crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 30, 2017

Seattle is home to Microsoft, Amazon, Starbucks, and other well-known companies, but it has recently grown into a welcoming place for startups, entrepreneurs, and small business owners, too. Those pioneers are attracted to the eclectic, entrepreneurial spirit that the city breathes. Sounding good? We think so.

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The Startup Lawyer

OCTOBER 26, 2010

Gabriella is co-founder and managing partner of Tech Wildcatters, a Dallas-based seed accelerator. Previously, she was with HP Growth Partners, an early stage venture fund in Dallas. Gabriella went on to work for Morgan Stanley in private wealth management. Joey Pomerenke, Startup Weekend.

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View from Seed

DECEMBER 10, 2014

He is currently a second year student at Harvard Business School and will be focused on supporting the early-stage startup community in Boston and its schools. The current dialogue around the city is that, if this ecosystem is built the right way, Boston may manage to keep some of the great companies that originate here.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

I’m in Seattle this week. Seattle should be the envy of any non Silicon Valley tech community in the country. As I gear up to give a keynote at the annual Seattle 2.0 awards dinner on Thursday night I started reflected on what it would take to “change the trajectory&# for Seattle or for any regional market, really.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

The crux of what they do is a field called “demand generation&# or “marketing automation.&# Essentially they help you take your database of prospects and drive trackable email campaigns targeted around distinct customer segments and manage these leads through the various stages of your marketing & sales funnels.

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Hunter Walker

AUGUST 26, 2022

I had gone to high school with the founders in the Seattle area, and we had recently reconnected. When I learned they were hiring a community manager, I threw everything I had at the interview process. For some early stage startups, investing in comms won’t meaningfully move the needle; for others, it can be transformative.

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Berkonomics

MAY 31, 2018

And, as in today’s story, sometimes it can mean the beginning of an amazing journey leading to a story for the ages… We’d all like to retain our best managers and employees forever or at least for as long as possible. Sometimes you can be the coach, helping them even if it means losing them. An email to preserve and show.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

It may appear logical not to bother individuals, like a lead developer, who won’t be engaged until the details are concrete, but their perspective is critical in the early stages. #3: Some teams ask everyone to design – project managers, developers, marketers, writers, etc. 3: What’s the competition doing?

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

We want to invest in early-stage technology enabled startup businesses – upfront in the funding cycle. I’ve spent hours this week reading about the firing of the head coach and personnel manager of the football team I support – The Philadelphia Eagles. So he picked up Murray. We are currently 6-9 this season.

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siliconflorist.com

DECEMBER 22, 2012

million in funding (0) Accelerator application trifecta: TechStars Seattle, Portland Seed Fund, and PIE currently accepting submissions (0) You got your Vizify in my Twitter. 13) Portland startups at an “Early Stage”: Start-Ups: Silicon Valley, it ain’t (and that’s awesome) (0). Community Manager.

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keen.io

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

I recently left my job as a technical consulting manager and joined my best friends and my fiancé, Kyle, at Keen.io (I wrote about that here ). These were the best resources I found: Equity for Early Employees in Early Stage Startups. Startup Equity for Early Employees. Follow @michellewetzler. August 21, 2012.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 3, 2009

We had an excellent opening panel on early-stage investing with Dave McClure (Founders Fund – NorCal), Brad Feld (Foundry Group, Boulder) and Andy Sack (Founders Co-Op, Seattle). He displayed a deep mastering of the power of the Internet, direct marketing and Twitter to manage his business.

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Version One Ventures

MAY 27, 2015

Similarly, when Uber launched in Seattle, they paid town car drivers to idle. It’s an easy way to get inventory in the early stage, but it’s not scalable as it gets expensive to both buy and manage inventory yourself. Buying inventory artificially creates supply, improving the way the marketplace works at the outset.

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Pascal's View

JANUARY 28, 2010

The most important startup centers are Silicon Valley, metropolitan Boston, Seattle and Austin and, increasingly, northern Virginia. A significant but largely unheralded problem for many is that they are managed poorly at the highest levels, and this lack of stewardship can lead to a company’s demise.

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

Preserve your equity by using a consulting CTO to ramp up your company before securing early-stage financing and hiring a permanent technology partner. third party to vet or manage&# your development team. I also run a small firm that provides CTO level help to start-ups in Los Angeles and Seattle.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 28, 2015

We had programs in Boulder, Seattle, Boston, and New York. About six months earlier Mark had very publicly decided not to raise a new VC fund with his existing partners for a variety of reasons , but continued to actively manage his firm. In 2011, Techstars had begun to grow meaningfully as an organization. Brad: “F **g no-brainer.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

In short, the first wave of internet companies were widely distributed and brought people online (AOL in Virginia, Microsoft in Albuquerque and Seattle, Dell in Austin, etc.) At the same time, early-stage companies are thinking beyond the high prices of Silicon Valley to put down roots and find financing and growth partners.

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prosperati.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

The Seattle team would work with me to build the spec and the mockups. During this period, I would think more about the concept, start having informal conversations with my team in Seattle and we would across lunch and multiple informal, unscheduled brainstorming sessions evolve the concept at least 10 times before we came to a decision.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

The Foundations of the Seattle startup community. Cincinnati has had the accelerator The Brandery for several years, which caters to the great strengths of design and brand management that are dominant in this city. million under management across three funds. The Components of any Great startup community. We have invested $17.3

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 29, 2017

Upfront VI is our latest core fund and is $400 million to invest in early stage entrepreneurs. This brings our combined funds under management to nearly $2 billion. Just over 40% of our investments are in Greater Los Angeles, 25% in the Bay Area and 15% NYC with the balance in a city near you (Austin, Seattle, D.C.,

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Haystack

JUNE 13, 2019

With Tableau, Salesforce gobbles a bunch of strategic goodies — a new regional HQ in Seattle; over 75K customers; a growing product line that will go into data management and more intelligent services; and possibly signaling an interest to go deeper into data business lines. 4/ Pivot North, Indeed.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

In Silicon Valley you have mega venture capital funds who have a history of giving $20 million to early-stage technology companies hoping to swing for the fences and become the next Google, Facebook or Twitter. We tend to do more $2-3 million “A&# rounds and we look for companies that have an early monetization strategy.

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prosperati.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Zoecity’s headquarters is in Seattle but we have a satellite office in Kuala Lumpur, the capital of Malaysia. We were able to hire both senior and junior level engineers at roughly 1/4 and in some cases 1/5 the going rates in Seattle. Seattle and Kuala Lumpur has a 15-hour time difference. Stumble upon something good?

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www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

And if trouble withinvestors is one of the biggest threats to a startup, managing themis one of the most important skills founders need to learn. Angels and even VC firms occasionally do this, but they alsoinvest at later stages. The problems are different in the early stages. At Viaweb we managed to raise $2.5

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Other cities like New York, Boston, Seattle, LA and Austin TX also have pretty strong startup communities. If so, shoot me an intro email at ryoma8ito@gmail.com A little about me: - Degree in computer engineering w/ management science option - Built several web 2.0 To be blunt, find a way to move to Silicon Valley.

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www.readwriteweb.com

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Advice for Startups Entering the Mobile Sector Inside the Mind of an Early Stage Venture Capitalist Need Startup Office Space? I find people hiring people they feel they can manage. Photo credit: althecat See Also The Startup Financing Dating Game: Courting Potential Investors Be Prepared! Kevin Rose is good for something.

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Professor VC

JANUARY 19, 2012

Conceptually, this is very intriguing and goes against the current popularity of accelerators in start-up hubs (Silicon Valley, New York, Boston, Seattle, Boulder) that are filled with recent grads and drop outs looking to build the next web sensation. I spend my days working with cool start-ups in a variety of capacities.

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