crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 28, 2019

This tricky-to-pronounce online publication is an award-winning business blog founded by entrepreneur, web publisher and CEO/founder of Previso Media, Ivan Widjaya. DIY founder Ivana Taylor tackles marketing issues near and dear to small business’s owner’s hearts. Brian Clark – founder of Copyblogger.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 11, 2021

The sudden arrival of the global pandemic has shifted the playbook for founders and venture capitalists. As high-conviction, seed stage investors, we are inherently relationship-driven, and we value meeting exceptional founders face-to-face. I can have a wider reach and a higher volume of 30 minute meetings with founders.”.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Pete Martin , founder of CEO of Votem , and classic rock drummer The Forrest Four-Cast: February 20, 2020 Paging Iowa elections officials! This track brings together founders and funders and showcases exciting new companies, products, services, and business models across different verticals and industries.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 3, 2024

4- Writing a book Photo Credit: Brandon Green The accomplishment I am most proud of this year is writing and publishing a children’s book encouraging critical thinking in children. Thanks to Brandon Green, LET's GO BRANDON GREEN ! #5- Thanks to Ryan Stone, Lambda Films ! #4- Thanks to Daniyal Sanaullah, SocialSharings ! #7-

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This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 12, 2020

One of my founders texted me, “What are you telling people to do about the Coronavirus?” It’s not the telling my story or that of the founders I’ve backed. I was there for the first Etsy VC pitch meeting in a Fort Greene apartment. In January, I pulled myself together and got back out there. He seemed paranoid.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2020

The LexSet Co-Founders (left to right) CEO Francis Bitonti , President Leslie Oliver Karpas , and COO Azam Khan won $250,000 in Verizon’s Built on 5G Challenge The Forrest Four-Cast: March 3, 2020 LexSet serves AI engineers, especially those with limited resources, with a better way to annotate photos. Collaborate with passion and generosity.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 18, 2018

Those are the words of investor Bill Marcus of the networking business Green Table talking about the cannabis business as part of an interview broadcast Monday on the National Public Radio show Hear and Now. Green Austin! With medicinal cannabis now accepted in a majority of U.S.

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Austin Startup

JULY 31, 2018

Image Description: Background image includes blue and green squares of varying sizes. Founder and President of Darren Bates LLC and the Founder and Chief Innovation Officer for the Smart Cities Library.™ The word “SOLUTIONS” is in the foreground in white capital letters.

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Hippoland

AUGUST 21, 2016

Portfolio founder: There’s an investor who wants to invest about $500k. Portfolio founder: That’s the problem. I have this conversation all the time with portfolio companies. Some things to consider: 1) Dollars are always green regardless of who is investing Money is money. me: Oh great! Who is he/she? And maybe they do.

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Version One Ventures

JULY 10, 2019

But every other connection spun out from an unrelated call or conversation. Over the past few years, I try to start every conversation with a personal check-in before discussing business. The more we share (regardless of power dynamic: investor-founder, manager-employee, etc.),

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 14, 2022

As a co-founder of the company, my main goal for 2023 is to build a successful and sustainable business that will bring value to our customers, team members, and investors. We'll continue to use our platform to drive the conversation for social change. Thanks to Imran Ali, Glasses Hut ! #4- 4- Better customer (and employee) retention.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 16, 2018

Image Description: An artist installation of a super-large metallic wheelchair with black wheels and multi-colored spokes displayed in an open-air green, grass field with buildings shown in the background. Founder and President of Darren Bates LLC and the Founder and Chief Innovation Officer for the Smart Cities Library.™

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 11, 2012

Conversions low? Well run a test and increase your conversions by 12433%! Most split test “fail” in the sense that they won’t result in a lift in conversions (new variations produce either no change or perform poorer). Conversion optimization is a process. It’s easy! Thomas Alva Edison, inventor.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

Email is all about small, successive conversions. Make that first quick, free conversion instantly. Again, that first conversion is the most important, so offer it early. However, they can’t miss a big green button. Daren Low is the founder of Bitcatcha and co-developer of the free Server Speed Checker.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 16, 2019

I’ve been working on the Startup Visa since I first wrote about it 2009 in my post The Founders Visa Movement. For founders, this announcement means access to a startup visa, with a long runway, and a path to a green card. From a broader perspective, the Global EIR program attracts international founders to Michigan.

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Hunter Walker

JULY 4, 2023

A few reads for an American holiday Uncle Sam reading a magazine while an eagle sits on his shoulder, digital art In Conversation with 50 Cent (Carvell Wallace/Vulture) – 20 years later and reading his name still triggers memories of In Da Club’s opening beats. It’s not green. When I say “How much?”

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View from Seed

AUGUST 13, 2014

So to successfully raise a seed round of capital, founders should possess at least a basic understanding of the different types of angel investors they’ll encounter. It can also help founders better approach angels in the first place. At the end of the day, all money is green. The Previous-Colleague Angel.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 5, 2019

Boost Biomes CEO and co-founder Jamie Bacher The Forrest Four-Cast: March 5, 2019 Fifty diverse startups will aim to impress a panel of judges and a live audience with their skills, creativity and innovation at SXSW Pitch Presented by Cyndx. Jamie Bacher , CEO and co-founder, answered some questions about the San Francisco-based company.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Valerie Song , CEO & Founder of AVA Technologies Inc. unlocks the green thumb in anyone and empowers users to produce food at home with compostable plant pods that grow fresh herbs and clean greens year-round with just a push of a button. Valerie Song , CEO & Founder of AVA Technologies Inc., AVA Technologies Inc.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Valerie Song , CEO & Founder of AVA Technologies Inc. unlocks the green thumb in anyone and empowers users to produce food at home with compostable plant pods that grow fresh herbs and clean greens year-round with just a push of a button. Valerie Song , CEO & Founder of AVA Technologies Inc., AVA Technologies Inc.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 12, 2017

I’ve seen and embraced many of these changes as a startup founder and I often talk with other founders about the tools they’re using to increase productivity, improve communication, and in general just do more faster (the Techstars motto). Slack Channels take the concept and make it much more conversational.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 25, 2020

The screens were coming together and the color scheme I was using (using the primary African colors of Yellow, Green, and Red) was not bad. Other founders say having a baby beats it, but we’ll have to wait and see about that. Those could help out a lot of founders. “At a minimum, I should be able to use this myself,” I thought.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 27, 2018

by Joanna Malaczynski, founder of DESi. Pete Girard, Co-Founder of Toxnot, can attest to the importance of this. Girard explained that understanding what customers truly want — and why — requires personal conversations and is an essential part of successfully developing new features.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 21, 2020

As a father and founder, I’m motivated to end our kid’s dependence on sugar and start a conversation about its dangers. 8- Help 1,000 businesses begin to become green. Thanks to Tim Brazier, 1000 Green Businesses ! #9- This will allow me to start using the advertising markets that I’ve always dreamed about using.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 26, 2018

A group of Startup Chica attendees conversing with Patrick Gallagher from Dell. Photo Credit: Josie Hughes The girls got to hear from teenage keynote speakers Layla Renee and Mya Parish , founders of Suga Babes Beauty , a plant-based bath and body product line for teens.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

The proposal also included proclamations from tech-world celebrities like Steve Jobs, Apple’s founder, that the device might change urban life and could be as significant as the development of the personal computer. asks Nick Greene. After the games are played and the episodes released, reality constrains conversation.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

The proposal also included proclamations from tech-world celebrities like Steve Jobs, Apple’s founder, that the device might change urban life and could be as significant as the development of the personal computer. asks Nick Greene. After the games are played and the episodes released, reality constrains conversation.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 29, 2013

by Meng Weng Wong, co-founder and social engineer at JFDI Asia. Some founders stay at hostels. Each founder who owns shares in the startup and has attended JFDI will be invited. Each founder who is part of the team and has attended JFDI will be expected to be there to man your startup’s booth. That’s the competition.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 21, 2012

I often get asked about finding cofounders and I usually give the standard list of characteristics of what I look for in a founder. But Jessica Alter , Cofounder & CEO of FounderDating , pointed out that co founders did not mean two founders in the same room. There are plenty more and they are important.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 20, 2021

It is so important that not a week goes by without a successful investor/founder extolling the benefits of moving quickly. The iPod was in customer’s hands less than nine months after the project was green light by Steve Jobs Speed tip #3?—?Apply Sam Altman recently tweeted : Move faster. 2021 instead of 2022.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 5, 2012

I’ve been working on making it easy for foreign entrepreneurs to get a visa to start a company in the US since September 2009 when I wrote the post The Founders Visa Movement. President Obama should call her personally and apologize and give her a green card on the spot. Infuriating.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 24, 2017

We’ve been adding to our line of products year after year, but in 2017, we made a major breakthrough in the field of green technology and greatly upped the quality and quantity of our offering. 15- Feature and interview by SCOOP Founder Phil Stoten. I’m proud of the awesome new products we were able to offer customers in 2017.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 21, 2017

My Mama, the founder of Yuca’s Hut in Los Feliz, CA, didn’t allow a lack of college degrees or a business plan to deter her from launching her dream. I am co founder of GreenPal which has been described as Uber for lawn care. Thank you to Gene Caballero, Your Green Pal ! #9 Image Credit: Dora Herrera.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 13, 2018

This is part of a series of advice for founders who need to raise money from venture capitalists. Somehow many first-time founders equate “sales” with something that is beneath them. I always tell founders … “An investors job is to deploy capital and make a return. This is where most founders err.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Praxis CEO and Co-Founder Elise Smith is passionate about leveraging innovation and disruptive technologies to increase access and opportunity in the pursuit of equity. My co-founders and I all met at Stanford so Palo Alto is really where it all began. I love green smoothies and juices. It tastes like a banana milkshake!

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 31, 2017

Jamie Potter is founder of Flexciton, a company that is breaking into the new potential offered by artificial intelligence and using it at that to take a crack at the persistent problem of environment waste and emissions. Here but a few of the many of Britain’s young business leaders worthy of note: Jamie Potter and Flexciton.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

The conversations usually go down the same path, ending with a you’re how old? I am the founder/coach of Never Settle Coaching, LLC a coaching business. At the same time it seemed that whenever I would have a conversation with a friend, family member, colleague, manager, executive–you name it!–about

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