crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

Always productive and efficient, John gets things done in a way that doesn’t call attention to himself, but rather to the work product itself. He did it so well and with such a smile on his face, that we started adding on more responsibilities, ultimately putting him in charge of our IP violations process. Thanks, Adriano!

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 30, 2012

I hear lots of excuses from startup founders, like “I’m too busy,” concern over IP security, can’t afford an agency, and it’s too early. People forget your early mistakes if they haven’t bought your product yet. At any point, hiring a professional to generate your PR may be well worth the cost, but it’s not required.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 6, 2016

Apple is refusing to comply, since it would essentially be hacking its own products. In addition to exposing individuals to possible identity theft, security breaches also expose companies to negative PR. In a separate case involving Apple, a judge recently ruled that the U.S. If they do so, it’s likely to become quicksand.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

My goal was to create a self-care product that could effortlessly integrate into a person’s daily routine. With each job I had, the directors of these agencies had no idea how Digital PR truly worked. This innate curiosity led me to establish an explainer video production (also driven by my deep affection for animations).

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2010

I hear lots of excuses from startup founders, like “I’m too busy,” concern over IP security, can’t afford an agency, and it’s too early. People forget your early mistakes if they haven’t bought your product yet. At any point, hiring a professional to generate your PR may be well worth the cost, but it’s not required.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 26, 2010

The newly formed teams then work for the entire weekend, with the help of some experienced mentors from the industry, who volunteer their time to share advice on product, technology, legal, PR and other issues. Avoid trying to get your product 100% right from the start. Note that the tips refer mainly to web ventures.

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Gust

JULY 22, 2012

I hear lots of excuses from startup founders, like “I’m too busy,” concern over IP security, can’t afford an agency, and it’s too early. People forget your early mistakes if they haven’t bought your product yet. At any point, hiring a professional to generate your PR may be well worth the cost, but it’s not required.

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ultralightstartups.com

MAY 20, 2013

Startup PR. The prioritization of these qualities is highly subjective and specific to the project/product being named. Engage an IP lawyer for more thorough analysis). The “Descriptive” Name: Describes what the product is, helps make the site memorable. Often evocative of the product/service.

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www.peterdrew.net

OCTOBER 23, 2010

This product needs to be a product you create specifically for the purpose of finding a coder. This product needs to be secret, needs to be able to be found on the web if anyone other than you uses it. You wouldnt believe how many people loose the valuable IP by putting way to much info in their project descriptions.

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Ben's Blog

JUNE 28, 2011

This was not so illogical as most companies didn’t even run TCP/IP—they ran proprietary networking protocols such as AppleTalk, Netbios, and SNA. In fact, the search products of the day didn’t work very well, so people didn’t use them very much. Google changed that in the early 2000s with their breakthrough product and company.

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infochachkie.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

For instance, if a consultant proposes to help you with public relations, pay them a commission equivalent to the greater of a flat fee per story placed or a percentage of revenue generated from the PR coverage. Performance-based deals can effectively mitigate your monetary risk of entering into a non-productive consulting relationship.

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eranki.tumblr.com

JULY 13, 2012

GeoIP for mapping IPs to locations. Unlike product, which is harder to reason about, backend engineering is fairly objective (optimize page load time, uptime, etc.) have serious security problems and seem to be able to weather a small PR storm. is it worth the engineering or product cost?) nginx for the frontend server.

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Jason Ball

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Product, Marketing, Sales. 3) Work in the industry - Accelerators, PR, HR, Design, IP – whatever. Or, work at a big Tech company (Google, Facebook, Twiter, etc), then migrate. You’ll have insight into big company M&A (they will be your customer as a VC) and you’ll have some operational skills.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 13, 2010

When the tech market is done over heating, or over hyping or whatever is going on right now, there will be a select few companies who have built differentiated products, hired talented teams, raised sufficient capital, established good operational processes and have strategic insight into where their market is heading.

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mashable.com

MAY 28, 2010

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.&# View More » Apple 5 Vintage Apple Products That Time Fo. SCVNGR Makes Major Enhancements to iP.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

Nice going NYC government PR machine. Two of the recent Ultra Light Startup events--one about PR and the other about legal help--had copycat programs run by the city itself. Why not just pay Graham Lawler directly do to this and spend the city's PR capital on supporting Ultra Light, versus going head to head with him?

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 12, 2022

While Metaverse rose to fame initially due to Facebook’s name change into ‘Meta’ to express their ambition to become a Metaverse company within 5 years (and perhaps deflect some of the negative PR), there are now many large companies, startups and brands working on their metaverse strategy.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

He listed all of the product releases that were up coming, the customers that were in the pipeline and where he saw his competition moving. They haven’t launched their next gen product – watch this space. Not to mention every major agency, many PR firms, etc. No Dave S. = no knowledge of what BuddyTV is up to for me.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 26, 2012

When has a consumer startup hit product/market fit? - [link]. Why Startups Shouldn’t Hire PR Firms – [link]. What Successful Products Teach Us About Web Design - [link]. Facing Another PR Disaster: Google Accused Of Fraudulently Undermining A Kenyan Startup – [link]. Big Firms Try Crowdsourcing – [link].

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

But each stage needs to be completed, if you are to reasonably expect a quality product. But producing a professional and slick product costs money. We have been bootstrapping our startup for the past 10 months and will be launching both the product and the company at DEMOfall in two weeks. How much will this cost?

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

The show inspired us to create a product that would help an individual learn something quickly and in small bites. This idea of snackable content format pivoted to a video product in June 2016. Well, we’re a B2B marketing agency that specializes in services and intangible products. Photo Credit: Anurag Dwivedi.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 16, 2022

I love trees so, you know, a lot of times I kinda laugh and say, weeds are just flowers with bad PR firms. John Jantsch (02:50): You know, it's funny. I, I really I'm. I love all plants. I love all animals. I mean, it's like what? I know why we call some things weeds, but their nature of taking over. Stu Heinecke (09:02): Blow that's true.

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aweissman.com

APRIL 16, 2008

Instead of providing a common office space, HR, marketing, PR functions, we provide a common development team and common values for product development excellence. — a little less George Clintoneque. Hi Andrew, not sure if youve heard of OutCubator from a friend, or from the web. Basically, we do exactly what you describe.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

During the Internet Bubble there were a number of startups founded by business people who then wentlooking for hackers to create their product for them. In nearly every failed startup, the real problem was that customersdidnt want the product. Probably because the product wasa dog, or never seemed likely to be done, or both.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

So, you know, a lot of times I kinda laugh and say, what weeds are just flowers with bad PR firms? They love to, they look, they're kind of seat buds and, but then Thorn strategy is interesting because that's using all legal protections, for example, to protect your ip and really your turf, you're really protecting your turf.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 26, 2011

With increasing numbers of mobile apps, IP theft is becoming more common – [link]. Interesting debate – especially in the comments – about 3D movies – [link]. American portion size, then vs now – [link]. Pitcher Spurns $12 Million, to Keep Self-Respect – [link].

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 27, 2011

Instead, their goal is to create a promising product. Build your product on top of existing blocks. However, this will impact the value of your IP. Every startup needs PR, but this is even more true of flips. No one is going to buy your product if they don't see potential in it. Create Buzz. Don't Pivot, Reboot.

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Steve Blank

MAY 4, 2009

Every marketing communication hire couldn’t wait to produce the next great ad or PR program. Every product marketer thought they should help define the product feature set, etc. Later on in this same company’s life, sales will become the pointy end and product development moves to a supporting role.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

In fact, the open source community can learn a lot from Microsoft in terms of backward compatibility and tools for productivity. These development platforms have contributed significantly to the popularity of the products from Apple and Microsoft. Eclipse has been emulating Visual Studio for years now. March 26, 2011 at 3:52 am.

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 29, 2013

Here's one… We are looking at two consumer product brands, the tiny company Innocent Drinks and the Goliath called Tide Detergent. Their relentless day after day mix of " here are pictures of our products repeated every day, here are the people we sponsor and their ads " is insufficient to create brand engagement.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, September 11, 2009 The cardinal sin of community management Once you have a product launched, you will the face the joys – and the despair – of a community that grows up around it. It took me a long time to understand that benefit of our product. This probably sounds illogical.

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