crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! How small businesses and startups should deal with difficult customers – [link]. Huffington Post thinks the Midwest may be the next Silicon Valley – [link].

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 1, 2018

Building online payment software is expensive so most small travel companies opt for payment methods and gateways such as PayPal, bank transfers, Stripe, etc. But the best of all is that now small operators have direct access to international clients through an integrated on-site booking system for a fraction of a price.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2014

Sponsored by VISA Business With all the new technology available today for video conferencing, interactive social media, and webinars, you may think that travel is no longer a requirement for starting a small business. Yet I still see business plans and funding plans for startups that have minimal or no allocation for travel.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

I’m rarely surprised when a young entrepreneur or small business owner hasn’t fully identified how their new business will make money. But I’m always surprised when that entrepreneur or small business owner has a tough time describing the potential customers for their new business’s products and services.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 6, 2022

John Jantsch (02:29): So I'm curious, how did you get into the business of advising startups? Well, Steve Hoffman (02:34): First of all, I did three venture funded startups in Silicon valley and two bootstrap startups. All these things are, if you're running a small business, they're huge challenges.

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VC Adventure

APRIL 16, 2020

To save the US economy, policymakers need to understand small business 101. economy and the ways in which entrepreneurship and the small business landscape have changed over the past few decades. Drilling down on small business demographics. The text of our latest OpEd is below. They sound good.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 9, 2011

And the third was a discussion on Silicon Valley: The Next Decade. First, Ankit Duggal from Clifton, New Jersey, pitched RER LLC , a firm that currently manages a real estate investment fund and is working on an investment advisory service catering to real estate investors - individuals and small businesses. Discuss.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 26, 2013

On the enterprise side of our business, we’ve seen the increasing demand from traditional large corporate buyers looking for ways to manage a more distribute workforce,” Cooper said. “In Most of clients are “startups, small businesses, and solo entrepreneurs who are building their business on or around oDesk,” Cooper said.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 6, 2011

Sramana Mitra is the founder of the One Million by One Million (1M/1M) initiative, an educational, business development and incubation program that aims to help one million entrepreneurs globally to reach $1 million in revenue and beyond. She is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and strategy consultant. What makes 1M/1M unique?

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 29, 2009

This is the second of three posts about the rise of “risk capital” and how it came to be associated with what became Silicon Valley. ———————– The First Valley IPO’s Silicon Valley first caught the eyes of east coast investors in the late 1950’s when the valleys first three IPO’s happened: Varian in 1956, Hewlett Packard in 1957, and Ampex in 1958.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 9, 2014

Are you an entrepreneur or small business owner with questions about funding your small business? Maybe you are wondering which metrics to track, or whether or not you should take out a loan for your business. You can kind of think of it like a kayak for small business. My name is John Bates.

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Up and Running

JUNE 12, 2015

Jonathan: Silicon Valley (HBO). We can’t just go recommend that every small business owner hires employees just because they feel like they’re already doing everything. Our last sign, sign number 12 is when your time distribution is uneven. Tweet or email us with one we should check out. Jonathan: Cool.

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Steve Blank

MAY 7, 2009

At a university business plan competition, for the first time they can swim in the sea of expertise that we/I take for granted in the middle of Silicon Valley. I love business plan competitions (and with my valley-centric bias, I think Berkeley and Stanford have two of the best.) bplan document is just that.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2015

During the last three years he’s worked with over 100 companies, many of which established Innovation Outposts in Silicon Valley. He’s now helping companies get the most out of their relationships with Silicon Valley. and concentrated on a single part of the supply chain – importing, distribution, wholesale, retail.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Sean Murphy on the first dozen enterprise customers - Gabriel Weinberg , September 8, 2010 I recently did a Traction Book interview with Sean Murphy who runs a boutique cutomer development firm in Silicon Valley. APIs provide a way to “federate&# web services from a single website to a distributed network of 3rd party sites.

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Start Up Blog

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Firstly, there are a lot of businesses calling themselves a startups , when in reality, they’re really just new, small businesses. Startup = A new type of business trying to uncover a business model which doesn’t exist yet. To want to remain small or medium-sized. So, what is a startup?

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 31, 2014

Not all start ups want to go in that direction – some will opt instead to become a small business. There’s nothing wrong with a business that supports you and perhaps an extended family. What’s been missing from regions outside of Silicon Valley is a “playbook.” It doesn’t. Born Global or Die Local.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 21, 2018

For more mature businesses that already know a lot about their target customers, the goal of the plan is to help guide implementation. In this situation, use a Lean Plan to get everyone on the same page, set goals, and manage the business. Both Silicon Valley startups and Main Street small businesses need to know how they are doing.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Gadea leveraged his connections in Silicon Valley to seed viral distribution of the product, which, in turn, generated the revenue to hire engineers and scale the company. “I was fortunate that the first product I built proved to be successful,” Gadea concedes.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 30, 2014

Docker is an open platform designed to let developers and sysadmins build, ship and run distributed apps from anywhere. The main contribution of the open-source Docker software is to simplify the distribution of applications by standardizing their properties and shipping them together with their entire environment in neat containers.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

The term “Growth Hacking”, invented by Sean Ellis , and made popular by Andrew Chen , a Silicon valley marketer and entrepreneur, is a combination of two disciplines – marketing and coding: Growth hackers are a hybrid of marketer and coder, one who looks at the traditional question of “How do I get customers for my product?”

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

Join others who code to change the world for the better and explore distributed computing, examine the confluence between businesses and technology, and debate the power of technology on urban development. Don’t miss the small business sales and marketing event of the year! Small Business Web Summit.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 31, 2013

Europe produces plenty of small businesses: restaurants, small technology firms, clothing stores, hair salons, and so on. They are catalysts for creating angel investors, for providing distribution, and serve as a breeding ground for talent and practiced management. Silicon Valley is a state of mind.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Gadea leveraged his connections in Silicon Valley to seed viral distribution of the product, which, in turn, generated the revenue to hire engineers and scale the company. “I was fortunate that the first product I built proved to be successful,” Gadea concedes.

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 7, 2021

As companies and cities wrestle with the future of work, future of cities, and future of tech made possible in a post-COVID future, the question is whether it also impacts — and presents an opportunity to address — one of the greatest problems of our time: the unequal distribution of economic opportunity across the United States.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

In Silicon Valley, rock climbing’s a current hot spot for startup folks. There’s at least one weekly ultimate frisbee game I’m aware of that’s chock-full of people from the startup industry, on both the business and tech sides. To be blunt, find a way to move to Silicon Valley.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 28, 2014

I woke up to an article in Daily Camera today titled Small Business Administration trying to bring SBIC funds to Colorado. The article starts off saying that “Matthew Varilek has traveled across the state, proselytizing the potential benefits of the Small Business Investment Company Program.”

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

My name is Crystal Williams, and I maintain a small business blog called Babeofbusiness.com. Github - Free public repositories, collaborator management, issue tracking, wikis, downloads, code review, graphs Pivotal Tracker – Agile project management tool that enables real time collaboration. Keep up the great work!

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Transformify

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Remote teams and distributed teams are seen from a completely different angle by the business and the government agencies. Tech startups based in Silicon Valley, for example, can save on rent by hiring in the high unemployment areas in the US. Are you looking to hire a remote team? Learn more

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

Entrepreneurs with businesses in Asia know that fundraising here can be a daunting task. The ways of doing business across the Pacific are very different than in Silicon Valley, and the quality and breadth of VCs out here vary widely across different countries.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 20, 2009

Do you know have they distribute their product? weeks ago, positioning it as a tool designed to help small businesses effectively manage their social media efforts. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. Me – “Have you used Company x’s product? Do you know how they create demand? Order Here.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 2, 2012

Kadanoff, who has served as the Chief Marketing Officer for numerous startups in Silicon Valley and got her start doing marketing at Apple, says that any inbound marketing campaign has three main elements: First is getting found and requires search-friendly content at the heart of your marketing campaigns.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 21, 2022

I started my business because I wanted to be independent and be my own boss doing something I was passionate about. I would thank my mentors at Silicon Valley for guiding and teaching me how technology can be used to give life to so many ideas that are all around us. I started my business to serve a purpose at a particular time.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

Eric Ries, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and author of The Lean Startup, popularized this strategy for web applications. If you’re working closely with partners who are helping you distribute your product, it’s especially important to make sure they understand who you are, how you speak, and who you serve.

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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 25, 2022

In his important new book, Dignity In A Digital Age , he explores how the tech industry can work harder to ensure the benefits it produces are equitably distributed, while also more effectively minimizing disinformation, encroachments on privacy, and other negative outputs.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 18, 2010

This could be particularly good for small businesses that can’t afford personal support. POSE has created a Point Of Sale system (POS) for small businesses, which can be operated from PCs, tablets and connected mobile devices. Founded in 2008 by Ms. Emma Butin.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

One of the things we hear a lot about in Silicon Valley is how cheap and easy it is to launch a startup these days. Then we allocated the saved money into hiring the highest quality developers available — especially those who have experience working with a distributed team.

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