crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Apple’s Problem: Google Is Getting Better At Design | Business Insider – [link]. In Silicon Valley, Technology Talent Gap Threatens G.O.P.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! How to Design a Website that People Trust - crowdspring.co/1bPcyPf. Why the Midwest is better for startups than saturated Silicon Valley | VentureBeat - crowdspring.co/1akquBC.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! The computer design has left the building | Thought Gadgets – [link]. In Silicon Valley, Perks Now Begin at Home (the digital cold war is alive and well) – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 3, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! VCs in Angels’ Clothing: The Sneaky New Trend of “Deal Scouts” in Silicon Valley - [link]. 60+ High-Quality Graffiti Fonts for Your Design Works - [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 22, 2016

We regularly share our favorite posts on entrepreneurship, small business, marketing, logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, economics and other interesting stuff! Four Things Working at Facebook Has Taught Me About Design Critique – [link] crowdspring.co/1T6gtPa.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 10, 2013

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! crowdSPRING’s Small Business Spotlight: Red Poppy Floral Design – [link]. Defending the Brash Arrogance of Silicon Valley | by Mike Greenfield – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 5, 2013

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Email Design Best Practices For Small Businesses and Startups – [link]. Email Design Best Practices For Small Businesses and Startups – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Ron Conway is a Silicon Valley startup’s best friend – [link]. 50 Fresh High-Quality Free Fonts for Your Designs – [link]. – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Why Bravo’s ‘Start-Ups: Silicon Valley’ Is Bad for Entrepreneurship - [link]. 27 Beautiful Red Business Card Designs | iBrandStudio – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! In Silicon Valley, Hardware Is Hot Again | Businessweek – [link]. 15 Awesome Examples Of Brochure Designs | Inspihive – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 21, 2011

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! The Problem With Silicon Valley Is Itself – [link]. The Best Free Fonts for Designers – [link]. 83 3D Typography Design Inspirations – [link].

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 25, 2011

And, most importantly, the Lean Startup idea is starting to take root in industries and contexts very different from it’s Silicon Valley roots. And this year, we’re going to talk not just about business and product development, but we’ll be exploring one of the Lean Starutp movements next big frontiers: the role of design.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

The mantra of “ first mover advantage ,” the idea that winners are the ones who are the first entrants in their market, became the conventional wisdom of investors in Silicon Valley.“ Startups with huge burn rates – building leases, staff, PR and advertising – ran out of money. Then one day it was over. IPOs dried up.

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View from Seed

JULY 24, 2015

The invite-only event was attended by 300 of the area’s best tech leaders, founders, product managers, designers, developers, investors, engineers, salesmen and women, and more, all of whom are hard at work in consumer tech. We have companies in Chicago, San Francisco (and elsewhere in Silicon Valley), Omaha, and New York.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Ecosystem 101: The Six Necessary Categories To Build The Next Silicon Valley – [link]. Showcase of 38 Well Designed iPhone Application Websites – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 16, 2011

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Ex-Googlers at almost every Silicon Valley startup & VC – [link]. More, better, faster: UX design for startups – [link]. – [link].

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 11, 2014

” Sean is somebody widely respected in Silicon Valley (although he now lives in SoCal) for having helped many early-stage companies go through major growth periods by quantitatively testing features with audiences to help diagnose what led to growth. But I still believe Sean Ellis was right.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 9, 2009

We will accomplish this through demand-creation activities (advertising, PR, tradeshows, seminars, web sites, etc.), The same was true for PR. And the results weren’t the traditional PR metrics of number of articles or inches of ink. The Potrero benchmark strategy was one component of this creating end user demand through PR.)

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Steve Blank

APRIL 23, 2018

But the spirit of Billy Durant would rise again in what would become Silicon Valley. Just as Durant had multiple interests, Musk is not only Tesla’s CEO and Product Architect, overseeing all product development, engineering, and design. Days of Futures Past for Tesla.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

I know he’s smart but you wouldn’t hire a Javascript developer to do your database design – would you? Right sized : I tried to work with one of the best known firms in Silicon Valley. He’s totally tapped into the startup communities in Silicon Valley and a bit in LA.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 23, 2014

Marketing is often treated as a bad word in Silicon Valley. We celebrate good design, clean code, and clever ideas, while disregarding marketing as a fuzzy practice whose benefits are immeasurable at best, and dubious by most accounts. Design & Dev Entrepreneur Analysis and Opinion' Karaoke , AutoRap , Guitar !

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Steve Blank

APRIL 2, 2009

Now as VP of Marketing, I could have sat back and let my PR agency handle the press. The head of the PR agency agreed that we would work together as a team. The Potrero benchmark strategy was one component of this creating end user demand through PR.) Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 3, 2009

If you read only one previous post, read this one (or this one.) ————- The Birth of Entrepreneurship in The Hot Cold War Silicon Valley entrepreneurship was born in the middle of a secret war with the Soviet Union. Air Force’s long range bombing arm and the designated instrument of Armageddon. bombers.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 30, 2009

The design was actually a negative drag on selling anything off a retail shelf. Luckily (or maybe because we were in Silicon Valley where there was a domain expert for everything) there was a very smart consultant in the retail computer space, Seymour Merrin, who preached about the importance of packaging.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 11, 2011

Let’s see if there is anything we can learn about our behavior – good lessons or bad ones – that will inform our product design in the future.” It’s just a fad propped up by the Silicon Valley elite marketing machine.” Do we have the wrong PR firm? Check it out. ” Wow.

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Steve Blank

MAY 22, 2009

While one could argue that a trade show is just another demand creation activity akin to advertising or PR, trade shows are the closest eyeball-to-eyeball contact you’re company is going to have with customers, competitors and partners. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. One of them is a loser.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 10, 2012

Some of the most creative technology coming out of Silicon Valley is designed to do exactly that. Getting known through established locals is faster — as well as more affordable — than trying to get locals to know you through advertising, PR, big splash events, and other traditional marketing approaches.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 15, 2019

Thanks to Brandy Runyan, Black Diamond PR Firm, LLC ! #2- Our mission stems from our passion in creating automotive technology disruption, our vision of a more sustainable future and our belief in astoundingly desirable designs that the Fisker name has been known for all around the world. 2- Develop world-class vehicles.

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500hats.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

It’s no coincidence we designed 500 Startups with these evolutions in mind, altho none of the required strategies have been easy to execute and we are still refining our approach. note: apologies in advance for the west coast bias; i’m in silicon valley). and no, we didn’t. But why are we all doing this?

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 15, 2015

He may have been named by Silicon Valley thought leader Paul Graham as one of the five most interesting startup founders since 1979, but Sam’s curious penchant for wearing t-shirts over long-sleeve shirts suggests that he’s definitely too young for me. Lecture 17: How To Design Hardware Products. How to Get Started.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 3, 2009

My favorite line from this panel: Feld, “If LA companies still have a chip on your shoulders about not being in Silicon Valley, I have one message for you – get over it!” In today’s “attention deficit” economy you need PR more than ever and this doesn’t come through press releases but rather a continued, authentic conversation.&#.

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Scalable Startup

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

[contact-form] Can any other region “catch up” to Silicon Valley, or be the next Silicon Valley? These towns are setting their expectations way too high while the real Silicon Valley giggles at the sight. Silicon – Uh, yeah, that word? It’s what started all this.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 24, 2011

The program culminates in a two-week trip to Silicon Valley, which the startups are now in the middle of. And like most incubators, StartMate culminates in a Demo Day, one in Sydney and one in Silicon Valley, where participants in the program get an opportunity to present in front of early stage investors.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 27, 2009

Everyone was using a road map that was designed for a very different location, yet they are surprised when they end up lost. Engineering focuses on building the product; it designs the product, specifies the first release and hires a staff to build the product.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

The signals are loud and clear : seed and late stage valuations are getting frothy and wacky, and hiring talent in Silicon Valley is the toughest it has been since the dot.com bubble. Rather they understood that a startup is a temporary organization designed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model. Carpe Diem.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

We so like to talk about fonts, logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, economics and other interesting stuff! Is Your Office Design Is Bumming Everyone Out? Startup success factors: Short names and an office in Silicon Valley, study finds.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 22, 2011

I’ve spoken positively about their design simplicity, their UX flow and their marketing prowess. I have always been equally impressed with Brew PR who represented them and would hire them for any company in which I had invested. I love seeing non Silicon Valley markets boom as it broadens our country’s innovation hubs.

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