crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 6, 2018

Your site isn’t responsive or mobile-friendly. Yet it turns out this form was preventing customers from purchasing products from a major e-commerce site, to the tune of $300,000,000 a year. Another example of misguided site design is ones that prioritize company information over the products or services you sell.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 6, 2016

Srivastava leads Verizon’s innovation outpost (their Silicon Valley R&D center) in Palo Alto focusing on building products and services powered by big data and analytics. Today Evangelos invests in early- and growth-stage companies focusing on the enterprise in the areas of data and analytics, SaaS applications, and mobility.

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Agile VC

OCTOBER 27, 2011

The classic delineations of web products for business and consumer (“enterprise” direct selling, on premise vs cloud, etc) are only getting blurrier. But in the next 5 years the web and mobile app stores will increasingly be a force in selling and customer acquisition for busines software. Author howerl.

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mashable.com

MAY 9, 2011

a New York-based sizzle reel production company specializing in promotional videos for PR and marketing professionals, and the Young Entrepreneur Council. It will be important that your CTO can execute on big projects, too, hacking away to build an amazing product that is agile. Have an account? Danny Wong , Blank Label Group, Inc.

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Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

Kayak was started here in my backyard of Boston… co-founder & CTO Paul English and the product/engineering team is based here in Concord MA. Mobile Usage: 8% of 2010 query volume (mobile app download growth of 344% YoY). 5) High Productivity: Kayak had 148 employees at the end of 2010.

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Growthink Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2010

I just reviewed the many companies who recently raised venture capital with an eye towards those that are offering products and services that could benefit other entrepreneurs and business owners. It enables merchants to sell their products anywhere by syndicating goods to multiple marketplaces. Ixtens ( [link] ) raised $4.6

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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 25, 2010

They also couldn’t have asked for a better syndicate of investors. They showed me a very lightweight HTML5 mobile site that enabled you to start a group chat that fell back to just text messages when you logged off the web. I wouldn’t negotiate weekend plans via Twitter, or debate a feature with a product team.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 27, 2010

Last week, I presented an initial map of Austin’s mobile scene and wrote about how mobile tech has fast become the hottest area in the industry. In his post, Weintraub talks about how both the cost and price of mobile devices have the potential to be dramatically lower a year from now. The apps are the economy.

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Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

Yes… he was a very successful PayPal exec and previously co-founder & VP Product of SocialNet. Not long after the product launch we began the initial conversations with VCs for a Series A round. But keep in mind at this point Reid’s a first-time CEO. link] leehower. It was a pretty good valuation for the time.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Since the 90s, Toronto-based entrepreneur Eldon Mascoll has been making his mark in the media industry, working in areas that include television production, film, marketing and advertising. Games On Wheels is the largest mobile video game truck business in the country. Taking what he learned at HBO, Mascoll formed EME Inc.,

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David Teten

JULY 23, 2019

See How VCs structure a syndicate and recruit coinvestors for more on this. To make this manual process more efficient, I’ve met with companies working to productize sharing deals with other investors, e.g., Totem * and Signal by NFX. – Drop Technologies *: The fastest-growing mobile rewards program.

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SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Article: Behind Every Great Product. I titled the paper, “Behind Every Great Product” and it was inspired by the classic Good Product Manager / Bad Product Manager by Ben Horowitz. The paper proved popular and helped many teams to get a better understanding of just what product was all about.

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Agile VC

MARCH 13, 2012

Patents and the threat of patent infringement lawsuits provide maximum leverage against a competitor when they’re in the middle of a strategic inflection point… a major financing, acquisition, or large product launch.

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Agile VC

AUGUST 22, 2011

I suppose many folks simply believe “platform” seems sexier than just a “product” or a “service”, even a great product. Microsoft has two massive platforms in Windows and Xbox, and has been thrashing about for a decade trying to build one in mobile. Google of course has Android. Not Groupon.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

SEPTEMBER 21, 2013

Most of the sharks dropped out quickly, concerned about the short runway for the company, lack of any barriers to entry, lack of issued patents, missing product features and valuation expectations. This is a company that has failed to find product market fit over the last 21 months and after spending almost $2M (capital raised plus revenue).

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

Original online content has taken the major steps towards TV standards in terms of production level, content formats, resolution standards, and even media buying methods. However, it’s also the industry’s weakest link is it is the slowest to evolve. A revolution! On the content side, the revolution is peeking. Not anymore. The future.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2015

At Virgin Mobile USA, Mari led early initiatives in mobile commerce, social networking and advertising. It comes as no surprise as technology today enables companies to prove product-market fit much earlier in their lifecycles. Mari Holds a B.A. Now practically everyone is getting involved in Series A.

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Agile VC

APRIL 27, 2012

Apple’s not a startup but thanks in large part to the spirit Steve Jobs infused in the company, they do an incredible job of imagining a product from scratch as it should be.

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Mike Michalowicz

MAY 10, 2017

Staring harder at the screen will not make you more productive! You’ll see a SURGE of productivity with this approach to the 2nd half of your day. Thanks to Kenny Jahng , Big Click Syndicate LLC. Turn Off All Mobile Devices. I find that during the day when it counts the most, my mobile devices go off.

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Agile VC

DECEMBER 5, 2011

There’re lots of reasons why we’re pleased to be involved, from the market opportunity and product and beyond, but of course team is central for all startup investments. Objective Logistics just closed a $1.5M seed round from NextView, Atlas Venture, and Google Ventures, and angel investors.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Invodo , the only full-service eCommerce video partner for online retailers, and mobile commerce leader Digby today announced that they have partnered to implement retail eCommerce product video within mobile-optimized websites and rich apps for Smartphones. CrunchBase Information. Information provided by CrunchBase.

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Agile VC

OCTOBER 17, 2011

Even companies that primarily sold server side products (Oracle, EMC) were able to do so because there was a desktop computer in every corporate cubicle, manufacturing station, and retail point of sale. Even in the consumer space, desktop computers were typically a “home computer” shared by all occupants until very recently.

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VC Cafe

JULY 27, 2017

It is often available for subscription, so that new episodes are automatically downloaded via web syndication to the user’s own local computer, mobile application, or portable media player. Wikipedia describes a Podcast as follows: A podcast is an episodic series of digital audio files which a user can download and listen to.

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Mike Michalowicz

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

Staring harder at the screen will not make you more productive! You’ll see a SURGE of productivity with this approach to the 2nd half of your day. Thanks to Kenny Jahng , Big Click Syndicate LLC. Turn Off All Mobile Devices. I find that during the day when it counts the most, my mobile devices go off.

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LLC Oman Mobile Syndicate 158

Agile VC

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Providence Equity invested $100M at a $1B valuation not because of their technology or product, but because the network owners contributed a lot of valuable content… or at least access to it for 2years. Hulu’s interesting because Fox, NBC, and Disney (ABC) all jointly owned the company. It’s not just Hulu either.

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Agile VC

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

Some may end up having more modest outcomes that product a decent return on investment, which we fully understand and are supportive of. How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC Syndicate 10 July 2012, 5:13 pm What A VC Orders for Breakfast Says 27 June 2012, 10:16 am To Leave or Not to Leave as Your Startup Grows 12 June 2012, 12:21 pm.

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Agile VC

MAY 23, 2012

We don’t think of Apple as a “chip” company even though literally every product they make only exists because it’s chock full of semiconductors. Now we only think of chip companies in the narrow sense of semiconductor manufacturers like Intel.

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Rob Go

JANUARY 8, 2014

We are constantly re-evaluating our strategy and processes as a firm, but overall we have remained extremely focused and consistent because we think we offer a good product to our customers (entrepreneurs) which will lead to good results for our shareh0lders (LPs). 1/3 of the companies we invest in are pre-product.

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Agile VC

JANUARY 12, 2012

When a startup doesn’t match the stage where a particular investor focuses, founders may get a response along the lines of “This is interesting to us, but come back once you get from X phase to Y phase” That could be from seed stage to a larger Series A financing need, or to progress from pre-product to post-revenue.

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blogs.hbr.org

OCTOBER 24, 2012

DIGITAL & MOBILE. In thirty days, I went from no relationships at Yahoo to three warm introductions to power players who could make my desired content syndication partnership happen. HBR Mobile. For Educators. |. For Corporate Buyers. |. Visit Harvard Business School. HBR ON: iPhone. |. Kindle. -->. Follow HBR: Twitter.

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Agile VC

JUNE 12, 2012

Mobile Payments: The Trillion Dollar Industry That’s Never Happened. Mobile payments are the trillion dollar industry that everybody’s been waiting for but has never materialized. But nearly everyone has wrongly placed emphasis on the mobile technology part and not on the payments aspect. June 12, 2012.

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Agile VC

JANUARY 18, 2012

7) A Vision That Keeps You & Your Co-Founders Up at Night - Most founders I see have a vision for their product or company that they simply can’t resist… their startup doesn’t just compel them to take the leap, it’s nearly irrepressible.

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Agile VC

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

As Qwikster becomes a more expensive and conceptually separate product (remember, you’ll have to manage queues on 2 separate sites for both DVD and streaming) to consumers, I suspect you’ll see at least some turn to their pay TV providers for the occasional recent blockbuster instead of getting DVDs by mail from Qwikster.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

“The latest version of the InPlayer allows retailers to easily expand the reach of video to mobile devices, tablets or whatever the consumer is using.”. Consumers who find a product video helpful can easily share it with their friends and followers by clicking a sharing icon.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

It has transformed marketing into how do we find people and persuade them that our product or services is worth doing? In other words, creating a customer that comes to their own conclusion that your product or service is worth their time or their money and that being the purpose of a business. That’s great. Robert Rose: No.

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Agile VC

MAY 16, 2012

Back in 2010 we were observing more and more new B2B startups emulating the product and customer acquisition strategies of existing consumer web companies which my partners & I have long been familiar with. A good example of that is our theme around the consumerization of business software.

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Agile VC

MARCH 18, 2012

Those of us in the tech ecosystem think of and use Twitter in slightly different ways, but the mass market usage of the product is consumers seeking exposure to news, celebrities, and sports stars. There are lots of celebrities leveraging Twitter to sell their own products or establish e-commerce curation businesses.

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