crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 16, 2011

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! More, better, faster: UX design for startups – [link]. Content vs Design – Which is More Important? Common Elements Used in Wooden UI Design – [link].

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 21, 2020

Thanks to Steve Turner, Solomon Turner PR ! #4- All the high-end designers and liquor companies followed. They went from a design company to building their own product that people loved, to scaling that product and having it used by millions of people. Photo Credit: Mike Charles. Innovative, useful, relevant and brillant!

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 13, 2009

Announce a new product, start its PR campaign, and engage in buzz marketing activities. Even if you must launch to your customers, avoid the urge to also launch in extra places, just because your PR firm can do it at the same time. If you are having trouble raising money, sometimes a little PR can help. Help you raise money.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 27, 2015

We so like to talk about fonts, logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, economics and other interesting stuff! DOTW: Shiva Nallaperumal + Typeface Design crowdspring.co/1FaFHog. 4 Ways to Create a Memorable Online Design Portfolio crowdspring.co/1MyTMhM.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 30, 2009

Insist on high levels of usability, UI design, and polish. Launch with a PR blitz, including mentions in major mainstream publications. Without conscious process design, product development teams turn lines of code written into momentum in a certain direction. Ship it when its done, not a moment before.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

A PR minder told us that prior to this tour visitors were required to sign a non-disclosure agreement form before being allowed into its offices, with photography strictly prohibited. Even the meeting rooms are named tongue-in-cheek. Here’s a wall decorated with repurposed vintage doors and windows of those colonial-era shophouses.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

In this model, you take some fraction of the lifetime value of each customer and plow that back into paid acquisition through SEM, banner ads, PR, affiliates, etc. For Neopets, its simply a side-effect of their game-like product design. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 21, 2015

We just love sharing articles about fonts, logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, economics and other interesting stuff! Design Tags Made in USA crowdspring.co/1IZWNIj. Design Thinking: Improving In-flight Entertainment — Medium crowdspring.co/1DDhTvC.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 7, 2010

Some designers also hate optimizing (which is why the “41 shades of blue&# test is so famous – a famous designer claims to have quit over it ). After you’ve spent months on a painstaking new design, who wants to be told what color blue to use? It takes some getting used to for most designers, though.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Engineers are offenders in this category too, but so is any gender-segregated activity, like an all-female PR or marketing team. I have personally taught many “non-technical&# people to program – graphic designers, QA folks, even artists and animators. Diversity is not the only requirement for making good group decisions.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

It doesn’t sound like the typical Swiss watch brand name and thereby expresses our mission of bringing a uniquely designed Swiss made watch that is affordable to market. Many of our fans own other big designer brands like Rolex etc., While we were working on the logo it dawned on us that PR was actually uPRoar’s middle name.

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techcrunch.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Yes, you have good working knowledge of accounting, an idea of how to bring in sales leads, run a marketing and PR campaign, recruit people and build a great company culture, but that won’t help you build a product that customers want. Part of the problem when you know nothing about the tech is that you think you just need “a web developer”.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

Thanks to Suns amazing PR blitz, there was tremendous demand for experts on Java, and I did my best to convince people that I was one of that mythical breed. my startup is Blank Label (www.blank-label.com), which is a provider of custom dress shirts that empowers consumers to become the designer of their own product.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 8, 2008

But too often when its time to think about customers, marketing, positioning, or PR, we delegate it to "marketroids" or "suits." This is a self-published book, originally designed as a companion to Steves class at Berkeleys Haas school of business. When we build products, we use a methodology. Heres the catch.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 27, 2009

Journalists, PR firms, investors, and the public at large love a scrappy come-from-behind story about two guys in a garage who figured out how to take down Goliath. Some aspects of the vision remain, but often in a significantly modified form. But the story usually features visionary protagonists who had it figured out from the start.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Cost of software/hardware used in sales and marketing Agency, PR, or any third-party costs involved in sales and marketing. For example, if you sell a product in America and Japan, churn in Japan may be traditionally lower because there are fewer Japanese language alternatives to your product.

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Acquisition Churn Rate Cost Customer 135

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 17, 2010

The latest batch, sponsored by First Round, is available here. Thanks again to all of our amazing sponsors, volunteers and staff who are working very hard to make this event a reality. The latest batch, sponsored by First Round, is available here. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 15, 2010

I’m a 25 year old starving artist turned graphic designer, turned web designer. I’m a Navy brat that was born in Japan and has lived in various places along the East Coast. How did you become interested in design? Then I stumbled upon crowdSPRING one day while searching for design competitions, and the rest is history.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

Even worse, entrepreneurs are faced with a constant barrage of vanity metrics from competitors and other companies engaged in PR. My point is that this article does not contain the kind of information we’d need to draw reasonable inferences, which is by design. The PR firm helpfully left out that context.)

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San Francisco Metrics Lean PR 154

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 26, 2009

Making UGC work requires good tools, open standards, and proper incentive design. In the meantime, I think we have a good explanation for what all those PR dollars are being spent trying to obscure. Personally, the framework Ive found most helpful is MTVs "create, share, validate" feedback loop. Dont fall for it - its a trap.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2010

The higher the vanity ratio, the more effective the PR. And the kinds of failures that do get airtime are usually failures to adequately plan, anticipate, or design in advance. It helps companies with PR. And companies crave positive PR and control over their message – all for rational reasons.

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San Francisco Lean PR Metrics 167

Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

Whats striking about these stories, if you get past the PR hype, are two very important themes: These prodigies were self-taught, and had a fundamental fascination with technology from a very young age. Their stories would not have been possible without access to sympathetic adults with the necessary equipment and knowledge to get started.

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Programming San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment 143

Steve Blank

AUGUST 3, 2009

Air Force’s long range bombing arm and the designated instrument of Armageddon. On the other side of the Iron Curtain, the defense of the Soviet Motherland lay with the Soviet Air Defense Forces , called PVO Strany , a separate branch of the Soviet military formed in 1948 designed to detect U.S. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 24, 2016

BLND came to mind, meshing my initials with the idea that, as a PR agency, our services are to cultivate relationships with clients and media – “blending” them together to create positive brand awareness. To make it more unique, I dropped the E, and BLND PR was born. Miki is a boy’s nickname in Japan.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

This "success theater" is occasionally useful for PR or getting through a tough board meeting. This "success theater" is occasionally useful for PR or getting through a tough board meeting. Once again, we revisit the topic of Actionable metrics and their nemesis: Vanity metrics. But how do we know which metrics to look at?

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Metrics San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment 121

Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 4, 2009

In a startup, these channels of communication are critical to understand for advertising, launch and PR purposes. In particular, Ive focused on the two channels of communication that were most commonly suggested in the first survey: conferences and books. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

or their privileging of only certain designers featured in Showcase and promos. I can't do anything for the hurt you experienced in the past, other than to apologize on behalf of all platform designers out there. Have you personally visited the Content Creator forums and read through the PR thread? Desperately.

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Community Management Lean Software Review 158

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 7, 2008

This is completely analogous to the situation elsewhere on the internet, where launching a new website, product, or service with PR is getting harder and harder. On the web, we have many of these channels: SEM, SEO, world of mouth, PR and viral. Dont do PR upfront, dont put out a press release. My advice: dont launch big.

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San Francisco Lean Retention SEM 68

www.kalzumeus.com

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

JSON is designed to get into Rails quite easily indeed — just POST it at the server, wham, YAML.load(attacker_data) happened. (The I was up at 3 AM Japan time applying these patches, twice. Design for Upgradability and the Rails DigiD Outage | Arie van Deursen -. Designed by. February 1, 2013. [.] startupcto

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Security Software Review Ruby Startup 101

Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Some highlights, at least for me: We experienced a great science experiment for the scenario: what would happen if a big company tries to compete with you given complete knowledge about your idea and designs? What happened when we got early press (circa 2004) in violation of our own no-PR rule.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Tech Gadgets Mobile Enterprise GreenTech CrunchBase TechCrunch TV Disrupt SF More TechCrunch TV Beta Invites Crunchies Elevator Pitches Gillmor Gang Podcasts TechCrunch Europe TechCrunch Trends TechCrunch France TechCrunch Japan Whats Hot: Android Apple Facebook Google Microsoft Twitter Yahoo Zynga Subscribe: From Nothing To Something.

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Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder Software Review 84

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

MAY 19, 2011

Similarly, when Brisbane was flooded, and the tsunami rocked Japan, my client provided a comment on the effects on the local mining industry, in terms of projects being put on hold, and of a greater demand for Australia’s coal resources by international economies. What a fabulous opportunity!

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

(a guide for hackers) (This post was inspired by a conversation with Nivi from Venture Hacks , but is otherwise not his fault) There has been a proliferation of frameworks and metaphors lately that are designed to help startups avoid the all-too-common fatal mistake of failing to find a market. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

In most SaaS sub-markets, we find that Europe is roughly three years behind the US in adoption, and Asia is slightly behind Europe – although we have recently seen some interesting pockets of activity in Japan and India that may be accelerating. Impact of the recession on SaaS Sales&Marketing pr. SaaS 13 Index Valuation.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 16, 2008

You could try and drive home that positioning with an expensive PR campaign, superbowl ads, and whatnot. So you decide to try to reposition around a different value proposition, one that more closely matches what your product is best at. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 9, 2009

We go to mixers, buy fancy offices, focus on PR, and try to one-up each other. Is it really worthwhile spending time and money trying to impress each other with our supposed successes, especially in a business where real feedback can take five or ten years? I think its wasteful. In time, success will come.

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Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

In India or Japan or the United States? Toyota's SM team / agency / PR entity continues to use Facebook to primarily pimp. B2B companies treat YouTube (and Facebook above, and three other Social Networks below) as their PR channel. Instagram allows you to express your creativity, and soak up expressions from others.

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