crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 13, 2014

'Steven Covey started it all with his seminal book, “7 Habits of Effective People.” His work has spawned hundreds of blog posts – a quick search turns up the “21 Habits of Successful Entrepreneurs,” and the “7 Habits of Effective Managers,” even the “10 Habits of Happy Mothers.” All of this exploration of habits and success, habits and effectiveness, habits and happiness led me to ask myself: “Self, I ask, what are your habits?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 13, 2014

'I talk to many people who have spent years struggling up the corporate ladder who dream of jumping ship and becoming an entrepreneur. I hasten to tell them that every job move is fraught with risk, but the move from employee to entrepreneur is on the high end of the risk curve. It’s a big jump, especially in today’s economy, so do your homework first on this one.

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deal architect

JULY 13, 2014

'As the World Cup winds down, it has been such a celebration of global diversity. Polite Japanese fans cleaning up after themselves. Crushed Brazilian fans applauding the German team. And the reverse – way too many leaders blaming losses on.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 13, 2014

'“Everyone wants to succeed at sales. Most people don’t. It’s not that they can’t. It’s just that they don’t know how.” Filled with motivational quotes like the ones above, Jeffrey Gitomer’s “ The Sales Bible ” is a hard-hitting, no-holds-barred compendium of ideas and techniques to boost one’s success in sales.

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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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Feld Thoughts

JULY 13, 2014

'I was in the bathroom this morning catching up on all the blogs (via Feedly ) that I hadn’t read this week since my head was in a bunch of other things. I came across one from Nic Brisbourne (Forward Ventures) titled I’m a stock picker. I wish he had called it “This Unicorn Thing Is B t For Early Stage Investing” but I think he’s a little more restrained than I am.

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The Next Web

JULY 13, 2014

'David Arnoux is Head of Growth and co-founder of Twoodo, helping teams organize using simple #hashtags. This post originally appeared on the Twoodo blog. One of the greatest lessons of the past few months is that when building a SaaS company you shouldn’t overlook the soft data just because it’s not hard data. This is especially true when following lean methodology.

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The Next Web

JULY 13, 2014

'Marty Puranik is the CEO of Atlantic.Net. Disrupt. Disruption. It seems this has now become the raison d’être for this generation’s startup scene. TechCrunch proudly uses the moniker to describe its two coastal events: Disrupt NY and Disrupt SF. It’s a brand that has now expanded to Europe and China. Quod erat demonstrandum. We all love the story of ‘Joe Everyman Twenty Something’ stumbling upon internet gold, swashbuckling across the bow of capitalism with a trendy new website which turns into

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Life Beyond Code

JULY 13, 2014

'First, let us clear a myth. It may be true that you may have only six degrees of separation from anyone else in the world. So, theoretically speaking, if you wanted to reach ANYONE all you had to do was to find the right six-degree chain and voila, you will be right in front of that person. That rarely happens and for most part, will remain as a myth.

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For Entrepreneurs

JULY 13, 2014

'“Se você não pode medir algo, você não pode melhorá-lo.” – Lord Kelvin Este artigo é um guia abrangente e detalhado das principais métricas necessárias para entender e otimizar uma empresa de Software como serviço (SaaS). Ele conta com a ajuda de dois experts no assunto: Ron Gill, (CFO, NetSuite), e Brad Coffey (VP de […].

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SVPG

JULY 13, 2014

'I have always been interested in taking the holistic view of product teams and understanding and appreciating each and every critical role. In a recent article I wrote about the dynamics of strong teams versus weak teams , and judging from the response to that article, many of you are interested in this as well. I focus most of my attention on the product owner/product manager role because I view that role as the lynchpin.

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