crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 19, 2016

Legal adult recreational marijuana sales topped $998 million in 2015 compared to $351 million in 2014 — growing 184% year-over-year. America’s 2015 marijuana sales were higher than those of Dasani, Oreos and Girl Scout cookies. That’s nearly twice as much revenue than the state earned from alcohol taxes.

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Early Growth Financial Services

MAY 19, 2015

San Jose, CA (PRWEB) May 19, 2015 Early Growth Financial Services (EGFS) is pleased to announce its first-ever panel event focused on cannabis-based businesses. Topics to be covered include specific tax, financial, and operational hurdles entrepreneurs focusing on this space have to contend with, how to access investment capital, and more.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 21, 2017

After describing the uncertainty private investors were feeling about the future of the economy, the outcome of the presidential election, and other factors, Fast Company quoted Brian Hughes , a partner at KPMG (one of the organizations responsible for the Venture Pulse Report): “It’s a challenging time for VC investors.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 30, 2019

A love with rock climbing brought him to Northern California in 1993, where he eventually took a job packing boxes for Shoreline Mountain Project. In 2015, Schwartzfarb moved over to the investor side as Managing Director of Techstars in Austin, leading the accelerator and its startups into new heights of innovation and success.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 7, 2020

In our first investor deck, we referenced a 2015 IbisWorld report on the Courier and Express Delivery market. Fire departments gave us a customer profile (31 counties in California wildfire danger zones). . Quantifying the Market. The third step to creating fit is to quantify market size and growth to determine if you can scale. .

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

I might have pursued a humanities education at a “ kumbaya college ” in California, but it’s only human to be at least a little bit selfish! I pitched potential teammates to join me, investors to fund us, businesses to partner with us and customers to use us. SO, WHAT EXACTLY IS A PRODUCT MANAGER?

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 23, 2022

I started a Kickstarter in 2015 to start my business featuring the “All Day Every Day” Pant concept and raised over $180k in sixty days to jumpstart my brand. I remember moving to California almost 10 years ago and was completely overwhelmed. Photo Credit: Chandler Sterling. Thanks to Jimmy Watts, Own The Grill ! #29-

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Up and Running

JANUARY 22, 2015

In the last year alone, several have opened across the United States, with cafes in New York City, Oakland, California, and soon, Portland Oregon. Purringtons Cat Lounge will be officially open to the public on January 24th, 2015. However, the interest in cat cafes stateside is certainly growing. they are treading on very new ground.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

Well, according to the 2015 Affiliate Marketing Benchmark Report … 60.97% of affiliates live in the U.S. Most of them are from California (8.56%), New York (8.16%), Florida (7.40%), Texas (6.16%), Pennsylvania (5.71%) and Illinois (5.71%). What Does an Affiliate Marketer Look Like Today? So, who are these affiliates?

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

This isn’t just Northern California touchie feelie; life goes in cycles and startups are a repeat game. The path that led Aaron Batalion to join Lightspeed as my partner, focusing on consumer investments, is one of those relationship driven stories. We will all see each other again if we hang around the valley long enough.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

This isn’t just Northern California touchie feelie; life goes in cycles and startups are a repeat game. The path that led Aaron Batalion to join Lightspeed as my partner, focusing on consumer investments, is one of those relationship driven stories. We will all see each other again if we hang around the valley long enough.

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Up and Running

MARCH 16, 2016

The Pacific Northwest had a great overall year for venture capital activity in 2015—even if you count the 59 percent dip in Q4. The MBA@UNC map highlights Madrona Venture Group, which Pitchbook reported to be the “most active venture firm in the Northwest” in 2015. Southern California. Pacific Northwest.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 29, 2018

In 2015 Tony Hernandez left his corporate career to open Cienfuegos Cuban Café in Simi Valley, California, inspired by the restaurant his father ran in the 1980s—a Cuban immigrant who came to America in search for a better life. 24 percent said it’s because being their own boss allows them to control their schedule.

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Hunter Walker

AUGUST 2, 2017

We created a film series in late 2015 to examine the contributing factors impacting American women called Giving Birth In America and to inform people about the maternal crisis here at home heading into an election year. I still feel like a California girl at heart and come back as often as I can.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 3, 2017

In November of 2015, the Austin Chamber of Commerce in partnership with the Austin Technology Council released the Inaugural Capital Landscape Analysis to answer these questions. Can the Austin investment landscape afford them enough staying power? Or is just a matter of time before these companies pick up and move west to secure funding?

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

One of the drivers for that growth is that for European, Israeli, Latin American, and Eastern Canada-linked companies, the East Coast is much closer than California. At the Dutch Consulate alone, we saw more than double the amount of companies interested into scaling into NYC between 2014 and 2015.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Video currently represents about 40% of all online traffic, growing by 400% by the year 2015. Qwilt has offices in Hod Hasharon, Israel and Redwood City, California. Greater efficiencies are really needed in this sector to deal with a growing demand and a wider consumption base. What does Qwilt mean for the consumer?

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Austin Startup

MAY 3, 2017

That economy, our new economy, looks vastly different from that which we’re, perhaps, familiar in California or New York. California. Validate that potential partners are indeed potential partners. What we have is a company changing the world. A startup valued at over $1 billion (who wouldn’t want that?)

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

2015’s 10 friendliest cities for small businesses – (27:42). You can go so far in a single direction with too much freedom that maybe that’s not the best for people around you, or employees, or partners. You could actually be scouting new clients in Bogota while doing work with most of your clients in California.

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Up and Running

APRIL 18, 2016

In California, Washington, Hawaii, Iowa, and Florida, you’ll need a Seller of Travel license. We formed an LLC to start Project Expedition and closed a $300k seed round in January 2015 to help drive the development of our MVP (minimum viable product),” explains founder Jeremy Clement. For the U.S.

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

DECEMBER 9, 2010

In the bayarea, TEDx Bay Area Women organized an event hosted at SAP in Palo Alto, California. Some folks whom I met: Debra Bowen, Secretary of State of California. Debra Bowen, Secretary of State of California - voting machines were pulled bc they weren’t sure if viruses been loaded to a machine.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

owing to projected weakness in the economies of Israel’s main trading partners, the United States and Europe. By 2015 we see more than 50 million femtocells being shipped annually with WCDMA femtocells making up the bulk of the market,&# Aditya Kaul, of Mobile Networks, ABI Research, said.

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

DECEMBER 9, 2010

In the bayarea, TEDx Bay Area Women organized an event hosted at SAP in Palo Alto, California. Some folks whom I met: Debra Bowen, Secretary of State of California. Debra Bowen, Secretary of State of California – voting machines were pulled bc they weren’t sure if viruses been loaded to a machine.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 14, 2015

One of the main reasons why my partners and I started TopFire Media is to fill a void within the franchise arena. Our sippy cup is made in Riverside, California which we are very proud of. With the sustained and rapid growth of recent years, we expects sales to further increase 30% in 2015. So my team and I built it.

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Hunter Walker

JULY 29, 2017

When I freed up time, I asked the partners if I could start attending the trading classes even though I hadn’t been hired into that role, and that’s how I became a trader. 05% of the participants (literally, 10 people, five of whom didn’t live in California). And plenty of people have known this for years.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 19, 2015

Transport yourself back to 2015, because it’s time for our weekly Roundup! Drone Giant DJI And Top VC Firm Accel Partners Launch A $10 Million Drone Fund crowdspring.co/1R0ELpo. Uber Driver Is Employee, Not Contractor, Says California Labor Commission - buff.ly/1Bjyeoa. OK – enough with the time travel! 1fcNGse.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 22, 2019

It even penciled for Google in 1998, and it still worked well enough that Facebook chose to establish its headquarters in Palo Alto, California, in 2004. Today, what we do at Turing would have been impossible, as late as 2015. Ditto for Apple. The boundaryless era, the time for distributed teams.

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

It is 2015. For each category, you need to partner with your creative teams on ad content, with your marketing team for ad targeting. I'm so surprised that California is missing from the top 7. You had to rely on 300 surveys filled out by badgering people on street corners or when they are having dinners at home.

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