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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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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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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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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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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

In times when venture capital is hard to get, investors extract high costs for failure (down-rounds, cram downs , new management teams, shut down the company.) Marketing demand creation programs (Search Engine Marketing, Public Relations, Advertising, Lead Generation, Trade Shows, etc.)

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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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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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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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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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JANUARY 26, 2012

Venture capital investing hits 10-year peak, sparking bubble talk – [link]. Typography in Advertisments - [link]. When has a consumer startup hit product/market fit? - [link]. How to Develop Your Fund Raising Strategy – [link]. The best definition of entrepreneurship, in 25 words – [link].

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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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Steve Blank

APRIL 9, 2009

But my favorite was when the public relations manager said, “we’re here to write press releases and answer the phone in case the press calls.” We will accomplish this through demand-creation activities (advertising, PR, tradeshows, seminars, web sites, etc.), The same was true for PR.

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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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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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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. Public Relations Specialist - expert.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 19, 2009

Since this was the marketing department, I was going to be planning to spend some advertising and public relations dollars. Now I had happy and surprised customers walking around with paid advertising for my company. Who did they think were the leaders in the color graphics board and monitor market?

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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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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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Austin Startup

MARCH 22, 2017

As consumers, we are causing advertisers to adjust their messages to fit our interests. According to Cunha, 94 percent of venture capitalists are men and, out of those, 78 percent are white. “If If you look at the stats, Blacks, Hispanics, and women receiving venture capital funding is very low,” he said.

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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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Hearpreneur

MARCH 26, 2017

Thanks to Ken Schaefer, Schaefer Advertising ! #2 And, there are a lot of disadvantages to raising venture capital – spending a lot of time trying to raise the capital, the very low probability of ever getting any, the loss of ownership, the loss of control, and the yoking with investors that may not share your values – to name but a few.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Looking ahead to the product launch, the marketing group hires a public relations agency to refine the positioning and to begin generating early “buzz” about the company. While the product is being engineered, Marketing begins to create web sites, corporate presentations and sales materials.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Advertising consulting. To help businesses with their online and offline advertising campaigns. Public relations consulting. basic infrastructural costs like phone and internet service, scheduling and invoicing software, etc… marketing and advertising costs. International Advertising Association.

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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 4, 2015

How Bootstrapping Became a Lost Art and Venture Capital Became an Addiction – Capterra Blog crowdspring.co/1fwqKUb. The Workplace Culture That Flying Nannies Won’t Fix nytimes.com/2015/08/24/opi…. Mark Zuckerberg’s FWD.us Fires Back at Trump’s Immigration Plan crowdspring.co/1Nrd4IS. From the Vault: Working Remote.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

This is why I loathe interviews – way too many idiots advertising for programmers out there. Get a clue, author: 1) Building a McDonalds idea with people it takes you too long to find with primitive tools increasing your time to market while burning your venture capital renting in SF financial district just shows your an idiot.

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