crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 30, 2017

Don’t let the sand, sun, and tourism of the South Beach distract you from Miami’s reputation as a great place for new businesses. The Kauffman Index recently named Miami the second most entrepreneurial city in the U.S., with the country’s highest startup density, 247.6 startups per 100,000 people.

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Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2011

In the middle of a Michigan winter, I stuck out my thumb and hitchhiked to Miami, the warmest place I could think of. I managed to find a job at the Miami International Airport loading racehorses onto cargo planes. If I hadn’t discovered something I truly loved to do, I might be driving a cab at the Miami airport.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

The local map listing today is pure gold for mobile searches for certain types of businesses and Google knows it so they are expanding their Local Service ads accordingly. Oh, in my truest Bob Dylan voice, the times they are a changing for local marketing and SEO. Current cities include: Phoenix, AZ. Los Angeles, CA. Riverside, CA.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 3, 2014

Phunware, the pioneer of Multiscreen as a Service (MaaS), the first fully integrated services platform that enables brands to engage, manage and monetize their anytime anywhere users worldwide, today announced that it has acquired Miami based Simplikate. Mobile phunware'

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 13, 2016

Locations and dates : Miami, May 1-7; Detroit, May 19-25; Chicago, June 23-29; New York, September 29-October 5; Los Angeles, November 17-23. VentureBeat Mobile Summit. Mobile technology is growing at a lightning-fast pace, and it is now a crucial part of almost every business today.

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SiliconHills

DECEMBER 11, 2015

TabbedOut, a mobile payments app for bars and restaurants, announced Friday it has raised $2 million more in its Series C venture round. Miami-based Aeterna Capital provided the funds. That increases TabbedOut’s Series C round to $23.5

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 23, 2011

Shooger is a free, community-driven web and mobile deal-hunting application that gives users the ability to find and share deals instantly with other Shooger users. You can follow real people and their real deals – It’s a great big mobile reality show that saves you money.”. Then again, just maybe. A Sweet Deal.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 7, 2016

As an example, the mobile phone industry closely tracks ARPU (Average Revenue per User) while the hotel industry tracks RevPAR (Revenue per Available Room). Aside from leading multiple companies, since 2008 he has taught a graduate-level business class at the University of Miami School of Business Administration.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 5, 2017

For example, I have a Virtual Office in Miami, which I pay for the address that I can use in my email marketing. Another way to facilitate being Location-Independent is the Virtual Office. You don’t need a brick-and-mortar office or storefront anymore. You can get a Virtual Office and a virtual address.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 10, 2013

He is also the co-founder of Idea.me, Sauber Energy, and the LAB Miami. and Canada combined – mainly thanks to the great migration to smart mobile devices. Juan Pablo Cappello is an investor in more than twenty early stage companies. His blog can be found at www.jpc.vc. Today the world has shifted.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 19, 2013

Pablo Ruiz is the co-Founder of InfinixSoft , a Miami-based company that develops apps across iOS, Android and the Web. Let’s say you came up with a great concept for a mobile app. Building a startup takes a lot of time and money, that’s no big news. You should do this even before you write anything about your idea.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

And we had these vans and mobile kegs in the back, and we would go to golf courses. So I went from San Diego to LA to Miami to the south of France. Before you think I was a complete nerd, in addition to making money selling software, which I did at 15, 16 years old, I also made money throwing keg parties. So that didn’t suck.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

San Antonio is home to H-E-B , our regional grocery store which is also one of the most innovative and community focused organizations in the state and mobilizes to respond to hurricanes and pandemics and to keep Texans fed. Others have left for Miami, Nashville, Las Vegas and other great American cities.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 14, 2016

Conversion optimization for mobile apps is getting more sophisticated. Don’t get me wrong, an install is still an important milestone in the mobile consumer journey, but it should only be a step en route to your final destination – that is, creating an app with sustainable commercial value. At first, click through rate was key.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 6, 2018

Going mobile: Redefining the workplace. To take advantage of a mobile and remote workforce however, a company’s infrastructure should be up to that task. Companies have lined up the one-two punch with mobile computing and data insights. He is a Miami native and graduate of Florida International University.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 14, 2017

Joblife tries to resolve these challenges by empowering job seekers with a web application that is accessible from any mobile phone. After graduating from Art School, I began working in the the film and television industry in Miami. My mother lied about my age to inherit the highly coveted route. I was suppose to be 13, I was 11.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 3, 2012

While I had just finished an approximately year long quest to see as many design museums as possible — in New York, Miami, Atlanta, London, and Essen, Germany — Derek had just visited New York City and experienced some pop-up retail stores. And that’s what we are. Stay tuned!). So why are we at MassChallenge?

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VC Cafe

APRIL 8, 2010

billion, and in 2005 it bought another generics competitor, Ivax, based in Miami, for about $7.4 AMDOCS BUYS LEADING UK MOBILE COMPANY MX TELECOM. Billing software company Amdocs has acquired mobile payments and messaging firm MX Telecom for $104 million in cash.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

If you’re listening on your phone and you don’t want to go to a mobile website, you can text the word “learners”, L-E-A-R-N-E-R-S, “learners” to 44222. You want to tell people where they can find out more about you, Ryan, and your work? Ryan Hawk: Absolutely!

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 6, 2011

Scott Clark, from Miami, Florida, presented Value Of Insight Consulting , a company with deep expertise in clinical trial research in areas such as oncology that offers great value to pharmaceutical companies. Ashok Jagathrakshakan, from Bangalore, India, presented Azuyo , a mobile and social application developer.

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Hunter Walker

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

There were a number of similar companies formed around the same time — I think a byproduct of mobile apps and businesses starting to want more data on their customers. Folks in Miami will say Chicago is cold, Enterprisey, no vibes, and yolo miami bro. Hey look at me, my midwest valuation got you a better return!

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2016

This morning I’m going to talk about the Mobile App ecosystem and why it’s led so many startups astray. It will be a follow on from my “App is Crap” or “Web Second, Mobile First” blog posts but in short, video, updated, digestible formats. And yes – I know I need to plug in my mobile phone.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

I had an emotional call with Herb Scannell who flew out to Philadelphia, Cleveland and Miami in three successive weeks to canvass door-to-door. When I got married I chose a woman who had bested me academically (Brown then Wharton) and went to work in great jobs at Google, Sky and Virgin Mobile.

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