crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 13, 2014

1871 to launch incubator for female entrepreneurs – crowdspring.co/1gnuwsz. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. Apple posts design guides and resources to help developers make better apps | iMore – crowdspring.co/1gMgEtm.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

And our software allowed us to offer: tighter pick-up windows, better utilization of “uploader staff” and to launch new products & services that I won’t discuss because they’re in development now. That marketing can be PR or SEO or influencer distribution or other forms of “unpaid” marketing.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2014

The other problem with extreme success is that for some VCs it makes them disinterested in middling outcomes, things that take a long time to incubate or solving thorny problems when a company doesn’t immediately move up and to the right. SEO marketing vs. social marketing. Connections?

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

1871 Ranks 9th In The World In Survey Of Business Incubators – crowdspring.co/Xe1N6Y. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. Six Things Physical Product Development Taught Me About Experience Design | UX Magazine – crowdspring.co/X7NCjD.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 24, 2011

StartMate , a new seed fund that has brought the Y Combinator-model of incubator program to Australia, has just graduated its first class of startups. StartMate's first graduating class includes: Chorus : a service that lets you prioritize your response to customer service emails based on level of anger and PR fallout.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 6, 2015

Great Agencies achieves this by ranking the top vendors in specific niche markets within digital marketing, such as search engine optimization (SEO) agencies, pay-per-click (PPC) agencies, reputation management and branding companies, iOS application development, and Android application development companies, to name a few.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 13, 2012

What history teaches us about startup incubators – [link]. PR to come to grips with Data (or not) – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template tco use today) – [link]. 10 things entrepreneurs can learn from chefs – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 3, 2012

The dirty secret behind the incubator boom - [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. Lean Marketing: Delivering Customer Service via Social Media - [link]. Illinois 3rd-worst in nation for business, CEO survey says - [link].

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SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2011

This site aggregates and filters content from thought leaders who talk about topics such as Marketing , Sales , Design , Revenue , Hiring , Social Media , Business Models , Metrics , PR , Venture Capital , Angel Investors , Bootstrapping , Incubators , Agile and many others.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 11, 2012

At least startups have accelerators, incubators, etc. In fact, thanks to increased scrutiny of investment funds in a post-Madoff world, this imbalance will probably get bigger and bigger. Raising money for a new fund is harder than raising money for a new company. and now croudfunding sites.

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www.bothsidesofthetable.com

MAY 13, 2012

I know this will fall like a lead balloon to the many people who believe it is possible to have a [insert: startup incubator or technology accelerator or technology consultant or outsource firm] build your technology. Some CTO’s swear that it is a huge improvement in development timeframes and doesn’t cause performance issues.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2011

Giving startups a kick start: Incubators dole out advice and capital - [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template tco use today) – [link]. Why Aren’t There More Female Entrepreneurs? (by by @msuster) - [link]. The Steve Jobs I Knew – dthin.gs/n5a045.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 29, 2011

With new micro VC entrants into to early-stage investing plus increased competition from angels, incubators and the like – traditional VCs have taken notice. This will continue while we’re in a tech bull market and I predict will wane when we’re not. The Blurring of Investment Lines. The Explosion in Early-Stage Innovation.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

interactions, widgets, effects Django – high-level Python framework Cappuccino – open source framework for app development Kodingen – cloud development environment, code editor, hosting service, collaboration platform. Lighthouse – Issue Tracking Tool.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 10, 2015

Why this incubator takes the studio approach to startup creation for.tn/1D0Wh6C. Three takeaways for web developers after two weeks of painfully slow internet – buff.ly/1JXvhtR. How to build a simple reservation system | Developer Drive crowdspring.co/1IHl0yT. Want To Be More Productive? 1efd13P.

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The Equity Kicker

MAY 22, 2015

Note: I haven’t included accelerator programmes or incubators. Founder Collective: hired a journalist to help their portfolio with PR. Balderton Capital: have a head of PR and content, a data scientist, and a talent and development analyst. These are just the ones I know. Frontline Ventures: have a head of platform.

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socialmatchbox.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

These days sales, marketing and PR people seem to grow on trees. In addition, if you know any developers you should ask them where to post your project or job up and where they recommend you go to meet other developers. If you know someone who is an accomplished developer you should ask them what methods they recommend.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

For example, when companies say, “We value our employees” but have reserved parking spots, a private cafeteria and over-the-top offices for the executives that tells you more than any PR spin. Or if a CEO proudly boast about their corporate incubator, but the incubator’s parking lot is empty at 5:15 pm.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 2, 2019

It also requires a comprehensive business plan, sufficient funding, an effective development team, great marketing and sales staff, intellectual property protection, effective management, careful accounting, and (of course) customers. Get more in-depth info on all these needed skills and data points at the next edition of the Austin Forum.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

Incubator 1871 Nurtures Chicago’s Growing Startup Scene – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. Amazon’s Bezos: Maybe the most second-guessed genius in tech – [link]. I’ll take a gigabit to go.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2015

Here’s What’s Cooking in a Few of the Country’s Hottest Design Incubators crowdspring.co/1OfjE4q. Dow-Smith Studio — Website Design & Development in London crowdspring.co/1WkZtF3. Pro Tips to a Smarter Design Process – Designmodo crowdspring.co/1MsgdWl. How to Design a Book Cover That Sells crowdspring.co/1OhwroJ.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

“Vermonters could not be more proud of Senator Leahy for his leadership on a bill that both invests in national innovation and strengthens the ability of Vermont’s land grant university to support new economic development, entrepreneurship and the commercialization of cutting-edge technologies.”. We must think broadly.

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500hats.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

but the food was awesome, & the PR wasn’t bad either). However after Sequoia and Ron Conway announced their investment in YC in 2009 , and after YC alumni DropBox and AirBnb raised capital on billion-dollar valuations in 2010-11, the program quickly became the gold standard among early-stage startup incubators.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 3, 2012

Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. 18 free online tools useful for web designers and developers – [link]. San Quentin prison has a startup incubator for inmates? Five Different Ways of Shading in Adobe Illustrator – [link].

Social Media 92

Social Media Small Business Design Media 92

ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Currently, when enterprises switch to Google's productivity suite, they still need to make provisions to move the large portfolio of home grown long tail productivity apps that have been developed around the previous system - Lotus Notes or Microsoft Exchange. And in comes the Google App Engine as Google's offering in this context.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

My first job after college was as a developer at Andersen Consulting. I don’t believe you can hire great business people who outsource the development to a hot incubator who builds you code to match your ambitions. I installed Windows 3.1 on all the computers and established a network using Novell. THE FIVE C’S.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 14, 2010

He should then bootstrap his product development by using the consulting fees. Through SEO and mommy blog PR, Lee can tap into this market. In addition, we are offering entrepreneurs access to investors and customers through our recently launched our 1M/1M Incubation Radar series. This is her core market.

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sharkseo.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

This means that the Press and PR you get isn’t working in silo but working to push your generic keywords as well. Have you researched a PR / launch strategy? There’s little excuse for a product that doesn’t have an embeddable content strategy at some point in the development cycle. The result of that? Well, they may either: a.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 24, 2016

So I thought to myself how can I help other entrepreneurs through the same issues – I now have the experience, so I wanted to setup a type of incubator/Venture capital arm. I desired to become an entrepreneur who would develop new books, coaching services and training modules for leadership development and community development.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 17, 2013

Maternova is a wholly owned, women-run start-up company that has built the first global marketplace, innovation incubator, and collaboration platform dedicated to improving maternal and newborn health. About Maternova . Visit [link] to learn more. About Palo Alto Software, Inc: . Palo Alto Software, Inc.,

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

He should then bootstrap his product development by using the consulting fees. Through SEO and mommy blog PR, Lee can tap into this market. In addition, we are offering entrepreneurs access to investors and customers through our recently launched our 1M/1M Incubation Radar series. This is her core market.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

He should then bootstrap his product development by using the consulting fees. Through SEO and mommy blog PR, Lee can tap into this market. In addition, we are offering entrepreneurs access to investors and customers through our recently launched our 1M/1M Incubation Radar series. This is her core market.

Marketing 52

Marketing Bootstrapping Incubator Angel Investor 52

aweissman.com

APRIL 16, 2008

Someone said to me last week that we are a reverse incubator. Instead of providing a common office space, HR, marketing, PR functions, we provide a common development team and common values for product development excellence. By the fall of 2007 we had assembled our learning and formally started to build out the platform.

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This is going to be BIG.

JULY 30, 2012

Others have partners with expertise in PR. Given the proliferation of accelerators and incubators that pre-vet entrepreneurs, roll up their sleeves to help companies, and dress them up for demo days, the best and brightest are being showcased to look better than ever. It's happening on their side, too.

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