crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

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 small section of an infographic examining the remarkable odds that each of us exists. How to make crowdsourcing work for your business – [link].

Social Media 94

Social Media Small Business Design CTO Hire 94

www.huffingtonpost.com

MAY 10, 2011

Ive occasionally worked with executive recruiters, for example in hiring a CTO for my first company, Eve.com. To sum up, heres what I would do again as a non-technical founder looking for a technical co-founder or CTO. Follow Mariam Naficy on Twitter: www.twitter.com/@mnaficy More in Business. HuffPosts QuickRead.

CTO 43

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Usually, we think what differentiates small business vs. large business are their sales figures and number of employees. Investment in Technology. Usually, we see big firms do not flinch from investing in state-of-the-art technology. In this post, we are going to talk about them. Hosting Solutions.

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Small Business Differentiation Hosting Security 140

Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

“Sell to few”: Traditional enterprise sales. Selling into this market requires the traditional enterprise sales approach, comprised of a large ‘boots on the ground’ field sales team that works with key decision makers (e.g. CTO, VP of HR) in the customer organization. CTO, VP of HR) in the customer organization.

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Fractional CTO Software Review Viral Sales Cycle 154

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

by Steve Owens, Founder and CTO of Finish Line Product Development Services. In this context, revenue can be an investment as well as sales. Steve’s insight into the product development process has generated millions of dollars in revenue for start-ups and small businesses. Ran out of Cash – 29%.

Startup 133

Startup Revenue Product Development Distribution 133

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 24, 2017

More than ever, businesses need to take full advantage of automation, data, and analytics to run their business more productively and competitively. Strategic decision makers need to see the data, in addition to marketing and sales. You are the business scientist, to balance data scientists.

Analytics 149

Analytics Channel Small Business Demand 149

Mike Michalowicz

JULY 25, 2016

As founder and CTO of several businesses, I love to see ideas become reality and build sustainable businesses that create real value. Presently, I’m focused on two businesses that I am co-founder and CTO of. Frank enjoys spending quality time away from technology with his family and close group of friends.

Fractional CTO 60

Fractional CTO New Jersey New York City United States 60

www.entrepreneur.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Business & Small Business. Entrepreneur Homepage Startups Starting a Business Home How-To Guides Startup Basics Business Ideas Business Planning Startup Financing Success Stories Home-Based Business Starting a Business Play Video How to Take a New Product from Just an Idea to a Business (Video).

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 5, 2010

Having street smarts with no inspirational ability to build teams can yield a great small business but will be difficult to scale into a large VC-backed business. They often make great team members such as head of products, CTO, head of sales, CFO, etc. Few people have it.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

To succeed as a small business owner and an entrepreneur, you need passion. That’s what led me to start my business, BlueVine , four years ago. BlueVine, which is based in Redwood City, California, offers online working capital financing to small- and medium-sized businesses in many industries.

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California Small Business Finance Cofounder 143

www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Technology | Thursdays. Small Business Success | Mondays and Thursdays. The Goods: Your Business Toolbox | Thursdays. Todays Small Business News | Daily. Sales & Marketing | Wednesdays. Running A Home-Based Business. Naming a Business. Financing a Small Business.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

examined over 20,000 VC-backed companies and found that women’s positions have primarily been in sales and marketing, rather than more “heavy-hitting” roles like chief technology officer and so on. A study via Dow Jones entitled “ Women at the Wheel: Do Female Executives Drive Startup Success? Research your vendors.

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Venture Capital Lean Cofounder Technical Review 82

Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

We created UpKeep to fill this void—a cloud-based solution that was affordable for any size business.” – Ryan Chan, founder of UpKeep. In the tactics section, list your sales channels and describe how you will be selling your products. The business model. The Recommended Sales Forecasting Method.

Software Review 74

Software Review Software Delaware Forecast 74

Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 14, 2015

Whether you’re entering a new sales meeting, court room, doctor’s office or a cage fight, you will find yourself repeating it more and more often. For most startups and small businesses, it’s simply going to be a fact that you have limited energy and resources. Image Credit : Nick Espinosa.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 30, 2016

Share A census in 2012 found that 36% of all businesses were owned by women – a number which has steadily increased. Female entrepreneurs and business owners are no longer taken with a grain of salt. In 2015, businesses owned by women brought in more than $1.5 trillion in sales. Barra of General Motors, Lynn J.

Technical Review 48

Technical Review Technical Cofounder Entrepreneur CTO Hire 48

SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Even worse, DVD sales were starting to lag, and a Hollywood backlash further muddied the situation. The core idea had support from Larry Page, but the idea immediately encountered some pretty strong resistance from both the ad sales team, and the engineering team. Others were worried about cannibalization.

Product 60

Product Technical Review Software Review Engineer 60

Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 18, 2022

And so it's that ability to have those small goals, beat those small goals at the launch point that allows you to basically gamify it and move through the slog of that place where growth is not apparent until you hit that sweet spot and things become exhilarating. Running a small business means doing it all.

Leadership 76

Leadership Utah Portfolio Technical Review 76

www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

No startup will ever succeed without a persuasive and visionary sales leader. Spencer Fry • Nov 27, 2010 I guess i still need that sales guy. Distribution/sales guy-Has an awesome understanding of the industry and product and can sell the vision and problem you are solving to investors, users, and potential partners. (he

Technical Review 51

Technical Review Startup CTO Hire Cofounder 51

mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

The Small Business Tips Series is supported by Bantam Live , a web-based collaboration workspace with “Social CRM&# for small business teams. The Small Business Tips Series is supported by Bantam Live , a web-based collaboration workspace with “Social CRM&# for small business teams.

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mashable.com

MARCH 24, 2011

Ignoring Your Faults You might have all sorts of shortcomings — it’s your first startup, you’re inexperienced, ignorant about how “sales&# works, you have buggy software, etc. link] Accelerator Program Applications: 7 Common Mistakes | Accounting and Small Business /Beverly Shares [.] an iPad 2 Killer?

Programming 86

Programming Startup Technical Review Software Review 86

SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

August was a slow month in terms of traffic and I was away for a lot of the month, but there were some really great posts at the intersection of startups, technology, product and being a Startup CTO. m the f%*kin’ boss.”. While I sit here and rule. m king of a cow. And I’m king of a mule”. Yertle the Turtle. Final Thought.

Startup 191

Startup CTO Hire Cofounder Venture Capital 191

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

We got Ophir [CTO Ofir Herzas ], a technical guy and started implementing. We gave it to a small retail store to use it. It took me half a year to find Ophir and Haim [ Haim Pekel , sales and marketing]. VC Cafe: How to you manage new customer acquisition/sales? It took us a year to nail the idea. How much do you charge?

Cloud 134

Cloud South America Bootstrapping 134

SoCal CTO

JUNE 14, 2008

At the CTO Group that I organize in Santa Monica, we've had lots of discussions around this. First company built on top of EMC, Unix servers, field sales to large clients. Aspire to build a small business - okay to bet on a company like salesforce. I'm blogging from the CalTech Enterprise Forum.

Internet 150

Internet EC2 Java API 150

Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2015

Are you landing a big sale? If you say in year one I’m going to do one hundred thousand in sales or, a million in sales or whatever it might be. How much is going to sales? Now if you’re a small business, and you don’t really ever want to go big or sell, you still need to have an exit strategy.

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Technical Review Software Review Due Diligence Exit Strategy 60

www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

just to pay the phone bill.” The founder of EventVue said that their deadly strategic mistake was that they “went after enterprise sales model with a non-recurring, small price.”. #10 Secondly though, because we focus our video production services on small, usually local business, it’s good to know how stable our customers are.

Cofounder 89

Cofounder Startup Technical Cofounder CTO Hire 89

Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 10, 2017

He is the Founder and CEO of ONTRAPORT, an award-winning web-based sales marketing and business automation software platform. John Jantsch: You have always been the CEO of an award-winning web-based sales marketing and business automation software platform so give us your story. Landon, thanks for joining us.

Software Review 36

Software Review CTO Hire Fractional CTO Software 36

www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

Developer, engineer, CTO, or technical co-founder? When I say viable, I mean something that can generate sales. Where we disagree is how finished the technology needs to be. Groupon made money with their blog and spreadsheet, and it had zero technology. Go to your local SBDC office. Rockstar v.

Developer 42

Developer Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder 42

techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

[link] tenthings most business-grads are too arrogant to realize that they are selling technology, not hot air, so they need a tech team to build upon, not a product. Kellie This couldn’t have come at a better time… I’m about to step into that small business selfemployment arena. Keep it coming.

Technical Review 84

Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder Software Review 84

SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

500 Hats , February 1, 2010 When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Google Friend Connect for Authentication? 500 Hats , February 1, 2010 When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Google Friend Connect for Authentication? First Principles.

Silicon Valley 378

Silicon Valley Startup Term Sheet Venture Capital 378

sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

I can see where this would be useful to small business owners who have never dealt with having custom automation built for them. Sales is more difficult and more important that you think, if you build it they wont just come. If you also outsource some work, great, but you cant outsource the core of your business.

CTO Hire 84

CTO Hire Hiring Software Review Technical Review 84

blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

As someone who grew up using and ultimately becoming frustrated with the limitations of Microsoft tools, and grew up submitting and hating small-business expense reports, I hope I can convince you that we’re fighting for the same goals. You use marketing and sales language, when attempting to make technical points.

Java 107

Java PHP Software Review Coder 107

SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

Some great content around the intersection of startups and being a Startup CTO in June this year. This continues my series of posts: Top 30 Startup Posts in June 2010 Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010 Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March The following are the top items based on social signals.

Software Review 217

Software Review Startup Venture Capital Technical Review 217

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Judah Phillips, the co-founder and CTO of Vizadata and founder of SmartCurrent , explained: We already live in a world of “real-time” predictive analytics. According to Phillips: A few thousand records with a sufficient amount of positive and negative outcomes can be sufficient for marketing, sales, and product prediction.

Analytics 131

Analytics Algorithm Artificial Inteligence Campaign 131