crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 30, 2017

The overall culture in Austin is renowned for its supportiveness of the small business community. The celebration for its unique culture and flourishing business community is very appealing, and many new startups are flocking to the city to embrace it as their own. The companies out here, they’re rooting for each other.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

This organization includes most of the California venture capitalists based in Menlo Park, CA, which is the headquarters of an amazing percentage of the nation’s venture capital companies. Turn first to your local Small Business Development Center (SBDC), which is most likely associated with your local community college.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 9, 2017

The Carson, California company employs about 800 people in its 4 Southern California plants. I believe everyone is a leader, whether it’s at work, home, church, or in their community. We offer a little bit of family in every meal, everybody that touches this recipe gives something to it.

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Up and Running

APRIL 13, 2016

We talked with two dispensary owners from pioneering states: Mitch Woolhiser, owner of Northern Lights Cannabis Company in Denver, Colorado, and Lincoln Fish, CEO of OutCo Labs, which manages the dispensary Outliers Collective in San Diego, California. If you’re in California, he also recommends reading Proposition 215 and Proposition 420.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 2, 2012

Recognizing the interdependent nature of life and the human foundations and business, a business needs to create value with and for its various stakeholders (customers, employees, vendors, investors, communities, etc.). Marty Zwilling First published on Young Entrepreneur on 11/19/2012. Conscious leadership.

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Steve Blank

JULY 2, 2015

He was named by Defense News as one of the 100 most influential people in the defense industry in 2012. He connects the Lab with the defense user community. Prior to that, he worked for an integrated trading company in which he built several new businesses by collaborating with high-tech startups in California.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

That’s why events like ONTRApalooza (Santa Barbara, California | October 22 – 23, 2015 ) are designed specifically for entrepreneurs and small business owners with that in mind. Her talent helped grow ONTRAPORT 5,000% in three years, landing the organization at #102 on the 2012 Inc.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

And she didn’t start her company in Northern California. Sam is the managing director of Launchpad LA and we were about to pick our 2012 class of entrepreneurs. She became part of the fabric of her community. Tracy DiNunzio isn’t your typical Silicon Valley startup founder. How’s that for an ex painter?

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Up and Running

JULY 25, 2013

David Calderon, a teacher at the Villa Park High School in Villa Park City, California, participated in the BEC Boost with his students, and was the mentor to two of the competition’s grand prize winners. I’m also a coach at the Youth Entrepreneurship Program here in our community, and I coached Andrew Ekelem and Michelle Sangalang.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 13, 2012

In June 2012, Fanning and fellow Napster co-founder Sean Parker launched a new live social video mirco-sharing platform called Airtime. While at Santa Barbara’s University of California, Allison Perry teamed up with classmates Brenton Taylor and Bryon Myers to build a better, more mobile device to deliver oxygen. project.

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www.usatoday.com

JULY 16, 2012

Sign up to get: Top viewed stories, photo galleries and community posts of the day. Privacy Notice/Your California Privacy Rights. © 2012 USA TODAY, a division of Gannett Co. Most Popular E-mail Newsletter. Most popular right now: Sponsored Links. USA TODAY Digital Services. E-Newsletters. USA TODAY for iPad. Sports Weekly.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 15, 2016

On September 10th of this year I spent an entire day in California State Prison with people who had committed felonies and worked with them on business plans to help them create legal enterprise upon their release as part of Defy Ventures 6-month training program. The 3-year recidivism rate in California for comparison is more than 50%.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 21, 2017

Historically, while unicorn startups rightfully garner a lot of media attention and interest throughout the venture capital (VC) community, smart investors have spread their money around among a large number of startups, both large and small. Upfront Ventures, a California-based VC firm, released its annual VC Survey Results in January.

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Cracking the Code

JANUARY 28, 2008

Wize provides consumers with a unique way to leverage the online wisdom by aggregating the opinions of millions of users and by letting people ask questions about a specific product or need to the Wize community. California Avenue, Suite 110 Sunnyvale, CA 94086 T: 408-215-4627 ext. ► 2012. (1). Anonymous said. Portfolio.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 30, 2016

First: They’re all based in California, and more specifically, in San Francisco, Mountain View, and Menlo Park, respectively. They’re All in California. At Alignable, we see this as a huge opportunity, and so we consider ourselves a Boston company trying to “pull off a California,” if you will. Any of these ring a bell?

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 19, 2016

Make no mistake: the legal marijuana industry is booming, creating huge business opportunities and massive tax revenue incomes for their communities. For instance, dispensaries opened prior to 2012 were once described as having the appearance of “ underground abortion clinics.”

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www.usatoday.com

JULY 16, 2012

He has hired engineers from Loyola Marymount University , CalTech, University of Southern California and UCLA , he says. Our vision for the school is to support the local ecosystem and our community, so this is fabulous," he says. Sign up to get: Top viewed stories, photo galleries and community posts of the day. E-Newsletters.

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Professor VC

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

If you are interested in sponsoring the course, would love to hear from you as being part of a state institution in California provides its own special challenges. I've learned more in the three months working with a real-life entrepreneur on a new venture than in all 5 years of Community College and my BA. March 19, 2012 11:12 AM.

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www.foliomag.com

JULY 31, 2012

MediaPRO Community. MediaNext 2012. 07/25/2012. Thanks for being part of the FOLIO: community. Digital Magazines 2012. California. ); E-Mail Alert Sign-Up. --> Subscribe Now. --> Media Kit. --> About FOLIO. RSS Feeds. --> --> Bookmark FOLIOMag.com. SEARCH FOLIO: Search. Careers Home. Search Jobs. Post a Job.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 7, 2017

The time has come for the Texas startup community to band together to change the world once again. One state — one Accelerator When Capital Factory opened our space in Austin in 2012, we were able to create a true center of gravity and then use that to connect together entrepreneurs, investors, customers, talent and press in meaningful ways.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 2, 2017

According to the research paper How Do Venture Capitalists Make Decisions? , “Roughly half the funds [surveyed]—particularly smaller funds, healthcare funds and non-California funds—require a unanimous vote of the partners. An additional 27% of funds require consensus (20%) or unanimous vote less one (7%). Union Square Ventures ( [link] ).

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

As of 2012, there were almost two million small farms in the U.S., What if, as you’re getting ready to harvest your first batch, you then find out that all the demand for passion fruit is centered in Southern California, and not in Miami like you thought? Farming used to be so much more about community. Be a good neighbor.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

Like virtually the entire tech industry, I am particularly in favor of Startup Visa , which has the goal of stimulating our domestic startup community through acts to keep our foreign-born entrepreneurs in the United States. HBS Angels will likely execute this in 2012. Best Practices in Venture Capital Portfolio Company Value Creation.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 26, 2019

California retains its rank as one of the most desirable states to live in, despite untenable property prices, high taxes, and a cornucopia of social issues. California homeowners are selling up and moving East, to neighboring states. California’s loss is Nevada and Arizona’s gain. In San Francisco, that figure is $1.4

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Create a profile for me in the Journal Community. Journal Community. Updated July 10, 2012, 7:57 p.m. About 14% of the technology firms that have held initial public offerings between January 2011 and the end of June 2012 went public with at least two share classes—more than twice the 6.4% Why Register? Subscribe.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2018

Few consider opportunities to make the world safer with the Department of Defense, Intelligence Community or other government agencies. Next, we wanted the students to learn about the nation’s threats and security challenges while working with innovators inside the DoD and Intelligence Community. Origins of the class.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 26, 2020

In honor of Netflix’s big beat today in the very unfortunate age of COVID-19, I decided to revisit my four-part Bazaarblog series while I was CEO of Bazaarvoice (from our inception in 2005 to our IPO in 2012). Then in 1998 along came a tiny company in Los Gatos, California named Netflix. The name of the last part? It worked, big time.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 26, 2019

Between 2012 and 2017, the number of craft breweries in the US jumped from 2,420 to 6,266 – that’s an increase of 159%! In fact, the craft beer community is an unusually welcoming one. The community shares information, ideas, and encouragement, making craft beer one of the most welcoming industries for newbies.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

September 19, 2012, 9:32 p.m. When youve bootstrapped a business where youre not drawing a salary and depleting whatever savings you have, thats one of the very difficult things to do," says Toby Stuart, a professor at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. Copyright 2012 Dow Jones & Company, Inc.

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Steve Blank

JULY 19, 2017

Few consider opportunities to make the world safer with the Department of Defense, State Department, Intelligence Community or other government agencies.). In 2012, Rep. Our primary goal was to teach students entrepreneurship while they engaged in national public service.

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Up and Running

JULY 21, 2016

Silicon Valley, California, USA. Coming in at number one (which should surprise absolutely no one) is Silicon Valley, California’s resident hub for startup and entrepreneurial innovation. Jumping from fifth place in 2012, NYC takes the number two spot. Los Angeles, California, USA. AngelList Silicon Valley.

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thinkspace.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

I believe in California, without actually buying shares or having a grant from a non-biased Board of Directors, the situation as described is fraud as the CEO is breaking his fiduciary duty to the minority shareholders. Copyright © thinkspace 2012. Call Us: +1-855-629-6200. Mission Statement. Member Coordinator. Bookkeeper.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 16, 2017

My company provides design and communications services for nonprofits, but I’m actually a marine biologist by training. Hypsypops rubicundus*, also known as the Garibaldi, is the California state marine fish. After polling my community, the feedback was positive, so I made the switch and I’m very happy that I did.

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thenextweb.com

AUGUST 6, 2012

5th August 2012 by Christopher Jackson. With YC I ended up as a co-founder of a startup, met amazing people, lived in California, made mistakes, learned from them, and saw what it really takes to succeed.” 10 of the Most Disturbing Communities on the Web. Copyright 2012 The Next Web. From small seeds grow mighty oaks.

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Professor VC

OCTOBER 20, 2009

However, the individual above was adamant that we should have a PR campaign to let the entrepreneurial community know that we dont participate or support this practice. Im also a strong believer that your track record and reputation are your most valuable assets in the venture community. ► 2012. (1). What do we get?

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

And that’s been reflected in the entrepreneurial community, where entrepreneurs, especially between 2000 and 2008, entrepreneurs really only wanted to do — for the most part wanted to do consumer software, because that’s the only software that they could actually get anybody to adopt. He is an active member of the blogging community.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2010

We’re still caught in the “post recession bounce” : What’s happening is that the angel & VC community is still feeling good from having bounced back from the nadir of the famous “ RIP Good Times ” funk that we felt in 2008. In California the primary school education system has cut 10 days from the school year to save jobs.

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