crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

5 reasons why battery innovation is hard for Silicon Valley – crowdspring.co/1fLbWNv. Raising Seed Capital – crowdspring.co/MX18CE. don’t return investors’ capital” – crowdspring.co/1dhuwIO. What’s up with the Series A? – crowdspring.co/1fkwYB1. 1fxnCmW.

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 95

maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

Outsourcing is something a big company, with a known customer / problem (that has revenue & traction) does to save cost. Talk to your customers. The right people are potential customers – ask them if they have the problem. Only if you’re doing it with the intention to learn about the market and customers.

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Technical Review Startup Cofounder Software Review 44

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

The favorite of many Silicon Valley startups is the Big Tech Co distrubution deal where you get to how off how effective your biz dev capabilities are. Here they’re already carrying a bag with products from many vendors so while there at the customer they just have to mention your product and budda bing.

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Channel Startup Sales Partner 293

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

Note: When I say “seed stage startup,” I’m specifically referring to software/app startups that are eitherpre-product or early product. Startup X launches with XX millions of dollars of seed capital from a star-studded list of investors”. … TVR: The traditional way of raising seed funding. The New Way , called Traction.

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Seed Stage Silicon Valley Startup Venture Capital 100

mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

And for those in the coveted in-crowd, Silicon Valley, San Francisco and the greater tech community become a world of opportunity where you’re only limited by the quality of your idea and the caliber of your friends. . A well-funded startup with no product is still behind a startup with no money but a product and customers.&#

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Angel Investor Startup San Francisco Social Media 80

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Over the last half a century, Silicon Valley has grown into the leading technology and innovation cluster for the United States and the world. In the past, the time to build a first product release was measured in months or even years as startups executed the founder’s vision of what customers wanted.

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Silicon Valley United States Venture Capital Software Review 335

Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

I’ve seen the Valley grow from Sunnyvale to Santa Clara to today where it stretches from San Jose to South of Market in San Francisco. I’ve watched the Valley go from Microwave Valley – to Defense Valley – to Silicon Valley to Internet Valley. So how did this happen? Where is it going?

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Restful Silicon Valley Puerto Rico San Jose 222

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2021

Eren Bali arrived in Silicon Valley from Turkey in 2010 hoping to relaunch Udemy , his online education company. Eren came to the US from Turkey to work at a Silicon Valley tech startup, which is actually where I first met him a few years ago. How did you first get into tech and come to Silicon valley?

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Silicon Valley Turkey Los Angeles California 60

Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 20, 2019

As a SaaS company, we have had pretty good success in acquiring new customers for our business using various techniques: organic traffic, paid ads, email marketing, etc. This is one of the biggest problems in SaaS – churn is essentially the number of customers you lose every month because they cancel their subscription.

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Papua New Guinea Hawaii Advisory Board Churn Rate 66