crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 15, 2012

The role of the project manager is to act as gatekeeper, curator, editor, and leader and this guidance is vital to the project’s success. If you are going the build-it-yourself approach careful use of social media tools, public relations, and other word-of-mouth tactics can help you to attract the right workers to participate.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Sometimes that’s venture capital generally (like last year’s conversation with Reid Hoffman ) and sometimes it’s in a space where I’ve invested (like mobility and city innovation with Bird’s Travis VanderZanden , one of our portfolio founders.) This is an entirely new way of filming Personalization ?—?to

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Let’s start with a short definition: [the creator economy] is defined as the class of businesses built by over 50 million independent content creators, curators, and community builders including social media influencers, bloggers, and videographers, plus the software and finance tools designed to help them with growth and monetization.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 31, 2014

The Greatest Opportunity In Social Media Marketing Today written by John Jantsch read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing In my forthcoming book Duct Tape Selling (Portfolio May 15th) I make the case that sales professionals must think and act more like marketers.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 4, 2019

It’s stocked with free food, drinks and wifi but the real reason you want to be there is because we’ve curated all of the top entrepreneurs, investors, and innovators at SXSW and invited them to stop by. How will crowdfunded investments impact your portfolio? or maybe just #GrumpyCat. Will ICOs make a comeback?

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 3, 2019

This will be followed by an Investor Week starting March 9, where Techstars Austin will curate meetings with investors from all over the United States. Techstars provides their accelerator portfolio companies with access to financial, human and intellectual capital to fuel the success of their business.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Contact Us Submit News Contact Us Write for Us Spark of Genius Series Mashable | The Social Media Guide Business Mashable on Facebook Join Us! This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum , where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business.

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View from Seed

APRIL 4, 2017

Independently, one of the things I’ve noticed about social media tech conversations is that they tend to be overly centered on founders and operators from Silicon Valley. Once a week, we’ll be curating and sharing thoughtful blog posts, podcasts, videos, and tips from people in the NYC tech community.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 17, 2017

Thrillbox Thrillbox is an immersive media analytics platform that provides distribution tools for content generators, advertising agencies, vendors, and networks. You will be creating and scheduling social media posts for our Facebook, Pinterest, and Twitter accounts.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

Yes an online video startup in ‘99 that helped large media companies encode and distribute their videos through portals. An example is Metacafe, a Highland Capital portfolio company. They aggregate other people’s content and curate it into categories. Startup after Iron Planet? (6:00 6:00 – 7:30). How did you get into VC?

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

Contact Us Submit News Contact Us Write for Us Spark of Genius Series Mashable | The Social Media Guide Business Mashable on Facebook Join Us! More and more VCs have deals in their portfolios that have long outlasted their investment value, and more and more VCs are seeking to unload these deals, at a loss, as reverse merger vehicles.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

Contact Us Submit News Contact Us Write for Us Spark of Genius Series Mashable | The Social Media Guide Business Mashable on Facebook Join Us! More and more VCs have deals in their portfolios that have long outlasted their investment value, and more and more VCs are seeking to unload these deals, at a loss, as reverse merger vehicles.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 31, 2024

We essentially let our stunning portfolio market itself interact by interaction. ” Thanks to Freya Ward, Headley Media ! #7- Strategies include – Building a robust LinkedIn profile and focusing on creating a curated LinkedIn community. Where's the coolest place you've been for a conference?”

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99u.com

DECEMBER 22, 2012

Social Media. Why You Should Treat Your Freelance Portfolio Like a Stock Portfolio. Online Portfolio. Browse Fresh Work Curated by Industry. Graphic Design. Illustration. Industrial Design. Interior Design. Motion Graphics. Performing Arts. Photography. Publishing. Storytelling. Technology. Visual Arts. Newsletter.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 6, 2019

For example, a company that does lead generation marketing could add local SEO, content creation and distribution, social media account management services to their portfolio while still accommodating their targeted audience. Improve Support and Guidance. People like to be informed and supported every step of the way.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

Preliminary details: Social e-commerce site, based around celebrity and influencer-curated recommendations. Structured data asset creation works in on demand in real-time across multiple data sets Including web, e-mail, internal databases, documents, and media. Current round: $150mm in Series D from Softbank. Total Raised: $366mm.

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The Equity Kicker

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

Since the beginning of the year I have been running an experiment to see if I can consume all my print media digitally. Our Associate Scott Sage has curated a tech news feed and a VC blogs feed on Taptu and I check those first thing every morning, along with Taptu’s own Chelsea feed. Is social media killing print media?

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

There are already a number of publicly traded companies and unicorns in the space including Yotpo, Elementor, Forter, Global-e, Riskified as well as a few promising up and coming startups: Syte (disclosure: a Remagine Ventures portfolio company), Santa and others. Here's the latest batch, curated by VC Cafe. Sports tech. PLG startups.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

Here is my guide to starting your own online boutique; we’ll cover everything from business plan resources to using brand ambassadors to help you build a social media following. Now comes the really fun part: It’s time to dive into image curation. For more on curating your aesthetic image, check out: Defining a Brand Aesthetic.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 22, 2015

We just love sharing articles about fonts, logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, economics and other interesting stuff! Inspiring Entrepreneurs Who Built Careers Around Their Passions and Social Media [link] crowdspring.co/1A6oKvy link] crowdspring.co/1RQwXK2

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Rob Go

JANUARY 2, 2013

One of our portfolio company founders, Jeremy Fisher, shared this essay with me a few weeks back that argues that we are entering the age of “anthologies” where users will be given more tools to reconstruct their content flows for more useful consumption. ” I see services that are starting to hint at this.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 11, 2022

Increase your premium pricing Referrals also allow you to diversify your pricing portfolio and charge a premium for your product or service. You can also publicly thank them through your newsletter or on social media. He brought a group of folks together and they started curating content for their businesses.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 22, 2021

AI startups in the Alexa Fund portfolio. The program helps boost sales through its customer engagement tools (video content, dedicated storefront, editorial curation), merchandising, and strategic support. Commercial and partnerships. Below are the Amazon and AWS outreach programs in no particular order.

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David Teten

JULY 12, 2013

We’ve listed below some of the more creative ways that we’ve seen our portfolio companies and others attract the media, at zero or trivial cost. Exploit social media and establish a voice for your company on Twitter and Facebook. Headliner (ff VC company) is a powerful tool to amplify your message via social media.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 19, 2020

Your portfolio is going to show your clients what you can really do. And most people already have some sort of portfolio, but you really need to make it stand out. Throwing everything on Instagram, or your Adobe portfolio is probably not going to cut it. Buffer – easy to use social media automation. Money again.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

John Jantsch (07:39): They were going to photograph the projects anyway for their own portfolio and further their own website. The ability to curate data sets for all users, meaning even faster and more consistent reporting, learn more about how a HubSpot CRM platform can help connect the dots of your business @ HubSpot.com.

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David Teten

JULY 12, 2013

We’ve listed below some of the more creative ways that we’ve seen our portfolio companies and others attract the media, at zero or trivial cost. Exploit social media and establish a voice for your company on Twitter and Facebook. Headliner (ff VC company) is a powerful tool to amplify your message via social media.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 14, 2022

If I can build a partner program using software with a thousand different partners, with a thousand different tactics, I, I have inherently a, a diversified portfolio. Bob Glazer (07:19): I, I, I think it's, every business needs to add the sort of activity to their portfolio. They are the partner and the supplier are all in one.

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

On paper what could possibly go wrong with creating or curating content with a eye to driving sales or influencing current or future customers? Companies have an Email team and a SEO team and a PPC team and a Social Media team and a Display team and. The Optimal Social Media Investment Strategy. For two simple reasons: 1.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 5, 2022

As it is, we know that curated social networks like Instagram can have negative affects on self image. This is where companies like Hidden Door (BBV portfolio co) come in. Let’s not make the same mistakes we made with social media. There are broader implications than who owns what and how things are monetized.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 5, 2019

Stereotheque is a cloud-based platform to empower young professionals and organizations of all disciplines in the Media and Entertainment Industries, to become more competitive, generate growth, and drive more business opportunities. While many options hit the cutting room floor, we landed with Voleo, a phonetic spelling of VOting portfoLIO.

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Austin Startup

MAY 19, 2018

Explain conflict rationale A handful of really great VCs declined to invest in my company and they had the courtesy of telling me that they felt like Company X in their portfolio would be a conflict. That imagined conflict may actually be a great partnership opportunity for two portfolio companies to collaborate.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

So, and actually my agent, Steve Hanselman, curated and participated in the creation when he was an editor at Harper of the daily Drucker, which is a big inspirational book of mine, of Peter Drucker's work. And then we figure that out and we start trying to find ways of adding value and building a portfolio.

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The Next Web

MAY 7, 2013

In April 2008, the Summit Series’ beginnings began dubiously when 22-year old media entrepreneur Elliott Bisnow invited the nation’s top entrepreneurs out for a ski weekend to Utah’s Alta resort and put the entire bill on his credit card. million infrastructure bond to refurbish local roads, sewer and water systems.

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mobile.smashingmagazine.com

JUNE 11, 2012

We just comment out the media-query declarations and set a fixed width. A brand new series on Smashing Magazine, where we highlight and curate the most interesting discussions, tools, techniques and articles that have been published recently and present them in a nice compact overview. Portfolios. Smashing Media GmbH.

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Up and Running

MARCH 16, 2016

Sectors CrunchFund invests in include mobile, curated web, software, Bitcoin, information security, enterprise, and SaaS. The industries they focus on include digital media, commerce technology and marketplaces, consumers goods and services, and SaaS. They invest from seed to growth with flexibility in ownership and amounts.

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Occam's Razor

JUNE 11, 2014

And now I go from hundreds of videos to an absolutely delightful curate set of guaranteed to be helpful videos. Because this is solving for the whole family of Unilever products, they can nicely showcase the entire portfolio of products that were used to deliver the hair look-feel-awesomeness. But the delights don't stop there.

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