crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

Every day on the crowdSPRING Twitter account and on my own Twitter account , I post links to posts or videos I enjoyed reading or viewing. These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more!

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 5, 2013

Every day on the crowdSPRING Twitter account and on my own Twitter account , I post links to posts or videos I enjoyed reading or viewing. These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Tribute to Ridiculous Voices!!

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 5, 2010

Tonight’s event at the 5A5 Steak Lounge in San Francisco was even better. The San Francisco events will be run by Chris Sacca (of Lowercase Capital ) and Kevin Rose of Digg. It serves a similar role as Digsby (which I love using) albeit from a social media metaphor rather than an IM metaphor.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 31, 2010

Expo Intensive rocked, the mainstream media has started writing about the Lean Startup, and - most of all - the movement continues to grow and evolve. Sean Murphy has an excellent and comprehensive roundup of resources about the conference: all of the slides, videos, summaries, notes and write-ups are listed on his blog here.

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Up and Running

MAY 6, 2020

Keeping your social media channels up-to-date and full of helpful information. Monster’s 2019 State of the Candidate Survey found that 72% of respondents anticipate using video in their future job searches. On many levels, this opportunity ‘checked all the boxes,’ but there was one caveat: I’d have to move to San Francisco.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 1, 2015

It aims to one day expand into a media company; this objective appears more probable as GoPro’s sales continue to increase at a steady rate. Netflix: An Ever-Growing Video Streaming Presence. Its 23 percent revenue growth in 2015 reflects a steady following of video streaming subscribers of an estimated 3 million.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Every day on the crowdSPRING Twitter account and on my own Twitter account , I post links to posts or videos I enjoyed reading or viewing. These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Way to go San Francisco!

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www.clickz.com

JANUARY 7, 2013

Media Planning Media Buying Publishing Display Advertising Video Mobile. Social Media Community Management Social Commerce Social Integration Social Media Smarts. 7 Social Media Tactics Your 2013 Budget Needs to Succeed [Research]. As social media matures, its no longer a test outside of your budget.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

My partner & mentor Yves Sisteron ( You can get to know Yves in this YouTube video ) has been active at HDI for years (as has our CFO, Dana Kibler ). Our investments focus heavily on the financial services industry, digital media, mobile applications & infrastructure, SaaS / Cloud and retail innovation.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 2, 2013

The San Francisco-based company made do with $50 million to build its product from scratch to current iteration. He says that Vine is a relatively straightforward app that leverages the iPhone’s processing power to compress video files. Design & Dev Entrepreneur Social Media Analysis and Opinion Investigations'

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techcrunch.com

AUGUST 12, 2012

She attended the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, CA, majoring in Writing and Art, and moved to New York City shortly after graduation to work in the Media industry. When we first moved to San Francisco, they helped us find office space, introduced us to investors and worked with us on architecting a successful Series A.”

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

He built & IPOd Demand Media. Aren’t some of the recent successes in Los Angeles just emblematic of the overall long tech boom we’ve seen nationally and has led to growth in funding in NY, Boston, Seattle and San Francisco? He built & sold iMall in Internet 1.0 for $565 million to Excite. It is different.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, August 24, 2009 Marching through quicksand I have been spending a lot of time lately talking to people in various media companies: editors and agents, executives, journalists, producers and directors. For established media empires, this is a scary fact.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

San Francisco, 2011: Shaker. What It Is: Qwiki is a slick, simple, online application that lets users create video presentations in their browser. The interface is extremely simple, and and even a total noob can throw together a slick-looking video in less than five minutes. New York, 2010: Qwiki.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 1, 2013

Social Media. Social Media. Sites Jobs Events Social Good Summit Media Summit. The hassle of trying on various sizes will decrease as video quality improves and were able to measure and size clothes from the comfort of home. Founded in 2005, Mashable is headquartered in New York City with an office in San Francisco.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 29, 2013

You may have to pay the writer and photographer, and perhaps you’ll spend some money on training the writer to use blogging software and social media tools that help them build a following. The talks l inked here all all t a ke you to videos from last year.) Note that this isn’t a free process. Generously, it might cost you $20,000.

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The Next Web

MAY 2, 2013

At last week’s The Next Web Conference in Amsterdam, Liam Boogar from TNW media partner Rude Baguette moderated a panel discussion on ‘Hyper Growth from Europe’ with a pair of Swedish entrepreneurs, SoundCloud co-founder Alex Ljung and Klarna co-founder Niklas Adalberth. Top image credit: Thinkstock.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 14, 2009

Twitter about it or post it to a social media site? ► April (11) Video update on the Startup Visa Act Lean Enterprise Institute webinar, April 28 Four myths about the Lean Startup Sneak preview, KISSmetrics (and more) Sneak preview, Grockit The Lean Startup Intensive at Web 2.0 April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

San Francisco, 2011: Shaker. What It Is: Qwiki is a slick, simple, online application that lets users create video presentations in their browser. The interface is extremely simple, and and even a total noob can throw together a slick-looking video in less than five minutes. New York, 2010: Qwiki.

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San Francisco New York Audio Software Review 84

This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

Correction: Last week's CTO position at Modcloth is actually a San Francisco opportunity, not Pittsburgh. Senior VP of Operations/COO – ROBLOX - San Francisco, CA Tree forts. Check out the highly entertaining front page video.) Wooden blocks. Erector Set. Tinker Toys.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 15, 2010

It kicked Google Video’s ass. Stitcher - San Francisco-based service that lets users customize talk radio programming on their mobile devices. They help speed up the network by pushing the highly viewed and large media files to the “edge&# of the network (e.g. So t hey bought it for a cool $1.65

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www.readwriteweb.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

The Washington Post, once seen as an old-line media company that understood online culture better than many of its peers, watched as traffic to the Huffington Post surpassed its own. Google doesn’t dig as deep into my friends’ social-media profiles, mainly because it is still trying to push Google+ results. Enterprise. The Talent Wars.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

San Francisco, 2011: Shaker. What It Is: Qwiki is a slick, simple, online application that lets users create video presentations in their browser. The interface is extremely simple, and and even a total noob can throw together a slick-looking video in less than five minutes. New York, 2010: Qwiki.

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San Francisco New York Audio Software Review 60

thenextweb.com

OCTOBER 17, 2011

Social Media. Grammy CMO spells out social media savvy. Social Media. Read up on The Age of Coworking in San Francisco. Link to your launch page on all of your social media accounts. Check out this social media strategy for startups for more specific techniques on leveraging Twitter and Facebook. #9

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 15, 2019

With an SOS button that gives both GPS location AND streaming video and audio (allowing the police to put a face to a crime if one does occur), it is a game changer in the world of personal safety. As a production mixer in mainstream media for more than a decade, I was fed up with the pressure and crazy hours of live news television.

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Entrepreneur Technical Review Software Review Atlanta 116

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Like what YouTube does for video, and Twitter does for text, Spreaker does for audio. where Spreaker recently opened an office in San Francisco. As they amplify their offering, we’re very confident the market will respond favorably.” The funds are targeted to ramp up sales and marketing efforts in the U.S.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 30, 2014

Birthed by two ex-Foursquare designers, Sunrise syncs information from other calendars and social media accounts, including Facebook and LinkedIn. It’s available in San Francisco, New York, and Miami. Sunrise is trying to make mobile calendars simpler. Instead, Shyp defaults to the cheapest carrier at the time of shipment.

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Pitch Night in San Francisco. Everloop - not convinced that kids need a social network, nice that video was short unlike the other pitches, not sure about private label social networks, it’s a good idea, but then you lose the Everloop identify/brand. Last week, I attended the Annual Women 2.0

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 11, 2014

To extend what we learned and help more people build and scale successful companies, we’re testing out two brand new events this spring: * Office Optional , a one-day conference on April 22 in San Francisco. Quick Consulting , an evening event on March 27 in San Francisco.

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Pitch Night in San Francisco. Everloop – not convinced that kids need a social network, nice that video was short unlike the other pitches, not sure about private label social networks, it’s a good idea, but then you lose the Everloop identify/brand. Last week, I attended the Annual Women 2.0

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, November 5, 2008 Getting educated about advertising, agencies, and media buyers I see lots of startups whose business plans revolve around selling high-value ad space to brand advertisers. Big-time media buying is a complex ecosystem that includes many entrenched players. Expo SF (May. .

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 17, 2018

The GoPro camera—a wide-angle lens HD camera capable of taking excellent video and good action shots, and which could go where other affordable cameras couldn’t. In this video interview below, he says that if he did not read broadly and try to find connections, he would always feel he was going to write or say the same thing as everyone else.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 1, 2014

While companies like Google instill a company culture through a giant, all-encompassing campus, that’s not so practical when you need to hire a designer in the Czech Republic and a social media expert in Chicago. If you’re based in New York City, San Francisco, Washington, D.C. However, that’s actually a great advantage.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

Social Media Marketing World. Attend the world’s largest social media marketing conference of the year! By attending, you’ll make connections with 80+ of the world’s top social media pros (plus 2000 of your peers) and you’ll discover amazing ideas that’ll transform your social media marketing.

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David Teten

JANUARY 28, 2019

For instance, Columbia has launched a variety of explicitly interdisciplinary centers in recent years, including the Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute , Columbia Data Science Institute ; the Brown Institute for Media Innovation ; or cross-school courses such as Columbia Business and Engineering’s Research to Revenue course.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 4, 2012

Double Fine Productions , a San Francisco gamemaker, raised a record $3.3 Double Fine founder Tim Schafer told the San Francisco Chronicle that he'd think about selling shares down the road but notes that giving up equity in return for just $1 million doesn't make sense for Double Fine. Offer cool perks.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 8, 2014

The GoPro camera – a wide-angle lens HD camera capable of taking excellent video and good action shots, and which could go where other affordable cameras couldn’t. You’ll have to watch the full video if you want to understand how it works, but it’s clever. The solution to the problem? Appeal to a base emotion.

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