crowdSPRING Blog
JUNE 28, 2013
'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!
Steve Blank
JUNE 28, 2013
'Last night Alison and I along with others were honored for environmental leadership by the California League of Conservation Voters. Here are the remarks I made. —— Alison and I both grew up on the East Coast but we’ve been fortunate to live in California for 30 years. One of the things we love most about living here is how beautiful the natural landscapes are and how close nature is to urban areas.
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Startup Professionals Musings
JUNE 28, 2013
'I’ve always wondered who started the urban myth that the best way to start a company is to come up with a great idea, and then find some professional investors to give you a pot of money to build a company. In my experience, that’s actually the worst way to start, for reasons I will outline here, and also the least common way, according to a recent survey of new startups.
YoungUpstarts
JUNE 28, 2013
'By Matt Peterson, President & CEO of eFileCabinet. At this point most businesses are aware that making the shift to paperless is necessary, but many are going about it all wrong. When not executed correctly, businesses are missing out on major productivity, efficiency and money saving benefits that come with paperless data management. As someone who has been in the document management industry for over 10 years, the most common pitfalls I’ve seen are as follows: Mislabeling or inconsistent
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
Startup Lessons Learned
JUNE 28, 2013
'We’re excited to announce the 2013 Lean Startup Conference , December 9 - 11 in San Francisco. As the Lean Startup movement grows and matures, the conference does, too, this year expanding and changing in a number of ways—based almost entirely on things that our attendees have asked for. We’ll talk in a minute about some of the new features of the conference, but first, let’s look at the conference themes.
YoungUpstarts
JUNE 28, 2013
'by John Baker, author of “ The Asking Formula – Ask For What You Want And Get It “ If you are like most sales managers, when it comes down to it, you are downright scared of being direct and to the point and telling people in no uncertain terms, “Here’s what I want!”. Think about it. There’s a conspiracy that encourages people to bury their most important wants and desires.
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The Next Web
JUNE 28, 2013
'London’s growing ecosystem of startups, shared workspaces, accelerators and hubs is set to get a new addition from Monday, as Rainmaking will be launching its Rainmaking Loft in St Katherine’s Dock for the first time. Located close to London Bridge and Tower Bridge, the startup hub will offer entrepreneurs and fledgling tech businesses individually designated desks, access to meeting rooms and collaboration spaces, use of the kitchen, “super-fast” wireless internet connectivity and printing fa
ConversionXL
JUNE 28, 2013
'I hear this all the time. “ Our competitor X is doing Y, we should do that too ” or “ X is market leader and they have Y, we need to have Y “ There are 2 key things wrong with it: The reason they have Y (menu, navigation, checkout, home page layout etc) the way it is, is probably random. In 50% cases it’s what their designer came up with (and most likely not because of a long, thorough analysis and testing) or they just copied another competitor.
The Equity Kicker
JUNE 28, 2013
'This morning I read that Paul Graham told a conference yesterday that VCs are pushing companies to take bigger rounds than they need, and then after that I was explaining to one of our portfolio company CEOs that the size of the opportunity should determine the amount of money a company raises. Simply put, a company should aim to get to exit raising only a small fraction of the value that it hopes to exit for.
Hunter Walker
JUNE 28, 2013
'“ Commercial Intent almost never exists on Social Media.” What a crock. Every day my Facebook and Twitter feeds are full of discussions about music, fashion, electronics, travel and other highly valuable verticals. The fact these conversations aren’t directly attributable to sales conversion aren’t fundamental statements about social traffic, but rather continued product gaps in the underlying platforms.
Up and Running
JUNE 28, 2013
'One of the most difficult situations to navigate in employee relations is how to appropriately handle an employee whom you suspect has been stealing. Employee thefts run the gamut from nicking office supplies from the storage room and stealing from coworkers’ lockers to falsely filling out time sheets, mishandling company intellectual property, customer identity theft and worse.
SiliconHills
JUNE 28, 2013
'BitAngels, a network that invests in early-stage Bitcoin and cryptocurrency startups, has invested $100,000 in BlueSeed, an offshore Bitcoin incubator. The venture is based offshore in international waters in the Silicon Valley area so it’s not subject to U.S. regulators. “Bitcoin is a digital currency which allows anonymous and instant peer-to-peer payments,” according to the [.
Up and Running
JUNE 28, 2013
'The workplace grows as your business does. For many startups, working from home is a great option. However, as things begin to take off and you look to expand, a home office just doesn’t cut it anymore. Does this sound familiar? If so, the time may have come to find some office space for your startup. When deciding on whether or not your business needs an office, there are four major factors to consider : 1.
SiliconHills
JUNE 28, 2013
'Austin-based Food on the Table, a meal planning app, has partnered with the Mom365 app to provide recipes and more. Together, the two companies have launched Mom365 Meals, a comprehensive Mom365-branded mobile and website app for busy new moms. “Food on the Table has been a leader in its category with the highest user rating [.] The post Food on the Table Partners with Mom365 appeared first on SiliconHills.
Reid Hoffman
JUNE 28, 2013
'Immigration is pure entrepreneurship. You leave behind everything familiar to start somewhere new. To succeed, you need to develop alliances. You must acquire skills. You will have to improvise on occasion. It’s a bold proposition. Immigration is also fundamental to the U.S. national identity — as the Senate just acknowledged with passage of the most significant reform bill in decades.
SiliconHills
JUNE 28, 2013
'RideScout, an Austin-based startup that has created a transportation app, now offers access to car2go. RideScout’s app is currently available for iPhones and provides aggregated information on public, private and social transportation options and recommends a “best ride” based on cost and time. Now car2go members can reserve a vehicle using the RideScout app.
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