crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 5, 2013

4 Reasons People Subscribe to — and Open — Email – [link]. Why I No Longer Advise Startups to Hire M.B.A.s | The Accelerators-WSJ – [link]. The Meme Hustler | by Evgeny Morozov (long & critical of Tim O’Reilly; good history of open source software) – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

The Perpetually Vexing Problem of Hiring Programmers – [link]. The Perpetually Vexing Problem of Hiring Programmers – [link]. Rice University And OpenStax Announce First Open-Source Textbooks – [link]. The Power of the Rule of Three in Marketing Your Small Business – [link]. – [link].

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Altgate

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

As your business grows, you will likely need more and more time from your accountant and at some point you’ll hire a full time person to handle the day-to-day, likely combined with roles as office manager or finance (not to be confused with accounting). World class In-house UX is one of the most challenging hires you’ll make.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

There are self-hosted open-source e-commerce services available that allow you to use your own uniquely branded website with their e-commerce functionality. Check out services like WooCommerce , Magento , and Open Cart. Check out this article from PR Couture to learn how. Another important (and easy to overlook!)

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

In this model, you take some fraction of the lifetime value of each customer and plow that back into paid acquisition through SEM, banner ads, PR, affiliates, etc. Beware the new hire who has "extensive experience" in startups or big companies - using a different growth driver. Seth Godin: How often should you publish?

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 26, 2009

Other companies accomplish this by hiring a large staff of content production experts - and get a very good result. In that same spirit, here are some suggestions for tactics you can use to increase the leverage of your product development efforts: Free and open source software (and even hardware ). Great post!

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www.frozennorth.org

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

During the two days of the show, one of their programmers sat in on my speech about building better customer service automation; I had an hour-long chat with the CEO and another of the founders; and their PR manager stopped by our booth for a 15-minute briefing about what we do. They are actively hiring Perl programmers.

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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. In the new bubble PR may be your new best friend, so invest in it. Carpe Diem. We’re now in the second Internet bubble. Breathtaking Scale.

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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. .” While pitching individual writers sounds more promising to many PR folk, you should always determine the official pitching method for your preferred publication.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 6, 2017

There are self-hosted open-source e-commerce services available that allow you to use your own uniquely branded website with their e-commerce functionality. Check out services like WooCommerce , Magento , and Open Cart. Check out this article from PR Couture to learn how. Another important (and easy to overlook!)

Small Business Administration 48

Small Business Administration Social Media LLC Technical Review 48

Transformify

APRIL 19, 2018

We normally ask our students to contribute to open source to engage with communities and companies with distributed teams and workflows. You want to show that you know about specific things that you want to be hired for. Open Source. Getting started with open source is really easy! Focus on that.

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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Far more common is a need to acquire customers through a series of steps like SEO, SEM, PR, Social Marketing, direct sales, channel sales, etc. Next Generation Business Models Because a number of smart entrepreneurs realized the importance of lowering CAC, they created new business models such as Open Source, SaaS, Freemium, etc.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 5, 2015

Buckle Up: Google’s Self-Driving Cars to Hit the Open Road crowdspring.co/1JPf4pp. 13 Questions to Screen Potential Hires for Culture Fit – buff.ly/1QtJEae. How Open-Source Software Will Speed Up Rebuilding Nepal’s Historic Sites crowdspring.co/1KSJWFW. Marie Kondo tidys up crowdspring.co/1EadvO3.

Small Business 48

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

After all, high-quality open source software is free, the cloud makes computer power far less expensive, and anyone with an Internet connection can learn Ruby and CSS. And no matter what the latest trends indicate, you will eventually have to spend money on PR and marketing. million in venture financing.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 21, 2010

4 reasons why PR firms are taking over social media – [link]. Government releases open source code – [link]. Outstanding post by @imjustcreative on risks of hiring a logo designer based on Google results – [link]. Is Social Media Becoming Boring? – [link]. Hulu ad segmenting – [link].

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

One of the best tricks I learned during our startup was a rule for deciding who to hire. And when businesspeople try to hire hackers, they cant tell which ones are good.Even other hackers have a hard time doing that. But this is just the kindthat tends to be open source: operating systems, programminglanguages, editors, and so on.

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betashop.com

OCTOBER 8, 2012

The most important hiring criteria for your executives is cultural fit. As CEO, you are responsible for every hire. Until Fab reached 150 people, Bradford and I interviewed every single person we hired. If we make a hiring mistake - and we do from time to time - I put that blame on me, not on anyone else.?.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 29, 2011

If you don’t want to read that post, the summary is: Open source computing drove computing costs down 90%, which spurred innovation in technology. Open cloud led by Amazon with their AWS services drove total operating costs down by 90%. You can’t scale a large business quickly on your $500,000 alone.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 10, 2012

Startups: Stop Trying To Hire Ninja-Rockstar Engineers – [link]. Source Sans Pro: Adobe’s first open source font family – [link]. China’s wealthy and influential sometimes hire body doubles to serve their prison sentences – [link]. – [link]. Raising Successful Children – [link].

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 94

mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Topics to follow Linkedin 3,485 followers Follow Startups 4,390 followers Follow Infographics 1,858 follower Follow For more Startups coverage Follow Mashable Startups Become a fan on Facebook Subscribe to the Startups channel Download our free apps for Android , Mac , iPhone and iPad More Stories in Startups Goodsie Lets Anyone Create A Custom Online (..)

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www.kalzumeus.com

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

For example, Redmine — an open source developer productivity tool — is commonly installed at individual companies. However, given that it is a well-understood norm, it gives you a bit of an edge in the PR battle should someone decide to just drop a 0-day on you.). Hacker for Hire, Hire a Hacker, Hack Facebook -.

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Security Software Review Ruby Startup 101

ReadWriteStart

MARCH 27, 2011

The idea is to build a hit that would make the founder(s) an appealing and quick talent acquisition (sometimes referred to as an acq-hire). Lastly, large companies that seek new talent will likely hire promising individuals through a small exit. This should also help valorize you in a acq-hire scenario. The focus is on building.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Inevitably, the excuses begin: I need to hire people to build the product. In later posts I’m going to get into more detail on specific topics like hiring, raising money, what types of ideas have the potential to get big, finding your founders, and the like. In my neck of the woods programmers are hired guns at first year in college.

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Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder Software Review 84

blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Update: The end is near, Expensify is hiring a.NET programmer! As you might know, we’re hiring the best programmers in the world. If you are a startup looking to hire really excellent people, take notice of.NET on a resume, and ask why it’s there. It’s an *freaking open source*.net Expensify Blog.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Derek Sivers about me blog books email list contact How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen 2010-06-19 Do you have an idea for a website, online business, or application, but need a programmer to turn that idea into reality? Say, “We are hiring a developer to create only the beginning of an application. Hire one from each.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

interactions, widgets, effects Django – high-level Python framework Cappuccino – open source framework for app development Kodingen – cloud development environment, code editor, hosting service, collaboration platform. Reply Jarek , on February 27, 2011 at 11:51 pm said: What about CRM?

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