crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

In fact, you’ve probably seen dozens, if not hundreds, of blog posts and articles about content marketing. If we zoom even further, we see that the strongest interest in content marketing is found in two major startup markets – the East Coast and California. Why should you worry about generating lots of content?

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 22, 2020

"We knew that if we wanted immediate action, the only way to do that was with private money," Lenore Estrada explained to me as we talked about why she founded SF New Deal in the days after being forced to lay off most of the staff at her San Francisco bakery, Three Babes Bakeshop. I'm about halfway through my pregnancy.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 9, 2012

It's been just about two years since Brant Cooper and Patrick Vlaskovits released their self-published book The Entrepreneur's Guide to Customer Development (you can see my original review here ). A good way to think about market segment is by thinking about fishing. Illustrations by FAKEGRIMLOCK. Halbut are flatfish.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 6, 2013

“We were just starting to write our business plan when we heard about the competition,” Michelle Sangalang told me in an email. She sells her products in 11 stores and two restaurants in and around Oregon House, California, where Freja’s Foods currently operates. “My business really, really needed this break.”

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

It seems that four different models of "discussion creation" have occurred: Organice Discussion - someone posts something interesting, lots of bloggers post on the topic, distributed discussion ensues. Ive not found that much use for LinkedIn to help my blogging, but Im starting to think about this. See Five Things Meme as an example.

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Hunter Walker

APRIL 9, 2015

Like Douglas McGray , the CEO and EIC of California Sunday Magazine , a newly launched multiplatform magazine. Hunter Walk: So a few months back this amazing magazine called California Sunday started showing up monthly. Hunter Walk: So a few months back this amazing magazine called California Sunday started showing up monthly.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Each VC firm/partner has a different spin on what to weigh more.) They taught you about customers, markets and profits. VCs or entrepreneurs who talked about building profitable businesses were told, “You just don’t get the new rules.” 3) invest in and take equity stakes in exchange for capital.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 28, 2019

We’ll review some new language and concepts in this process, but once you’re done, you may never need to think about this stuff again. . Tell your state whom they can contact about legal matters. Ideally, you will interview a few candidates and pick the partners you feel comfortable working with for a long time.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 13, 2017

I therefore value business partners who share my values and vision, and who don’t just see me as an investor, but as a member of the team. Finally, the Paris startup space is now receiving private sector support through more than 60 incubators. People: I want to be an active investor who helps projects grow.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 13, 2014

One recent development has been that larger companies are now looking at small innovative companies in a new light — as potential partners in developing new products, processes and services. 7 Quotes About the Value and Risk of Innovation. The result of all of these factors is to slow down innovation potential at large companies.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

— Awhile back I blogged about Ashwin , one of my ex-students wanted to raise a seed round to build Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (drones) with a Hyper-spectral camera and fly it over farm fields collecting hyper-spectral images. As a bonus it meant the 1,400 aerial applicator companies could be a potential distribution channel partner.

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Growthink Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

How about Internet Video? Lee, quite simply, has forgotten WAY more about the entertainment business than most of will ever know (see his biography below). A former partner in two leading Los Angeles media law firms, Lee holds a J.D. He is a current member of the California State Bar, and the Hollywood Writers Guild.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2020

We talked about what startup CEOs should do in these situations and how to think about these renegotiations. B2C Companies We talked about how some companies saw an immediate decline in purchasing (for example if you’re in travel or hospitality). million people EMPLOYED in California. 22 million filed in just 4 weeks?—?for

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 2009

Finally, I’ll write about how Eric Ries and the Lean Startup concept provided the equivalent model for product development activities inside the building and neatly integrates customer and agile development. To begin with, the product development model completely ignores a fundamental truth about startups and new products.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

We then spoke about startups. What I’ve learned about Sequoia is that when you’re straightforward about the facts they just try to help. Seth saw friends move out to California, go to school, and launch Plaxo. He knew he was an entrepreneur because he couldn’t stop thinking about ideas.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 2, 2017

It’s hard enough to get a job at a venture capital or private equity firm; it’s even more complex to join as a Partner. Sean Seton-Rogers, Partner, Profounders Capital, breaks the conversation into three areas: Control: voting/veto for new deals, share of management company. So assessing fit is critical. What should the firm do?

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Steve Blank

APRIL 15, 2016

Michael Mondavi , founder and coach of Folio Fine Wine Partners. In Silicon Valley for three decades, spent eight years as a partner at US Venture Partners. In 2004, he launched Folio Fine Wine Partners with his wife Isabel and their children, Rob, Jr. How did you get those jobs if you know nothing about them?

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Steve Blank

APRIL 15, 2016

Michael Mondavi , founder and coach of Folio Fine Wine Partners. In Silicon Valley for three decades, spent eight years as a partner at US Venture Partners. In 2004, he launched Folio Fine Wine Partners with his wife Isabel and their children, Rob, Jr. How did you get those jobs if you know nothing about them?

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Steve Blank

MAY 22, 2009

While one could argue that a trade show is just another demand creation activity akin to advertising or PR, trade shows are the closest eyeball-to-eyeball contact you’re company is going to have with customers, competitors and partners. Strong pre-show promotion will let your customers and prospects know about your exhibit.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 15, 2010

We started this week’s show with a Q&A session where I answered viewer questions about fund raising and the VC industry. – I spoke about GRP’s recent exit of Ulta in which we returned $320 million to our limited partners. Can you please expand on your post about distributed teams?

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

It seems like every day there is a new headline about an exceptional startup founder, investor, or corporate headquarters moving to Texas. Are they drawn to Texas or moving away from California? Texas exported more than California and New York combined in 2019. Startups and investors should treat Texas like one big city.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 20, 2020

Austin has been one the fastest growing cities in the country for the past 20 years that I’ve been here, but it feels like COVID-19 and California wildfires broke the floodgates already under pressure from high taxes and expensive real estate in landlocked coastal cities. How do you meet them? The Connectors Alex “STOIKY” Goldberg ( Lt.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 2, 2020

The story of how Curative pivoted and scaled is about moving with entrepreneurial speed to find a solution, then collaborating with investors and government for the public good. Fred, Celine and I talked about how Curative's intense journey, how to scale testing, and why it matters not just for now but for the future.

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Steve Blank

MAY 3, 2011

This week they were testing their hypotheses about Partners. Partners are the external companies whose product or service combines with your Value Proposition to create a complete customer solution or “whole product&# to satisfy customers. Answer: About 5 Joules of energy. The Nine Teams Present.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

One of the ways vendors and partners--whose behind-the-scenes assistance often is crucial to a start-ups success--can get a piece of the action is to exchange services for equity. Graham is careful about whom he chooses to partner with. Were not getting confused about our business," he says.

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Steve Blank

JULY 9, 2009

I was now a CEO of Rocket Science, and having a great time building the company (more about that in future posts.) So I got out out of the building to meet and understand our customers and distribution partners. I was about 90 days into the company when I began to realize there was something very different about this business.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 27, 2011

Today, The Bean has approximately 350 company-owned stores, with locations in Southern California, Las Vegas, Honolulu, New York City and Southeast Asia. In 2000, global giant Unilever bought out Ben & Jerry’s for about $326 million in order to eliminate competition with the corporation’s brands, Breyer’s and Good Humor.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

The company combines high-quality information about genetics, with tools that use family health history to help identify personal disease risk. Walk into any Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf in Southern California and you can’t miss their digital screens. We’re excited to welcome the CEO Michael Agustin to Los Angeles.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 5, 2009

There is no certainty about a startup on day-one. You make several first order approximations about your business model, distribution channels, demand creation, and customer acceptance. You leave the comfort of your existing job, convince a few partners to join you and you jump off the bridge together. Order Here.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

and Union College found that what they label the “c factor” (another term for collective intelligence) is correlated with “the average social sensitivity of group members, the equality in distribution of conversational turn-taking, and the proportion of females in the group.” Nobody wants to look foolish in front of their colleagues.)

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Austin Startup

MARCH 22, 2017

I’ve seemingly gone on a writing spree about monetization lately which doesn’t really fit into the Austin Startups theme. However, while the culture of California startups has always been to scale first, then monetize; Texas’ startup culture is money first, then scale. So there’s my reasoning with seasoning.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

Remind me about your background. Same partner all along: Jorge Alonso, Creative Director. Oh, and I forget to mention in my introduction about B2B. I need to get you into both the Southern California Tech Central and the B2B Marketing Zone. Maybe you can blog about that? It has been fun to get to know her again.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 17, 2020

As she recalls, "once we as a team and ecosystem of stakeholders got our plan together--and a big part of that was our incredible school partners, who said, 'We are going to feed as many kids and families as we can,'-- within a week, we were building at light speed what would be the next iteration of Revolution Foods and our feeding system."

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

If you’re writing a Lean Plan, keep it shorter and think about making it easy to revisit and revise often. For example, if your box service will be cheaper than others in your niche, talk about your business model and how you’ll keep your box more affordable. In the beginning, your SOM is the most important number to think about.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

From Inside Higher Ed : An erstwhile associate kinesiology professor at California State University at San Bernardino remains on the lam after police raided his home last week and found a pound of methamphetamine and a cache of guns. He guessed the president of the chapter would personally pull in about a million dollars per year.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 10, 2020

We talked about why he chose to make the organization not-for-profit, the duty to serve, closing the education gap, not being bound by time and space and many other things. We have to view Khan Academy's experience as a case study in how to bring about systemic change. There's also a full transcript beneath the show resources below.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 7, 2017

Instead of arguing why Dallas might be better than Houston we should be talking about how we can work together to get our share of venture capital dollars more in line with our population size and startup activity by unlocking additional capital sources that have been previously inaccessible to tech. Only California and New York have more.

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