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. Austin has become quite a hotspot.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 25, 2018

by Melanie Mohr, CEO and founder of YEAY. Google parent company Alphabet booked more than $54 billion in ad revenue in the first half of 2018. Thanks to the invention of blockchain technology and digitally-scarce tokens, there might be a way to meet all of these requirements. So how much reach do those targeted ads really have?

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 10, 2020

by Sanjoe Jose, CEO and Co-founder of Talview. In fact, it’s predicted that the AI market within the US education sector will grow by 48% CAGR between 2018-2022. One university that has championed this approach is Ivy Tech Community College. Automation improves experience. Automation has the potential to play a huge role here.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

As the rate of change continues to increase in business and technology, the more I’m convinced that marketing is the primary key to success for a new venture. Yet I find that many technical founders don’t feel they need it at all, or at best point to one person on the team who is marketing.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 23, 2018

If you’re following Tesla, you might be interested to know that Sloan wasn’t the founder of GM. Where are the charitable foundations, business schools, and hospitals named after the founder of GM? The founder of what became General Motors was William (Billy) Durant. And a founder of Neuralink a brain-computer interface startup.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 26, 2019

Below, The Startup Magazine provides an essay from Anna Svirelkina, Chief Operating Officer of BlockShow, the global blockchain technology conference. Her perspective is another example of the power of shared entrepreneur experiences found in our founders article series. There is over $275 billion in circulation right now.

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Austin Startup

MAY 7, 2017

The Forrest Four-Cast: May 7, 2017 The strength of the Central Texas technology / startup scene helps SXSW thrive as an epicenter of innovation. We also advocate the fundamental right to explore, tinker, create, and innovate along the frontier of emerging technologies. Guest speaker by Honest Dollar founder Bill Hurley (Whurley).

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Austin Startup

JUNE 5, 2018

The Forrest Four-Cast: June 5, 2018 Show your tech pride at the world’s only LGBTQIA-themed Startup Weekend Hackout ! You’ll learn all the nitty-gritty details about how to create a company and meet mentors, investors, co-founders and sponsors ready about able to help you get started.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 15, 2018

The Forrest Four-Cast: January 15, 2018 The final deadline to apply for the SXSW Release It program is the end of the day on Friday, January 19. This competition is designed for startups (as well as established companies) that have a product, a service or an app that will launch in the first quarter of 2018.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 24, 2017

It’s only our second year on the market and our biggest accomplishment of the year is launching the deluxe version of our LUCKY Life Planner 2018. So we’re excited to keep developing our little company and evolving our product line in 2018. We’re coming into 2018 with a significant momentum and a fiery determination.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 1, 2020

Milis Bio CEO and Founder Mike Sheehan winning the 2018 Bank of Ireland/IGNITE Business of Year prize. From September 2017 to September 2018, Milis Bio participated in the University College Cork IGNITE Incubator program, and they won Bank of Ireland/IGNITE Business of the Year for 2018. Business is a contact sport!

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 3, 2018

We asked 19 entrepreneurs to share their business goals and what they were looking forward to in 2018. #1- Working with other business owners and entrepreneurs we are looking to create workshops for the local community to help assist them in entrepreneurship and winning the career lottery. I am so excited for 2018!

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Pre-swag surf group photo of HBCU@SXSW students and Spike Lee at Capital One House Over the past several years, tech communities across the United States have attempted to make significant progress towards increasing diversity and inclusion in their industries. Placement is 90%!

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Mike Michalowicz

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Gifted Healthcare is listed as one of the Country’s 2018 Fastest-Growing Staffing Organizations by Staffing Industry Analysts (SIA). AMN Healthcare is a Fortune’s 100 Fastest-Growing Company and is listed as one of the 2018 Largest US Staffing Firms with revenue over $100 Million by Staffing Industry Analysts (SIA).

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

It could be the product itself, it could be the way you’re marketing, it could be that the customer isn’t savvy enough to use the technology, it could be any number of things. She is the founder of Peninsula Strategies LLC , a consulting firm based in Menlo Park, CA, that helps companies excel in the Membership Economy.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

The Forrest Four-Cast: February 5, 2018 SXSW has announced 50 finalists for the SXSW Accelerator Pitch Event. A finalist in Payment and FinTech Technology category, Pawame is lighting up rural communities in Africa with clean, affordable and reliable solar home systems. What does Pawame hope to accomplish in 2018?

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 22, 2018

So much happened when the Lean Startup Community came together in Las Vegas last month for this year’s conference that I’m still processing it all. Conference Takeaways and Key Takeaways from the Lean Startup Vegas Conference 2018. And here are a few more general overviews: Top 11 Lean Startup Co.

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VC Cafe

MAY 24, 2023

Sam Altman, founder of OpenAI, is doing a European tour at the moment, and I was one of the attendees of his London talks at the Londoner, a swanky new London hotel, organised by the Oxford Guild Business Society. Back in 2018, they didn’t think about LLMs. He only moved to a full time role at OpenAI in 2019.

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

Technology platforms, development paradigms, and the vendor landscape have been shifting at a rate that very few organizations have been able to keep up with. The organizations that do manage to keep up are further driving change by redefining the technology landscape around their platforms, causing the rest to fall even further behind.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 13, 2018

Support the ATX Startup Community by voting for this selection of panels featuring Austinites. Once submitted, the community is allowed to chime in and vote on what topics capture their interest. Once submitted, the community is allowed to chime in and vote on what topics capture their interest. We reached out to the M.io

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Mike Michalowicz

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

When we support these businesses, we help to create jobs and economic growth in our communities. By recognizing and supporting black-owned small businesses, we can help to close the racial wealth gap and promote economic empowerment for marginalized communities. Bennett was named to Forbes’ “30 Under 30” list in 2018.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 22, 2018

Ethics in technology is a necessity. The general public, politicians, and entire nations are starting to grapple with the detrimental impact technology, big data, and algorithms can have on our world when design and business are not approached thoughtfully and ethically. Here are a few of my takeaways from SXSW this year.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

We’re dedicated to increasing diversity in the tech community and making our coworking space an inclusive environment for people of all backgrounds and identities. One founder/startup will walk away with a $100,000 investment that day! Any tech or consumer startup with a Black founder can apply to pitch at our Black in Tech Summit.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

We’re dedicated to increasing diversity in the tech community and making our coworking space an inclusive environment for people of all backgrounds and identities. One founder/startup will walk away with a $100,000 investment that day! Any tech or consumer startup with a Black founder can apply to pitch at our Black in Tech Summit.

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NZ Entrepreneur

MAY 17, 2023

In Founder Focus we introduce entrepreneurs and innovators working on our next generation of new business startups, social enterprises and small businesses. At a glance Founder: Craig Rowland Business: Sandfly Security Founded: April 2018 HQ: Canterbury Can you tell us a bit about your business?

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 9, 2018

According to Glossier co-founder Emily Weiss , “one of the things that we really rely on is our customers as co-creators and sort of co-conspirators of our company.” ” If your company isn’t ready to run its own online community, there are many other ways to bring customers into the fold. Know what matters.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Barry was named President and CEO of Deluxe Corporation in November 2018 and is a member of its board of directors. They share stories with world-class marketers who use technology to generate growth and achieve business and career success. And small business really is revolutionary for communities that they serve.

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David Teten

JANUARY 28, 2019

So universities have realized that for many students, promising a career in technology and entrepreneurship is key to recruiting high potential students. Along with some friends from Yale (my alma mater), I recently brainstormed some ideas to accelerate a university’s campus tech community. Everyone wants to work in tech startups.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 7, 2018

This article in the Colorado Sun – How Techstars’ “GiveFirst” mantra became a road map for the startup community in Colorado and beyond – was excellent and had numerous short examples of how GiveFirst works and influences a startup community. A few days ago he cranked out a post titled Colorado is for Founders.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Ian McAllister of Amazon offers greater detail on the process: The target audience for the press release is the new/updated product’s customers, which can be retail customers or internal users of a tool or technology. Hugo Woodhead is the founder of Pilcro , which sells brand management software. Test launch tiny products.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 28, 2017

This 2018, take some time out to refresh and recharge. The word is that a movie based on “ Ready Player One “ by Ernest Cline is slated to come out in 2018. This book has lots of interesting thoughts about market dynamics and disruptive technologies.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 5, 2019

economy, with firms such as Credit Karma, Tradeshift and Plaid enjoying extraordinary success as they use technology and innovation in an effort to transform the financial services industry. In 2018, for example, fintech investments in the U.S. Fintech companies are becoming significant players in the U.S. reached $11.9

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Add to that being the owner of a well established business, as well as leading a massive online community we are growing and you’ve got a recipe for no free time. In our online community we are using breakthrough technology to start a revolution to change the face of the cleaning industry. Photo Credit: Grace Reynolds.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Lindsay Guion, the Founder, CEO, and Global Chairman of Guion Partners , describes the current state of sports entertainment and offers a glimpse of what the future may hold. Millennials and Generation Z may watch fewer sports on cable and pay-TV services, but they are becoming an important driver of sports streaming technologies.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Attendance is complimentary and exclusively for senior capital markets professionals exclusively focused on emerging trends and technology companies impacting the asset management industry. Carrie Jaquith , Lazard – VP, Digital Product Manager & Head of Emerging Technology Group. Mazy Dar , CEO of OpenFin.

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NZ Entrepreneur

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Big Street Bikers was founded by Cleve Cameron, Andrew Charlesworth, and Matt Weavers in Auckland in 2018 when they launched The Rechargery, a solar-powered service station for e-bikes. Neocrete is focused on reducing the carbon footprint of concrete & improving its performance through technology & innovation.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

Texas is the most promising technology market in the United States. It seems like every day there is a new headline about an exceptional startup founder, investor, or corporate headquarters moving to Texas. Now the 9th largest economy in the world, it‘s clear that the rest of the world is waking up to the potential in Texas.

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