crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

50 Creative Designs and Shapes of Hang Tags – [link]. Using Dropbox Like a Pro: Tips and Tricks – [link]. The most popular fonts used by designers – [link]. 5 Proven UX Strategies – [link]. 20 Fresh Examples Of Printed Advertisements – [link]. 30 Gadget Design Tutorials for Photoshop – [link].

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Steve Blank

MAY 6, 2010

Continuous Learning – Dropbox. The Dropbox team also had a great story about pivoting and customer development. Watch the video of the Dropbox talk. Tags: Customer Development. Take a look at their presentation and see how they got to 5 million users. Lessons Learned. Learn early, learn often.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Tags: Start-up Advice. Those companies are already going to be crushed by Skype’s new screen sharing capabilities. I don’t like going against Google Docs or against 37Signals for project management. File sharing? Enterprise collaboration? Yammer, Salesforce Chatter. I always route for London startup companies. Total raised: $15.0mm.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 31, 2013

While there are certainly still products and services fetching big price tags with little to no revenue, the majority of companies in our year-end roundup are building products that will have an impact on how we think about technology. The one-armed robot fetches a $35,000 price tag , and in the world of robotics, is relatively inexpensive.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

If you’ve used Slack or Dropbox, you’ve witnessed this first-hand—you didn’t read a lengthy whitepaper on the benefits of strong internal communication or cloud-based file sharing. This is the strategy that many well-known SaaS companies have adopted successfully, including Grammarly, Slack, and Dropbox. Wouldn’t you agree?

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bijoor.me

MARCH 26, 2014

Store App Services : pre-built storage services that can be configured and composed to extend existing applications or build completely new ones Examples : Dropbox API , force.com , AppXpress , GT Nexus , Mendix App Services , MuleSoft Anypoint connectors. Tagged: aws , big data , cloud computing , openstack , software development.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 4, 2017

Virality is the key lever of many of the most famous growth examples: Dropbox, Uber, Facebook, Hotmail. For certain businesses, though – usually B2B with a high enough price tag and lifetime value – sales is a must. And you can imagine a Dropbox or a Tinder for the second one. Unbounce blog. Virality and Referral.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 19, 2017

However, when it comes to pairing up with somebody who’ll be able to offer you some invaluable advice, you might be met with a hefty price tag. Make Savvy Purchases. When it comes to buying new materials and equipment for their new business, many entrepreneurs can make the mistake of really going to town.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 10, 2010

DON’T send me a frigging link to your document on DropBox or a request that the recipient visit your website to watch a video. Yes, I love DropBox, Box.net, DocStoc, SlideShare and similar services. Tags: Startup Advice. Links are fine but make them option.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Hey look, if you're still using Dropbox or Google Drive to store your images and videos, listen up. Find files faster with visual search and AI auto-tagging. Well those are fine for storing docs and sheets. Air is the leading platform for marketing teams to manage and automate their Creative Operations. Share files securely.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 8, 2010

Didn’t discuss much but I love the online document collaboration area that Box.net serves including players like Dropbox, Drop.io, DocStoc, Scribed and SlideShare. Tags: VC Industry. . - Box.net ( raised $15 million led by Scale Venture Partners and included DFJ and USVP. Crazy valuation. and much more.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 24, 2017

Today you can’t even imagine not being able to attach a file or load it to Dropbox, but back then the ability to do so didn’t exist. So I did what every business owner will do (well maybe not) I bought it and kept the tags on to so I could return immediately. Bottom line, I’ll never do that again or if I do, I’ll hide my tags better.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 6, 2015

It controls title/description tags, avoids duplicate content, and sets up an XML sitemap for search engines. BackWPup is the best tool I’ve encountered to backup WordPress files to a Dropbox account. ThemeForest has thousands of low-cost templates that can be customized with some know-how. Get Your SEO in Shape. Contact Form 7.

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www.readwriteweb.com

DECEMBER 9, 2011

A few stalwarts predominate, such as Git, Eclipse, AWS, Dropbox, MySQL, and Google Analytics. and tagged with. A few stalwarts predominate, such as Git, Eclipse, AWS, Dropbox, MySQL, and Google Analytics. POPULAR TAGS. Many of the categories are wide open. Can Bitbucket Challenge GitHub with Free Repositories?

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

John Jantsch (10:18): And a word from a sponsor, Hey look, if you're still using Dropbox or Google Drive to store your images and videos, listen up. Find files faster with visual search and AI auto-tagging. Well those are fine for storing docs and sheets. Air’s intuitive UI is purpose-built for visual assets. Share files securely.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

In fact, as Justin Fyles of Intrepid explains, they aren’t even developed in the same way… Justin Fyles , Intrepid : “A marketing email with dynamic content is typically a static HTML email with simple tags for recipient-specific information that get merged with customer lists. Right: Dropbox.

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Up and Running

JUNE 10, 2010

Foursquare , for example, and Gist , DropBox , Bit.ly Tags: startup financing startup stories klout.com louisgra.com. This is a good list: 50 Top Startups Worth Watching at Louisgray.com. I’m amazed at how well known some of these are. and Seesmic. And there are several I use every day, like Tweetdeck and Feedly.

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 24, 2018

Take a look at the different storage services from cloud providers like Box, OneDrive from Microsoft , Dropbox, Google One (replacing the Google Drive service), or iCloud. Each has different price tags and likely cost per customer acquired. Make a list of all the different ways that your product or service can be marketed successfully.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 26, 2010

Tags: Customer Development Durant versus Sloan: Startups Verus Companies. The full list of great speakers is here and links to their presentations are here and videos of all the presentations can be found here. Their story in the Sunday Times Business Section is here.

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Haystack

NOVEMBER 24, 2018

price tag squeezed out by BlackBerry represented *over half* of the actual cash reserves it had sitting on its balance sheet. This represents one the largest outcomes for a Y Combinator company, after Dropbox, Cruise, and Twitch. However, 2018 has other ideas, with the most money ever invested in U.S. 1/ Cash Is King: The $1.4B

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 3, 2010

Paul Graham and the folks over at YCombinator have done much to reenergize early-stage entrepreneurship and encourage the creation of many new and innovative startups including DropBox, Posterous, Loopt, Justin.TV, Scribd and many others. Tags: Tech Market Analysis. Is it just me? OK, HN folks, let ‘er rip. I can take it.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

Tags: JISC Open Source Software Directory Resourceshelf Startup Resources Auto digital media resources Draft google sketchup higher education community Open open source directory open source tools source SourceForge. Open source. CAD (Computer Aided Design). Google SketchUp. Google SketchUp. sketchup.google.com/. 3D modelling software.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

Tags: JISC Open Source Software Directory Resourceshelf Startup Resources Auto digital media resources Draft google sketchup higher education community Open open source directory open source tools source SourceForge. Open source. CAD (Computer Aided Design). Google SketchUp. Google SketchUp. sketchup.google.com/. 3D modelling software.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

Tags: JISC Open Source Software Directory Resourceshelf Startup Resources Auto digital media resources Draft google sketchup higher education community Open open source directory open source tools source SourceForge. Open source. CAD (Computer Aided Design). Google SketchUp. Google SketchUp. sketchup.google.com/. 3D modelling software.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

Tags: JISC Open Source Software Directory Resourceshelf Startup Resources Auto digital media resources Draft google sketchup higher education community Open open source directory open source tools source SourceForge. Open source. CAD (Computer Aided Design). Google SketchUp. Google SketchUp. sketchup.google.com/. 3D modelling software.

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techcrunch.com

AUGUST 14, 2012

I like the idea of projects like Unhosted, which I’ve written about elsewhere , but activist users have had more success in pressuring companies like Dropbox and Facebook to change their TOS than getting users to defect to privacy centric systems like Diaspora. Tags: privacy , terms of service , ToS.

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Jeff Hilimire

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Things I don’t need to respond to but feel I either want to store for future reference or read when I get the time, I forward into my Evernote account with the tag “unread” A few times a week I try to go into Evernote and sort through the “unread” items. Anything else, I delete.

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Email Management Cloud Mobile 56

Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 15, 2011

One of my favorite case studies in the book involves a tool I use everyday – Dropbox. Drew Houston, CEO and Founder of Dropbox applied Eric Ries’s Lean Startup concepts and started iterating their product much faster in order to test what customers really wanted, early and often. 5 Practical Tips for Gett. :

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Software By Rob

JULY 31, 2012

The tag-line was “All of you, at OnePage.me” and the idea was almost exactly the same as ours. In a similar way, Dropbox is something where generally users don’t realise they need the product until they try it. Word of mouth is vital for Dropbox. This required a change of habit.

Startup 78

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 8, 2015

I summarized the list of tools I used to collect information about startups in the Ultimate Startup Intelligence Tools List and also crowdsourced the list of tools on hackpad (which was since acquired by Dropbox). So, I guess I could say I was eating my own dogfood when I wrote “ So you want to be a VC.”

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www.readwriteweb.com

APRIL 23, 2012

Pinterest can hire, Square can hire, Dropbox can hire - these companies have a clear demand for their products and are becoming market leaders," explains Naval Ravikant, founder of startup advice site Venture Hacks. and tagged with. POPULAR TAGS. , a salary in the low 80s isnt going to land you any elite tech talent. Subscribe.

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www.readwriteweb.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Winner: Dropbox. There are plenty of worthwhile business competitors to Dropbox. Box.net has done a great job of outdoing Dropbox in certain respects. And Dropbox isnt perfect. But Dropboxs virtues are undeniable. and tagged with. POPULAR TAGS. File Sharing. Lead image courtesy of Shutterstock.

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Software By Rob

JULY 31, 2012

The tag-line was “All of you, at OnePage.me” and the idea was almost exactly the same as ours. In a similar way, Dropbox is something where generally users don’t realise they need the product until they try it. Word of mouth is vital for Dropbox. This required a change of habit.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Were the files for your most recent business logo design saved to Dropbox? People can collaborate in real-time, as well as comment and tag items the attention of others. The service aims to gather all of a company’s knowledge in one place through its combination of notes, images and video, visualizations, and tagging features.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 11, 2014

So what you can do is you add a group or a tag to the meeting, general management. Jason: All you just described is that things are tagged and I can look at things by tag instead of by meeting. I get that, but that’s kind of any to-do or project management system has tags and you can view it that way. Edwin: Yeah?

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Hey look, if you're still using Dropbox or Google Drive to store your images and videos, listen up. Find files faster with visual search and AI auto-tagging. Well those are fine for storing docs and sheets. Air is the leading platform for marketing teams to manage and automate their Creative Operations. Share files securely.

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Sales Framework Networking Video 89

ConversionXL

MARCH 24, 2016

Content added: files added to a Dropbox folder. Although a tool won’t magically tell you anything, the following are more tools that can help you in this area: Google Tag Manager / Google Analytics (you can accomplish all of this in GTM/GA). Visit frequency: D1 retention. More Tools. Heap Analytics. Snowplow Analytics. KISSMetrics.

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