crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

William Hurley, the co-founder of Honest Dollar, an Austin-based provider of retirement plans to small businesses, says creative talent is abundant : It’s got the music, the university scene, the hippies and the rule-breakers… It’s very easy to hire people who want to push the limits. Boulder, CO. Seattle, WA.

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Hiring an expert or a coach to walk you through establishing your business can help you minimise the chances of failure but some entrepreneurs will prefer walking alone. 1-Hiring inappropriate council. Hiring inappropriate council constituted a $15k mistake because the incorrect company was formed–costing us time and $15k.

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Hiring an expert or a coach to walk you through establishing your business can help you minimise the chances of failure but some entrepreneurs will prefer walking alone. 1-Hiring inappropriate council. Hiring inappropriate council constituted a $15k mistake because the incorrect company was formed–costing us time and $15k.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 26, 2013

For us, the opportunity is not about taking market share from other players, it’s really about expanding the awareness of online work and hiring these virtual global teams as an alternative to traditional way of recruiting or building a company,” he said. That’s where the Private Workplace comes in.

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bizthoughts.mikelee.org

MARCH 8, 2012

I was able to hire phenomenal software engineers and grow a strong team culture. With all the funded startups that are unable to hire, that’s a huge ace up my sleeve. The development community is a friendly one (for the most part) and you’ll often find many people eager to help you out. Learn to write code yourself.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 27, 2022

Fueling Your Growth With Facebook Groups And Communities written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. John is the VP of Community & Impact Partnerships at Facebook. 7:58] What are some other places along the customer journey that you think groups or communities fit that maybe people aren’t thinking of? [12:31]

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ConversionXL

MAY 19, 2020

Marcus Sheridan is the king of the question, having used question-driven content to save his failing River Pools & Spa business during the Great Recession of 2008. Is there anything special about your staff, facilities or community involvement that you could translate into benefits for your customers? Image source ).

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 4, 2019

Maybe it was seeing the stony faces of the six ex-Mossad agents that we had hired to secure the plaza in the event something went wrong. From around 2008 until 2015, as the internet gained users by the hundreds of millions, viral videos were all the rage. But when Ronaldo arrived on set, something changed. This is so cool!

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 10, 2017

Take a look at some of the emails between us from 2010: We were attending NYU from 2008–2012. Fund Details We identify the most promising use cases for cryptoassets and within those use cases we vet the teams, projects, and communities. PPPS, we’re also hiring a blockchain engineer. We were infatuated with tech.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 30, 2017

William Hurley, co-founder of Honest Dollar , an Austin-based provider of retirement plans to small businesses, says creative talent is abundant : It’s got the music, the university scene, the hippies and the rule-breakers… It’s very easy to hire people who want to push the limits. It’s an incredibly innovative city.

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Altgate

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

As your business grows, you will likely need more and more time from your accountant and at some point you’ll hire a full time person to handle the day-to-day, likely combined with roles as office manager or finance (not to be confused with accounting). World class In-house UX is one of the most challenging hires you’ll make.

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

He or she might call himself a “consulting CTO,&# “freelance CTO,&# “on-demand CTO,&# “CTO on call,&# “CTO for hire,&# or just a “technology strategy advisor.&# And why would you hire a technology guy who launched a failed startup? For one thing, you’ll learn from his mistakes.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 2, 2011

She wrote Closing the Innovation Gap: Reigniting the Spark of Creativity in a Global Economy back in 2008 and now runs her own firm JLabs speaking and advising businesses on innovation, leadership and entrepreneurship. It is a lot easier to have someone else recruit and hire a CEO.". Estrin is somewhat down on the venture community.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 6, 2014

An excellent example of a social enterprise is The Empowerment Plan —an organization that hires people currently living in homeless shelters to create a combination winter coat, sleeping bag, and over-the-shoulder bag, which is then distributed to the homeless of Detroit free of charge. What does a social enterprise look like?

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

… there was a time over the last 10 years where I started to refer to the startup community as the startup industrial complex. When we get a television show that parodies the Silicon Valley community, and we don’t even notice that that’s what’s happening often, then you kind of know you’re in trouble. …it

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SoCal CTO

MAY 15, 2009

Social networking sites and microblogs are used not only to build company brands, but to foster productivity; social media tools help build communities around the question, "What are you working on?" Yammer was launched on stage at TechCrunch 50 on September 8, 2008 and won Best in Show.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Many startups and small businesses turn to the web for crowdsourcing their logos, so let’s start with a basic understanding of what crowdsourcing is in this context: Crowdsourcing is using the internet to obtain services by approaching an online community. Our top four picks are large online communities of designers—the crowd.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

He first came to see me in 2008 when we was raising money for his 1st startup – NextMedium. For starters they has asked him to hire a CEO (Hamet was a first timer) and that person lived in Seattle even though NextMedium was based in LA. I’ve known Hamet for 5 years. I believe investors had forced him to do this.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 30, 2017

William Hurley, co-founder of Honest Dollar , an Austin-based provider of retirement plans to small businesses, says creative talent is abundant : It’s got the music, the university scene, the hippies and the rule-breakers… It’s very easy to hire people who want to push the limits. It’s an incredibly innovative city.

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

TalentMoxie blends strength based career coaching, human resources, and partners with companies that want to hire talented people. This arrangement is working out very well for me as it keeps me updated on the latest in my field of expertise and I am also able to hire talent for my venture from these same courses.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 24, 2012

He built a practice around a growing community in the Mid Atlantic and beyond. And again I won’t take credit for his decision to join Cooley but the magic of having David join Cooley is simply an awesome outcome for our community at large. He became the go-to guy for many in our community including me. There’s more!

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 15, 2018

There are some unusual ways to practise leading and organising other people, here are a few: · Organising groups of volunteers at well-known music festivals and large events in your community. Create an event of your own which requires you to hire and manage volunteers yourself. · Hiring Staff. Sell Via Social Media.

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Up and Running

MAY 30, 2016

Like the rest of the hospitality industry, after a major slowdown following the 2008 economic collapse, the numbers are gradually getting stronger as the current decade moves along. It is crucially important that your B&B is located within a community that has a proven tourism track record and a local economy that can support it.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 5, 2015

MindKube’s inception: The year was 2008, and Natasha, like everyone, felt the effect of a badly wounded economy that did not afford many opportunities for career growth, but rather asked that all work harder for less. I had to go through hiring the wrong people,” Natasha admits. “I I hired one developer who didn’t protect his sites.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 3, 2013

I wrote a chapter about this in my book Startup Communities: Building an Entrepre neurial Ecosystem in Your City explaining why and how CU Law has taken a different approach to the engagement of the of a university and the entrepreneurial community. And larger law firms are significantly cutting back on their entry-level hiring.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

It is incumbent on management to create and sustain an environment that leads to hiring, encourages quality work, rewards effort and accomplishment, treats workers fairly, pays an equitable wage, provides for basic welfare, respects families, supplies adequate work flexibility, and, importantly, celebrates the work itself.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 26, 2009

And, as you can see in my previous post on “ The cardinal sin of community management &# the feedback could be all over the map. But we had some super-active customers who would act as editors, collecting feedback from all over the community and synthesizing it into a report of the top issues. It was absolutely worth it.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 25, 2019

Roberto Ortega and his wife founded KLA Schools was founded in 2008. As a franchise: Thorough support program that entails the following: site selection support, HR hiring and training support, pedagogical support and training, marketing support and financial support. Low teacher-to-student ratio. New York and the Carolinas.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 17, 2014

In 2008, I went to breakfast with Hilary Mason while I was down there. That breakfast would lead to me hiring Hilary to work at my startup, Hilary deciding to stay in NYC fulltime, co-founding hackNY, and just generally being a great community advocate for science and tech in NYC. Just breakfast. No big party.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2009

Ive written a little bit about the origins of Silicon Valley because I think its important for us to understand how we got here in order to make sure we preserve what is best about our community. The companies I spoke to all agreed that the community there was extremely supportive, especially in the critical ulta-early-stage.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 26, 2009

Other companies accomplish this by hiring a large staff of content production experts - and get a very good result. Most importantly, there is almost no niche or trend that is unserved by this community. When you participate in an open community like these you take advantage of tremendous amounts of effort. Yeah, weve got that.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

I first heard about crowdSPRING in a 2008 TechCrunch article , and I thought it was such a great idea, that I bookmarked the site for future use. J Ideally, I don’t want to hire any full-time employees, and I’d like to remain completely self-funded. How do you see your company growing in the future?

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Up and Running

MAY 9, 2016

Construction companies have their ups and downs (for example, the economic crisis of 2008 hit construction firms hard ), but it’s an industry that will always have demand—and where there’s demand, there’s opportunity. What will you do yourself, and what tasks or site labor will your hire or subcontract for?

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

I started a career in real estate in 2008 (when the market was crashing). I wondered what it would be like if the companies that purchased the coffee paid fair wages for the product and engaged in the developmental issues of importance in those communities. Tampa Bay community and make a difference in people’s lives.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 9, 2017

From running around Manhattan in 2008 selling to restaurants while the world economy was in tatters, to the first hire of a startup based out of Estonia, to my current role in Austin, Texas it sure has been a windy road. They are also typically more memorable and genuine.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

Money to be used for hiring and additional product development. Founded in 2008 in Santa Monica by Ron Goldman (former CRO of shopping.com) and Rahul Sonnad. Incubated by Clearstone Ventures in 2008. Used by hedge funds, the intelligence community and multiple government agencies. Competitors: Gowalla. Current round: $4.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 13, 2011

The trend towards tiered levels of paid content will continue to escalate and the ability to foster community around your content will be the most important measure of value. Community buster Here’s the ironic thing: When people are invited into a community where everything is free, there’s actually less chance of building a strong community.

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