crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 30, 2017

behind Silicon Valley and New York), the city of flowers and sunshine boasts one of the largest concentrations of engineering graduates in the country. Startup activity in Las Vegas is booming. After the economy crashed in 2008, Las Vegas was pushed to reinvent itself in order to survive.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 4, 2011

Generally, I’m completely overwhelmed by the people and the stuff and the idea of spending a few days in Las Vegas playing trade show monkey makes me tired just thinking about it. In the past we’ve discovered new investments (such as Cloud Engines ) and seen lots of companies we are investors in make good progress (e.g.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 16, 2015

Maxwell Wessel, in a classic article in the Harvard Business Review on this subject, points out the exception successes of Zappos in Las Vegas, Sendgrid’s massive growth in Colorado, and RightNow’s $1.5 Of course, there are always exceptions, but how much added risk do you need for your startup? It decreases your odds of being bought.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 7, 2011

Our annual 24 hours (usually more like 30) together in Las Vegas every January for CES is another one. We’ve discovered new investments at CES (such as Cloud Engines – for the long version of the discovery process check out my dad’s post on it titled I Love My Popoplug!! ) My dad is a retired doctor.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 11, 2018

It’s the engine that has powered companies including Amazon, Alibaba, and Google. As Hoffman has put it, if starting a company is like jumping off a cliff and assembling a plane on the way down, scaling is like “assembling that plane faster then strapping on and igniting a set of jet engines, while still building the wings.”

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 30, 2017

behind Silicon Valley and New York), the city of flowers and sunshine boasts one of the largest concentrations of engineering graduates in the country. Startup activity in Las Vegas is booming. After the economy crashed in 2008, Las Vegas was pushed to reinvent itself in order to survive.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

I’ve had this conversation with several communities such as in San Diego where I believe there are way more qualified and talented engineers than available local capital to support them. Ability To Attract a Pool of Engineers – We know that SF is Mecca for software engineers. Would more come? That is awe inspiring.

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View from Seed

APRIL 21, 2015

Joris Poort , Founder and CEO, Rescale (Software platform and hardware infrastructure to perform scientific and engineering simulations; undisclosed capital raised, per CrunchBase): We spent two and a half years writing custom software to run large-scale simulations on Boeing’s data centers.

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

The 2014 International CES show in Las Vegas is just two months away. For 2014, the Structure Sensor is one of 11 products to be named a CES Innovation Design and Engineering Honoree in the “Tablets, E-Readers & Mobile Computing” category, alongside others like the new Sony VAIO Flip PC.

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 23, 2020

All the digital content you consume will be mixed into your physical environment, without the need to pass through a search engine. My favorite part of being a founder is to imagine things that were previously impossible, and realizing that nothing is impossible. Augmented reality is the web of tomorrow.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 20, 2017

The application process will give you a roadmap and likely where you can operate,” explains Norman Olson, director of marketing and Business Affairs at Hightech Extracts , an engineering company developing systems for the manufacturing of extract-based products. Do this, and you will develop a loyal consumer base.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 22, 2010

Toss in a BigDoor board meeting early in the week in Las Vegas and I’ll be getting my annual allotment of sin city in the first week of the new year. CES is just around the corner and I’m psyched to be going again this year. Lots of my friends and a number of our portfolio companies will be at CES this year.

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andrewchenblog.com

MARCH 10, 2010

Most engineers know that in this kind of a case, the best practice is NOT to rewrite your code, but rather refactor it continually and take down the so-called “Technical debt&# so that it’s always under control. Ya know, something that looks like this: Why does Vegas look this way? There went my Las Vegas light show.

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Version One Ventures

APRIL 23, 2015

This team has been thinking about how to re-imagine and re-engineer the way travelers discover the world for a long time, and we’re thrilled to be a part of the journey. Headout is currently in New York City and Las Vegas, with plans to launch in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago and Washington DC in the next few months.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 9, 2018

A few of the featured include, Case Western University (with a heavy presence), the University of Nevada Las Vegas (the Shark and Guy Fieri?), It appears that its an ‘older’ South Korean private university that focuses on engineering and practical education — ranked 30 in Asia on the QS rankings.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 18, 2019

They have an internal engine powered by technology that is fast, efficient and effective. But the human engine- the customer service, is what thrills me. One of the companies that I admire is United Wholesale Mortgage(UWM) for their innovative business model. They have found the balance between Technology and Human Relationships.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 13, 2019

With the help of one Professor, I was able to secure a couple of grants from the university to help cover engineering and 3D printing costs. . One achievement we are very proud of is being selected a top 5 new gadget at the CES Tech Show in Las Vegas this year. What is your favorite business quote and why?

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The Next Web

JULY 12, 2012

Jeremy Kagan is the founder & CEO of Pricing Engine. Pricing Engine along with the guys from GinzaMetrics , nowSpots , OwnLocal and Sailthru , started Local Innovation Labs. That’s why, when I was given the opportunity to speak to an entrepreneur and startup founder about this subject, I immediately jumped on board.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

By now we all know that the largest part of the online spend has been SEM (search engine marketing) where people buy CPC (cost per click) links to display alongside the “organic&# search results in the search engine. So it is with this investment thesis in hand that I head to LeadsCon this week (Tues & Wed) in Las Vegas.

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Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 12, 2007

Online Roulette Some people like the bright lights of Las Vegas. They book their room in the Flamingo, fly down, see some shows, eat at the Vegas buffets, and bet a little money on the roulette wheel. Monday, February 12, 2007. Getting the most of your online marketing: the In & Out of SEM/SEO. Anonymous said. Roger David.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 11, 2016

I especially like the newest personal flying car , introduced at the most recent Consumer Electronic Show (CES) in Las Vegas. It’s easy to see the value of electric power versus fossil-fuel engines, but we are a long way from the network of drone service stations and mechanics that exist today for conventional transportation.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 28, 2015

Youth Is the Engine of the World” – Matisyahu. The Electronic Daisy Carnival draws more than that to Las Vegas Every Year. Search platforms like Skillshare where (very inexpensive) classes can keep your skills fresh in shifting areas such as search engine optimization and mobile design. Choose your sources wisely.

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Diego Basch

JUNE 21, 2012

I believe that Silicon Valley is like Las Vegas, except they make you pass a number of tests before they let you gamble. Something they might be able to do in-house, except their most talented engineers are desperately working on ways to extract more money out of ads, or to reduce the costs of their gargantuan infrastructure.

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readwrite.com

DECEMBER 3, 2012

You dont need to know electrical engineering or computer science. What really offends me is that smart young people have been conned into thinking that starting a company is akin to buying a lottery ticket or rolling dice at Las Vegas -- the odds are long but you never know, you might get lucky and strike it rich.

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Professor VC

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

Business, Engineering, Computer Science, and Design were all represented. are going to add this story to our blog via our IT guy at [link] we have a audience in las vegas that will read your article. Collaboration with engineering, computer science, life sciences, etc. November 21, 2009 6:58 PM. blog internships.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 25, 2014

Related posts: Podcasting: The Referral Engine Multiplier Thursday is guest post day here at Duct Tape Marketing. He’s also the host of the Small Business Marketing Minute , a daily video podcast for small business owners looking for simple, affordable, and practical marketing tips.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 28, 2015

Second, it has become far more convenient and cost-effective to learn about something new (or to shop) using the internet, versus attending a day-long seminar at the Marriott or flying to a trade show in Las Vegas.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 31, 2021

He was ultimately approved after several years of application and soon progressed to the position of vice president of engineering at Cisco. As soon as Smith's funds dwindled down to $5,000, he decided to gamble with it in Las Vegas. He turned $5,000 into $27,000 and raised another $11 million to save the company.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 31, 2018

One of the speakers at this year’s Lean Startup Conference , which kicks off on November 14th in Las Vegas, is Giff Constable. He was most recently VP of product at Axial, a fintech startup that connected medium-sized businesses with capital providers and buyers, where he oversaw product management, engineering and design.

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 20, 2010

I recently did a webinar for the Search Engine Strategies conference (I am doing the opening conference keynote at SES London and SES New York ) and my Market Motive co-faculty member Greg Jarboe sent me this KPI via email: "Your webcast was a big success. How do you measure success of a online webinar? Do your happy dance!

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

Next he started adding banners from car companies who sponsored the blog because they could see how well it was doing in search engines for terms related to their cars. Steve Pavlina has one of the most basic designed personal development blogs , but also one of the most popular, with millions of readers.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

The basic components are obvious: talented founders, great engineers, angel money, venture capital, access to larger corporates (for business, funding & talent), great education / research (for IP breakthroughs) and a sufficient ecosystem of mentors, advisors, executive coaches and mavens. Welcome to the future.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

With science and engineering breakthroughs ingrained in the fabric of Houston’s economy, the region has become a thriving hub of digital technology talent. Others have left for Miami, Nashville, Las Vegas and other great American cities.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

And the great monetization engines of the Internet were built in LA – Overture (AdWords) & Applied Semantics (AdSense). Our biggest returns were outside Silicon Valley: Overture (LA), CitySearch (LA), BillMeLater (Baltimore), Ulta (Chicago), Envestnet (Chicago), HDI (Las Vegas), PF Changs (Arizona), TrueCar (LA).

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 14, 2017

In fact, I actually spoke at a conference in Las Vegas for digital dealer. One of them that was in that book was called engineering as marketing, which make sense to us, our customers are engineers, and so basically the point of that was to build a tool that our customers could use, that they would be searching for this tool.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2020

You, as a company, commit to spend that money on R&D and not financial engineering and we try to finance the recovery with all the long-term investors who really should have a multi-generational timeline. Are they going to play in Las Vegas and quarantine the players and bring everybody back?

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 11, 2018

Every other role, such as the head of engineering, is functionally focused. photo of Michael Osborne and the sales team hitting their stretch goal, which was way above the normal sales goal, and winning a trip to Las Vegas after three quarters of trying) Note: this was originally posted on my blog at Lucky7.io

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