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NOVEMBER 30, 2012

Why We’re Pivoting from Mobile-first to Web-first – [link]. The Biggest Problem in Mobile: Retention – [link]. Want Venture Capital Funding? Real-Time Marketing is Upon Us–Here’s How Advertising Needs To Adapt | Co.Create – [link]. What’s the secret to a great team?

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

Practical Advice for Raising Early Stage Venture Capital – [link]. Fred Wilson on Why the Collapse of Venture Capital is Good – [link]. Mobile Advertising: Twitter Sales Are Double That Of Facebook In A Google-Ruled, $2.6B 40 Naughty Animals In Extremely Creative Advertisements – [link].

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DECEMBER 7, 2012

The Series A Crunch: One More Reason to Bootstrap and Skip Venture Capital | Enterprise Irregulars - [link]. Native Ads In 2013: Scale, Headlines As Banners, Mobile, Samsung, And Yahoo | TechCrunch - [link]. Weak … Why Small Agencies Crush Big Agencies | Advertising Age – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Venture capital on pace for biggest year since dot-com era - [link]. 40 New Web, Mobile and Application GUI Kits – [link]. The full story in the Other section below. crowdSPRING’s Small Business Spotlight of the Week: Juicy Bits – [link]. How I Quickly Test and Validate Startup Ideas - [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2011

Good data from @msuster on The State of Venture Capital and the Internet – [link]. How to Design a Mobile Responsive Website – [link]. Superb Examples of Capital Letters Use in Web Design – [link]. Small business and startups: great reads from the business press – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 3, 2015

Here’s Why the Venture Capital Crash Will Hurt – buff.ly/1LWPOi3. Growth Minded Entrepreneur on Instagram: “Less talking -> More doing.” ” crowdspring.co/1cWbcrx. The Inside Story of How the iPhone Crippled BlackBerry – buff.ly/1LJbYHF. crowdspring.co/1LaM931. 1UdHbpd.

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JUNE 13, 2014

Even The Onion has joined the game by launching a parody site – Clickhole – that on the one hand, pokes fun at click-bait, but ultimately, runs monetizes through advertising, just like every other click-bait site. A Dozen Things I’ve Learned from Michael Moritz About Venture Capital – crowdspring.co/1kLoGb1.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 13, 2014

Guerilla tips for raising venture capital | VentureBeat – crowdspring.co/P6hM3O. Social, Digital & Mobile Around The World (January 2014) – crowdspring.co/1gYcVJm. Well Designed Enterprise Mobile Apps – crowdspring.co/1dgrEQM. Does A Billion-Dollar Valuation Buy Employee Happiness?

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FEBRUARY 14, 2014

based venture capital investors, by deal stage. Advertising On Facebook For Likes Is A Waste Of Money - crowdspring.co/1fYVhou. Most active venture capital investors of 2013 in the US by stage – pic.twitter.com/cfCFXWmpbH. Advertising On Facebook For Likes Is A Waste Of Money - crowdspring.co/1fYVhou.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 26, 2013

Don’t Use Social to Generate Sales; Make Selling Social | Advertising Age – [link]. “So many folks in the venture capital business are sheep that just want to follow the herd. Don’t Use Social to Generate Sales; Make Selling Social | Advertising Age – [link]. Great data – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 25, 2013

How One Startup Grew a $100M Business Without Spending Venture Capital | Forbes – [link]. Mobile Payments Market Predicted To Reach $90B By 2017, Up From $12.8B Chicago venture picture better than U.S. Why Advertising Agencies Must Disrupt Themselves – [link]. Crowdsourcing: The Future of Advertising?

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 11, 2014

. “38% of venture-backed founders are over 40 years old” - crowdspring.co/1hywYgv. Five Reasons Not To Raise Venture Capital, by Rachel Chalmers | Model View Culture - crowdspring.co/1lIlpYH. The decline of the mobile web - crowdspring.co/1lIlKL4. How Old Are Silicon Valley’s Top Founders?

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FEBRUARY 21, 2014

Can you imagine getting your competitors to advertise for you? How You Get Slaughtered in a Down Round: When Taking Venture Capital Doesn’t Go as Planned – crowdspring.co/MvF29W. DHL Pranked UPS Into Advertising For Them – crowdspring.co/1jOeA6v. Well done, DHL! “If you want to sell ads, sell ads.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 27, 2009

Marketing develops a complete marketing communications plan, provides Sales with a full complement of support material, and starts the public relations bandwagon rolling. The company has a large press event, and Marketing launches a series of programs to create end-user demand (trade shows, seminars, advertising, email, and so on).

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

This Is Already The Third Biggest Year In The History Of Venture Capital – [link]. The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail – [link]. Is Crowdsourcing the Answer to the Downfall of Traditional Advertising? Best practices for mobile e-commerce – [link]. – [link].

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APRIL 26, 2012

Nice write-up on Google’s venture capital investment company – [link]. 25 Stunning Examples of Minimalistic Advertising – [link]. The funny side of advertising: 20 amusing and clever print advertisements – [link]. 32 Examples of Usable Mobile Website Layouts – [link].

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JANUARY 26, 2012

Venture capital investing hits 10-year peak, sparking bubble talk – [link]. Mobile-Ad Spending Projected to Reach $2.61B in 2012 - [link]. Typography in Advertisments - [link]. The best definition of entrepreneurship, in 25 words – [link]. To Find Happiness, Forget About Passion – [link].

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JANUARY 9, 2015

Things I’ve Learned from Doug Leone About Startups & Venture Capital | by @trengriffin - buff.ly/1wo39Hu. Supposed Media and Advertising Trends in 2014 That Never Happened | WSJ – buff.ly/1Any7Vs. The New Science of Building Great Teams | HBR – buff.ly/1AovjWH.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2015

A Dozen Things I’ve Learned from Keith Rabois about Venture Capital and Business | by @trengriffin – buff.ly/1AxbgY1. Most Innovative Companies 2015 | Fast Company | Business + Innovation crowdspring.co/1L22nZJ. Global Trends That Will Transform Your Business crowdspring.co/1KxOemG.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Qualcomm Ventures is invested in a number of startups including Livescribe, Obopay , Arieso and Zeebo. Brad Feld: Feld is co-founder and managing director of Foundry Group, a Boulder, Colorado venture capital firm that focuses on early stage investments ranging from $250,000 to $500,000.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 3, 2012

Trends In Venture Capital Over The Last 12 Years – [link]. Bad returns be damned: Venture capital fundraising jumps 31 percent in U.S. Bad returns be damned: Venture capital fundraising jumps 31 percent in U.S. 25 Brilliant Examples of Olympics Print Advertisements – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 1, 2013

Venture Capital Returns – [link]. The Courage to Advertise Without Female Stereotypes – [link]. Publishers: Here’s Why Your Display Ads Are Getting Trounced By Social and Search | Advertising Age – [link]. Mobile is now dinging your web strategy. Play by your own rules – [link].

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

They write everything from assembly to jQuery, on PCs to mobile phones, doing hard core computer graphics to high level social networking. And if you’re doing Windows Mobile 7 apps (which the stats suggest you aren’t), it’s your only choice. They’ve tried everything. Everything, that is, but.NET.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

How Bootstrapping Became a Lost Art and Venture Capital Became an Addiction – Capterra Blog crowdspring.co/1fwqKUb. 9 Facts To Improve Your Mobile Search Performance crowdspring.co/1KA70I8. What mobile ad blocking looks like in the real world crowdspring.co/1Uofah6. Mark Zuckerberg’s FWD.us crowdspring.co/1WdcrFV.

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