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 Chicago FireStarter Venture Capital Fund – [link]. Twitter Link Roundup #106 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Recently I wrote a post arguing to make the definition of a Startup more inclusive than that to which Silicon Valley, fueled by Venture Capital return profiles, would sometimes like to attach to the word. I also learned about this amazing resource in Chicago called BuiltInChicago which I intend to use for my trip there in November.

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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! More fun ads in the Social Media & Marketing section below. Venture capital remains white boys club – [link]. The image above is an for Red Bull. – [link].

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Given how efficient markets are when a large market like LA starts to blossom it attracts capital pretty quickly. billion in venture capital to LA’s technology startups and 2014 will shatter that figure. He built & IPOd Demand Media. In the last full year where we have data LA attracted $1.5

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

This is possibly the most visible metric in social media, but many of those followers are inactive or even inhuman robots. Capital raised is the favorite yardstick in the startup world. Some entrepreneurs are obsessed with venture capital. For businesses, you can show off those marketing metrics with social media widgets.

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This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 5, 2012

You grew up with a guy who went into law and has some Chicago money connections. Unlike a venture capital firm that states its criteria on its website and has forms, e-mail addresses, etc to encourage outreach, your site does a lot better job of saying "Go away!". remember Woody Harrelson on Cheers? Things changed.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

The headlines in the media are filled with that latest stats. But these people went to slightly better schools (Harvard, Stanford, Wharton, University of Chicago) and got slightly better grades. How to Interpret Analyst Reports. Stats sell. The stats are often quoted from the latest reports. of all statistics are made up.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

billion IPO), Envestnet (Chicago, $1.25 Her network from her educational institutions alone has friends in all of the top tech, media & banking institutions. As I like to say (and as Kara humbly hates when I do so in front of others) … she has a much better resume to a venture capital partner than I do.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

Marketing with long payback is precisely what requires venture capital. You may have paid marketing: SEM, Social Media Ads, Banner Ads, email lists, etc. Running up big losses or trying to grow extraordinarily fast through paid marketing initiatives that have long payback periods will be the kiss of death for you.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 14, 2012

As much as a local community member might want to talk up a scene, the media always wants to follow the money. Startups had been located in Brooklyn for years, but it seemed that once the idea of more money flowing here came about from my fund , the media suddenly had an interest in what was on the other side of the East River.

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Growthink Blog

APRIL 9, 2014

venture capital investing activity, Silicon Valley is the nation’s unrivaled tech early technology investing epicenter. As the stories above illustrate, deal prices there are high , and there is more money than ever (including $7 billion in fresh capital raised last quarter) chasing fewer and fewer deals. With 41% of all U.S.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

When you think about the success that is Silicon Valley, the unfair advantage is not just the huge amounts of available venture capital. A key deal not only helps you raise venture capital but it can help attract employees, garner press attention, help with product focus & importantly drive customer adoption and/or revenue.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 13, 2014

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Guerilla tips for raising venture capital | VentureBeat – crowdspring.co/P6hM3O. Here are some of the links that I’ve liked and shared this past week! ” crowdspring.co/1lPU1Ks.

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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! How One Startup Grew a $100M Business Without Spending Venture Capital | Forbes – [link]. Chicago venture picture better than U.S. Forrester: U.S.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 15, 2021

You’ve got a business loan, or maybe you’ve located a venture capital firm that’s willing to back you but want to avoid any difficult startup niches. If you’re attempting to start up your own company business somewhere like New York or Chicago, you’re not likely to gain any headway in those markets very easily. Source: Pixabay.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 4, 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]. Here are some of the links that I’ve liked and shared this past week!

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! This Is Already The Third Biggest Year In The History Of Venture Capital – [link]. The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 11, 2014

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! The image above shows a typical rush hour in Chicago in 1909. “38% of venture-backed founders are over 40 years old” - crowdspring.co/1hywYgv. 1e8zfyc. .

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 94

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

Changes in the Software World & in Venture Capital. But notably you had the following changes: Horizontally scalable computing & storage systems, which meant you required less capital up front for hardware. Venture Capital. And then the world changed. Changes in the Startup Ecosystem. We have invested $17.3

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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! Venture-Capital Firms Caught in a Shakeout – [link]. Good interview with @andrewmason on Chicago Tonight (WTTW) about @Groupon – [link]. Here’s why – [link].

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

So why would raising venture capital be any different. GroupOn, Living Social, AdMeld, Gilt Group, Demand Media, ShoeDazzle, Tumblr, FourSquare, etc. You’d even probably go as far as to ask your best customers if they wouldn’t mind proactively reaching out to your prospects to subtly tell them how great you are.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Last year I was on Sand Hill Road in Silicon Valley meeting with one of the most prominent venture capital firms in the country. In my LA I often see computer screens open with entrepreneurs talking about digital media. In New York you have access to fashion, media, art and of course, financial services.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 26, 2019

proving that this “consumer purchase” is, in fact, a journey not a one-time use) Our leadership and vision earned marquee partnerships and champions in both the public & private sectors from the United Way of Central Texas, Partners in Parenting, Promise Venture Studio, IDEO and more!

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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! 7 Ways Your Small Business Can Market Better on Social Media – [link] via @crowdSPRING pic.twitter.com/3UUibzWINa.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 20, 2011

Venture capital Rounds. Chicago-based Future Simple raised $1.1 million in its third financing round led by Pitango Venture Capital. Japan’s Softbank and current investors General Catalyst, Spark Capital, and Union Square Ventures also participated. Israeli venture capital news.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2020

Ryan Sarver was a partner at venture capital firm Redpoint. Frank Barbieri : Another Sydney relationship is this gentleman, Anders Porter, who is the VP of marketing at Bare Life Foods in Chicago. And that was $100,000 that came in to bootstrap Chicago and Detroit and Atlanta. Frank Barbieri is the president of Art.com.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

These are investment vehicles in which central and local government agencies make investments that are combined with private venture capital and State-Owned Enterprises in areas of strategic importance. social media, ecommerce, gaming) instead of in hardware, semiconductors, advanced manufacturing, transportation infrastructure, etc.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

A CEO of a company doing expense reports, which cannot get more of a McDonalds overall stamp as far as a general idea, is egotistical enough to spend all his venture capital scouring through resumes to hire coders without.NET backgrounds because.NET is cooking in a McDonald’s kitchen???? So let me get this straight.

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 1, 2020

Venture capital is supposed to make a high multiple of return for the risk. You can't just post to social media circles of people with the same skin color as you that you want to meet diverse founders in June. Sure, that means exponentially opening up the flow of deals and going through a ton of deal flow.

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