart Bear Live, the call-in show with Jason Cohen, sponsored by Software Promotions. Don’t forget to sign up for the wonderful Business of Software conference to hear Jason speak in person. So it’s property management software? Our software will do that. I don’t get this.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 19, 2019

It didn’t seem big enough for what I suspected I would soon be doing, which was hiring contractors to contribute to projects. Certain Chicago post offices were staying open until midnight for the taxtime procrastinators. Trees, flowers, and plants all symbolize growth, so there were a lot of names developed around those.

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37signals.com

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Established 1999 in Chicago. Over 1 million people use 37signals simple web-based software to collaborate on projects, track contacts, and organize their business with an intranet. I was initially unfamiliar with project management software, and the name helped me understand why exactly I should give basecamp a shot. 27 Apr 10.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 10, 2014

An awesome overview of the Chicago tech scene – crowdspring.co/1krnniz. The Four Stages of Disruption | Re/code – crowdspring.co/1cN4HzJ. Amazon’s Current Employees Raise the Bar for New Hires – crowdspring.co/1fduDMI. Tech Is Hiring More Women Than Men | Business Insider – crowdspring.co/Kdalon.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 11, 2014

The image above shows a typical rush hour in Chicago in 1909. Here’s Why You’re Not Hiring the Best and the Brightest - crowdspring.co/1lLnBBm. Here’s the Data | Harvard Business Review – crowdspring.co/1lLgAjK. Re/code - crowdspring.co/1embSqM. 1lL1sTK. . How Old Are Silicon Valley’s Top Founders?

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 27, 2017

That was December of 2015, November, December and around March of 2016 we hired a few people to help build out ZipSprout to do more cities so it would available for more clients and it’s just been growth since then. We’re working with a company called closet box dot com in Chicago. It’s been awesome so far.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 25, 2013

Startup Business Development 101 | A VC – [link]. The difference between being a founder and a hired CEO – [link]. Chicago venture picture better than U.S. “How to Get Hired When You Are Just Starting Out” – [link]. Does It Pay to Become an Entrepreneur? Forbes – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 16, 2012

A Start-Up Ecosystem Forms in Chicago – [link]. Hiring of Kevin Rose by Google sends all the wrong signals to Silicon Valley – [link]. Hiring of Kevin Rose by Google sends all the wrong signals to Silicon Valley – [link]. 5 New Spots for Chicago Tech Entrepreneurs – [link]. Name dropping!

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

In townslike Houston and Chicago and Detroit its too small to measure. Standards arehigher; people are more sympathetic to what youre doing; the kindof people you want to hire want to live there; supporting industriesare there; the people you run into in chance meetings are in thesame business. Afterthat theres not much.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 14, 2017

I hired another guide to help with the load, and I started charging for tickets to pay the guide. million+ company, with 60+ team members doing tours in NYC, San Francisco, Chicago, Washington DC and Los Angeles.”. I hire the best, so we’re all able to have it all. Thanks to Nick Chandi, SlickPie Accounting Software ! #8

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2010

The image on the left is “The Bean&# in Chicago – photographed in HDR. Lean Startup 101 for Developers – [link]. Startup Sales – Why Hiring Seasoned Sales Reps May Not Work – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template tco use today) – [link].

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 19, 2010

And just to prove that it wasn’t all fun, this is me in Chicago basically doing some work. You want this to be passive, so you need to find ways to develop either content or have people use your website without you personally investing the time. The deal went through, I bought the website, and eventually hired a team of writers.

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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]. Chicago startups connecting with big local companies, entrepreneurs and corporations | by Wailin Wong – [link]. Heineken is tapping Crowdsourcing To Develop Beer – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 26, 2011

How to Hire in Chicago – [link]. Entrepreneurs Unpluggd: Puts the Emphasis on Chicago Entrepreneurs’ Stories – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template tco use today) – [link]. All The Cheat Sheets That A Web Developer Needs – [link].

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