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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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

57 Things I’ve Learned Founding 3 Tech Companies – [link]. Founders Becomes An Overnight Must-attend, As Europe’s Startup Circuit Accelerates – [link]. The modern tech CEO: Barefoot and 21 – [link]. Chicago Sun Times writes about crowdSPING’s 2010 Chicago Innovation Award – [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? How do I find good technical co-founders? How should one go about pricing their software product? Will Software Eliminate Physical Retail? LinkedIn – [link].

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

I recently spoke at the Founder Showcase at the request of Adeo Ressi. I said that at the Founder Showcase, too. Responses ranged from, “hey, they’re in a HUGE market&# to “it is an amazing company and their technology rocks.&# This post originally ran on TechCrunch. But everything has intrinsic value.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2012

crowdSPRING’s Small Business Spotlight of the Week: Simply Smart Tech – [link]. The economic logic behind tech and talent acquisitions – Chris Dixon – [link]. Why Chicago is One of the Best Cities for Entrepreneurs | @ Technori – [link]. Fighting among co-founders is healthy- [link].

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

Many startup businesses – tech or otherwise – fail. Trying outrageous new things or even trying mundane things but in new ways but with extreme quality & innovation is what fuels the tech startup industry. Yet I can’t help thinking there are many predictable failures that come from a lack of basic planning.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 22, 2013

Chicago’s most active entrepreneurial networking groups | Crain’s Chicago Business – [link]. Always interesting to see Gartner’s Hype Cycle for emerging technologies. A third of all venture backed companies that went public in the last six years had at least one immigrant founder – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 1, 2011

Study shows Chicago lacks strong tech investor base – [link]. Good post by @micah about the need for startup founders to think about their health/well-being – [link]. Inspired By The Start Fund, New World Ventures Offers Chicago Excelerate Startups $50K – [link]. Do ad agencies struggle with social?

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

Michael Smith, leader of the Social Innovation team at the Case Foundation , introduced the Foundation as a non-profit started in 1997 by Steve Case (AOL co-founder) and his wife, Jean Case. As we’ve evolved, we’ve focused on more on initiatives that leverage technology. How we embrace technology for good. 3 specific issues: 1.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

A Startup Journey With GrubHub Founder Mike Evans written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. 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.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

When I heard that Larry Ellison was stepping down as Oracle ’s CEO I asked Kathryn to think about the skills she saw in a young Larry Ellison that might make today’s founders winners. Huge Technical Visio n. Larry always had a 10-year technical vision that he could draw on the whiteboard or spin like a yarn.

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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). This is more of a technical SEO tactic, but still very important. 2) Don’t write content for the search engines.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 21, 2017

With a wealth of financial knowledge, I took a risk and became the CFO of a clean tech startup and eventually moved to San Francisco where my entire high end wardrobe became obsolete. I’m an architect turned entrepreneur, Founder and CEO of Cheekd a mobile dating app that makes missed connections obsolete. Image Credit: Lori Cheek.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

Seattle should be the envy of any non Silicon Valley tech community in the country. It really wouldn’t take much to turn a great technology ecosystem into a truly electric one. There’s you and your killer CTO co-founder. It’s a very cool vibe at Founder’s Coop. The ingredients are all here.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2009

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. Technically you argue it goes back 30 years when StorageTek was founded. More recently it's skewed to software & web.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

A lifelong entrepreneur, Jason has been named to Crain’s Chicago Business 40 Under 40 list and was named EY’s Entrepreneur of the Year Midwest. He is a member of the Young Presidents’ Organization (YPO) and The Economic Club of Chicago. He is a self-taught software engineer and technologist. This is John Jantsch.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 12, 2020

You make can either make or break the future of a business hence due diligence is necessary before making any moves. But at the end of the day, I am in my position as CEO of an 18-year firm providing IT support, cloud services, vanity numbers and CRM software because of my strengths. 1- Trusting my own instincts.

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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. This is a long episode (1:20), but it’s a conversation that will resonate with a lot of early-stage startup founders. So it’s property management software? Our software will do that. I don’t get this.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 19, 2019

Listing the co-founders initials and adding Realty would project the same old. My co-founder and I came up with our company name by getting really drunk one night. Certain Chicago post offices were staying open until midnight for the taxtime procrastinators. We also needed a domain name so making up a name was helpful there.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

Though, this article is not a reflection on the fundamentals of unicorns—rather, I am using them as a proxy for situations in which founders have executed on big ideas. 38 unicorns, or 1 in 4 (24%), have at least one MBA founder. 63 MBA founders are represented among the 157 unicorns. Key Insights. as ranked by U.S.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 27, 2017

She is the co-founder and CEO of ZipSprout dot com that is doing a very innovative take on helping organizations wherever they are matched with local nonprofit and community organizations as a way to create marketing partnerships, a very, very innovative approach, check it out. She is the co-founder and CEO of ZipSprout dot com.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 11, 2014

The image above shows a typical rush hour in Chicago in 1909. While struggling to build companies, some founders also quietly battle depression | BetaBoston – crowdspring.co/1mUNP1y. “38% of venture-backed founders are over 40 years old” - crowdspring.co/1hywYgv. Re/code - crowdspring.co/1embSqM.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

At Smart Bear we were selling a code review tool, and if you paid $600 for Perforce, it was very hard for me to charge $600 hundred for an add-on to Perforce that did code review. I would work full-time making software all day, and at night I would go home and give ski instructions here in Michigan. Jason: Woo.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

4 Steps to Starting a Web Business Without Knowing Coding | The Next Web – crowdspring.co/1ep8F6R. A special report from The Economist on Tech Startups. The Founders Guide to Surviving Startup Life – crowdspring.co/1eYfYis. 4 Steps to Starting a Web Business Without Knowing Coding – crowdspring.co/1ep8F6R.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 16, 2012

Twitter’s Secret History As the World’s Worst Tech or Media Business – [link]. A Start-Up Ecosystem Forms in Chicago – [link]. 5 New Spots for Chicago Tech Entrepreneurs – [link]. A Big Idea: Y Combinator Now Lets Founders Apply Without… An Idea – [link]. Why I left Google – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 25, 2013

The difference between being a founder and a hired CEO – [link]. Chicago venture picture better than U.S. Required reading for startup founders – [link]. Five of Steve Jobs’s Biggest Mistakes | Peter Sims-Harvard Business Review – [link]. 5 Rules for Designing Like Apple | ZURB – [link].

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Single Founder Have you ever noticed how few successful startups were founded byjust one person? Even companies you think of as having one founder,like Oracle, usually turn out to have more. Whats wrong with having one founder? It probably means the founder couldnt talk anyof his friends into starting the company with him.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 26, 2019

Many people have reached out sharing knowing and kind words about our journey and choice to wind down our venture, as well as their appreciation for my choice to pull back the curtain on what is statistically a common road for many founders. It details a landscape founders like me are excited to sink their teeth into? Of course not!

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 14, 2017

million+ company, with 60+ team members doing tours in NYC, San Francisco, Chicago, Washington DC and Los Angeles.”. I’m Shelia Fitzgerald, owner and founder of EliteFitz, a destination inspired women’s boutique. Thanks to Emily Reynolds, founder of R PR Firm ! #4 Thanks to Nick Gray, Museum Hack ! #2

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 4, 2013

Why Menus Suck + Other Deep Thoughts on the Food Tech Revolution. 8 Major Tech Predictions for 2013 | Business Insider – [link]. Analysis: For tech investors, it’s hard to know when to bolt | Reuters – [link]. Why Menus Suck + Other Deep Thoughts on the Food Tech Revolution. Dave McClure – [link].

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

Did you know founders in Silicon Valley work longer hours than founders anywhere else? Here’s some other eye-opening info from the report, highlighted by Startup Genome founder Bjoern Lasse Herrmann. However, with big data and enterprise software companies coming back into fashion, you might see a renaissance in Boston.”

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 3, 2024

Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) concepts have been developing since the advocation of equal rights by the working men parties in the 1830s, and pollution control in the mid-1850s — when Chicago pragmatically built the first US sewage system to improve water supply. A business that still holds fundamental value today.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

After I left academia (too slow moving) and the consultancy company I worked for (lack of vision), four friends and I applied that puzzle-solving passion to creating software for solving supply chain puzzles. I am founder on an unconventional online gallery, The Art and Craft Gallery. Thanks to Alexi Venneri, Digital Air Strike ! #6)

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

The right sort of person is so passionate about coding, they can’t be stopped from doing it. But every day spent in that kitchen is a day NOT spent in a real kitchen, learning how to cook real food, and write real code. I currently work in information security, and I help teach developers how to write better, more secure code.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 22, 2017

Corner Piece Productions doesn’t have its own website currently, but here’s the site for West of Her, which picked up five Best Narrative Feature awards over our festival tour this summer, along with rave review from critics across the country, and is set for wide video on demand distribution this year.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

Startups in Chicago check out this new Q&A site – Chicago Founders – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template tco use today) – [link]. The Downside of Perfection – [link]. Only 14% of Fortune 500 were venture backed – [link].

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2020

The founders of Frontline Foods are three of these people. When is our society going to start treating nurses with the respect they're due? I think we'd had, even actually apart from COVID, we'd had like three code events in our department that day. A code is when somebody is having a life threatening acute problem.

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