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

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

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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Genuine VC

JANUARY 22, 2014

Previous experience with (tech) public relations and media outreach. This two-year role is a unique opportunity to work full-time within a venture capital firm, setting and executing on a outward-facing strategy to interface with both its portfolio and the broader entrepreneurial community.

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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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VC Cafe

MAY 29, 2014

One is the rise of mobile gaming. America’s Army pushed the first person shooter genre into the service of recruitment and public relations. The rise of mobile gaming. In 2013, mobile gaming generated $13.2 We’ll get to those two threads in a moment. First, let’s look at some examples.

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JULY 3, 2015

Here’s Why the Venture Capital Crash Will Hurt – buff.ly/1LWPOi3. Growth Minded Entrepreneur on Instagram: “Less talking -> More doing.” ” crowdspring.co/1cWbcrx. The Inside Story of How the iPhone Crippled BlackBerry – buff.ly/1LJbYHF. crowdspring.co/1LaM931. 1UdHbpd.

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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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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Post-war era Americans were equally mobile, willing to move where the opportunities were. Finally, ERA’s penchant for extreme secrecy left them unschooled in the art of marketing, sales, and Public Relations. As far as the public knew, ERA’s products were for “the Navy.”

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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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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 22, 2010

So I’ve always advised people that if they do launch at a big show, the most important public relations work they do is after the conference. I became quite good friends with a journalist at the Financial Times and eventually helped her as she wrote a book on the venture capital industry. It started socially.

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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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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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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

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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Steve Blank

AUGUST 27, 2009

Marketing develops a complete marketing communications plan, provides Sales with a full complement of support material, and starts the public relations bandwagon rolling. Reply My take on Customer Development and the Lean Startup | Recess Mobile Blog , on January 9, 2010 at 5:37 am Said: [.]

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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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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 29, 2014

Of course they then added Chris Dixon, Ben Evans and many other great public voices. 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. Transparency.

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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]. The best definition of entrepreneurship, in 25 words – [link]. To Find Happiness, Forget About Passion – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 26, 2012

Nice write-up on Google’s venture capital investment company – [link]. 32 Examples of Usable Mobile Website Layouts – [link]. Mobile Payments Won’t Replace Cash or Credit for Another Decade – [link]. – [link]. Small Business and Startup Tips: Managing Remote Employees – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 9, 2015

Things I’ve Learned from Doug Leone About Startups & Venture Capital | by @trengriffin - buff.ly/1wo39Hu. The New Science of Building Great Teams | HBR – buff.ly/1AovjWH. 8 Things That Will Immediately Make Your Company More Sellable (Long Before You Sell) crowdspring.co/1489Syk.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

A Dozen Things I’ve Learned from Keith Rabois about Venture Capital and Business | by @trengriffin – buff.ly/1AxbgY1. Most Innovative Companies 2015 | Fast Company | Business + Innovation crowdspring.co/1L22nZJ. Global Trends That Will Transform Your Business crowdspring.co/1KxOemG.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Qualcomm Ventures is invested in a number of startups including Livescribe, Obopay , Arieso and Zeebo. Brad Feld: Feld is co-founder and managing director of Foundry Group, a Boulder, Colorado venture capital firm that focuses on early stage investments ranging from $250,000 to $500,000.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 3, 2012

Trends In Venture Capital Over The Last 12 Years – [link]. Bad returns be damned: Venture capital fundraising jumps 31 percent in U.S. Bad returns be damned: Venture capital fundraising jumps 31 percent in U.S. Responsive Web Layouts For Mobile Screens: Intro, Tips And Examples – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 1, 2013

Venture Capital Returns – [link]. Mobile is now dinging your web strategy. Play by your own rules – [link]. When culture turns into policy – [link]. An MBA is a complete waste of time and money for anyone who wants to create or join a startup – [link]. The Rise of the Female Investor | WSJ – [link].

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

They write everything from assembly to jQuery, on PCs to mobile phones, doing hard core computer graphics to high level social networking. And if you’re doing Windows Mobile 7 apps (which the stats suggest you aren’t), it’s your only choice. They’ve tried everything. Everything, that is, but.NET.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 10, 2017

11 – Mobility. I started I needed mobility. it’s early days, but I’m optimistic that my diverse experience in corporate, non-profit and public sectors, in different countries, will serve me well! Thanks to Elle Gilbert, FRANKiE4 Footwear ! #11 Image Credit: Jeanette Muscat. Have laptop; can travel.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

How Bootstrapping Became a Lost Art and Venture Capital Became an Addiction – Capterra Blog crowdspring.co/1fwqKUb. 9 Facts To Improve Your Mobile Search Performance crowdspring.co/1KA70I8. What mobile ad blocking looks like in the real world crowdspring.co/1Uofah6. Mark Zuckerberg’s FWD.us crowdspring.co/1WdcrFV.

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