crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Your brand lives in everyday interactions your company has with its prospects and customers, including the images you share, the messages you post on your website, the content of your marketing materials, your presentations and booths at conferences, and your posts on social networks. Importantly, your brand is not what you say it is.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 24, 2011

How to differentiate yourself in a crowded market (and when perhaps you shouldn’t try). I feel like the bar has been raised so much in the last five years in the start up community and I’ve been busy working for a distinctly non-start up company. My gut always is, competing on price just doesn’t work.

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Version One Ventures

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Let’s explore the status and implications of each vertical. . an image) and are frequently referred to as NFTs or non-fungible tokens. And manual migration is non-trivial for most users. Another competing model is Scuttlebutt , which utilizes a p2p gossip protocol that mirrors something closer to BitTorrent or Bitcoin.

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 29, 2013

And while we feel a bit uncomfortable, we still engage because the cost of non participation is currently higher than the price of privacy. While non bank business financing is currently miniscule by comparison, the numbers from kickstarter.com tell us something is brewing. It was anti-social in nature. This might just change.

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Uruguay Technical Review Vertical Las Vegas 123

techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Some of the investments defy explanation… Money poured into something that no one has yet been able to monetise, with a competitive landscape that is over-saturated, and with no real differentiation from what’s already out there. The cost of money is steep, and only works in certain verticals, of which software is NOT one.

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abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

I think it started with eBay, but then we got into more vertical specific ones, like Zillow, Grubhub, OpenTable and Uber that I’m on the board of. People price differentiate all the time. What got you interested and how have you been studying the system? Bill Gurley : Great. Isn’t Stanford just giving you better MRIs?

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