crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 13, 2011

In France, the decline was – 4% [link]. An Interview With Twitter’s Forgotten Founder, Noah Glass – [link]. YouTube starting to roll out a live service – [link]. US newspaper revenues faced a 30% decline 2007-09. 30 Very Clever Outdoor Advertisements – [link].

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mashable.com

MAY 28, 2010

Frances McInnis is a journalist and crossword enthusiast based in New York City. There’s a spectrum from descriptive names which speak directly to a product benefit or attribute, to empty vessel names, where it doesn’t mean anything about the product that we’re talking about.&# Others, were great ideas.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 9, 2015

Accel has been at the forefront of this new wave and we have been actively investing in France. Emmanuel Macron during the workshop in Versailles In this context I was invited, together with a large dozen of foreign investors, to participate in a workshop to discuss what France could to do to attract more venture capital from global firms.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

Thanks to Suns amazing PR blitz, there was tremendous demand for experts on Java, and I did my best to convince people that I was one of that mythical breed. Every startup has a chance to change the world, by bringing not just a new product, but an entirely new institution into existence. November 25, 2009 9:54 AM Danny Wong said.

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mashable.com

MAY 9, 2011

a New York-based sizzle reel production company specializing in promotional videos for PR and marketing professionals, and the Young Entrepreneur Council. It will be important that your CTO can execute on big projects, too, hacking away to build an amazing product that is agile. Danny Wong , Blank Label Group, Inc. startupcto

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techcrunch.com

MARCH 8, 2012

I meet people all the time who have no technical background whatsoever, and they want to start an online business, perhaps build a mobile app, or launch a SaaS product. If you still don’t know what product/market fit is, and why it matters, please read up on it. Three major acquisitions in as many months in this space confirm it is).

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 11, 2011

10 Essential PR Tips for Startups. Sign up for her course on “ PR for Startups ” to learn more about getting media coverage for your fledgling business. Not to mention, early-stage startups usually only employ a few people focused on product and development. The launch of a new product, feature or offering.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2013

I have published many of these PR Tips before. I showed up in Sophia Antipolis, France (living in Antibes if you know the area) and I was in “Network Solutions.” I told her I wasn’t yet convinced that she’d make a good: product manager, designer, sales person, leader, CEO. 25, ISDN, T3s, etc. He took me.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

Whats striking about these stories, if you get past the PR hype, are two very important themes: These prodigies were self-taught, and had a fundamental fascination with technology from a very young age. Their stories would not have been possible without access to sympathetic adults with the necessary equipment and knowledge to get started.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 4, 2013

We want you to come up with a campaign, an ad, a graphic, a stunt, a PR strategy, a Social Media storm, or anything you can think of that will help a very special “client.” My job is finding the right word or phrase for your product, service, business name or tag line. Advertising. ” YOUR CHALLENGE? I love words.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Brand awareness can be influenced by negative factors such as scandals and product recalls, and while a brand can be well-known, this doesn’t necessarily mean they have a strong reputation. On a scale from 0 to 10, how likely are you to purchase [product] form us again? For how long have you been buying [your product]?

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 29, 2017

People often are ashamed of shipping their products before they are truly completed. I think it’s a myth that you only get one chance to come out with a new product or solution. Validate as early as possible and keep improving the product / solution. Thanks to Bryanne Lawless, BLND PR ! #17 – Anatole France.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 4, 2009

Every product ultimately is satisfying a need in the customers who buy it or use it. Products that dont solve satisfy any need for any customers tend to die out quickly. The more painful curse for startups is the product that satisfies a need or solves a problem - but that problem is not very important. Thats an early adopter.

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Cracking the Code

JANUARY 22, 2009

The company had the chance of selling a very sticky product to large customers paying upfront, so there was no need to improve the sales bonuses based on cash collection and multi-year contracts. Thanks for sharing Sophie Dupont Business Development Director SD-Efficiency Paris - France. Posted by Philippe Botteri. at 11:17 AM.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2010

The higher the vanity ratio, the more effective the PR. Failures, pivots , and crappy minimum viable products are generally elided. It helps companies with PR. And companies crave positive PR and control over their message – all for rational reasons. The higher the vanity ratio, the more effective the PR.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

This "success theater" is occasionally useful for PR or getting through a tough board meeting. Establish baseline metrics by building the minimum viable product — the minimum required to measure the response of early adopters. Consider a scenario where a team makes a product change, and the very next month page views go up.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 13, 2009

Announce a new product, start its PR campaign, and engage in buzz marketing activities. Marketing launch) Make a new product available to customers in the general public. Product launch) In todays world, there is no reason you have to do these two things at the same time. Establish credibility with potential partners.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 17, 2010

Take a look and let me know what you think. Expo New York New York, NY Nov 19 The Lean Startup at MIT Boston, MA Nov 20 Lunch workshop at Dogpatch Labs Boston, MA Dec 17 Lean Startup Cohort program begins San Francisco, CA KISSmetrics KISSmetrics is loading. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 12, 2007

S&M productivity (CAC ratio) for the SaaS 13 Index. "10 Things Every CEO Needs to Know About Product D. Impact of the recession on SaaS Sales&Marketing pr. SaaS 13 Index*. The Index reflects the performance of 13 public saas companies. Started on Jan. 1st 2008 with a base value of 100.00 Public SaaS 13 Multiples.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 7, 2008

Take a look at The App Store after the gold rush - FierceDeveloper : According to a recent BusinessWeek feature , the flood of new games, productivity tools and related iPhone software is making it difficult for the vast majority of apps to crack the consumer consciousness. Dont do PR upfront, dont put out a press release.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

The customer is known, the product is known, and all we have to do is act. The customer is unknown, the product is unknown, and startups must be built to learn. What happened when we got early press (circa 2004) in violation of our own no-PR rule. Eric takes a different approach. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Babbling VC

MAY 13, 2010

Even the governments are doing their part, like it or not, as is the case in France and Germany. Basically everyone is moving their product to “the cloud”. This is purely my subjective view but I had the feeling that I am finally seeing more women at events such as Next10 and they are doing more than PR.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 3, 2009

To give our leadership an estimate of the Soviet’s nuclear production capacity, the CIA also had to estimate how many nuclear weapons could the Soviet Union make. Where were their production facilities? The military needed to answer these same questions about the nuclear armed missiles the Soviets were putting on their submarine force.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 9, 2009

We go to mixers, buy fancy offices, focus on PR, and try to one-up each other. All my products and ideas focus on early cash and a business model that works from the first day. You made me remember that maybe, and just, MAYBE, the early days is not at there to earn money, but rather understand your user and improve your product.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 27, 2009

Journalists, PR firms, investors, and the public at large love a scrappy come-from-behind story about two guys in a garage who figured out how to take down Goliath. This is why I constantly stress the need to set specific, actionable targets for new product initiatives or new feature split-tests. great observation & summary.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Engineers are offenders in this category too, but so is any gender-segregated activity, like an all-female PR or marketing team. The work product is a more realistic test, although it requires much more work on the part of the candidate. For more on this subject, take a look at The product managers lament.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 20, 2011

The image above is a fun look at what logos would say if they truly reflected the experience on those sites or with those products. Design is Product, Product is Design - [link]. In France, the decline was 4% – [link]. Design is Product, Product is Design - [link]. Designing For iPad - [link].

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

And no matter what the latest trends indicate, you will eventually have to spend money on PR and marketing. No doubt early-stage companies can be started on a shoestring by low-paid entrepreneurs, but when financing a scalable, sustainable product, a free application server won’t make much of a difference. million in venture financing.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

INFOGRAPHIC] The Interconnected World of Tech Companies [INFOGRAPHIC] Apple Product Design: 35 Years of Consumer Electronics [INFOGRAPHIC] Happy 4th Anniversary, iPhone [INFOGRAPHIC] The History of Advertising on Facebook [INFOGRAPHIC] How Much Data Will Humans Create & Store This Year? Publisher Platform (P3). startupcto

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 7, 2010

In fact, the curse of product development is that sometimes small things make a huge difference and sometimes huge things make no difference. And we’ve validated that learning by being able to demonstrate that when we change the product as a result of that learning, the key macro metrics improve. Let me illustrate.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

Even worse, entrepreneurs are faced with a constant barrage of vanity metrics from competitors and other companies engaged in PR. Most of the article is about the features – new and old – of the product. The PR firm helpfully left out that context.) Vanity metrics are generally bigger. But is that true?

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Tech Gadgets Mobile Enterprise GreenTech CrunchBase TechCrunch TV Disrupt SF More TechCrunch TV Beta Invites Crunchies Elevator Pitches Gillmor Gang Podcasts TechCrunch Europe TechCrunch Trends TechCrunch France TechCrunch Japan Whats Hot: Android Apple Facebook Google Microsoft Twitter Yahoo Zynga Subscribe: From Nothing To Something.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 20, 2011

Product management and customer development, KISSmetrics. jesskah UltraLean: Building Products Without a Dev Team Sandeep Sood. Fast-paced, thought-provoking and social, this Ignite features presentations from in-the-trenches entrepreneurs ready to share their lessons learned. Also: booze. Co-founder, Backblaze. Co-founder, Polyvore.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 16, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, December 16, 2008 Engagement loops: beyond viral Theres a great and growing corpus of writing about viral loops, the step-by-step optimizations you can use to encourage maximum growth of online products by having customers invite each other to join. And what causes them to choose one product over another?

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 30, 2009

Build a truly mainstream product. Launch with a PR blitz, including mentions in major mainstream publications. Launch with a PR blitz, including mentions in major mainstream publications. Build the product in stealth mode to build buzz for the eventual launch. Everyone had fun; the product worked. Focus on quality.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 15, 2012

JulieMorgenstrn : Learn to lead a more organized and productive life from best-selling author and organization consultant Julie Morgenstern. Productivity, Leadership, and Work. gtdguy : Here you’ll find the original productivity guru, David Allen, sharing updates about his appearances as well as inspirational quotes.

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techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Tech Gadgets Mobile Enterprise GreenTech CrunchBase TechCrunch TV Disrupt SF More TechCrunch TV Beta Invites Crunchies Elevator Pitches Gillmor Gang Podcasts TechCrunch Europe TechCrunch Trends TechCrunch France TechCrunch Japan Whats Hot: Android Apple Facebook Google Microsoft Twitter Yahoo Zynga Subscribe: Think Your Start-up Is Venture Worthy?

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