crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Seattle, WA. Seattle is home to Microsoft, Amazon, Starbucks, and other well-known companies, but it has recently grown into a welcoming place for startups, entrepreneurs, and small business owners, too. And, our outstanding customer service team is available to guide you through the whole process.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 19, 2010

Andy Sack , who runs TechStars Seattle, has been all over the Seattle entrepreneurial scene in the past few years. On November 11th, Andy is hosting TechStars Seattle Demo Day. As is my custom, I’ll be in attendance. Tags: TechStars oaf seattle. This event is invitation only and registration is required.

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Version One Ventures

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Lolli : gives customers bitcoin when they shop online (n.b. While we have expanded our partnership to two GP and have a bigger fund, our fundamentals stay the same: we invest at seed / pre-seed, in companies that leverage network effects, and across North America (hubs are SF, Toronto/KW, NYC, Seattle).

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 11, 2018

As a result, moving to the US could mean that you receive an even bigger ROI due to an intrigued customer base. Particularly for organisations currently operating in the UK, American customers are almost captivating by the British business offerings, and thus easing your way into the American market should be a simple feat to achieve.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 30, 2017

What if improving your customer service was all it took to generate more sales and grow your business? No gimmicks, no flashy promotions, no big advertising campaigns; just a dedication to improve the way you treat your customers. There are plenty of tools and resources out there that help collect reviews from your customers.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

At the same time, e-commerce businesses and financial institutions should make sure they aren’t overly cautious to the point where they’re rejecting good customers and denying legitimate accounts. Trust is earned in drops, but lost in buckets.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 27, 2012

The Innovators Dilemma – which means that if you have large customers with big profit margins it’s impossible to throw that all away to destruct your industry. Not just in Silicon Valley but in LA, NY, Seattle and other major tech markets. I described that here in this post. The future certainly looks brighter to me.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 23, 2013

Demo Day last week at Microsoft Israel reflected some of the unique dynamics of corporate Accelerators- experienced founders, more funding, finished products and existing customers. The number one thing we can do is help them build and acquire a customer base. Show me satisfied customers and I promise they will find funding”.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 30, 2021

At first this was limited to news sites that concentrated on a segment of a community, like West Seattle, but the concept is now being applied to advertising and promotion sites, blogging sites, and even legal services sites. The term first appeared at least ten years ago, but the model is now very common. Getting these users costs money.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 25, 2018

While I was in Seattle last week, I had a chance to stop by the Glowforge office and talk to the team during one of their biggest weeks since their historic 30-day crowdfunding campaign. I’ve seen many cultures at companies, but the thing that stands out about Glowforge is their constant and relentless focus on their customer.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 19, 2022

I need to look after our personnel because they look after our customers. When open houses in Seattle Real Estate shut down at the beginning of the pandemic my Photography business knew that Virtual Tours were going to be very important. 20- Customer Support with AI. Thanks to Ben Zellner, 3000MileMyth ! #4-

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 4, 2018

When you’re creating your own haphazard method for tracking your customers, you’re practically ensuring an information bottleneck as your business continues to expand. Enhance Customer Experience. Customers today are won and lost based on the experience they have interacting with your business.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 24, 2015

Dig deeper to uncover hidden needs, latch onto popular hobbies or passions, make our customers heroes, and sell what they’ll buy. This should include what you will sell, who your customers will be, how much you will charge, how you’ll market your business, what determines success, and how objections will be managed. 4 Compelling offer.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

It might be the products or the customers they deal with, or it could even be the fact that they are the ones in charge of it all. On Wednesdays, I cut my call calendar short so I can pick up my daughter after school and dodge through Seattle traffic to get her to her riding lesson. Thanks to Emily Pask, Modest Mermaid ! #17-

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 11, 2016

Complementary domains give businesses the ability to maintain more control over their brands and create a better experience for their customers. That “somewhere else” usually means the loss of control over the brand, with the company name getting stuck after the slash at www.youtube.com/user/ or www.twitter.com/.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2020

Their algorithms control the placement of 3D content into custom environments, which can be created in massive parallel variations. It’s worth noting that LexSet’s team is distributed with additional team members in Seattle and myself in Los Angeles, giving us great range to take sales meetings all across the country.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 2, 2019

Switching to HTTPS is simple , and most web hosting platforms will do it at little or no cost for existing customers. That’s why you’ll turn up in a search for “home painters near Atlanta,” but not “party planner in Seattle.” Fast Load Time. Another ranking factor is how quickly your site loads.

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Genuine VC

MARCH 14, 2012

While Microsoft is touting that over 350 companies are working with Microsoft on custom Kinect applications ranging from in the medical field to manufacturing, I suspect that the real first killer-app outside gaming for the Kinect won’t far too far afield from its current install base.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 26, 2013

Paul, San Francisco, LA, San Diego, Seattle, Chicago, Boston, and Washington, DC. For $5 users can purchase a personalized holiday greeting card, video message, customized voice over recordings, translation or even order a small hand crafted gift. Once a ride is complete, passengers are prompted to donate seamlessly through the app.

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Search engine marketing, or SEO, has become a celebrated marketing technique for small businesses to grow and reach their customers. So if you’re looking for SEO in Seattle , you can simply do a search to find a local company. In fact, the cumulative SEO spending is forecasted to hit $80 billion by 2020. Wrong Service Provider.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

Elon Musk touts launch of ‘SpaceX Seattle’ | Business & Technology | The Seattle Times crowdspring.co/1BadR6p. Making Customer Support Part Of Your SEO Program crowdspring.co/1C2r2M3. Rules To A Great Customer Experience – Usability Geek crowdspring.co/1AgpPjN. | Co.Design | business + design crowdspring.co/1tdA7OZ.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 5, 2022

If your business is based in Seattle, this firm can help you with your SEO needs and ensure your page ranks on SERPs. Every business will be more than willing to get a testimonial from happy customers. Hiring an SEO expert permanently can be expensive and only works best for big organizations. Tips for Getting High-Quality Backlinks.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 10, 2021

And early-stage VC investors have increasingly ventured beyond their backyards of SF, NYC, and Boston to more actively invest in (and in some cases relocate to) places like Miami, Austin, Chicago, Seattle, and other cities.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

I’m in Seattle this week. Seattle should be the envy of any non Silicon Valley tech community in the country. As I gear up to give a keynote at the annual Seattle 2.0 awards dinner on Thursday night I started reflected on what it would take to “change the trajectory&# for Seattle or for any regional market, really.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 10, 2021

And early-stage VC investors have increasingly ventured beyond their backyards of SF, NYC, and Boston to more actively invest in (and in some cases relocate to) places like Miami, Austin, Chicago, Seattle, and other cities.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Seattle, Portland, Austin, New York City and Chicago have come up in the U.S. The bulk of our discussion today was around scaling and customer acquisition strategies. Gerard started off by saying that anyone looking for a customer on the Internet is a potential customer for this business. CustomerDiscovery.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 18, 2017

Enhance an already successful product concept and you can capitalize on proven customer acceptance. Look at the latest compensation plan thinking and you will find that the components are just repackaged, repositioned and renamed ideas from the past. The same goes for new MLM product development.

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Haystack

JUNE 5, 2018

After being installed in 2014 as Microsoft’s new CEO, Nadella has turned around the Seattle ocean liner on a new course after the Ballmer regime. With nearly 30M users, over 85M code repositories, and marquee technology customers like Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Apple, among others, GitHub’s ubiquity made it invaluable.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 2, 2013

by Whitney Keyes , author of “ Propel: Five Ways to Amp Up Your Marketing and Accelerate Business “ In the United States, one thing the city of Seattle, WA, is best known for is its coffee, but there’s an innovative partnership happening around another source of caffeine and that’s the cocoa bean. Shared customer segment.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

In the Puget Sound, where I live in Seattle, there was an unfortunate net break and more than 100,000 Atlantic salmon, which are not native to the Puget Sound area, escaped into the sound. In the long run, we are thinking about customizing the fat content in protein for people on specific diets.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

I have a vivid memory of bombing a pitch that I was delivering to a group of angel investors in Seattle. retain those customers. how many customers you’ll acquire and when, how many you’ll retain in year one, how many will churn out (leave you), the average revenue each customer will spend, etc.). Bombing the Pitch.

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SiliconHills

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Hypergiant Space Age Solutions announced Tuesday that it has acquired Seattle-based Black Pixel. Its customers include ESPN, […]. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. The post Hypergiant Space Age Solutions Acquires Black Pixel appeared first on SiliconHills.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 22, 2019

by Lindsay Pedersen, author of “ Forging An Ironclad Brand: A Leader’s Guide “ In late 2008, Seattle’s adored Washington Mutual Bank (known locally and affectionately as WaMu) failed and was subsumed in a shotgun wedding with Chase Bank. They fail to be on the customer’s side. It was called WaMu.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 10, 2021

And early-stage VC investors have increasingly ventured beyond their backyards of SF, NYC, and Boston to more actively invest in (and in some cases relocate to) places like Miami, Austin, Chicago, Seattle, and other cities.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Brands didn’t advertise their web pages they advertised “AOL Keywords.&# If you were a newly minted, venture-backed consumer Internet company you had to have a deal with AOL to reach your customers. Ask Microsoft, Autodesk or Salesforce.com – the evidence was there from Seattle to Sand Hill Road.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 6, 2018

Market research is essential for a number of reasons, and failing to carry out some extensive and detailed analysis of your potential customers is the first step to your start-up floundering. Those are customers that won’t be able to find you, and if they can’t find you, they can’t give you their money. Research-based branding.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 29, 2020

Niche markets are a way to avoid competing with the many bigger legacy firms that have far greater resources than you do, not to mention an established customer base. If your idea connects, you’ll find an underserved or ignored customer pool who will be fiercely loyal to your brand as it is offering something previously unavailable.

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