crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2014

'Every day on the crowdSPRING Twitter account and on my own Twitter account , we post links to posts or videos we 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 we’ve liked and shared this past week!

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 17, 2014

'Sabrina Parsons, CEO of Palo Alto Software. The content of this article is based upon an interview conducted October 2014 with Sabrina Parsons , CEO of Palo Alto Software. For many small business owners – especially those who have turned a passion or hobby into a business – tracking metrics and numbers is a chore. If you’re not an accountant and you don’t have a background in business, or a natural affinity for numbers, you may find yourself ‘doing business’ on the fly, and perhaps,

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Metrics Small Business Software Review Forecast 106

Andrew Payne

OCTOBER 17, 2014

'Getting kids interested in programming is a lot harder than it used to be. I was lucky enough to come of age during the PC revolution. My brother and I would carefully enter multiple pages of BASIC code from computer magazines, and then play games for weeks (making our own modifications along the way). The problem now is the threshold of “interesting & engaging” has risen dramatically: today’s kids are surrounded by games and applications that have had hundreds of person y

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 17, 2014

'In this world of constant change, new technologies, and a thousand cultures, it’s evident and somehow comforting to me that the basic rules for business prosperity really haven’t changed in the last hundred years. Business success is still more about the people than the technology or idea involved. As an Angel investor and a mentor to entrepreneurs I still see this every day.

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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

OCTOBER 17, 2014

'by Scott Gelbard. Many entrepreneurs have aspirations about starting a company; however, they are not sure how to make it all work. There is so much conflicting advice to the point that it becomes confusing, causing startup business owners to question what advice to follow. Here are seven tips that are sure to dramatically improve the chances of success for startup businesses: 1.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 17, 2014

'First off – I’m ok. But here’s the story. “Ouch” “You’re in an ambulance. I’m just putting an IV in your arm,” said a disembodied voice. I had no idea where I was. I had a vague recollection that I had been on a bike. “You’re in ambulance. You are ok. Stay calm.” I realized I was tightly strapped to a board and couldn’t move if I wanted to.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 17, 2014

'When faced with a new technology need, should you build your own software – or stitch together solutions already available on the market? It’s easier (and cheaper) than ever to do the latter. But before calling up your CTO or signing up for the SaaS product you read about this morning, figure out which is really the better option for your business.

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Start Up Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2014

'The people we want to meet, would probably be happy to meet us too, before everyone wanted to meet them. The problem with the people we want to meet, is really in the timing of when we want to meet them. Because we usually only want to meet them after they have done something notable. It’s not uncommon to read about a lunch with Warren Buffett being auctioned for more than a million dollars.

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Mike Michalowicz

OCTOBER 17, 2014

'One of the biggest fears of every entrepreneur is competition. After all, play your cards right and the customers will spend their money with you; play them wrong and you will lose your customers to your competition. Rather than fear the competition, what if you use it as motivation to learn about how to keep your clients coming to you? It can be done.

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SiliconHills

OCTOBER 17, 2014

'By LAURA LOREK Founder of Silicon Hills News Technology has dramatically changed the way people live their lives from transacting business to communications. But what happened to all the innovations in healthcare that allowed technology to be embraced, Dr. S. Claiborne “Clay” Johnston, Dean of the Dell Medical School, asked during a keynote lunch address […] The post Is Austin’s Healthcare System Ready for a Revolution?

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The Equity Kicker

OCTOBER 17, 2014

'I’ve just seen the video below of virtual popstar Hatsune Miku, a virtual popstar from Japan, as a guest on the David Letterman show. If that’s not enough for you check out this video of her performing live in front of thousands of fans in LA (caveat: the quality is poor and you have to wait until near the end to see her). She’s a blockbuster in Japan with hit video games, sold out shows, #1 singles and a virtual opera, and opened a tour for Lady Gaga in the US earlier this ye

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SiliconHills

OCTOBER 17, 2014

'Do you feel like hacking for 24 hours? Then, if you’re a student 18 years or older in high school or an undergraduate or graduate student in college, you can participate in the third annual HackTX hackathon kicking off Saturday, Oct. 18 and running into Sunday. The event will take place in the student activity […] The post HackTX to Take Place at the University of Texas at Austin on Saturday appeared first on SiliconHills.

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SiliconHills

OCTOBER 17, 2014

'For five years, a group of San Antonio’s best and brightest have put on TedXSanAntonio and it’s quite a show. This year, the theme is “Ideas in Action” and features a variety of speakers on diverse topics ranging from cultivating a hacker culture to nurturing girls in technology to how to tackle the growing epidemic […] The post TedXSanAntonio Takes Place Saturday at Rackspace appeared first on SiliconHills.

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