crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 27, 2010

and tips for buyers looking for logo design. Today, we’ll cover web design marketing best practices and tips for small business. If you need help, you can leverage crowdSPRING’s community of more than 67,000 designers and writers for your custom web design. Keep the site design simple, fresh, and unique.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Serious businesses always have well-designed websites. It’s recommended that you first begin with a well-designed website that will give clients and future customers information about your products or services. Believe it or not, this is something you can do with little to no knowledge of mobile app design.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 4, 2019

Often entrepreneurs and business owners create their New Year’s Resolutions around their business. We asked 20 entrepreneurs to share their business goals and what they were looking forward to in 2019. #1- It’s a new year and right after the ball drops, it’s time to go to work. 1- Recruit female executives recruitment.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 25, 2018

Many startup myths threaten to hold back even the best-intentioned entrepreneurs. In spite of those sobering numbers, today, there are close to 400 million entrepreneurs worldwide. They wonder, for example: What percentage of entrepreneurs are successful? What is the average age of an entrepreneur when they start a business?

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 17, 2013

Most entrepreneurs are narrowly set on building a product that they lose sight of the real goal – to solve a problem for a customer. For many startups, this was the secret to massive success : David Quail is a super talented software engineer, with one exit already under his belt. Can a real person perform these tasks manually?

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

We think teaching teams a formal methodology around the Lean Framework (Business Model design, Customer Development and Agile Engineering) is a natural evolution of how successful incubators/accelerators will build startups. Here’s the story of one such team; Jonathan Wylie, Lakshmi Shivalingaiah and the Evoke team.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 31, 2018

My partner and I joked about being night owls so it all came together to become Infinite Owl Marketing and Design Studio, our full-service marketing agency for content and creative strategy and execution. Thanks to Marialuisa Curran, Infinite Owl Marketing and Design Studio ! #3- 3- Combined names of our products components.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 8, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, August 8, 2009 Revisiting the Software Design Manifesto (and whats changed since then) My recent article on technical debt and its positive uses generated a fair bit of controversy. The argument itself got me thinking a lot about design and its role in building products.

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Gust

DECEMBER 6, 2011

The resources required to start a company vary significantly , depending on the type of company and growth rate anticipated by the entrepreneur. An experienced software engineer, for example, can develop a new mobile app with his or her own resources and market the product on the web with very little capital. ANNUAL US $$$.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 21, 2017

But it’s rare that an entrepreneur or business owner doesn’t leverage their background in some way to launch their business. No one even “born entrepreneurs”aren’t born as CEOs. No one even “born entrepreneurs”aren’t born as CEOs. It’s usually a process.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 5, 2010

Two weeks after Brad’s post I was at the 140 Conference in LA and I held open office hours for any entrepreneur who wanted to spend 15 minutes talking with a VC about their business. But it turns out I met a bunch of really interesting entrepreneurs. But TWTFelipe is an entrepreneur. Felipe grew up in Brazil.

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View from Seed

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Saurya Velagapudi is a senior software engineer at Google, based in their Cambridge, Mass., ” to the more complex, “Can you design Google?” ” (We’re testing for whether you can design a really large system.). In any production-oriented job (writing, design, development, etc.),

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Steve Blank

JULY 7, 2015

My guests on Bay Area Ventures on Wharton Business Radio on Sirius XM Channel 111 were: Eric Ries , entrepreneur and author of the New York Times bestseller, The Lean Startup. Eric Ries co-founded Catalyst Recruiting while attending Yale, and continued his entrepreneurial career as a Senior Software Engineer at There.com.

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Transformify

MARCH 23, 2020

Traveling around the world, I met startup founders, forex traders, marketers, online shop owners, travel bloggers, Instagram influencers and digital business entrepreneurs of all kinds. At the same time, talented software engineers, designers, digital marketing experts, product managers, etc.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 17, 2012

But what you may not know is that Nguyen actually designed the first user interface for the Color app. For that, he turned to a previous relationship he had with Apple’s Senior Vice President Internet Software and Services, Eddy Cue. Or its software engineering team could be the target, if Apple was impressed by their work.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 8, 2012

The Boston Startup School , founded at TechStars Boston (see For TechStars Boston, Life Beyond the Pitch ), is creating a program that will give aspiring entrepreneurs and others all the tools they will need to work at a startup. Perhaps it is time to look into Startup School. Startups are not easy. But there is more to it than that.

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Agile VC

JANUARY 4, 2012

In addition to compelling founders, we were drawn to the company by their vision for a professional community for mechanical engineers and designers. You’ve seen this with companies like StackOverflow and Github in software engineering or Behance in visual design. million times. zhoucn9999. Read More ».

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 10, 2012

The Developer Bootcamp is designed to help anyone get started coding - and they might even get a job at a startup or tech heavyweight out of it as well. This is not the first time a Silicon Valley entrepreneur has advocated learning to code as opposed to going to college. A Vocational School for Programmers.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

It’s a very smartly designed debenture program. From the local wins you get pools of money from tech entrepreneurs and investors eager to reinvest it back into the community – the most likely source of a return on their capital. Ability To Attract a Pool of Engineers – We know that SF is Mecca for software engineers.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 29, 2024

How to Be an Entrepreneur in 2024: 15 Tactics Revealed written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing The Duct Tape Marketing Podcast with John Jantsch In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast, I interviewed Paul Cheek, a serial tech-preneur, educator, and software engineer. This is John Jantsh.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 6, 2008

Steveys Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile : "Google is an exceptionally disciplined company, from a software-engineering perspective. They take things like unit testing, design documents and code reviews more seriously than any other company Ive even heard about. Two Ways to Hold Entrepreneurs Accountable (for Ha.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 15, 2012

Mid- to large-size companies can also benefit from the lean methodology and one way to do so is by actively leveraging crowds of workers: designers , software engineers , testers , writers , customer support people , customers, market researchers , and dozens of other groups via the Internet.

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techcrunch.com

JUNE 22, 2012

So, you go out to find a veteran entrepreneur, ask her to be an advisor in your fledgling company … and then what? Entrepreneurs want to compensate their mentors and advisors for the time they dedicate to helping their businesses grow, but they have no idea how much equity to offer. This is where a lot of founders get stuck.

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

There is a wealth of resources that are unique to this town and a vibrant community of hackers, product designers, business people, and investors at various stages in their career. This guide is designed to help you hit the ground running and is a starting point for your entrepreneurial journey in Boston. MIT Start Lab. Harvard iLab.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 22, 2011

We would love to get your suggestions in the comments section for (1) the type of company that we should follow, and (2) the types of issues that the company might encounter (reminder: the goal is to illustrate common difficulties entrepreneurs face when it comes to understanding their financials).

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 11, 2011

He defined crowdsourcing as “the act of taking a job traditionally performed by a designated agent (usually an employee) and outsourcing it to an undefined, generally large group of people in the form of an open call.&# Pretty much says it all, doesn’t it?

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siliconflorist.com

DECEMBER 22, 2012

If you’re thinking about becoming a mentor for startups—either in a formal accelerator program or independently—here are some tips for thinking about how to work with entrepreneurs. And fact of the matter is, no matter how vehemently you support or oppose an entrepreneur’s decision, it’s their decision to make.

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Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2009

A month or two before the QuickTime public announcement in May, the SuperMac hardware engineers (who had a great relationship with the QuickTime team at Apple) started a “ skunk works ” project. In less than a month they designed a low-cost video-capture board that plugged into the Mac and allowed you to connect a video camera and VCR.

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

This guide is designed to help you hit the ground running and is a starting point for your entrepreneurial journey in Boston. DartBoston: A vibrant community of young entrepreneurs. Babson Entrepreneur Resource Center. Thoughtbot - Web application development and design. FreshTilledSoil - User Interface Design.

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www.geekwire.com

JULY 10, 2012

ENTREPRENEURS. But Seattle entrepreneur Aaron Roberts, a former engineer… Read More. Software Developer. Senior Software Engineer - Web-based Applications. at Tableau Software. Front-end UI Software Engineer. Manager, Test Engineering (Performance Team). About GeekWire.

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Austin Startup

JULY 18, 2017

Last week I had the honor of speaking at the “Engineers turned Entrepreneurs” panel at the 3 Day Startup Global Roundup. Having graduated as an Electrical Engineer and worked as a Software Engineer at IBM, I felt I perfectly fit the bill. Note that got left by a customer.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 11, 2022

If you're looking for a new podcast, the Female Startup Club shares tips, tactics and strategies from the world's most successful female founders, entrepreneurs, and women in business to inspire you to take action and get what you want out of your career. You know, every entrepreneur has some unique, uh, journey that brought into this point.

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techcocktail.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

When we see entrepreneurs come up with great ideas (and we see many), we hope that they also remember that while an idea is key, it won’t go anywhere without the right team in place. As entrepreneurs we need to recognize the importance of having a solid support system. Software Engineer @ General Electric (Barrington, IL) Sr.

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Version One Ventures

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Since then, over 400 Insight alumni have been hired as data scientists or data engineers at top tier companies like Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Airbnb, and Google. However, drawing math-loving engineers from the tech talent pool isn’t a sustainable strategy. Because, let’s face it: data scientists aren’t necessarily easy to find.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

The same issues arose time and again: big company management styles versus entrepreneurs wanting to shoot from the hip, founders versus professional managers, engineering versus marketing, marketing versus sales, missed schedule issues, sales missing the plan, running out of money, raising new money. Would you mind sharing them?

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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!

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 13, 2018

JD Weinstein , head of Oracle Global Startup Ecosystem in Austin; Karen Kilroy, entrepreneur and CEO of Kilroy Blockchain; Sabrina Wojtewicz, co-founder of Bunker Labs; and Sara Chapman, Director of Entrepreneurship Strategy & Partnerships at Dell will discuss how both startups and corporations can work together and find the right fit.

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