crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

The Myth of Venture Capital | Re/code by Jon Oringer – crowdspring.co/1tNFeV7. Bad Notes on Venture Capital – crowdspring.co/1u3NJvn. How to Spot & Avoid Bad Web Hosting Companies | InstantShift – [link] crowdspring.co/YqAyHQ. 8 Excellent Reasons to Redesign Your Website – [link] crowdspring.co/1xDca5k.

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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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NOVEMBER 7, 2014

The Thin Skin of the Venture Capital Market - crowdspring.co/1xaoN3x. “Everyone who doesn’t have his head up ass knows online advertising is a corrupt freak show of cosmic proportions” crowdspring.co/1G2J5lp. Digital to Overtake TV Ad Spending in Two Years: Forrester | Advertising Age - crowdspring.co/1x56P4i.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 10, 2014

In Venture Capital, Birds of a Feather Lose Money Together (you want contrasting opinions) – crowdspring.co/1o1YA2b. Google Ventures’ Bill Maris on Venture Capital in Silicon Valley | Re/code – crowdspring.co/1v00G51. The Importance of Understanding Your Best Users – crowdspring.co/1o21ZOj.

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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. “Real Time” in Display Advertising Doesn’t Really Mean Real Time - crowdspring.co/1hyAnvG.

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MARCH 13, 2014

Guerilla tips for raising venture capital | VentureBeat – crowdspring.co/P6hM3O. The Essential Email Marketing Metrics You Should Be Tracking | Hubspot blog – crowdspring.co/1gY786G. It takes 3 years [before you know if your startup can be a real business] – crowdspring.co/1kK2ZJ8. ReadWrite – crowdspring.co/1ekm5xR.

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JANUARY 26, 2012

Venture capital investing hits 10-year peak, sparking bubble talk – [link]. Why Startups Shouldn’t Hire PR Firms – [link]. Typography in Advertisments - [link]. Facing Another PR Disaster: Google Accused Of Fraudulently Undermining A Kenyan Startup – [link]. Study: Why Do People Use Facebook?

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 19, 2011

Business model: o They bought a lot of ad inventory (banner ads/advertising) driving people to signup forms, converting (fill out form) and sold leads, o Initial strategy was first comparison shopping and then monitoring and upselling on more savings. To make PR big you need to find a way to “make news”.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 21, 2014

It will also help you when it comes time to write your business plan, especially if you’re pitching an angel investor or a venture capital firm – they will want to see there’s a market for your idea, otherwise, it won’t scale as rapidly as they need it to in order to make a return on their investment. Day 21: Advertise.

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crowdSPRING Blog

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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FEBRUARY 10, 2012

The Chicago FireStarter Venture Capital Fund – [link]. When did advertising get so small? Good to see companies focus on real advertising metrics – [link]. Yelp advertising is a rip-off for small advertisers – [link]. Creative and Unconventional Print Advertisements – [link].

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

Ryan Chan, founder at UpKeep said, “We created an LLC at first, but after realizing that we wanted to take on venture capital, we decided to move to a Delaware C corp.”. venture capital. Seek out venture capital funding. 17 Venture Capital Blogs You Should Be Reading. Do your own PR.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

Marketing with long payback is precisely what requires venture capital. That marketing can be PR or SEO or influencer distribution or other forms of “unpaid” marketing. PR requires time and effort from your team that isn’t spent elsewhere and thus is a real cost. It it just more time that they save?

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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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JANUARY 25, 2013

How One Startup Grew a $100M Business Without Spending Venture Capital | Forbes – [link]. Why Advertising Agencies Must Disrupt Themselves – [link]. Crowdsourcing: The Future of Advertising? Amazon Set To Sell Advertisers On Its Customer Purchasing Data – [link].

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NOVEMBER 30, 2011

Venture capital remains white boys club – [link]. Facebook Is Using Minors To Advertise Alcohol – [link]. 25 Creative Advertisements – [link]. The Future of Advertising: Everything’s Going Mobile – [link]. Five campaigns changing the game of mobile advertising – [link].

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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]. Advertisers Must Be Inventors | Winston Binch – Harvard Business Review – [link].

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JANUARY 4, 2013

How One Startup Grew a $100M Business Without Spending Venture Capital | Forbes – [link]. Pay with a Tweet” and Other Growth Hacking Examples | Venture Capital Cafe – [link]. Funding startups that rely on advertising (by @bijan) – [link]. Why Malls Are Getting Mauled | Jeff Jordan - [link].

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Steve Blank

APRIL 9, 2009

We will accomplish this through demand-creation activities (advertising, PR, tradeshows, seminars, web sites, etc.), The same was true for PR. And the results weren’t the traditional PR metrics of number of articles or inches of ink. It wasn’t measured by how busy you were, it was measured by results.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

Want Venture Capital Funding? Real-Time Marketing is Upon Us–Here’s How Advertising Needs To Adapt | Co.Create – [link]. Facebook Remains Gaping Hole in Advertising Industry’s Privacy Program | Advertising Age – [link]. What’s the secret to a great team?

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MAY 11, 2012

What I learned from raising venture capital – [link]. 50 More Humorous Print Advertisements to Make You Smile – [link]. Creative Advertising In These 90+ Epic, Smart & Beautiful Ads – [link]. Beautiful And Creative Advertising Design Ideas – [link]. So what exactly is a tech company?

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Cracking the Code

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. I love this video: everything you need to know about online advertising! Venture Capital. (3). Impact of the recession on SaaS Sales&Marketing pr. Bessemer Venture Partners Expands BVP VII Fund.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Advertising. Dave Graham Business Venture Capital Private Equity GlobalLogic Inc. Venture Capital Firms. Of course, Arizona Bay is a consulting company, not a venture capital firm, and doing the work of both simultaneously can be time consuming. Were not a venture capital firm.".

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

Handling PR with VCs. To update me on your PR? Press doesn’t mean anything other than free advertising. Don’t get me wrong, I’m very pro PR but please see it for what it is and don’t think that smart or experienced people are going to see it as any more than it is either. Is that why you called?

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crowdSPRING Blog

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]. – [link]. 5 tech deals that need to happen – [link].

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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? If VCs Understood UX – [link]. – [link]. Panel Discussions.

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JULY 3, 2015

Here’s Why the Venture Capital Crash Will Hurt – buff.ly/1LWPOi3. How to Simplify SEO, PR, and Social Collaboration | Convince and Convert crowdspring.co/1H3u8Tt. Growth Minded Entrepreneur on Instagram: “Less talking -> More doing.” ” crowdspring.co/1cWbcrx. crowdspring.co/1LaM931. 1J8fAlR.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

I thing I’ve learned over the years is that technology purists hate advertising even when it is that revenue stream that truthfully drives much of our industry. IdeaLab has a philosophy that if they can get a centralized group of expert staff to help with legal, accounting, recruiting, PR, etc.

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Altgate

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

It’s a dating website that is free for users and makes money from advertising. The servers are in the cloud, his advertising sales is with Google, etc. Advertising. PR/Marketing. For startups, PR firms are a waste of money. He basically outsources everything. Start a blog.

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Steve Blank

JULY 13, 2009

The only difference between us and the Internet bubble that would follow was that we did branding on the cheap by creating our image with public relations, whilethe dot-bomb era was to do it by spending enormous sums on advertising (those large venture rounds had to get spent somewhere.) Hindsight is wonderful.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2012

The Series A Crunch: One More Reason to Bootstrap and Skip Venture Capital | Enterprise Irregulars - [link]. Weak … Why Small Agencies Crush Big Agencies | Advertising Age – [link]. Micro VC’s and Super Angels Two Years Later – Looking Back and Some Predictions for the Future | Business Insider – [link].

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Hunter Walker

MAY 20, 2018

The idea was to build a publishing-focused brand with events as a revenue base while we figured out our own differentiation in a crowded market — and then added business lines around advertising, custom content and now subscriptions. So much of what people say as business executives is PR. That’s a red flag.

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techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Researchers polled experts in lending, mezzanine capital, private equity, venture capital and private businesses themselves. Not a big shock, but things don’t look pretty, especially in the venture capital world. 41% of them feel that they qualify for venture capital funding.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Advertising. For example, Morse notes that neither C corporations nor venture capital funds structured as partnerships can, by law, be S corporation shareholders. Email Address: ); ADVERTISEMENT. FROM OUR PARTNERS. ); ); ); ADVERTISEMENT. Learn how from the experts at PR Newswire. Personal Finance.

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www.entrepreneur.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Answers Ask Entrepreneur Home Business Operations Business Opportunities Sales & Marketing Advertising & PR Finance & Accounting Franchises Home Business Human Resources Internet/E-Commerce Legal Issues Starting Up Technology Most Recent Answers How Can I Streamline My E-Commerce Operation? Million in Venture Capital.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Venture capital on pace for biggest year since dot-com era - [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]. Some very useful info here – The China Startup Report - [link].

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OCTOBER 28, 2011

Good data from @msuster on The State of Venture Capital and the Internet – [link]. Small business and startups: great reads from the business press – [link]. crowdSPRING’s Small Business Spotlight of the Week: Coupon Cactus – [link]. 9 Metrics to Help You Make Wise Decisions about Your Start-Up – [link].

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