crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 3, 2011

2011 is going to be a great year for entrepreneurs – even better than 2010. But this investment will happen globally and the US may see a decline in VC-funded startups in 2011. Investors will be bullish on startups. Startups will sustain domestic employment.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

The entrepreneurship movement around the world is growing from strength to strength, and much of that momentum can be attributed to the annual Global Entrepreneurship Week. 14 – 20, 2011. during Global Entrepreneurship Week include: Startup Weekend: Twenty U.S. Some of the events that will take place in the U.S.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

JULY 2, 2011

If you are interested in the big picture of global innovation, you might want to download this report from INSEAD — the 2011 Global Innovation Index. INSEAD is essentially a global business school with points of presence all around [.].

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

One of the more interesting activities that will take place during the upcoming Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW) 2011 is Startup Weekend, a 54-hour event where innovative minds come together to conceptualize and launch companies. Global Startup Battle. The Global Startup Battle will start on Nov. 30, 2011.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

We have global opportunities from these trends but of course also big challenges. In 2001 companies IPO’d very quickly if they were working, by 2011 IPOs had slowed down to the point that in 2013 Aileen Lee of Cowboy Ventures astutely called billion-dollar outcomes “unicorns.” even before the pandemic itself has been fully tamed.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 25, 2011

Echelon , Southeast Asia’s biggest conference for technology startups, is back for its 2011 edition and looks to be even more exciting than before. Young Upstarts is a media partner of e27 and Echelon 2011. Many of these startups have all gone and made their mark – there’s Gothere.sg See you there!

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 7, 2020

she / her) - Senior Vice President, Global Technology and Innovation - Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce | LinkedIn Will Young - CEO & Co-founder - Sana Benefits | LinkedIn Andrea L.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

2011 was the year where global economy shaped the life for companies everywhere. The global recession has also had a massive effect on technology and start-ups, but just as often as new opportunities rather than challenges. Global finance is being remade. Local will be the new global. What is your view?

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 16, 2018

In its Global Phishing Survey 2H2013 , the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) said there were a minimum of 115,565 unique phishing attacks worldwide between July 1 and December 31, 2013: “This is nearly a 60% increase over the 72,758 seen (in) the first half of 2013.”.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Basketball legend and entrepreneur Magic Johnson and Twitter founder Biz Stone are set to be keynote speakers at this year’s EO Alchemy 2011 , a three-day global conference for entrepreneurs to learn new strategies, share success stories and experiences and network with financers and other industrialists.

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View from Seed

MARCH 4, 2020

Interestingly, it looks like the Midas List skipped 2010 and changed methodologies considerably in 2011, so you’d need to wait until 2021 to do a true look back. 2009 was the nadir of the global economic crisis, followed up an unprecedented bull market. First, let’s set the stage for this time period.

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Agile VC

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

September 15, 2011. In the first half of 2011, the IPO markets were looking strong for VC-backed companies. How diffferent 2H 2011 looks. The global macro conditions could weigh heavily on the IPO market for awhile. © 2011 GenuineVC - All rights reserved. How To Think About The Future. Life was good.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 31, 2014

In fact, damage to reputation and brand has moved up to #4 from #6 in the Top 10 risks identified in Aon''s 2013 Global Risk Management Risk Ranking , moving ahead of business interruption and failure to innovate to meet customer needs in 2011.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 7, 2013

Even in this age of globalization and virtualization, the geographic area where you choose to live and work can still make or break your startup business. From 2006 to 2011, the number of startups founded and funded outside of California, Massachusetts, and New York, according to Wessel, has grown by almost 65%.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Aziz: RIM has over 300,000 registered developers globally. BlackBerry DevCon Asia 2011 will be held in Bangkok, Thailand this year. RIM has over 67 million subscribers to-date, which makes it easy for any developer to build an application for a global market. Can you elaborate? Over one billion apps downloaded to date.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 3, 2011

One of the companies that will feature at the upcoming web and mobile technology startup conference Echelon 2011 is Fetch Plus , a social media and mobile application development company. Fast forward six years later – Fetch Plus is a growing company, and is poised for further global expansion. Growing The Business.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 26, 2012

2011 was a Watershed Year for Hacktivism. 2011 was described a watershed year for many organizations around the world with the rise of Hacker Activists or Hacktivism. It was reported that 70,000 new security threats are discovered daily globally. An Acknowledgement of Rising Security Threats in Asia.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 8, 2011

This year, the forum – a global association of students aimed at supporting the mission of the World Entrepreneurship Forum to create wealth and social justice through entrepreneurship – will hold a four-day event from July 25 to July 28 at various local tertiary institutions.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JANUARY 4, 2018

We’ve come a long way from switching this blog to WordPress in 2009, my systematic vetting of the business idea in 2009 (after needing it myself due to the success of this blog crashing my dedicated server every time I got on Hackernews), the “ coming soon ” pre-launch in April 2010, our Series A 3-minute pitch in 2011, our incredible CEO Heather Brunner (..)

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 27, 2014

With Asia’s share of global research and development forecast to grow to 40% this year, the quest to drive innovation is at the forefront of conversation among business leaders and entrepreneurs in the region. Karen Reddington is Regional Vice President of FedEx Express, South Pacific, a position that she assumed since June 2011.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Utilizing these experiences and the principles of a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt, she started MAS Connections in 2011. Actually, it expands their possibilities to a global market, both to offer and to receive services from around the world. Adriana: In my opinion, it doesn’t.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 8, 2011

There is overlap between this category and the green category, as it relates to global warming and environmental impact. Nevertheless, if you are looking for a hot sector to help you recover from tough economic times, get you tagged as a world leader, and increase your probabilities for funding support, put some energy into this one in 2011.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 16, 2011

Outsourcing is spreading at a frantic pace today with a global footprint and players like oDesk and eLance have made it very easy for companies to connect with outsourcing vendors. PDT on the following dates: Thursday, June 23, 2011: Register Here. Thursday, June 30, 2011: Register Here. Thursday, July 21, 2011: Register Here.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 15, 2011

Taking place on November 30 to December 1, 2011 at The Mira, Hong Kong, the 2nd Cloud Computing World Forum Asia will feature all of the key players within the cloud computing and SaaS market providing an introduction, discussion and look into the future for the ICT industry.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 22, 2011

This will represent around six-percent of Singapore’s total e-commerce volume for 2011. “We But this space will bear watching in 2012 as the global economic slowdown continues to bear down, and consumers increasingly look towards alternative and cheaper ways to obtain much desired goods and services.

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Eric Friedman

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Foursquare held a global hackathon this weekend that spanned the world with events happening in Tokyo, Paris, NY, SF and many other cities. With a combination of technologies and resources, people came together and built some amazing tools, utilities, and interesting hacks – it was quite an event.

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Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

Wednesday, February 23, 2011. It would have been easy to explain the difference by changes in the 2010/2011 revenue growth projections but unfortunately that is not the case. ▼ 2011. (2). Global warming: a plague for humanity? Global Warning! SaaS Multiples: Recovery or Bubble? What happened? software. (10).

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 26, 2011

Announced on October 15, the “GEW 50” will then compete for the top honors, to be awarded during Global Entrepreneurship Week. Startup Open , has launched its search for the 50 most promising new companies with high growth potential around the world. Applicants will be judged on concept, growth projections and knowledge of their industry.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 12, 2012

SailPoint today announced it posted record annual revenue growth in 2011 and closed its largest growth quarter to date in Q4 2011. The company’s momentum resulted from growing customer demand in all geographies and the strong industry validation SailPoint received in 2011 as an identity management market leader.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 23, 2011

I advised Anupam to come up with a 2011 strategy. PDT on the following dates: Thursday, June 23, 2011: Register Here Thursday, June 30, 2011: Register Here Thursday, July 21, 2011: Register Here. Thursday, July 28, 2011: Register Here And you can sign up for the 1M/1M premium program here.

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David Cohen

SEPTEMBER 19, 2020

Twilio became a popular perk for Techstars companies globally over the years and many other Techstars portfolio companies use the product extensively. 4: Zipline (2011). Techstars funded the company via our Techstars Seattle Accelerator in 2011. 5: Scopely (2011). 6: Outreach (2011). 7: R emitly (2011).

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Not only do you need to come up with something relevant, but you have the added stress of worrying about the verb effect, if it’s easy-to-spell, globally understandable, catchy, memorable and gives off the right impression. Naming your startup can be one of the most difficult challenges for an entrepreneur. Opting for the often used “.ly”

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Gust

MARCH 23, 2014

In fact, damage to reputation and brand has moved up to #4 from #6 in the Top 10 risks identified in Aon’s 2013 Global Risk Management Risk Ranking , moving ahead of business interruption and failure to innovate to meet customer needs in 2011.

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 19, 2012

3/15/2011 – All in on Facebook, “Your Trusted Social Media Marketing Company” Social Media Platform. 7/19/2011 – Same page, but Wayback Machine stops crawling pages. 8/15/2011 – The day that Buddy Media became a software company? 8/31/2010 – Same thing. ” to. ” There you have it.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 10, 2014

With the rapid global penetration of smartphones and tablets and the increased data speed of 4G networks, mobile applications are riding a wave of explosive growth. The advent of mobile platforms has rendered all of those tools passé.

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David Teten

OCTOBER 29, 2012

Worldwide Investor Network (WIN) is holding a 2-day conference on “ Funding The Best In Global Innovation” November 13-14 in NYC, showcasing 10 promising tech startups from around the world. If you are interested in participating feel free to email Eyal Bino at eyal(@)worldwidein.com.

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thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

I overviewed demographic and economic trends globally and outlined the opportunity for technology companies to access growth in the emerging markets. This is also the first year that smartphone sales overtook feature phone sales globally – driven by sales in India. Why this acquisition?

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