crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 11, 2012

Six Myths of Product Development – [link]. Unlimited Vacation Doesn’t Create Slackers–It Ensures Productivity – [link]. Unlimited Vacation Doesn’t Create Slackers–It Ensures Productivity – [link]. Six Myths of Product Development – [link]. Who’s Next?

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 13, 2022

I appreciate the thought and care that went into The Farmstand, a product developed by Zooey Deschanel and Jacob Pechenik that enables buyers to garden fresh vegetables without pesticides and less water than conventional gardening. Thanks to Teo Vanyo, Stealth Agents ! #21- Thanks to Richard Mews, Sell With Richard ! #14-

Artificial Inteligence 75

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

JANUARY 6, 2011

Improve the product. Lisa Marino of RockYou , a leading developer of social games and advertising solutions for social media, is focused on building a great team with more gaming DNA to improve the quality of the games it publishes: Make RockYou the place talent wants to be. Internalize culture and values.

Stealth 60

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Thats the conclusion Ive come to after watching tons of online products fail for a complete lack of customers. Our goal is to find out whether customers are interested in your product by offering to give (or even sell) it to them, and then failing to deliver on that promise. Nothing made any difference.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 2, 2009

Five Why’s rarely works for general abstract problems like “our product is buggy&# or “our team moves too slow.&# The net effect of all this was to make new engineers incredibly productive right away – in most cases, we’d have them deliver code to production on their very first day.

San Francisco 164

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Alexia Tsotsis: Since people like me (millennials) are putting pressure on our IT departments to buy products that we can actually use and aren’t blinded by, what do you think the enterprise space will look like in the next five years? Marc Andreessen: We have a bunch of stealth investments. Marc Andreessen: Yeah.

Software Review 22

Software Review Startup Venture Capital Stock 22

Occam's Razor

APRIL 23, 2012

Most content sites are currently monetized using display advertising, most commonly on a Cost Per Thousand Impressions (CPM) basis. That incentive removes a focus from the important entity, your customer, and places it on the secondary entity, your advertiser. You pimp product specs (ugh!). But it gets worse. Just like Yahoo!

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