crowdSPRING Blog

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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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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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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SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

The Myth of Venture Capital | Re/code by Jon Oringer – crowdspring.co/1tNFeV7. Bad Notes on Venture Capital – crowdspring.co/1u3NJvn. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. WordStream – crowdspring.co/1tOs1vg.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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MARCH 13, 2014

Guerilla tips for raising venture capital | VentureBeat – crowdspring.co/P6hM3O. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. The Essential Email Marketing Metrics You Should Be Tracking | Hubspot blog – crowdspring.co/1gY786G.

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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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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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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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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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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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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 17, 2015

In Stage 2, the corporation adds venture capital and/or mergers-and-acquisition teams to provide these functions. Examples of Stage 2 Outposts include: BMW’s Silicon Valley development group, working on self-driving vehicle technologies, while their venture group has been making investments in companies like ChargePoint and Nauto.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

Do you see product managers as a hindrance to software development? Companies historically have structured their development teams in different ways. He is responsible for bringing in revenue from advertising and their careers offering. Joel had an audience of Joel on Software, and they iterated slowly over time.

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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

How to Develop Your Fund Raising Strategy – [link]. Venture capital investing hits 10-year peak, sparking bubble talk – [link]. Typography in Advertisments - [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template tco use today) – [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]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link].

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NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Venture capital on pace for biggest year since dot-com era - [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template tco use today) – [link]. The full story in the Other section below. crowdSPRING’s Small Business Spotlight of the Week: Juicy Bits – [link].

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OCTOBER 28, 2011

Good data from @msuster on The State of Venture Capital and the Internet – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template tco use today) – [link]. Small business and startups: great reads from the business press – [link]. Want To Upend An Entire Industry?

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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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Software By Rob

DECEMBER 23, 2008

Consider this the Year in Review for Software by Rob. The Five Minute Guide to Becoming a Freelance Software Developer “This advice is intended for someone looking to become a freelance software developer or web designer (or looking to start a small web design/development/consulting firm).

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Over the past two years, one of the most influential venture-capital firms has turned the usual rules of start-up investing on its head. In the early days of venture capital, when money was scarce, entrepreneurs often gave up control of their company in exchange for their first investment funds. LUBLIN And SPENCER E.

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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. Having managed a lot of software development both local and offshore, this is a topic I plan to write more on. Advertising.

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Seeing Both Sides

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Our unemployment rate is high, yet the job boards of local venture-capital firms show hundreds of job listings across their portfolios. Our companies desperately need more lab technicians, search engine marketers, online advertising salespeople, and software developers.

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Software By Rob

DECEMBER 10, 2008

Because they are venture capital funded so they don’t depend on sales profit to sustain them. .] #2 Kevin Jenkins on 12.11.08 at 8:00 am Great post Rob, However I think you need to include growth stage technology companies amongst those you listed in the relatively recession proof group. That’s what the money is there for.

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Scalable Startup

MAY 29, 2012

4) Respect for BUSINESS – Sales, Marketing, Advertising, Strategy were all practically invented in NYC. (5) Again, New York blows California away here. (3) 3) Mentor Network – Retired Fortune 500 executives, Harvard/Princeton/Yale scholars, Financial Industry experts, many successful entrepreneurs. (4)

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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. They can take months.

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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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