Hearpreneur

JANUARY 21, 2017

2 – Advertising Agency & Boutique PR and Advertising Agencies. Prior to starting my own public relations and marketing consultancy, I worked for one of the largest global advertising agencies as well as smaller boutique PR and advertising agencies. Thanks to Natalie Harper, Harper PR. #3 Image Credit: Natalie Harper.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Chicago’s startup engine roars | Chicago Tribune - crowdspring.co/16aYZLL. The New Science of Who Sits Where at Work | WSJ - crowdspring.co/1gq3TGK. You Can’t Be a Wimp—Make the Tough Calls | Harvard Business Review – crowdspring.co/H4gLnT. The Future of Business Models Will Be Centered on Crowds - crowdspring.co/16aTTiD.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

John (Shuo) Yang is our Senior Software engineer and one of the smartest people I have ever met. Adriano Marques is our wonderful Brazilian Software Engineer, recently immigrated to the US. Diogenes Herminio works for us as a Software Engineer, but does it from his home in Brazil. Thanks, guys! Plus he likes Legos.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 26, 2011

How to Hire in Chicago – [link]. Entrepreneurs Unpluggd: Puts the Emphasis on Chicago Entrepreneurs’ Stories – [link]. British Engineer Designs Own Heart Valve Implant, Saves Own Life – [link]. How Chicago’s clout culture stifles innovation – [link]. It’s a great one – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

Startup Priorities: Is Design More Important Than Engineering? The Story Behind My Chicago Start-Up: What Worked and What Didn’t - [link]. Trust in Friends Declines, Trust in Experts Rises – Social Media and PR Still Win - [link]. Management Secrets of the Grateful Dead – [link]. – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

The Tech Scene in Chicago is Blooming – [link]. How Color Affects Search Engine Optimization (SEO) | Search Engine Land – [link]. 47% of National Brands to Invest More in Local in 2013 [Study] | Search Engine Watch – [link]. . | Vlaskovits – [link]. 30 Excellent Sans Serif Fonts – [link].

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

I learned long ago at the University of Chicago where I got my MBA that investors tend to want to invest when markets become over-valued and sell when they become undervalued. Or Salesforce.com who rose to prominence in this same period where they were ramping up PR and shouting from mountain tops when everybody else in the market was mute.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Chicago’s Exploding Tech Startup Scene: Second to None – [link]. Redesigning Google: how Larry Page engineered a beautiful revolution | The Verge - [link]. Redesigning Google: how Larry Page engineered a beautiful revolution | The Verge - [link]. Be Vulnerable | Feld Thoughts – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2012

Why I Sold My Startup Instead Of Taking VC Money | Built In Chicago - [link]. Chicago’s Startup Community Grows Outside Of Groupon’s Shadow | Chicagoist - [link]. How Facebook’s Top Engineer Is Trying to Read Your Mind | Wired – [link]. | PandoDaily - [link]. The product lens - [link].

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 29, 2017

PR and Prose. Thanks to Lauren Gilmore, PR and Prose ! #9- So for example, if own a woman’s shoe company, a name like Lady’s Heels with Deals would be strategic because it incorporates keywords that search engines will recognize in connection with their search terms related to women’s shoes. Mix Amore ?.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 5, 2012

CEC’s Startup Forecast – “Never been a better time to start a company in Chicago” – [link]. The best engineering flow chart ever – [link]. The Butcher & Larder whole animal butcher shop in Chicago - [link]. Mocked And Misunderstood – [link].

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techcocktail.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Developer – Most likely your product requires some engineering. Make sure someone is thinking about overarching plans around PR, marketing and sales and spends time crafting the right messages, understanding audiences and figuring out distribution channels. Software Engineer @ General Electric (Barrington, IL) Sr.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 28, 2013

How closely knit design and engineering teams put Pinterest on a rocket ship | Gigaom – [link]. Tech Startup City: G2 Crowd in Chicago | Forbes – [link]. True To Its Roots: Why Kickstarter Won’t Sell | Fast Company – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 25, 2013

Chicago venture picture better than U.S. Up Close With Facebook Graph Search | Search Engine Land – [link]. Productivity is Hard – [link]. Forrester: U.S. Mobile Payments Market Predicted To Reach $90B By 2017, Up From $12.8B In 2012 | TechCrunch – [link]. Be Focused, Not Myopic | WSJ – [link].

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Growthink Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Use An Effective LOCAL Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Strategy An effective search engine optimization strategy will get your website on a top position in the search results pages of all the major search engines, such as Google, Yahoo, and Bing. Business Plan Development Chicago IL).

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 18, 2013

30% of Excelerate Labs CEO’s have been women – Chicago more diverse that most and growing! - [link]. Facebook Has Some Tips | Search Engine Land - [link]. The BEST Things Come to Those Who Ask – [link]. 8 Major Mistakes Entrepreneurs Will Make In 2013 | Forbes – [link]. SEO For Facebook Graph Search?

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 15, 2017

How the design and structure of the website played a role in usability as well as search engine rankings, working with the outreach team to create great content that would help build valuable links, making sure emails matched the style of the optimized landing pages, and so much more. Photo Credit: Grant Gordon. 17- To help start-ups.

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Growthink Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2013

Use An Effective LOCAL Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Strategy An effective search engine optimization strategy will get your website on a top position in the search results pages of all the major search engines, such as Google, Yahoo, and Bing. Business Plan Development Chicago IL).

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

Kevin Willer Shares His Experience Building Google’s Culture In Chicago – [link]. Spot on by @dhh about school pedigree and computer engineers. Building Startups Is Like Baking A Cake In 3 Minutes – [link]. What Good Does Design Do For Business? – [link]. Prior work speaks loudest – [link].

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 93

crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 4, 2013

Lightbank Aims To Change The VC Game As It Expands Its Investments Beyond Chicago | TechCrunch – [link]. Search Engine Watch – [link]. Good reminder on how to better promote innovation … But which is the sideshow? – [link]. Websites Vary Prices, Deals Based on Users’ Information – [link].

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2013

I have published many of these PR Tips before. My colleagues that graduated with engineering degrees from UCSD were paid $31,000 – 15% more. I had a friend who joined at the same time with an engineering degree from the same university as me and held jobs in the restaurant sector in college. This was pre Internet.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

I’m not against MBA’s (I have one myself from University of Chicago and my lovely wife was graduated from Wharton – she loves to remind me that they usually score higher in the rankings than we do). Many MBAs took marketing courses but have never been on the front line of A/B testing, email campaigns or PR initiatives.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 22, 2017

After years working in fashion PR/Marketing in NYC and Milan, and then as a co-founder/owner of a Brooklyn-based rock ’n’ roll play space for kids under 5, I found myself becoming overly excited about my friends starting new businesses. Codal is a full-service UX design and development agency, based out of Chicago.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 30, 2013

More than ever, PR firms, social media marketers, and search optimizers are rushing to push out more web content for clients. It also helps search engines learn what your site is about. Andy Crestodina is the Strategic Director of Orbit Media , a Chicago ecommerce company. We’re about to see a downpour of web copy.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 17, 2010

Africa Cape Town, South Africa [link] Asia Tokyo, Japan [link] Europe Barcelona, Spain [link] Birmingham, UK [link] Bucharest, Romania [link] Budapest, Hungary [link] Cambridge, UK [link] Copenhagen, Denmark [link] Delft, Netherlands [link] Edinburgh, Scotland [link] Gothenburg, Sweden [link] London, UK [link] Madrid, Spain [link] Munich, Germany [link] (..)

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

When I decided to create full time creative business, I couldn’t find online marketers or PR services who understand the creative process, this meant I was doing everything in the business from online presence, to markets and exhibits which resulted in burnout. And this was at a prestigious engineering school. 24) 9-5 Scares Me.

Entrepreneur 48

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

And the great monetization engines of the Internet were built in LA – Overture (AdWords) & Applied Semantics (AdSense). Our biggest returns were outside Silicon Valley: Overture (LA), CitySearch (LA), BillMeLater (Baltimore), Ulta (Chicago), Envestnet (Chicago), HDI (Las Vegas), PF Changs (Arizona), TrueCar (LA).

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 27, 2015

From Chicago’s 1871: Howard Tullman’s heavily caffeinated life crowdspring.co/1EAvSyW. The Apple Engineer Behind The New MacBook Speaks–And What He Says Might Shock You! How To Connect Social Media Metrics to In-Store Foot Traffic crowdspring.co/1FalO0D. Why Transparency Matters | crowdSPRING Blog – crowdspring.co/1Fj95cC

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 29, 2021

I engineered a way to use blockchain to bypass the coffee middlemen, pay growers directly, and even let customers send a monetary tip to a coffee farmer. When Clare DeNicola and I decided to start a full-service marketing and PR firm 10 years ago, we knew we didn't want to take the usual agency branding route: put our names on the door.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 8, 2015

6 Thoughts on Creating and Leading Engineering Teams – buff.ly/1zNp7eB. How to Make a Dent in “The Women Problem” in Chicago – buff.ly/1FKFUQy. The Basics of Email Marketing | Search Engine Journal crowdspring.co/1PYFIjm. How One Entrepreneur Raised A Half Billion Dollars crowdspring.co/1HRNSqX. – buff.ly/1EY9ktL.

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Small Business Design Social Media Startup 48

market-by-numbers.com

DECEMBER 7, 2009

The “encroachment&# of business or engineering on design is (theoretically) dependent on the driving force, rather than personal bias. link] about 1 hour ago from Quora RT @marksbertrand : like lean?

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 21, 2019

When a United Airlines passenger was “dragged” off a flight , CEO Oscar Munoz initially issued a PR-driven, tick-the-checkbox apology: As public resentment grew, Munoz followed up with another, more candid mea culpa: 6. This was a couple of software engineers who put this in for whatever reason [.] This was not a corporate decision.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

I am the VP of Engineering at a cutting-edge startup that sells software built on the.NET platform. You whine about how hard it is to find good engineers, then go on and on about how you intentionally avoid at least half of the market for skilled people? It’s also missing the point of engineering anything. Elaine Kenny.

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