Austin Startup

JULY 14, 2017

This is what Silicon Valley contributed to the Internet and no amount of media spin or PR crisis campaign is going to change what Silicon Valley done to a great technology such as the World Wide Web and the digital economy.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

The Chicago FireStarter Venture Capital Fund – [link]. Designing for Mobile: 7 Guidelines for Startups to Follow – [link]. Mind boggling – Apple Makes 75% of Mobile Phone Profits, With Only 9% of the Phones – [link]. The Perpetually Vexing Problem of Hiring Programmers – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 3, 2015

Here’s Why the Venture Capital Crash Will Hurt – buff.ly/1LWPOi3. How to Simplify SEO, PR, and Social Collaboration | Convince and Convert crowdspring.co/1H3u8Tt. Growth Minded Entrepreneur on Instagram: “Less talking -> More doing.” ” crowdspring.co/1cWbcrx. crowdspring.co/1LaM931. 1J8fAlR.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Venture capital on pace for biggest year since dot-com era - [link]. 40 New Web, Mobile and Application GUI Kits – [link]. The full story in the Other section below. crowdSPRING’s Small Business Spotlight of the Week: Juicy Bits – [link]. How I Quickly Test and Validate Startup Ideas - [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

Venture capital remains white boys club – [link]. The Future of Advertising: Everything’s Going Mobile – [link]. Five campaigns changing the game of mobile advertising – [link]. Definitive Mobile Guide – 40+ Tools, Frameworks And Tutorials – [link]. Getting Steve Jobs Wrong – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2011

Good data from @msuster on The State of Venture Capital and the Internet – [link]. How to Design a Mobile Responsive Website – [link]. Superb Examples of Capital Letters Use in Web Design – [link]. Small business and startups: great reads from the business press – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

Practical Advice for Raising Early Stage Venture Capital – [link]. Fred Wilson on Why the Collapse of Venture Capital is Good – [link]. Mobile Advertising: Twitter Sales Are Double That Of Facebook In A Google-Ruled, $2.6B Staffing your startup? Pick the right kind of staffer – [link].

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Dave Graham Business Venture Capital Private Equity GlobalLogic Inc. Venture Capital Firms. Of course, Arizona Bay is a consulting company, not a venture capital firm, and doing the work of both simultaneously can be time consuming. Were not a venture capital firm.". Fonality HUD Mobile.

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www.entrepreneur.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Follow Entrepreneur on Facebook Follow Entrepreneur on Twitter Follow Entrepreneur on LinkedIn Subscribe | Mobile. Technology Technology Home Online Business Tools Security Phones & Mobile Gadgets Tech Tips Technology The Future of Facebook -- Streaming Live Now. Get Entrepreneur Mobile for iPhone, iPad, Android and Blackberry.

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500hats.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

TL:DR : This post aims to recap significant changes in the venture capital industry over the past ten years, and then make some [biased] predictions as to major forces at play in the next five years. However, all three shifts are related and can be summed up simply as: Geeks are Taking Over Venture Capital.

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Altgate

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Depending upon your inventory (online, mobile, etc.) PR/Marketing. For startups, PR firms are a waste of money. The best early PR is a product that people actually love plus a genuine story to tell from the founder. The reason is that putting a sales force in the field with limited inventory is very, very expensive.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2012

The Series A Crunch: One More Reason to Bootstrap and Skip Venture Capital | Enterprise Irregulars - [link]. Native Ads In 2013: Scale, Headlines As Banners, Mobile, Samsung, And Yahoo | TechCrunch - [link]. Reducing noise … should be a signal to rest of market … YC W13 Will Be Smaller - [link].

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

This next wave of web startups; Social Networks and Mobile Applications, now reached 100’s of millions of customers. In the new bubble PR may be your new best friend, so invest in it. Filed under: Technology , Venture Capital. Startups began to recognize that they weren’t merely a smaller version of a large company.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

For example, Morse notes that neither C corporations nor venture capital funds structured as partnerships can, by law, be S corporation shareholders. Learn how from the experts at PR Newswire. Fonality HUD Mobile. If you have an S corporation, make sure you dont jeopardize your S status. Send a Press Release. Contact Us.

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socialmatchbox.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

These days sales, marketing and PR people seem to grow on trees. 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. . Ycombinator © 2010 Social Matchbox, - WordPress Themes by DBT.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

For example, if you’re looking to approach Kleiner Perkins it’s worth knowing that my friend Matt Murphy runs their iFund and therefore is the in-house expert on all things mobile. He knows the history of all of the payment gateways, mobile payment platforms, credit offerings, remittance companies, etc. Create urgency.

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Up and Running

APRIL 1, 2015

The startup takes off, raising venture capital funds faster than you can say “storybook ending.”. million in venture capital —and they continue to grow, with plans for a mobile app and potential overseas expansion. An unlikely combination: Poker winnings and venture capital.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

When you think about the success that is Silicon Valley, the unfair advantage is not just the huge amounts of available venture capital. A key deal not only helps you raise venture capital but it can help attract employees, garner press attention, help with product focus & importantly drive customer adoption and/or revenue.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 25, 2010

7:00PM Moble Monday Brooklyn (MoMoBK) Inaugural Event: NY Apps, So Hot Right Now Mobile Monday Brooklyn demo night of awesome apps created by local NYC and Brooklyn developers. 8AM Regulatory Scrutiny of Social Media: The Impact on PR Communicators in 2010 and Beyond. Tags: Venture Capital & Technology nextNY.

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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. What opportunities do we see in the Metaverse?

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 13, 2014

Guerilla tips for raising venture capital | VentureBeat – crowdspring.co/P6hM3O. Social, Digital & Mobile Around The World (January 2014) – crowdspring.co/1gYcVJm. Well Designed Enterprise Mobile Apps – crowdspring.co/1dgrEQM. Does A Billion-Dollar Valuation Buy Employee Happiness?

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 13, 2014

A Dozen Things I’ve Learned from Michael Moritz About Venture Capital – crowdspring.co/1kLoGb1. Maintaining Momentum Through Efficient Mobile Design | Smashing Magazine – crowdspring.co/1u3dtDe. Entrepreneurs Need a Better Way to Cash Out | Kanyi Maqubela – Harvard Business Review – crowdspring.co/SKltNW.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 10, 2010

I guess it may be impractical for Twitter to acquire Seesmic given it has raised considerable amounts of venture capital (reportedly $12 million) but the broader point for me is that I always believed Twitter should control the client versions of its product. Think about the creative tension.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2014

based venture capital investors, by deal stage. Most active venture capital investors of 2013 in the US by stage – pic.twitter.com/cfCFXWmpbH. These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more!

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 27, 2009

Marketing starts to build a sales demo, writes sales materials (presentations, data sheets), and hires a PR agency. The PR agency polishes the positioning and starts contacting the long lead-time press while Marketing starts the branding activities.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 29, 2014

I never asked Marc why he stopped blogging but I presume it is some combo of having started a venture capital firm (which you might guess takes a bit of time) and also allowing some air time for his then-less-well-known compadre. John Legere of T-Mobile has become the poster child for this and people seem to love him for this.

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Scalable Startup

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

Via Stanford, Berkeley, Facebook, Google, recruiting Harvard and MIT undergrads, their wonderful PR machine, advertising free meals, free car washes, free dry cleaning, free day care. Recruitment – Most of the leaders in SV are from elsewhere because Silicon Valley aggressively acquires the best from all over the world.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 11, 2014

. “38% of venture-backed founders are over 40 years old” - crowdspring.co/1hywYgv. Five Reasons Not To Raise Venture Capital, by Rachel Chalmers | Model View Culture - crowdspring.co/1lIlpYH. The decline of the mobile web - crowdspring.co/1lIlKL4. How Old Are Silicon Valley’s Top Founders?

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Babbling VC

MAY 13, 2010

Money is available for start-ups in Europe and in my opinion, the consolidation of venture capital and the private equity scene is past the worst. Sources of support and capital such as Seedcamp have established themselves. Mobile is still where it’s at and it continues to be driven by the iPhone and app development.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 26, 2012

Venture capital investing hits 10-year peak, sparking bubble talk – [link]. Mobile-Ad Spending Projected to Reach $2.61B in 2012 - [link]. Why Startups Shouldn’t Hire PR Firms – [link]. Facing Another PR Disaster: Google Accused Of Fraudulently Undermining A Kenyan Startup – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

How You Get Slaughtered in a Down Round: When Taking Venture Capital Doesn’t Go as Planned – crowdspring.co/MvF29W. The Pros and Cons of Responsive Web Design vs. Mobile Website vs. Native App | Designmodo – crowdspring.co/1oIcwjY. DHL Pranked UPS Into Advertising For Them – crowdspring.co/1jOeA6v.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 26, 2013

“So many folks in the venture capital business are sheep that just want to follow the herd. Q1 Venture Capital Spending & Number Of Deals Down, M&A Activity Drops 44 Percent And Pre-Money Valuations Plummet – [link]. – [link]. A Rake Too Far: Optimal Platform Pricing Strategy – [link].

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

There’s no reason why any company shouldn’t have 50 potential business development partners in their pipeline, maybe 100, and be actively working the phones, inboxes, and pounding the pavement to get the deals you need to get—be it for distribution, revenue, PR, or just to outflank a competitor. The latter is totally underutilized.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 25, 2013

How One Startup Grew a $100M Business Without Spending Venture Capital | Forbes – [link]. Mobile Payments Market Predicted To Reach $90B By 2017, Up From $12.8B Chicago venture picture better than U.S. Mobile UI Design Inspiration: Charts And Graphs – [link]. Productivity is Hard – [link].

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Through SEO and mommy blog PR, Lee can tap into this market. I asked her not to spray and pray, and focus on her core, differentiated products - stretch mark and c-section mark removal creams for new mothers. There are 110,000 monthly search queries looking for "stretch mark(s) removal." This is her core market. Now is not the time to expand.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Through SEO and mommy blog PR, Lee can tap into this market. I asked her not to spray and pray, and focus on her core, differentiated products - stretch mark and c-section mark removal creams for new mothers. There are 110,000 monthly search queries looking for "stretch mark(s) removal." This is her core market. Now is not the time to expand.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

This Is Already The Third Biggest Year In The History Of Venture Capital – [link]. The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail – [link]. comScore: 4 Out Of 5 Smartphone Owners Use Device To Shop; Amazon Most Popular Mobile Retailer – [link]. If VCs Understood UX – [link].

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