crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Graphic design is a notoriously competitive field and it can be tough for companies to stand out. But, at least twenty graphic design firms from around the world have proven to be the best in their field, with gorgeous portfolios filled with impressive clients and prominent design campaigns. Frog Design. MetaDesign.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 4, 2021

After doing some market research, I realized that there was a market for the handcrafted greeting cards that I make, and in September 2019, MsCraftprincess Designs was formed. Coone, MsCraftprincess Designs LLC ! #2- I started my own marketing and communications agency back in 2003. We like to say that we create paper hugs.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

I raised money as an entrepreneur, like you, in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2005 for two different companies. And I also now have to raise money myself, but this time from bigger institutions that our industry calls LPs (limited partners). Partners make investment decisions. Meet in person. They’re buying you.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Their typical buyers—facilities managers, architects, and commercial designers—rarely used social media. Their content wasn’t designed to rank for popular keywords and harness existing search volume. We call this movement-first content : articles designed to inspire and build credibility, instead of educate and target keywords.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Each VC firm/partner has a different spin on what to weigh more.) The Rise of Mergers and Acquisitions -– March 2003 -2008 After the dot.com bubble collapsed, the IPO market (and most tech M&A deals) shutdown for technology companies. I find the same still going on with a few firms and partners.&#

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 10, 2011

Business owners must learn to manage and juggle a complex and shifting combination of customer, partner, vendor, staff and advisory relationships in order to survive and grow. This is so critical if you plan to build a strategic partner platform. Internal customer – How often do you take the internal temperature?

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 19, 2018

If you sell products, invest in good packaging design (the packaging for your product) and package graphics (the graphics/content on the product packaging) to help your company succeed. These include the design itself, the shape and size and technical features, and the copy used on the packaging. The Packaging.

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techcrunch.com

APRIL 26, 2013

She graduated from Columbia University in 2003, where she was. AngelList also partnered with SecondMarket to create an investment vehicle for these investments. Ravikant explains that this feature is designed to encourage more startups to raise funding from legitimate investors via AngelList. → Learn More.

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mashable.com

JULY 18, 2012

One got added to the latter category Tuesday: design firm Cuban Council, which will be shipping off a portion of its team to help improve the look of Google+.). But there’s also the satellite-mapping company Keyhole, which in 2003 became the seed that sprouted Google Maps. So what does it take to impress Lawee? On2 Technologies.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 19, 2018

If you sell products, invest in good packaging design (the packaging for your product) and package graphics (the graphics/content on the product packaging) to help your company succeed. These include the design itself, the shape and size and technical features, and the copy used on the packaging. The Packaging.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Four years later, in May of 2003, they launched Taobao Marketplace, Alibaba’s answer to eBay. Popular categories include web developers, mobile developers, designers, writers, and accountants. Swing is now at over 1,200 school partners and has filled over 115,000 teacher absence days. Sell an item on eBay.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 16, 2011

Or maybe it involves creating and communicating a special pricing plan, designed to secure early renewals and lock in a longer renewal term. Maybe that involves a customer appreciation program to reach out to every existing customer personally at least 120 days before their contract comes due. Therefore, they become your marketing strategy.

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Mike Michalowicz

DECEMBER 8, 2014

Brent Robinson is the Chief Thought Officer and Founding Partner of Modthink, a strategy firm where we focus on your people, culture and systems to impact operational efficiency, change management, transparency, and meaningful human relationships with customers through social networking. 7 at Collective Bias (social media agency).

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techcrunch.com

SEPTEMBER 2, 2012

She graduated from Columbia University in 2003, where she was. Yokum Taku, Corporate and Securities Partner at the Palo Alto, California Office of Wilson Sonsini agrees, “I can’t think of a good reason not to shift early stage seed financings toward convertible equity away from convertible debt.”. → Learn More. Latest in Gadgets.

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www.readwriteweb.com

MAY 10, 2012

SAY Medias Alex Schleifer is the lead designer for ReadWriteWebs re-design (currently in process) and his quote above captures why mobile websites are enjoying a renaissance. RWW PARTNERS. © 2003-2012 ReadWriteWeb. Well, fast forward 18 months and things have changed. POPULAR TAGS. social media. advertising.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 11, 2018

The introduction of 3G in between 1998 and 2003 brought 200 Kbps speeds, four times faster than 3G. Rooted in a 2002 Pentagon initiative to replace traditional telephony with a VoIP communications infrastructure, 4G was designed to address the growing need for bandwidth to support the increasing number of mobile device users in the 2000s.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 7, 2020

In 2003, during his senior year in college, he founded Cilantro Fund Management with a starting fund of about $1 million raised from friends and family. He founded the Timothy Sykes Foundations which is partnered with Make-A-Wish Foundation. Entrepreneurial experience. In 2017, be donated $1M to Pencils of Promise.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2013

In 2003 U.C. Business model design + customer development + agile development is the process that startups use to search for a business model. They get out of the classroom and talk to customers, partners and competitors and encounter the chaos and uncertainty of commercializing innovations and creating new ventures.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

And in 2003 the Haas Business School at U.C. So business model design + customer and agile development is the process that startups use to search for a business model. Then last month we partnered with NCIIA and taught 62 college and university educators in our first Lean LaunchPad Educators Program.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 26, 2014

For those who don’t know, I wrote the book Open Innovation in 2003, and followed it with Open Business Models in 2006, and Open Services Innovation in 2011. A corporation, by contrast, is a permanent organization designed to execute a repeatable, scalable business model. First, let me recap a key insight for me from Steve’s post.

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Jeff Hilimire

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

Lest I bore you with the entire story, which you can read a lot of in this post , we ended up creating our company, NBN Designs, renaming it to Spunlogic, growing it to 75 people before selling it to Engauge in 2008, then both staying on at Engauge until we helped sell it to Publicis Group in 2013. The design and build out in Promenade.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 22, 2017

I sat down with my partner and we brainstormed the name for our business. Instead, my producing partner suggester Corner Piece, Because we’re the piece you need to get everything started. Most law firms simply use the last names of the originating partners as the name of the company. Image Credit: Andrew Greer.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

I am also in a few select boutiques and Hotel Gift shops including the famous Mohonk Mountain House and a design collective in Australia) My collection features unexpected combinations of raw and polished gemstones, opulent pearls, precious metals, custom clasps, and exotic minerals from the world’s treasure troves. (I Thanks to Nancy D.

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www.readwriteweb.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Almost every accountant or auditor whos worked with a small business is familiar with QuickBooks, dramatically increasing your ability to work with outside contractors, potential investors and business partners. © 2003-2012 ReadWriteWeb. Communication should come first, and you shouldnt have to reinvent the wheel. startupcto

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www.xconomy.com

JUNE 9, 2012

Managing Director, Enterprise Partners. In fact, by using analytics software that relies on a different way of measuring risk, the San Diego firm is becoming known in some circles as “the Moneyball of venture capital,” according to David Coats, a co-founder and managing partner. President and CEO, Complete Genomics. Dan'l Lewin.

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David Teten

MARCH 12, 2012

I’ve attached below my original, much more detailed blog post about the details of how we’ve designed our office to help people stay healthy and be as productive as possible. My colleagues at ff Venture Capital and I designed our office to make working a workout — a (partial) substitute for visiting a gym.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2013

In 2003 U.C. Business model design + customer development + agile development is the process that startups use to search for a business model. They get out of the classroom and talk to customers, partners and competitors and encounter the chaos and uncertainty of commercializing innovations and creating new ventures.

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reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

× At Greylock , my partners and I are driven by one guiding mission: always help entrepreneurs. Friendster was at its height, strongly battling MySpace after raising its premium round from Benchmark and Kleiner in the fall of 2003. Friendster raised a big round in 2003; MySpace started gaining traction. Reid Hoffman.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

In 2003 one of their first investments was Qiigo, Mike Yavondite’s company. Richard De Silva is based in Menlo Park with three other partners, there and 5 partners in Boston. Mark and Richard go on to talk about platforms, timing, and simple reiterative product design. So it is a combination of markets and people.

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dashes.com

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

If I honor your NDA, and I meet a great investor or potential employee or valuable partner for your new venture, I wouldnt be able to tell them about it. If you can, design for circumstances where, once youre ready to start talking about your idea, youre encouraging people to "disclose" your efforts. legal , nda , startups , trust.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 26, 2011

This comes from Etsy seller Katie Blair Designs. The product revealed and note the subtle band of branding on the actual product - how will I ever forget Katie Blair Designs now. The series of photos below represent what I believe is a great example of how to deliver an experience with your product. 5 Practical Tips for Gett. :

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ConversionXL

APRIL 7, 2020

The first shows were created in late 2003, and the term itself was coined in 2004 by combining “iPod” with “broadcasting.”. Podcasting, by design, is ideal for generating awareness and building thought-leadership in your industry. Lastly, design matters. Provide pre-made promos to guests and partners to maximize reach.

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www.readwriteweb.com

MARCH 7, 2011

Bryce Roberts , a partner at O?Reilly Dave argues that instead of providing connections you should let founders do 95% of the work and offer support with operational areas of expertise like design, data and distribution. To my surprise, VC? Reilly Tech Ventures, was so concerned about the network that he deleted his AngelList account.

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Occam's Razor

JULY 13, 2017

By design none of them from the world of digital analytics, though I’ll stay connected to that world from a how could you use this idea perspective. The plots are from the American Time Use Survey , a multi-year study from 2003 to 2015 conducted by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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Agile VC

APRIL 13, 2012

And going even further back there have been a few random ones have been built before like Salesforce.com and e-tailer RedEnvelope (IPO’d in 2003 though now defunct as a company). Also all the big anchor companies that a startup might want to partner with at that time (eBay, Google, Oracle, Yahoo!, Previous Entries.

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Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2019

Philip Bouchard : You’ve started teaching at Berkeley since 2002, Columbia in 2003 and at Stanford since 2011. My contribution has been, “Why don’t we design classes more closely modeled to what innovators and entrepreneurs actually do.” Typically, to partner with the innovator on the first step, you need to find an entrepreneur.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

The 72 Israeli companies participating in the 2010 Mobile World Congress: Aerotel Medical Systems – a world leading manufacturer of modular, home and mobile telecare and telemedicine solutions designed to transfer essential data over the telephone, mobile phone and the Internet.

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