crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! 4 Hiring Mistakes Most Entrepreneurs Make – crowdspring.co/17UJnpL. Failure is overrated: Learn from successes instead | Crain’s Chicago Business – crowdspring.co/18No8bH.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 22, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! How To Make A Splash In A Sea Of Startups: Tips From Chicago’s Top Accelerator and VC – [link]. The Key to Startup Hiring: Build a Magnet – [link].

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2014

It’s insanely competitive to get into our industry so most have degrees from institutions like Stanford, Harvard, Wharton and University of Chicago (blatant plug ;-). Think of web vs. mobile. Most VCs are book smart. Smart is simply not a differentiator. In fact, book smart can be a negative. Traditional software vs. SaaS.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 16, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Why You Need Marketing Analytics, Not Web Analytics – [link]. A Start-Up Ecosystem Forms in Chicago – [link]. How Three Germans Are Cloning the Web – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Why I Sold My Startup Instead Of Taking VC Money | Built In Chicago - [link]. Chicago’s Startup Community Grows Outside Of Groupon’s Shadow | Chicagoist - [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 28, 2013

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Hire People Who Make Things Happen (get rid of the rest) – [link]. Hire People Who Make Things Happen (get rid of the rest) – [link].

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

But maybe you’re not ready to hire an expensive creative agency—maybe it’s not in your budget or you’ve had bad experiences in the past. Whatever the case, there are tools and strategies you can use as an SMB owner to build your social and PR game plan. The 6 Most Important Web Metrics to Track for Your Business Website.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Lean Business Tips: Hiring Contractors for Fun and Profit(ability) – [link]. If, Why, and How Founders Should Hire a “Professional” CEO | Reid Hoffman - [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 1, 2011

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Startup Mantra: Hire Fast, Fire Fast – [link]. Study shows Chicago lacks strong tech investor base – [link]. 10 Killer Photoshop Tips For Web Designers – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 18, 2013

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! VC funding in Chicago is down more than 40% – [link]. Hire People Bothered By Suck” And Other Insights From GitHub | by Dharmesh Shah, Hubspot Dev Blog – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 26, 2011

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Best Practices and Tips for Restaurant Web Design – [link]. How to Hire in Chicago – [link]. 1000+ Free Web 2.0 It’s a great one – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 30, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! What Every Start-up Should Know about PR – [link]. Do you really need a full-time hire for that? 55 Free PSD UI Kits and Templates for Web Designers – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 3, 2010

Designers: How to Search For, Hire, and Work With a Web-Developer – [link]. 55 Inspirational Original White and Light Web Designs – [link]. Web Design Criticism: A How-To – [link]. The Ultimate Collection Of Brilliant Web Design Tutorials – [link]. The Icon Designer’s Toolkit – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2010

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! The image on the left is “The Bean&# in Chicago – photographed in HDR. Startup Sales – Why Hiring Seasoned Sales Reps May Not Work – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Persistence Is Golden: How To Hire Great People – [link]. Persistence Is Golden: How To Hire Great People – [link]. Adopting Feng Shui in Web Design – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Small Business and Startup Tips: Hire and be Human | crowdSPRING Blog – [link]. If, When, And How To Avoid Hiring A CEO | TechCrunch – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 5, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Stop whining and start hiring remote workers – [link]. Some Thoughts On The IPO Market For Web Companies (by @fredwilson) – [link].

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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. On the way north from the Chicago suburbs to Wisconsin, I thought it would be a great idea to have my own PR firm.

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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! The difference between being a founder and a hired CEO – [link]. Chicago venture picture better than U.S. 30 Examples of Retro Web Design – [link].

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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]. Interesting thoughts from Wieden+Kennedy: Why We’re Not Hiring Creative Technologists – [link].

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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.”. My PR journey started with an amazing position with the renowned Jason Dady restaurant group in San Antonio, Texas.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

I spoke about how Amazon Web Services deserves far more credit for the last 5 years of innovation than it gets credit for and how I believe they spawned the micro-VC category. Or Salesforce.com who rose to prominence in this same period where they were ramping up PR and shouting from mountain tops when everybody else in the market was mute.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 5, 2013

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Why I No Longer Advise Startups to Hire M.B.A.s | The Accelerators-WSJ – [link]. Twitter Is Building A Gateway To The “Web” Of Mobile Apps | TechCrunch – [link].

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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]. Why Humility is Essential for Every New Startup Hire – [link]. LinkedIn – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 18, 2013

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Why Startups Die | The Next Web - [link]. Don’t Hire the Perfect Candidate | Lance Haun-Harvard Business Review – [link]. Billion Raised | TechCrunch - [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 2, 2011

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! 5 things that suck (about hiring new employees) and 10 things companies can do about it – [link]. 10 Things You Can Do To Become A Better Web Designer – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Hiring for Lean Startups: The First Few Hires – [link]. 25 Glorious Charity and Non-Profit Web Designs – [link]. Here’s Why I Think You’re Fine – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! 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].

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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 Perpetually Vexing Problem of Hiring Programmers – [link]. The Chicago FireStarter Venture Capital Fund – [link]. 30 Highly Unusual Web Designs – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 18, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Events for women programmers in Chicago – [link]. Everyone’s Convinced That MBAs Are Useless, So Now Might Be a Good Time to Hire Them – [link]. – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! How to hire a programmer when you’re not a programmer – [link]. 6 Photoshop Time Savers for Web Designers – [link]. Web Design Trends: Don’t be a sheep.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

It is incumbent on management to create and sustain an environment that leads to hiring, encourages quality work, rewards effort and accomplishment, treats workers fairly, pays an equitable wage, provides for basic welfare, respects families, supplies adequate work flexibility, and, importantly, celebrates the work itself. Thanks, Bianca!

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2010

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Good thoughts on why startups are struggling to hire people – [link]. 35 High Quality Photoshop Web Design Tutorials – [link]. Why Web Designers Cannot Ignore SEO?

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Hearpreneur

JULY 20, 2018

6- Using the idea of Chicago sports team colors. Using the idea of that Chicago sports team colors and the fact that I was born and raised as a Northsider – things started to come together. Thanks to Robyn Lanci, Owl PR ! #12- Ebooks4fashion was a very short name, easy to remember and it works perfectly for my audience.

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techcocktail.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

As you grow, think about the right timing for bringing on more people with specific roles, but remember – hire slow, fire fast. As Tony Hsieh of Zappos pointed out during his DCWEEK visit, bad hires have accounted for millions of lost dollars through the years. So if you do find your duplicate, hire them as soon as possible.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 23, 2012

Well, if you happen to be a company in Chicago, search no more! There are a good number of IT companies in Chicago that service small to medium sized businesses who range widely in quality of service. I hired outside consultants for expert advice, but then I am the person responsible for the day-to-day execution.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Update: The end is near, Expensify is hiring a.NET programmer! As you might know, we’re hiring the best programmers in the world. If you are a startup looking to hire really excellent people, take notice of.NET on a resume, and ask why it’s there. I was just looking at your web site. Expensify Blog.

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