crowdSPRING Blog
MAY 2, 2014
'Every day on the crowdSPRING Twitter account and on my own Twitter account , I post links to posts or videos I enjoyed reading or viewing. These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Here are some of the links that I’ve liked and shared this past week!
Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook
MAY 2, 2014
'Improv and Innovation do mix — and it’s not funny. You don’t have to be funny for Improv training to be useful in innovation. There are two things holding back more business people from pushing the Improv training button: 1.) They believe that Improv is difficult and that you need to have a funny bone, and, 2.) They believe that while Improv might be a good soft skill there is no direct and near term benefit to innovation (or other corporate goals).
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Spencer Fry
MAY 2, 2014
'OMG is the best way to describe how I feel right now. I’m so relieved to have finally shipped the massive update to Uncover. It’s something that we began working on in July 2013, only to release it ten months later on April 30th, 2014. Anyone who works in product development will know that ten months is an eternity. This release pressed down on us like the heaviest of weights.
YoungUpstarts
MAY 2, 2014
'by Alicia Lawrence, WebpageFX . I had a professor in college who swore by the pick two strategy. He said that in business you want everything you do to be low-cost, delivered quickly and to be high quality but that’s pretty much impossible. He maintained that in any situation, you will only be able to achieve two out of three of those attributes.
Speaker: Nick Noreña, Innovation Coach and Advisor, Kromatic
Every startup and innovation project exists within an ecosystem that either helps or hurts that project. As innovation managers, we need to keep a pulse of that ecosystem and make sure we're helping those innovation projects we're managing every step of the way. In this webinar, Nick Noreña will walk through an Innovation Ecosystem Model that he and his team at Kromatic have developed to help investors, heads of product, teachers, and executives understand how they can best support innovation in
This is going to be BIG.
MAY 2, 2014
'I don''t drink. I mean, I consume liquid, but all of those liquids are non-alcoholic. I''m not Mormon. Nor am I an alcoholic. I have no real moral issue with reasonable amounts of drinking--and actually quite envy wine enthusiasts. It seems like a neat and interesting hobby. I just really don''t like the taste. Otherwise, I probably would drink wine.
YoungUpstarts
MAY 2, 2014
'The world is changing and many things are disappearing, and along with those are a large number of professions that once was important but technology advances have made obsolete. Automation, for example, have made it possible for machines to do the jobs man used to do, and they can do it far better, cheaper and more consistently as well. What are some of these jobs that are becoming instinct?
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Up and Running
MAY 2, 2014
'Fundraising is hard work. It’s a simple truth that every entrepreneur knows: Getting the capital to start or grow your business is often harder than running the business itself. Or at least, it can seem that way when you’re in the fundraising cycle, with the endless meetings, pitches, and negotiations. In my experience, the most time-consuming part of the process is relationship building.
The Next Web
MAY 2, 2014
'Will Housh is the founder and CEO of Housh, Inc., a diversified online distribution and retail business. Connect with Will on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn. Family businesses are the cornerstone of the American dream. In fact, more than 80 percent of all businesses – many of which are small companies – are owned by families. In part due to integrity, family values, and innovation, many family-owned businesses have stood the test of time.
The Equity Kicker
MAY 2, 2014
'VentureBeat just published a high level analysis of the US VC industry in 2013. It’s based on Pitchbook data. Here are the key points: Total exits were a whopping $56.5bn. Hot IPO markets were a key driver – 107 companies listed, the most since 2007. M&A was down – presumably because companies went public instead of selling. 1,814 investors had an exit (if you’re an investor and you didn’t have one you’d want to ask yourself why).
Mike Michalowicz
MAY 2, 2014
'Have you ever been laughed at? Have you ever been ridiculed? Have you ever had people call you crazy, insane or some variant of? Yes? Good. That is exactly what I had hoped. You see, if you want to be a successful entrepreneur, you better get ready to be questioned, ridiculed and worse. It’s the name of the game. Entrepreneurs are the risk takers. Entrepreneurs are the ones who are willing to try the untried.
Start Up Blog
MAY 2, 2014
'School taught me three really important things. It taught me to read, to write and to count. Pretty much that is where it ends. At University the process of being inside it taught me how to learn. While I’m being somewhat flippant, if I actually break it down and look hard at the subjects taken and the lessons learned, there wasn’t much outside of these things.
SiliconHills
MAY 2, 2014
'By LAURA LOREK Founder of Silicon Hills News On any given day, IAG Cargo might be transporting computer components, chocolates, spare parts for machinery or fruits and vegetables through Austin to London. And it might be flying in salmon, automotive and other parts into Austin Bergstrom International Airport from its hub at the Heathrow Airport. […] The post Got Cargo?
Start Up Blog
MAY 2, 2014
'The blog posts which I write that have a ‘ How to’ element in them get infinitely more traffic and attention than those that are philosophical. It seems people want to know about more about the method than they do the reason. But what we need to understand is that methods are often temporary, when reason can be timeless. If we have the an over riding philosophy, then we wont get caught short once the tactics we employ expire in effectiveness.
Duct Tape Marketing
MAY 2, 2014
'4 Ways Creativity Can Help Generate Online Sales written by Guest Post read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. Thursday is guest post day here at Duct Tape Marketing and today’s guest is from Ryan Ernst – Enjoy! . As digital marketing and advertising has evolved throughout the years, function has slowly gobbled up form, one clicks, like, page view and web lead at a time.
VC Adventure
MAY 2, 2014
'I first met Carrie and Tony Requist of U Grok It in February of 2012. We were hosting a DEMO event with VentureBeat and UGrokIt was one of a handful of companies that was chosen to come in and pitch. I remember the U Grok It presentation well for a number of reasons. For starters, Carrie and Tony are married. And living in Steamboat. Both pretty unusual for the startup world.
Jeff Hilimire
MAY 2, 2014
'I’ve had many close calls over my career, with a great many of them coming while running my first company, Spunlogic. Several of those near-misses were the result of advice from our amazing advisory board – Bill , Ken , James , William , and Mike. It was 2005 and we were 25 people, up from half that the year before. The business was growing and we had just landed amazing new clients like Coca-Cola and UPS.
VC Adventure
MAY 2, 2014
I first met Carrie and Tony Requist of U Grok It in February of 2012. We were hosting a DEMO event with VentureBeat and UGrokIt was one of a handful of companies that was chosen to come in and pitch. I remember the U Grok It presentation well for a number of reasons. For starters, Carrie and Tony are married. And living in Steamboat. Both pretty unusual for the startup world.
Startup Professionals Musings
MAY 2, 2014
'Most startups are happy to find any customer, and will hang on for dear life to every one. Only later do they realize that some of these cost more than they are worth, or lead into commitments they can’t sustain, but no business wants to violate the golden rule that every customer needs to be treated as if they were the only customer. In reality, the real world is full of pragmatics.
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