crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

'It has been freakin cold and snowy here in Chicago the past couple of weeks, so I thought I’d share this beautiful video of our beautiful city in winter. Other places eschew the cold a and frost; this filmmaker with a drone says, bring it on! Brrr. Now that you know what drives us around here, I present to you our weekly roundup! Great links and articles we shared with you over the past week on our crowdSPRING Twitter account (as well as my own Twitter account ).

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deal architect

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

'There are rumors of massive layoffs at IBM. True or not, there is no denying the company has had years of consecutive quarterly revenue declines. Poor Ginni Rommety gets the blame, but my view is IBM forgot about Moore’s Law.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

'Investing in entrepreneurs and startups is a fun but different world from investing in conventional stocks, bonds, and commodities. First of all, it’s more of an investment in people than in a business, since the startup is usually an idea barely half-baked when they need your money. Secondly, the risk is very high, since as many as 90% of startups fail in the first five years.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

'K&S Ranch Publishing has an exciting opening for a Book Traffic Coordinator living near Stamford, Connecticut. We need someone who can help get our library of entrepreneurship books into the hands of the startup founders and students who rely on them. The job involves figuring out where to best sell our books ( The Startup Owner’s Manual , The Four Steps to the Epiphany , and Holding a Cat by the Tail ), and the logistics of managing inventory, sales and shipments of them.

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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

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

'By Jennifer Tuohy. Whether you’re just starting out with your start-up or are deep into a work-from-home career, a home office is your hub. It’s your command center. In short, it’s where the magic happens. Therefore, it follows that a lot of careful thought and planning should be put into its creation; this isn’t just a place where you sit once a month to pay your bills.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

'I’ve written in the past on how the investing industry is overdue for disruption. I’m now launching a research project to better understand the emerging investment opportunities. We are seeking Partner-level investment professionals at hedge funds, mutual funds, VCs, sovereign wealth funds, pension funds, family offices, and other institutional investors to interview for this research project. .

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Mike Michalowicz

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

'I’m a member of an entrepreneur group. It’s full of people whose names you’d recognize, owners of companies with a world-wide presence. I was stunned at one of the meetings recently, when one of the members stood up and confessed that he’d been struggling with crippling depression. What surprised me even more was that several other members were in the same boat.

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Las Vegas Entrepreneur Naming Media 78

SiliconHills

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

'A new online broker to fan ticket marketplace, SeatSmart has launched. The San Antonio-based startup has raised $750,000 of its $1 million seed round funding. Angel investors Lew Moorman and Pat Matthews, both former Rackspace executives, led the funding. Additional investors include ten large brokers nationwide. SeatSmart plans to use the money to hire additional […] The post San Antonio-based SeatSmart Launches Online Ticket Marketplace appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

'5 Ways to Captivate Customers with Storytelling written by Guest Post read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. Today’s guest post is from Corey Pemberton – Enjoy! . Small businesses can’t match the marketing budgets of mega-corporations like Apple or Coca-Cola. But maybe they don’t have to. They have another weapon in their arsenal that can help them level the playing field and stand out from competitors: storytelling.

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Jeff Hilimire

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

'One of the participants in Advice For Good , after donating an hour of time to a charity and then blogging about it on the AFG website, asked me if she could ask the list of advisors four questions to help her with her startup. What a great way to use the AFG community! Because each question has many answers, I’ll share these over time so its not too overwhelming of a blog post.

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