crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 24, 2013

Key Factors to Effective Competitive Analysis as a Small Business | Search Engine Watch – [link]. What Nikola Tesla vs. VCs video says about the state of Silicon Valley | by Om Malik – [link]. “Why Silicon Valley is not the second coming of the Gilded Age.” – [link].

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 3, 2009

If you read only one previous post, read this one (or this one.) ————- The Birth of Entrepreneurship in The Hot Cold War Silicon Valley entrepreneurship was born in the middle of a secret war with the Soviet Union. While officially in the electrical engineering department, the lab reported directly to Terman.

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View from Seed

JULY 24, 2015

The invite-only event was attended by 300 of the area’s best tech leaders, founders, product managers, designers, developers, investors, engineers, salesmen and women, and more, all of whom are hard at work in consumer tech. We have companies in Chicago, San Francisco (and elsewhere in Silicon Valley), Omaha, and New York.

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Rembrandt Communications

JUNE 2, 2016

As seen in Silicon Valley Globe… Create sales with the right content, SEO and PR moves If you are a new business-owner, companies bombard you with latest, SEO content-marketing applications, PR services and products. And if you don’t have experience with search engine optimization or […].

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

In Silicon Valley, Technology Talent Gap Threatens G.O.P. Special Report: Silicon Valley’s dirty secret – age bias | Reuters – [link]. Must-read for marketers … Reverse Engineering Facebook EdgeRank – [link]. In Silicon Valley, Technology Talent Gap Threatens G.O.P.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2011

Because market is such a broad topic, I’m restricting these lessons to PR marketing (as opposed SEO, SEM, product marketing, etc.). While all your competitors are trying to copy your model, you’re already on to the next thing on your engineering team. But whom you’re marketing to is not always an easy topic.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 10, 2013

Defending the Brash Arrogance of Silicon Valley | by Mike Greenfield – [link]. Reverse Engineering Your Startup’s Success - [link]. 6 Interesting Facebook Tricks You Might Not Know | Search Engine Journal – [link]. Surround yourself with people who make you happy | TNW – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

Uber — What’s Fueling Uber’s Growth Engine? Why the Midwest is better for startups than saturated Silicon Valley | VentureBeat - crowdspring.co/1akquBC. Hire for potential - crowdspring.co/1aHHrTp. The Pricing Model That Increased Our Free Trial Signups by 358% (and Revenue by 25%) – crowdspring.co/1alarDV.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Andy came to Silicon Valley in 1983 to work for Regis McKenna and help Steve Jobs launch the Macintosh. — Andy explained that, years ago, a PR person’s was to turn so-called influencers like journalists and analysts into advocates for your client. If you can’t hear the clip, click here. Want to be a guest on the show?

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 10, 2012

Your most powerful growth engine is your existing customer. Some of the most creative technology coming out of Silicon Valley is designed to do exactly that. That’s right. Two studies have shown that only about 10 percent of promoters actually refer profitable new customers. You have to make it easy for them to do so.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 15, 2015

He may have been named by Silicon Valley thought leader Paul Graham as one of the five most interesting startup founders since 1979, but Sam’s curious penchant for wearing t-shirts over long-sleeve shirts suggests that he’s definitely too young for me. I have, thanks to Sam Altman, the President of Y Combinator. How to Get Started.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

The signals are loud and clear : seed and late stage valuations are getting frothy and wacky, and hiring talent in Silicon Valley is the toughest it has been since the dot.com bubble. Customer Development , Agile Engineering and the Lean methodology enforced a process of incremental and iterative development. Carpe Diem.

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500hats.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

note: apologies in advance for the west coast bias; i’m in silicon valley). but the food was awesome, & the PR wasn’t bad either). Scaling Up & Out: The Valley is Flat (and Global). These two divergent groups have optimized for very different market conditions and behaviors. and no, we didn’t.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 27, 2009

Combined with product costs, an engineering budget, and schedules, this results in a spreadsheet that faintly resembles the first financial plan in the company’s business plan. Engineering focuses on building the product; it designs the product, specifies the first release and hires a staff to build the product.

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Scalable Startup

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

[contact-form] Can any other region “catch up” to Silicon Valley, or be the next Silicon Valley? These towns are setting their expectations way too high while the real Silicon Valley giggles at the sight. Silicon – Uh, yeah, that word? It’s what started all this.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 26, 2018

Do you feel like a lot of people who are starting businesses look at the Silicon Valley common advice and common model and really fall prey to that in a not so positive way? Rand Fishkin: I’m one of those people who absolutely fell prey to the classic Silicon Valley startup, taking venture. Rand Fishkin: Yeah.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

The meaning of alpha test , beta test, and first customer ship are pretty obvious to most engineers. Some think that hiring a PR agency, starting the buzz and getting coverage in hot blogs or on the cover of magazines at launch are objectives. The plan calls for selling in volume the day Engineering is finished building the product.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2012

Why Bravo’s ‘Start-Ups: Silicon Valley’ Is Bad for Entrepreneurship - [link]. How Facebook’s Top Engineer Is Trying to Read Your Mind | Wired – [link]. Questions to Ask Potential Cofounders: The Master List | Founder Dating - [link]. The Series A crunch is hitting now. Have we even noticed? PandoDaily - [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2012

In Silicon Valley, Hardware Is Hot Again | Businessweek – [link]. Mobile SEO Is Not A Myth: 8 Popular Claims Refuted | Search Engine Land – [link]. CEO Brian Chesky Says Airbnb Will Be Filling More Room Nights Than All Hilton Hotels By The End Of 2012 – [link]. Great Marketing Is Utilitarian – [link].

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

If you’re a visiting dignitary whose country has a Gross National Product equal to or greater than the State of California, your visit to Silicon Valley consists of a lunch/dinner with some combination of the founders of Google, Facebook, Apple and Twitter and several brand name venture capitalists. Hackers’ Guide to Silicon Valley.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Andy came to Silicon Valley in 1983 to work for Regis McKenna and help Steve Jobs launch the Macintosh. — Andy explained that, years ago, a PR person’s was to turn so-called influencers like journalists and analysts into advocates for your client. If you can’t hear the clip, click here. Want to be a guest on the show?

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

On the other hand, he’s a zealous engineer of social change. We measure the amount of people who show up to our events, PR mentions, interest in applications and also, later on, job placement. Beijing and China are great examples of how they will leapfrog Silicon Valley soon.

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Seeing Both Sides

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

Yet, the Growth Manager role remains poorly understood, especially outside Silicon Valley. They work cross-functionally with engineering, design, analytics, product management, operations, and marketing to design and execute growth initiatives. If data is the fuel of growth, then analytics is its engine.

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Seeing Both Sides

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

Yet, the Growth Manager role remains poorly understood, especially outside Silicon Valley. They work cross-functionally with engineering, design, analytics, product management, operations, and marketing to design and execute growth initiatives. If data is the fuel of growth, then analytics is its engine.

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Steve Blank

JULY 28, 2016

The future is here it’s just distributed unevenly – Silicon Valley view of tech adoption. all with their engines running. And having us stand on the deck less than 50 feet away from these planes as they landed trapping the arrestor wires , and launched via a catapult was a testament to the Navy’s PR acumen.

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techcrunch.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Yes, you have good working knowledge of accounting, an idea of how to bring in sales leads, run a marketing and PR campaign, recruit people and build a great company culture, but that won’t help you build a product that customers want. Your guide for the best gadget gifts of 2011. Crunchboard.

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Steve Blank

MAY 21, 2009

The Message Sitting around a conference room table brainstorming messages that might resonate with customers, or worse having a PR agency doing that for you, is a firing offense in a small company. If you think you are going to offend your customers or embarrass your engineering organization, get out of the marketing department.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

Im not offering extensive studies or research to support this conclusion; the evidence from my peers right here in the innovation capital of America, Silicon Valley, is absolutely overwhelming. Asked to help, I am confident that Silicon Valley and every other innovation center will step up. They are nerds.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 8, 2008

But too often when its time to think about customers, marketing, positioning, or PR, we delegate it to "marketroids" or "suits." The four kinds of work, and how to get them done: The four kinds of work, and how to get them done: Five Whys Where did Silicon Valley come from? When we build products, we use a methodology.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 24, 2009

The quintessential California couple, they stood out in our crowd as the engineer (in his late 20′s, respected by his peers and the customer) had hair down to his shoulders, sharply contrasting with the military crewcuts of the customers and most of the other contractors. Is this behavior an outlier or is it the norm in the PR industry?

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ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

And in comes the Google App Engine as Google's offering in this context. Well, it turns out that to port long tail productivity apps to Google's App Engine is a somewhat cumbersome job, and requires a lot of custom development. Building new apps is also not as simple. Enter OrangeScape.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

KQED Forum: LIVE at 10am PST this Wednesday Nov 28 When I first moved to Silicon Valley, I used to have a pretty short commute. Maybe it's just the obsessive engineer part of myself, but pretty soon I found myself managing my schedule so that I could listen to Forum on my commute both ways.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

Conventional wisdom says that you can only build big businesses in Silicon Valley so as a VC you need to be there. Some of the biggest wins of the past 5 years were built outside of the Valley. And the great monetization engines of the Internet were built in LA – Overture (AdWords) & Applied Semantics (AdSense).

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 14, 2010

Through SEO and mommy blog PR, Lee can tap into this market. Sramana Mitra is a technology entrepreneur and strategy consultant in Silicon Valley. She has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. This is her core market. Now is not the time to expand.

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Scalable Startup

JULY 19, 2011

Most of my 25 year career has been in California; about half of those in Silicon Valley. In every case these other places aspire to be a self sustaining baby Silicon Valley of their own – Silicon Alley, Silicon Prairie, Silicon Coast. Great PR and finance firms, but not many startups.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 19, 2009

If you believed the opinions in the marketing department, the customers were in science, engineering, color desktop publishing, and a variety of applications with no single industry or application dominating the list. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. The obvious one’s were who were they? Order Here.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 4, 2009

In a startup, these channels of communication are critical to understand for advertising, launch and PR purposes. If youre used to pitching your company in a startup hub, like here in Silicon Valley, you may suffer from a debilitating disease: the inability to describe your product to normal people.

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