crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 6, 2017

Coursera’s catalog offers a wide variety of courses, from music and art to technology, science , and business. Want to learn how to create a demo video in Apple’s Keynote ? Prices range from $20 to a maximum of $300, but there are frequent sales and discount codes offered online. ” Udemy. Udemy has you covered.

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

For example, “I have over 10 years of software experience in this space, how do you plan to have a strong barrier to entry in this crowded space?&#. A lot of entrepreneurs attended the event as evident by business cards with “Founder&# listed. Presenter: Jennifer Bonnett (Founder & CEO, Nexpense).

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2009

As we were out looking for our Series B round, our company had gotten the attention of “name of big VC firm here” who wanted a play in enterprise software. During the due-diligence process, I sat down with one of the partners who pulled out a set of slides and asked me: ”Have you seen these?” Are These Your Slides?

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ConversionXL

MARCH 4, 2016

Technology is changing the way sales is conducted. And sales enablement software helps arm sales teams with the information they need to close sales. And as I mentioned, technology is making sales generally more sophisticated. Examples: Clearslide , Salespatron (I’m a co-founder) and Brainshark. Image Source.

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

For example, “I have over 10 years of software experience in this space, how do you plan to have a strong barrier to entry in this crowded space?&#. A lot of entrepreneurs attended the event as evident by business cards with “Founder&# listed. Presenter: Jennifer Bonnett (Founder & CEO, Nexpense).

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 7, 2022

” Melanie is also the Co-Founder of The Convoy and GroupUps, B2B marketplaces that help small businesses save money so they can invest more in themselves and their communities. Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! Key Takeaway: You say your company is amazing. Storyfuel.co. TheConvoy.com.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 6, 2017

Coursera’s catalog offers a wide variety of courses, from music and art to technology, science , and business. Want to learn how to create a demo video in Apple’s Keynote ? Prices range from $20 to a maximum of $300, but there are frequent sales and discount codes offered online. ” Udemy. Udemy has you covered.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 8, 2017

According to a recent academic study, “a typical Netflix member loses interest after perhaps 60 to 90 seconds of choosing, having reviewed 10 to 20 titles (perhaps 3 in detail) on one or two screens.” As often, it’s more of a people problem than a technology problem. Another classic in the vendors’ demos.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 28, 2014

If you’re a B2B software company you’ll be happy to know a Forbes study titled “Video in the C-Suite” revealed that 59% of C-Suite executives would prefer to watch video over reading text if both are presented on a page. What if it turned out that other invoice software companies saw similar results?

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 6, 2020

In January of this year, he arrived in the US with his co-founders as part of the winter 2020 YCombinator batch. When the shelter in place orders began, Alpha found himself living in a tiny Airbnb with his other co-founders, Having just arrived from the UK to do the start up program, YCombinator. Alpha Lee : Yeah.

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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 12, 2023

Sridhar Ramaswamy, my fellow investor at Greylock and the co-founder of Neeva , released a demo video last month about how Neeva has been working intensely on exactly that. I think that this will show both the magic and the current limitations of the technology. This magic is just starting.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

It was actually my co-founder Will Harvey who taught me to present this data in the simple format weve discussed in this post. Code To make split-testing pervasive, it has to be incredibly easy. The only change you have to get used to as you start to code in this style, is to wrap your changes in a simple one-line condition.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 14, 2022

Melissa is the CEO and Co-founder of Webinar. As a revenue-driven founder specializing in sales and business development, Melissa has learned how to build companies with very few resources — by automating what she could, outsourcing wherever possible, and inspiring talented people to join her team with shared focus and enthusiasm. [22:06]

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ConversionXL

JUNE 20, 2019

In fact, JW Player was the technology that ran the earliest version of YouTube. The recent introduction of their “Channels” feature allows website owners to create a series of related videos and display the collection on their website—no coding required. Here’s a demo featuring my name: Who is personalized video right for?

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Mike Arsenault and his two co-founders—all with technical backgrounds—built their MVP while working full time for other SaaS companies. “We An engineer by training, Founder and CEO Larry Gadea built the MVP of Envoy’s first product, Visitors, by himself using only free versions of software. “I Qualified.io

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SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2010

10 Ways To Be Your Own Boss - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , June 18, 2010 The folks at Behance and Cool Hunting asked me to talk at their 99% Conference a couple months ago. One of the highlights of my trip was a startup dinner which included Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson, the founders of 37signals. Now I have.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Mike Arsenault and his two co-founders—all with technical backgrounds—built their MVP while working full time for other SaaS companies. “We An engineer by training, Founder and CEO Larry Gadea built the MVP of Envoy’s first product, Visitors, by himself using only free versions of software. “I Qualified.io

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 15, 2009

We hired a head of technology, a head of customer service, a head of marketing, a head of strategy (which no startup should ever hire) a CFO and, ugh, 33 developers. One the one hand I feel great because we went out and built software that solved an industry problem. I’m not trying to take credit beyond where credit is due.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 29, 2012

When I met Instagram, Kevin (the founder) had great numbers, but he wasn’t even thinking about revenue. I invested in a company called Yobongo – the founder blew me away, he ended up selling his company and I made most of my money back. The top 10-15 we manually review. Lots of founders are college dropouts.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

Find Questions, Topics and People Add Question Add Question Non-Technical Co-Founders Co-Founders Technical Co-founders Finding Co-Founders Startups & "How Important Are Ideas?" " Web Development Startups Solo Founders I am a creative guy with a startup idea.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

I think it’s a huge mistake to outsource technology as a startup. Whats is the best way to find a co-founder for your startup? However, one of my co-founders doesn’t seem to be as motivated as the rest of us. I think quick, do something, then review what I’ve learned. Non of this academic stuff.

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 16, 2012

“TripAdvisor is to travel reviews what Kleenex is to tissues.”. . Founded in 2000 by Stephen Kaufer and Langley Steinert, Boston-based TripAdvisor is a travel website that provides reviews and other information for consumers about travel destinations around the world. Henry Harteveldt, Forrester. .

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

One of the things I do as a founder of a later stage startup is to meet with early stage entrepreneurs to help them get their companies going. In later posts I’m going to get into more detail on specific topics like hiring, raising money, what types of ideas have the potential to get big, finding your founders, and the like.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Debbie is the co-founder and CEO of Senior Living SMART, a full-service marketing agency focused exclusively on the senior housing and care industry. Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! And we are not a tremendously innovative and technology savvy industry. Marketing Podcast with Debbie Howard.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

It’s a pure-and-simple way of making design decisions that rely on real data rather than divergent and emotional opinions from co-founders and designers; after all, you can’t argue with facts. Some Code-Free A/B Testing Resources 1. Performable Performable gives you a simple and code-free way to conduct A/B testing.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Outstanding post on qualities that Paul Graham (Y Combinator) looks for in startup founders – [link]. Mike Samson, Co-Founder of @crowdSPRING on Raising Angel Funding [Part 1] – [link]. The marketing challenge for startups (by @Scobleizer – interview with founder of Indinero) – [link].

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Professor VC

OCTOBER 11, 2010

While the flick has gotten rave critical reviews (93% on Flixster), the question of what percentage of the movie is true has also gotten a lot of discussion in the blogosphere. Co-founder Dustin Moscovitz is referred to as a programmer, but he is actually an operations guy. Also, be sure to include vesting for all founders.

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mashable.com

MAY 5, 2011

Within a few days, the site received thousands of user signups, according to its founder Mark Davis. raked in five-figure daily signups after announcing its upcoming launch, according to the site’s founders. Can we put our demo video on the launchrock page? Create Viral Content Infographics startup Visual.ly

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

The web and technology bubble has a lot in common with the rest of the business world in that there are essentially two disparate groups — the haves and the have nots. For the first-time entrepreneur or founder looking for seed stage funding, this circle can be especially difficult to penetrate. and Path Intelligence.

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wordsting.com

APRIL 4, 2013

Rigorously simple copywriting for software products. by Word Sting in Lean Startup , Software copywriting , Copywriting for startups. Many software copywriters or developers dream of building their own company. My co-founders and I did. And no good software tools were available to help. April 1, 2013.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

They log in to translate the documents, one at a time, marking each finished when done, which sends the file back to the company for review.” Also important: Only go for providers who have great reviews from many past customers. Decline bids from providers without many great reviews. The translator rejects or approves.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

VC Cafe highlights everything you need to know from hosting your code in hackathons to open source legal docs. Every startup faces multiple choices and decisions when it comes to technology. s the new way to code, and quite easy to learn. You can write back end code in javascript, one language conquers all! Code Igniter.

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