crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 15, 2013

Let’s kill the demo day and replace it with a one-year reunion – [link]. The weird world of vintage advertising | Desizn World – [link]. Creative Advertising Posters 2013 | Graphic Design Magazine – [link]. Lean Business: Lessons from A-Rod – [link]. Let the Crowd Build Your Company | Inc – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 31, 2012

5 startups that stood out at Excelerate’s demo day – [link]. The Trouble With Online Advertising – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. How To Get Your First 1,000 Users – [link].

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Software By Rob

JUNE 23, 2010

One that solves a problem, is marketable, and demos well. We judged based on a number of criteria, which can be seen at the bottom of this page , but they include things like usefulness, demo, UI, and differentiation. I was a judge at last night’s 59 days of code startup competition here in Fresno.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template tco use today) – [link]. 50 Advanced HTML5 Demos to show It’s Power – [link]. Absolutely Stunning Promotional Poster and Flyer Designs – [link]. 50 Amazing After Effects Tutorials – [link].

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Software By Rob

JULY 24, 2009

Startup Marketing Advice, “Failure,&# Things I Learned the Hard Way, and more… → Transitioning from Developer to Software Entrepreneur Micropreneurship , Startups If youre trying grow your startup youve come to the right place. Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 30, 2011

Good post by @micah with tips for entrepreneurs demoing a product/service to investors – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template tco use today) – [link]. What Don Corleone Could Learn from @GuyKawasaki – [link]. 5 solid startup lessons – [link].

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Diego Basch

MARCH 14, 2013

I avoid the entertainment industry, and anything where the revenue stream is based on advertising. As an electrical engineer and software developer with decades of experience building internet infrastructure, there are certain areas where I believe I could contribute much more than the puny sums that I can invest.

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Software By Rob

JULY 22, 2010

I’ve added a subscription box to my demo page. For more on my story and the purpose of all this, visit the about page. 2 comments ↓ #1 Eoin on 10.19.10 at 7:56 am Rob, thanks for the tips on setting up a mailing list. Despite low traffic numbers, it’s getting a good conversion rate.

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siliconflorist.com

DECEMBER 22, 2012

I saw David at the recent Microsoft Accelerator Demo Day and was reminded to go back and reread both of these posts. Distributed Systems Software Engineer. Android Developer. Android / iOS / Python / Django Developer. Web Developer. Platform Software Developer. Sr Developer (JavaScript/Flash).

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 16, 2012

I first met Steve when he was VP of Engineering at Centerline software, a software development tools startup, and I was a junior in college. He was a fellow Harvard computer science graduate and I was looking for a summer job in software development and found him through an alumni directory.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2012

Providing a legitimate alternative: A user resorting to using ad-blocking software cannot be blamed – most often he simply has no other choice. We believe that opting-out of advertising should be an easy, common and legitimate alternative for ad-intolerant users, provided that the content provider can remain as profitable.

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Software By Rob

OCTOBER 22, 2009

After the keynote we heard talks on Python, iPhone development, FogBugz (Joel again, though this time in his less entertaining “demo mode&# ), ASP.NET MVC (from Scott Hanselman who also knows how to work a crowd), Stack Overflow (Jeff Atwood), Qt (a language that runs on Nokia phones), Android and jQuery. at 5:05 pm [.]

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

The team was demoing their AJAX-powered map solution, the first of its kind, to senior management at Google. Lean manufacturing , agile software development , and Theory of Constraints are all examples of this idea in action. Freemium or subscription or advertising? Freemium or subscription or advertising?

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Software By Rob

MARCH 12, 2009

Jeremy (co-owner of DotNetInvoice) is doing some final testing on our demo server and runs into a problem. The demo site is crashing because of a missing license file. We’d been running in our development environments for two months without any problems. License file?

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 18, 2010

Plenty of advertising systems work well on 0.8%. #4 So if you can’t immediately profit from freeloaders (think gmail and advertising) don’t invite them in at all. #8 While plenty of advertising systems work on 0.8%, this simply requires more traffic than most non-funded products are able to achieve by offering a free plan.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

You make elaborate plans for a product, hire a team of engineers to develop it (people who do this tend to use the term "engineer" for hackers), and then find after a year that youve spent two milliondollars to develop something no one wants. As if to emphasize the point, Google never did any advertising.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

Create a strong brand, solid social community, sell advertising. How I can find the right investor (software)? Build something then demo it to people. Will developers and designers provide services for a piece of the company? I’m a web designer but I need to find a dependable software developer to team with.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Weve built Sandcastle specifically for an entrepreneur with an idea, who is not a developer. Sandcastle is a software development service for entrepreneurs. I would rather go for an established development company which can easily scale development team as project grows. Also consider hiring by recommendation.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

This literally the dumbest, most ignorant piece that I’ve ever read about software development and/or hiring programmers. I also know numerous other programming languages and have worked with many software development platforms over the last 25 years. Look what happened to Gawker. March 25, 2011 at 3:23 pm.

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