crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 24, 2012

We hear a great deal of talk from the Presidential campaigns about what small businesses and startups really need to succeed. Every small business has its own distinct needs and it’s own unique problems. Every small business has its own distinct needs and it’s own unique problems.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, September 8, 2009 What would you want to tell Washington DC about startups? Im writing this post from an airplane headed to Washington DC, where Ill be presenting at the Government 2.0 You can see the design of the program here. It doesn't just have to be a private enterprise thing.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

What matters is proving the viability of the company’s business model, what investors call “traction.&# Of course this is not at all true of many profitable small businesses, but they are not what I mean by startups.) for Harvard Business Revie. Learning is better than optimization (the local ma.

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Hunter Walker

JUNE 7, 2016

This week I’ll be running a series of Five Question interviews with small businesses which were facilitated by BondStreet , a SMB lending platform (we’re investors). Bettina Stern: My business partner Suzanne Simon and I have been cooking together for many years. Are you active on Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, Instagram, etc?

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 21, 2010

And because both small businesses and startups have a high mortality rate, sometimes these images lead us to believe that any small business is a startup. This is equally true of a packaged good in a grocery store, an ecommerce website, a non-profit social service or a variety of government programs. Wrong again.

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Hunter Walker

JUNE 7, 2016

This week I’ll be running a series of Five Question interviews with small businesses which were facilitated by BondStreet , a SMB lending platform (we’re investors). Bettina Stern: My business partner Suzanne Simon and I have been cooking together for many years. Are you active on Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, Instagram, etc?

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

However, I've long felt the unsettling sensation of having a tremendous impact on the business, but still having to fight for attention and resources, and always wondered why that is. For example here's a screenshot of identifying incremental impact from your email marketing program. 400% ROI, not bad.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

.” I say this to myself for my business, a freelance pr and media company called Blitz Public Relations, and I shared with my colleague here at Menorah Park where I work part-time as well as a pr media specialist. It keeps us on task when creating ad campaigns, posting to social media, and promoting programs and services.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 4, 2009

interesting post March 20, 2009 5:26 PM Small business web site design said. Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down? for Harvard Business Revie.

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Up and Running

JULY 14, 2015

Read also: Q&A with Business Incubator Co-founder Joe Maruschak. Learn more about Techstars , a startup accelerator program. He’s helped a lot of small businesses succeed. Peter: RAIN is a program that is exactly like the traditional accelerator except there is no guaranteed funding. Jonathan: Okay.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2020

Sydney Gressel : And especially from what I've learned from our restaurant friends, a lot of bigger corporate restaurants and chains got a lot of those big relief packages to the tune of $10 and $20 million, and there's literally nothing left for most small businesses and most smaller restaurants. They dropped in there.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

It takes advantage of the idea, which I owe to Clayton Christensen , that customers buying a product are really "hiring" it to do a specific "job" for them. Its as if every customer, whether they are an enterprise, a small business, or an individual consumer, is actually an employer who wants to get things done. Remember Java?

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

At the time, he was advising the campaign while also serving as Executive Vice President and General Counsel at Revolution, a DC-based VC firm created to fund startups led by diverse founders all over the country. It was seen as one of the most efficient, transparent government programs in history. We got it out the door on time.

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