crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 13, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Good interview with Mike Samson by @butleronbiz about biz w/ friends – bit.ly/wBFfBv. What history teaches us about startup incubators – [link].

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 26, 2010

Launch48 is a new kind of micro-incubator taking place over the course of a weekend, which enables entrepreneurs to pitch their concept in one minute, in order to find team mates who are interested in pursuing the idea. Many times, I struggle to understand what companies do when I’m reading their ‘about us’ page.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 29, 2016

In conducting informational interviews, attending networking events, and having assigned mentors, I was able to pick my connections’ brains about everything from their work/life balance to their business funding. Want to know how to get started building your network? Start perusing LinkedIn. I looked at Directors, Executives—even CEOs.

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David Teten

JANUARY 9, 2018

What VCs most typically talk about are: – Industry expertise. At the same time, they reduce the value of knowledge about people in your network; now anyone can find out who, for example, are the M&A decision-makers at Cisco. Our industry is highly noisy, and VCs use their networks to filter for signal amidst the noise.

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David Teten

JANUARY 9, 2018

What VCs most typically talk about are: – Industry expertise. At the same time, they reduce the value of knowledge about people in your network; now anyone can find out who, for example, are the M&A decision-makers at Cisco. Our industry is highly noisy, and VCs use their networks to filter for signal amidst the noise.

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Venture Capital Private Equity Silicon Valley Differentiation 60

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 21, 2014

We’ve had an explosion of alternate sources of financing from crowd-sourcing, angels, accelerators, incubators, corporates, corporate incubators. Consumers buying through smart phones, travelers using the new, shared economy and businesses replacing old software with modern cloud-based solutions. I know, I know.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

I’m an entrepreneur at heart so I’m always inspired when I hear stories about innovation. And I think about the “Seattle issue&# as a metaphor for startups and business in general. They have the same trade-off decisions that you do about packing up and moving to Silicon Valley vs. staying and building locally.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 11, 2012

I would say something like, "You should see the number of complicated disclosures I had to had to pay a lawyer tens of thousands of dollars to put into my fund's legal docs," that is, if I could say anything about the fundraising status of any fund that I might have at all. I can't tell you anything about it thanks to the SEC.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2011

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Giving startups a kick start: Incubators dole out advice and capital - [link]. The problem with Klout is us - [link]. Why Aren’t There More Female Entrepreneurs? (by

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www.bothsidesofthetable.com

MAY 13, 2012

Often I’m asked by startup CEO’s about how to best build an engineering team. I know this will fall like a lead balloon to the many people who believe it is possible to have a [insert: startup incubator or technology accelerator or technology consultant or outsource firm] build your technology. Start-up Advice.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2015

Their careers took them away from home, but that didn’t stop them from warming up their drone, making sure their lenses were clean and giving us this beautiful gift of a video celebrating the spectacular beauty of our city! It’s All About The Kids — And The Money — At The Learning Experience – Forbes crowdspring.co/1MLjK4Z.

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The Next Web

JULY 20, 2012

This isn’t even about saving busy VCs time or the declining attention span of society. When it comes to as finding the perfect words to say while crafting your short and sweet pitch, this is the second way most startups and PR firms end up doing it wrong. As for words like network, social and platform, try to be careful.

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The Equity Kicker

MAY 22, 2015

This week I want to talk a little more about what VCs are actually doing. Note: I haven’t included accelerator programmes or incubators. Founder Collective: hired a journalist to help their portfolio with PR. Balderton Capital: have a head of PR and content, a data scientist, and a talent and development analyst.

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500hats.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

Mega VC has focused on the challenges of the post-SarbOx IPO market in the US, and has discovered opportunity in offering larger amounts of growth capital ($10-100M+) to private companies with reduced access to public markets. but the food was awesome, & the PR wasn’t bad either). and no, we didn’t.

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socialmatchbox.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

These days sales, marketing and PR people seem to grow on trees. If you follow these steps and still can’t find what you are looking for then let us know. If you post up an ad to an online job board asking for someone to join your very high risk early stage startup company the odds of getting someone who decent are slim to none.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

I wanted to ask you what you thought about “context&# ? a lot is written in general terms, mostly US centric. What about emerging economies, what caveats do they posses ? I hewar via thew grapevine that you’re thinking about a ‘Business Model Competition’ Interesting. Can we touch base on this.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 3, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Interesting article about teaching employees & Google’s approach – [link]. Stuffed Giraffe Shows What Customer Service Is All About – [link]. – [link].

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 92

sharkseo.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

The problem with scenario 1 is that, because it’s a new idea, people won’t know about it and so they simply wont be searching for it. You can check search volumes for particular keywords using Google’s AdWords keyword tool – but take the data with a pinch of salt, as it’s not always entirely accurate.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 24, 2016

.’ So when we learn why we continue to attract (and be attracted to) the same ‘wrong type’ of person we can change the belief inside of us. And by changing this belief we can finally attract (and be attracted) to the right type of person for us and have the loving relationship be desire and deserve.

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Up and Running

APRIL 1, 2015

I’d been moving away from poker into entrepreneurship, but none of us had ever been in a funded company before,” says David. In business school when we started the company, the first thing I thought about was, ‘This is not going to work, you’re a poker guy, not a flower guy.’” Still, David admits their methods were highly unorthodox.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 16, 2016

At SocialsFirm we connect followers with those who are worth following and use 50% of our profits to incubate social entrepreneurial ventures. We settled on SocialsFirm to not only represent the good that our clients allow us to achieve in our community but to embody the very nature of social media. 2 – Trust Tree. . #2

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 28, 2011

It's not about what our fund return criteria is. Whether you're trying for something world changing or something a little more modest, it actually takes just about the same amount of work. What about even 500, or just $100 million?". That's when I realized I was arguing the wrong side of this. You are the entrepreneur.

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