crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Silicon Valley has dominated the U.S. Despite repeated efforts, only a few cities outside the Valley (New York and Boston) have historically had the critical mix of VC funding, network, and talent to fuel vibrant startup centers. cities (outside of Silicon Valley and the East Coast), to build your startup.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

David Lin and the Microsoft China Accelerator was gracious enough to host two wonderful days of events for me. But what made the overwhelming impression for me was finding an entrepreneurial software cluster on par with the Internet software portion of Silicon Valley. China Customer Development Technology Venture Capital'

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

customer development. The free on-line class , hosted at Udacity is here. Some general customer development slides click here. The free on-line lectures, hosted at Udemy are here. Visitors Guide to Silicon Valley. So for the rest of us I put together this Visitors Guide to Silicon Valley.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

The functions of an early-stage board are pretty obvious and well understood: Providing introductions to customers, biz dev partners, recruits, the press, other investors, etc. Over time you start to figure out who you customers are and how to sell to them or how to get them to adopt your products if you’re a consumer-oriented startup.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

This 4-part story, however, explores the Austin ecosystem based on the 4Cs framework —  culture , capital, customers , and competencies. It follows up on my posts discussing why early stage startups should — or should not — move to Silicon Valley. Should Early Stage Startups Move to Austin because of Capital?

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 17, 2011

In Silicon Valley, we've had access to the tribal knowledge, but no one has tried to capture it, derive a methodology out of it, and package it in a way that entrepreneurs around the world can benefit from this knowledge and expertise. Next week, the 1M/1M roundtable will be co-hosted with TiE Midwest.

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Steve Blank

JULY 25, 2023

I’ve known Professor Cristobal Garcia since 2010 when he hosted my first visit to Catholic University in Santiago of Chile and to southern Patagonia. Customer & Stakeholder Discovery: getting outside the building, city and country: why and how? Co mpanies also face Wicked problems. How to map stakeholders and systems’ dynamics?

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 5, 2011

After hosting three live roundtables and being on stage for six to seven hours a day last month during my trip to Pune , I almost lost my voice. She is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and strategy consultant, she writes the blog Sramana Mitra On Strategy , and is author of the Entrepreneur Journeys book series and Vision India 2020.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 8, 2022

It was an honor to host US Deputy Secretary of Defense Dr. Kathleen Hicks at Stanford’s Gordian Knot Center for National Security Innovation. Innovation incorporates lean methodologies (customer discovery, problem understanding, MVPs, Pivots), coupled with speed and urgency, and a culture where failure equals rapid learning.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 8, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, November 8, 2008 What is customer development? But too often when its time to think about customers, marketing, positioning, or PR, we delegate it to "marketroids" or "suits." Many of us are not accustomed to thinking about markets or customers in a disciplined way.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

My first job out of school was at one of the early bioinformatics companies in Silicon Valley, working as the head of technical services. That's where I learned I enjoyed interacting with customers and working with development teams to build and launch products. (Graduated with a BS/MS in bio from Stanford.) How did it help you?

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 6, 2022

John Jantsch (00:00): This episode of the duct tape marketing podcast is brought to you by the salesman podcast, hosted by Will Barron and brought to you by the HubSpot podcast network. Well, Steve Hoffman (02:34): First of all, I did three venture funded startups in Silicon valley and two bootstrap startups.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Growth hacking is a practice that aims to acquire as many customers as possible while spending as little money as possible. Where campaigns to build brand awareness and generate top-of-funnel sales drive traditional marketing, data across the entire customer lifecycle drives growth hacking in marketing. What is growth hacking?

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Reid Hoffman

DECEMBER 10, 2020

If I’m going to find out that a set of founders lack integrity, don’t behave like partners, take on unacceptable risks that might harm their customers or society, or simply aren’t the kinds of people I want to spend a decade with, I want to know those facts before I start down the path of evaluating that investment.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 28, 2017

The customized program nurtures leadership, problem-solving, and interpersonal skills—and that’s just the short list. Locations and Dates: Silicon Valley, CA – March 29, 2018. Silicon Valley, CA – September 21-22, 2018. Silicon Valley, CA – November 16 – 17, 2018.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 19, 2017

In addition to the $100,000 investment, you get free coworking at Capital Factory , free server hosting, and a lot bunch of other perks and discounts to make the cash last as long as possible. What will it take to win? UT Austin has the largest graduating class of CS students of any department ranked in the top 10 in the US.

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SiliconHills

JANUARY 28, 2014

Codero Hosting, a provider of web-based hosting services, announced Tuesday it has received $8 million in financing from Silicon Valley Bank and Farnam Street Financial. and Europe to serve more customers from multiple locations. The company plans to use the money to set up data centers throughout the U.S.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 24, 2011

Our co-host for the program was TiE Midwest, based in Chicago. Monetization models, while not yet validated, can come from charging the customer base that is already acquainted with the service, as well as selling the white label solutions to colleges. Satish has about 20 customers, and 60 consultants around the world.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2009

Its easy to take Silicon Valley for granted. Ive written a little bit about the origins of Silicon Valley because I think its important for us to understand how we got here in order to make sure we preserve what is best about our community. I spent most of my time with TechStars, who were my hosts for the trip.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

I don’t have an MBA and I don’t live in Silicon Valley. Perhaps the library or a local tech company can host. Customer References. That likelihood goes down if you are not in Silicon Valley or Boston. What kind of people make great customers for him? I’m not your average angel. Personal References.

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Growth hacking and growth teams are so commonplace today, at least inside Silicon Valley, that it’s easy to forget that “growth” (as we know it now) is a relatively new phenomenon. Yet with that said, it’s unrealistic for a startup to have the resources and time to build out a custom analytics tool until they reach a certain level.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 26, 2021

It’s often hard to tell stories about change—audiences grow wary or defensive—but Margolis helps leaders in Silicon Valley and other hotbeds of innovation make that change feel exciting and achievable. Closing the loop on your marketing investment, on your channels, on your customer engagement, are important.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 29, 2016

A team from their Enterprise Innovation Office has joined us at NYU as observers at our 5-day Lean LaunchPad class, while another team is in Silicon Valley with the Hacking for Defense team learning how to turn their hard problems into partnerships with commercial companies that lead to deployed solutions. The Innovation Insurgency.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 29, 2016

A team from their Enterprise Innovation Office has joined us at NYU as observers at our 5-day Lean LaunchPad class, while another team is in Silicon Valley with the Hacking for Defense team learning how to turn their hard problems into partnerships with commercial companies that lead to deployed solutions. The Innovation Insurgency.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 12, 2013

Mayfield recently hosted a Mobile Marketplaces dinner with leading entrepreneurs, which yielded several insights. Modi also says startups should invest internally to inspire employees to have empathy for each other and for their customers. So many commerce startups get it wrong – focusing on customers before community.”.

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Gust

AUGUST 22, 2012

At the threshold of one of the most recognizable landmarks in human history — the sole survivor among the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World , dating back nearly five thousand years — my host was engaged in heated debate with a rotating phalanx of functionaries.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 28, 2023

She is a leading venture capitalist in Silicon Valley, where she mentors tech startups and helps them go public. Every year inbound brings together leaders across business, sales, marketing, customer success, operations, and more. She is the CEO & General Partner of the investment firm Street Global. That's right.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 23, 2015

The final clip is Fred & I talking about whether “the best product wins” and my assertion that the bias in today’s Silicon Valley dominated tech world there is probably too much emphasis on tech at the expense of how to sell, implement and service customers.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 27, 2011

It is also an excellent platform to address the questions from prospects and help clarify issues and objections for any sales process, which is one of the primary ways Voluble is seeing some of its major early customers using it. She is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and strategy consultant. I thought that was brilliant.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 14, 2009

release out the door and get some customers using it, or friendly people piloting it then at least there is some validation to the product and some people to speak to about their experiences. You can use this to get more product out the door, pay some staff and get your customer traction. But if you CAN find a way to even get your 0.1

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Growthink Blog

MARCH 11, 2010

A couple weeks ago, Growthink hosted the "Startup Success Secrets" expert teleseminar series. is an online community that allows entrepreneurs to showcase their ventures and communicate with customers, partners, and investors. If you don't recall, Vator.tv If you don't recall, Vator.tv I fully recommend that you register at Vator.tv.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 8, 2017

With 9 locations spanning (primarily) DFW, we have created programs that helps connect entrepreneurs with customers, strategic partnerships and funding necessary to see an entrepreneur to find success. Entrepreneurs in San Antonio will drive up to Austin for a day of office hours with guest mentors visiting from Silicon Valley.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, November 11, 2008 Where did Silicon Valley come from? I think the absolute best reading on this subject is a book called Regional Advantage: Culture and Competition in Silicon Valley and Route 128 by AnnaLee Saxenian. And what were they doing beforehand?

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 2, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, August 2, 2008 Paul Graham on fundraising I have found no better primer on the current realities of starting a new technology company in a startup hub like Silicon Valley than Paul Grahams essays. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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View from Seed

JULY 24, 2015

On Tuesday, July 21, we hosted the first-ever Boston Consumer Tech Summit. We have companies in Chicago, San Francisco (and elsewhere in Silicon Valley), Omaha, and New York. It’s about hits that can generate customers, not just hits on popular sites for the sake of ego-stroking.

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Founder Dialogues : Eric Paley plays talk show host on this recurring fireside chat style event that has featured Boston’s BEST founders. MITX : Non-profit trade association hosting many events focused on digital marketing and internet business. Custommade – Marketplace for Customer Products (NextView Portfolio Company).

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Thats the conclusion Ive come to after watching tons of online products fail for a complete lack of customers. Our goal is to find out whether customers are interested in your product by offering to give (or even sell) it to them, and then failing to deliver on that promise. I recommend using a hosted service like SnapPages.

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