crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 25, 2018

Your small business may have a terrific product or service. But that still may not be enough to keep your business alive. In fact, 50% of small businesses fold by their fifth year. But you don’t have to leave the success or failure of your business to chance. Leads are vital to any business.

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SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

I’ve had the opportunity to work with many impressive teams and product managers from a broad range of leading tech companies, and this has helped me to get a better sense of the what is essential to the role, and to success. At the time, Word for Mac was a relatively small market. In 1993, Word 6.0 So the team got to work.

Product 60

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

Here’s an online book store that sells some level of technology and now is really the online version of Walmart, and they’re winning Emmy awards for the creation of original content. Joe Pulizzi: And it’s wonder, you know, looking at it from the small business side for just a moment.

Cost 36

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www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

I wassurprised recently when I realized that all the worst problems wefaced in our startup were due not to competitors, but investors.Dealing with competitors was easy by comparison. company has to be more than small and newly founded to be astartup. To be a startup, a company hasto be a product business, not a service business.

Technical Review 76

Technical Review Startup Software Review Angel Investor 76

mashable.com

JULY 10, 2012

However, some individuals or small businesses have found success through affiliations with major retailers. The danger with this type of marketing is the penchant for users to become annoyed due to the “creepy” nature of ads following them around. More Stories in Apps & Software. The “Mom and Pop” Effect. Print Story.

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mashable.com

MAY 5, 2011

The shortage of startup technical talent, especially in New York City, has been well-documented. With more than 40 million monthly pageviews, Mashable is the most prolific news site reporting breaking web news, providing analysis of trends, reviewing new Web sites and services, and offering social media resources and guides.

Equity 74

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mashable.com

JANUARY 23, 2012

This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum , where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business. In the life cycle of an entrepreneur, shutting the doors on a business isn’t necessarily a gloomy situation. Small business.

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LLC Technical Review Social Media Startup 68

mashable.com

JANUARY 13, 2012

9 Tech Millionaires Under Age 30 [INFOGRAPHIC]. Brian Sullivan is vice president of client services at Gigya , where he advises clients on implementing social technology. Gigya offers websites a suite of social technology like social login , comments, game mechanics and a social identity management platform.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Social Media Social Network RSS 78

mashable.com

MARCH 7, 2011

Why HTML5 Given the hype and buzz surrounding HTML5 , it would be easy to believe that it is a technology that will do your laundry, mow the lawn and make you dinner. It does all the work of compiling the code for various platforms and gives the developer a final build suitable for submission to the app market of their choice.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 11, 2011

Erica Swallow is a technology and lifestyle writer. Sign up for her course on “ PR for Startups ” to learn more about getting media coverage for your fledgling business. As a tech journalist, I’ve been pitched by hundreds of companies and have developed a taste for what works and what doesn’t.

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mashable.com

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

Most of the scripts that run the spreadsheets are “public,” meaning you can access them from the Tools + Script Gallery menu (this also means they were reviewed and approved by Google Spreadsheets team). More Stories in Apps & Software. Tech & Gadgets Highlights. Business & Marketing. Small Business.

Social Media 108

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

The unique thing about these efforts is not only that they will be for YouTube primarily (though you can syndicate them all over the place), the differentiator will be that you'll create them with your specific YouTube audience in mind. For example, on other platforms your audience could be 18 yr old technology lovers.

Analytics 149

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mashable.com

MAY 5, 2011

Another way is get behind the power blogs such as mashable, techcrunch and get them to write a review or do an interview for your solution. Partners W3 EDGE Concentric Sky Rackspace Intridea Dynect DNS Webtrends Global Syndication Partners ABCNews CNN Forbes Metro USAToday Yahoo ©2005-2011 Mashable, Inc. Have an account?

Pakistan 94

Pakistan Social Media Startup Stealth 94

mashable.com

MARCH 24, 2011

I’ve reviewed hundreds of startup pitches and I can tell you that everyone makes the same types of errors. Ignoring Your Faults You might have all sorts of shortcomings — it’s your first startup, you’re inexperienced, ignorant about how “sales&# works, you have buggy software, etc. Have an account?

Programming 86

Programming Startup Technical Review Software Review 86

mashable.com

JULY 4, 2012

It’s been saying this all along, but people only seem to take notice when their analytics look something like this: While Penguin was technically an algorithm update, it wasn’t really a change in how Google factors ranking; it was just the official word that Google is taking action against people trying to game the search system. Like Tweet.

Algorithm 93

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mashable.com

MAY 24, 2011

Choosing Between Mobile and Native Apps One of the resounding themes for mobile software developers in 2011 is the debate between building a native app or building a mobile web app. Richard Rabins Co-Chairman Alpha Software, Inc. Have an account? Follow Sourcebits on Twitter and Facebook for recent news and updates.

Mobile 90

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Hearpreneur

MAY 18, 2022

After my career as a financial analyst, I decided to pursue a career assisting consumers and small businesses with various financial needs. While working in a big world-known company, our early process around translation management in software localization consisted of Google Sheets usage. 11- To a lign myself with my purpose.

Entrepreneur 140

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

5 Lessons from 150 startup pitches - A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks , July 11, 2010 I just reviewed several hundred startup pitches for Capital Factory. The process is called mass syndication, or a party round. Between this blog and reviewing applications to Capital Factory I see hundreds of pitches a year.

Software Review 217

Software Review Startup Venture Capital Technical Review 217