crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

In 2015 Nerdwallet.com chose it as one of the best places to start a business, as well as the #1 city for female entrepreneurs, and for good reason: It’s an affluent urban center and was ranked as one of the top 20 most productive metro areas in terms of GDP. Portland, OR. Columbus, OH. Nashville, TN. Pittsburgh, PA. Atlanta, GA.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Pick up some beans from your local roaster (is my Portland showing yet?) See Also: Eating Your Way to a More Productive Workday. It works with both a traditional camera and includes a cellphone mount, making it easy to take anything from product pictures, to marketing videos on the go and from any angle. A Hydroflask.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 7, 2013

One example of this is the $100 million Dell Innovators Credit Fund launched last June, which offers financing for technology products and solutions to newly venture-backed startups. Another is Google Ventures, which works with portfolio companies full-time on design, recruiting, marketing, and engineering.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Also make sure that you’re communicating well with any web developers or designers you hire. Have appropriate expectations, listen to the professionals in your employ and don’t micro-manage a design or development project. Let developers develop, designers design and you - do your own business.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 12, 2012

Key drivers of satisfaction at Microsoft include product quality, value for money, security, accuracy, and speed of solutions. Measure what matters to focus attention, design new action, and create positive service results. A well-designed Service Improvement Process promotes communication across functions, divisions, and departments.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Although we started in Portland, Oregon, we now have members in every state with many meetup launches planned for 2020.We’re 14- Finding the elusive product-market fit for my company. Instead of driving a round peg into a square hole, I made a resolution in 2019 to constantly evaluate my company’s product-market fit.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 27, 2011

Portland, Oregon-based Shwood was founded by Eric Singer, whose inspiration for starting the company came from hand-carving a pair of sunglass frames one day out of a Madrone tree limb from his own backyard, adding a rusty pair of cabinet hinges and lenses from a corner store. America’s Favorite Small Business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 18, 2010

Even if you know your product/service suite down cold, understand the strengths/weaknesses of the competition, and have built pro forma financials that are sane. Focus on your designated market area instead. By Mahesh Raj Mohan Writing a business plan can be a difficult process. What does that mean?

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 27, 2012

If you don't believe in your product, how can you possibly expect an investor or reporter to care? Building A Great Product Is Not. Too many startups create a great product and try to figure out a revenue model later, says Urban Airship 's Scott Kveton. Know your business model from the get-go. Look Beyond The Valley.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 30, 2016

I wrote software on an Apple ][ to design the character sets for Centronics printers, ran a lot, learned how to drink beer, got into the drama of the Falklands War , and endured a Tube strike. I’m gearing up to be in marathon shape with the goal of running the Portland Marathon in October.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 20, 2014

Before moving to Bend last year, my career took me from engineering development roles at defense contractors in the 80’s to product management and executive marketing roles in companies like Qualcomm in the 90’s, to the world of venture capital at several firms including Bay Partners, Formative Ventures and Vulcan Ventures.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

And, it’s important that everyone, CEO, designer and account manager alike, be a part of it. ” So, other than tossing a new coat of paint on the wall, how do you go about designing the kind of workspace that gets the creative juices flowing? Powell’s bookstore in Portland, Oregon has done just this.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 27, 2012

If you don't believe in your product, how can you possibly expect an investor or reporter to care? Building A Great Product Is Not. Too many startups create a great product and try to figure out a revenue model later, says Urban Airship 's Scott Kveton. Know your business model from the get-go.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 3, 2019

Here’s the simple truth of business: Without customers to buy your products, you’re not going to make any money. Buyers” are the people who make the spending decisions while “users” are the people who actually use your product. Success in marketing and product development comes from a deep understanding of your target customer.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Whether you love Apple or hate it, you can’t deny they’ve designed more than a place to sell products with their stores worldwide. Apple has created a store experience that’s as sleek and user-friendly as their products, and, as anyone who has battled through the weekend crowds can tell you, immensely popular. billion in sales.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 27, 2012

If you don’t believe in your product, how can you possibly expect an investor or reporter to care? Building A Great Product Is Not. Too many startups create a great product and try to figure out a revenue model later, says Urban Airship ‘s Scott Kveton. Know your business model from the get-go.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 16, 2017

What I’m about to tell you really crystalized from talking with a super smart toy designer and product manager flying back together to Detroit on Tuesday. In addition to an exoskelton product (also exciting, helping folks lift heavy items), they now have real, usable tech that reads brain states (the more transformative product).

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Up and Running

MAY 22, 2015

Brand ambassadors are the people who are so in love with your product or service, they’ll spread the word about your business for free. Your product or service will never be perfect. Also playing on this idea, Salt & Straw, a popular ice cream retail chain in Portland, Oregon, is serving up totally unexpected flavors.

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Up and Running

JULY 31, 2015

Like many parents these days, Josh and his wife Bethany realized that it would be a battle keeping the house designated into gluten-free and non-gluten-free areas, so they all got on the bandwagon and kicked gluten to keep things simple. I googled “How do you sell a food product?” This is too much.”

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Up and Running

AUGUST 15, 2016

The subscription business model, once thought only to apply to products like magazines and gym memberships, has grown hugely in popularity in recent years. After all, while the subscription business model works very well for beauty products, you don’t want to just repeat exactly what has already been done. Home and garden.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 14, 2012

I recently got back from a cross-country road trip where I drove from Chicago to Portland, OR. There’s so much upfront work to complete before you’re ready to offer your products to people that it would have been nice to have that “safety net” while I was working on all of that. Love to wear many different hats.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 9, 2017

David: That’s exactly right and I think voice is — it’s certainly informing a lot of the product decisions that Google is making. I think over the years the Google hotel finder has eaten a ton of organic traffic that’s now part of a — sort of a paid inclusion product. ” That sounds terrible.

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Up and Running

JULY 16, 2015

Helmed by husband-and-wife team Stuart (Director of Sales and Marketing) and Emily (Managing Director, Board Chair, and Chief Ice Cream Inventor) Philips, during 2015 and 2016 Red Wagon is preparing for a big “regional-national” leap in production and distribution—in part by taking advantage of a new public investing program.

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Up and Running

MAY 18, 2015

As I write this, I am currently sitting in my home office, overlooking my sleepy little neighborhood in Southeast Portland. I’m home at 11am on a weekday because I work remotely; I am employed by Palo Alto Software, but as they are located in Eugene, Oregon, and I am currently living in Portland, I am rarely in the office.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 30, 2012

How to identify and engage the first customers for your product, and how to gather, evaluate and use their feedback to make your product, marketing and business model far stronger. It’s also beautifully designed. Narrative and Comms Design by Portland State University. Khan Academy.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

What type of brewery will you be: production brewery or brewpub? How wide do you want to grow production and distribution, or do you want to focus on selling over your own bar? You want locally oriented people, people who want a good product, made local.”. Do you want to scale to multiple locations?

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Bryce Dot VC

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

A couple weeks ago I had the opportunity to speak at the XOXO Festival in Portland Oregon. percent of companies are using a product, venture capital, that really doesn’t work for them. As a VC, I’m in a position where I have a product that doesn’t work for 99.93% of my customers. The Andyies asked me to talk about our Indie.vc

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Hearpreneur

MAY 29, 2016

Our company was founded by my father in 1980 as Classic Products, Inc. — I thought of names like, Ranking Results Northwest, Portland Optimization Strategies, or Portland SEO Works. We chose the name ‘Katherine Hamilton Intimates’ to communicate to our customers that we are a UK designer of luxury lingerie.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 19, 2014

One rule of thumb I learned upon entering the technology industry was that it takes seven years, on average, for new technology to go from laboratory proofs to sellable product. The barrier to flying cars is not in the design or building of a viable airframe. So when will it happen? Dude, Where’s my Flying Car? What about cost?

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Up and Running

MAY 15, 2019

These products will be distributed to remote yet extremely viable areas, where the market is appreciative of readily-available, good-quality brew. In addition, they will introduce a new product, a traditional German Marzen-style lager. What type of brewery will you be: production brewery or brewpub? Martin Cove Brewing Company.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

She has written books called The Writer’s Process about the inner game of writing creatively and productively, and The Workplace Writers’ Process, something that all these content marketers probably need to know a little bit about. This is John Jantsch, and my guest today is Anne Janzer. Anne Janzer: Yeah. John Jantsch: Yeah.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 14, 2016

Sticker Mule ’s original homepage (featured below) contained just four top-tier products and everything essentially lived “above the fold.” Adding all of their products to the homepage hurt revenue by nearly 48%. Irrelevant images are the bane of low-converting product pages and ads. How to Be Simple. people and places).

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 12, 2019

John Jantsch: So, in preparation for this, because you do the conference and have your business in the city of Portland. Portland, Maine. John Jantsch: Yeah, I was going to go there, because I did a little search, I said, “Fun facts about Portland, Maine.” It was five fun facts about Portland, Oregon.

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Andrew Payne

APRIL 20, 2014

Cities want the hospitality tax (Airbnb is moving to collect taxes in New York, San Francisco, and Portland) and the hospitality industry doesn’t want the competition. Can you name any other industry where a manufacturer can’t sell their own product?

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2011

We needed to have a number of logos and icons designed for our various apps, but it was difficult figuring out where to in order to find good design talent. b. In the early stages, focus on just making the greatest product or service you can. People seem to love it! What made you use crowdSPRING? .

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

Etsy: Etsy has become known as the ideal marketplace for the creatively inclined, and for good reason; setting up an Etsy shop is incredibly simple, and as the platform is geared heavily toward handcrafted products, if you have a craft, you’ll be in good company. Image via The Boss Stitch. Do you enjoy making jewelry on the side?

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conversionxl.com

OCTOBER 31, 2011

For one thing people will tell you what they WANT to pay—which is obviously much less than what your product or service is actually WORTH. What will work for you depends on your industry, product and customer. Add some very expensive products to the selection (that you don’t even intend to sell). more at the supermarket?

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