crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Brian Brackeen, CEO of Miami-based Kairos also found Miami hard to resist : We were searching things like AngelList, GitHub, different state web sites, then we took all that data and Miami was at the very top of the list in every important category…Cheapest for our employees, and the best tax situation for the company and our workers.

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 28, 2013

Why not, at least, show me "Current Deals from San Jose" (my closest airport)? But when it comes to the web, they all seem to leave their creativity, passion, and brilliant minds at home. Why leave your passion behind when it comes to the web? The web can sell product. Sad, right? But you have to try.

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 26, 2018

Source: Flickr via The San Jose Library. Even if you’re in the beginning stages of the process, you want to have a web presence to give your business a professional look. The following tips will help you take the first steps toward a startup business while you’re still in college. Design a Website.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

Wondering how do I get in touch with you - I am founder of a company here in San jose, CA and would like to invite you to be part of our advisor team. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, I will come back for more. hey eric, love the blog.

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Professor VC

MARCH 10, 2009

I moderated a panel discussion last night on one of my favorite topics, bootstrapping, as part of our Silicon Valley Center for Entrepreneurship Eminent Speaker Series at San Jose State. Based on your article you might be interested in my book,which you can see on my web site www.bootstrapping101.com Bootstrapping 101.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 22, 2016

Actually we wrapped two Caltrain cars that shuttle daily between San Francisco and San Jose. There’s an app exchange with solutions that can integrate everything from web analytics to order payment into Salesforce.com. By Kurt Bilafer, Global Vice President Sales & Success at WePay. Why did WePay wrap a train car?”

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 30, 2013

Roughly 1,200 miles away in the heart of Silicon Valley, San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed is pushing for restrictions that will shutter many of the city’s medical marijuana dispensaries.

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genylabs.typepad.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

San Jose Mercury News: Maker Faire Mixes Business With Wackiness. Deskmag: Profiling Coworkers in the United States. CNBC: Why Your Retirement Age Matters. SF Chronicle: Ultralight startups: little capital, just computer. NPR/KQED Forum: Self-Employed. NPR Marketplace: Businesses save off green incentives. Next Gen Artisans.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 20, 2012

And I’m in Austin, not San Jose, where there’s 100x fewer customers I could land at meetups. Sign up for AppSumo 's daily deals specifically for web geeks & entrepreneurs. And there’s no Twitter or Facebook (or even a strong culture of blogging) to enable my few zealous fans to spread the word.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 15, 2017

So as Techcrunch was creating that crazy silly blockchain web video with Guy Kawasaki (lol!) The blockchain is service-orientated architecture like XML web services where XML is not “standardized” and neither is the delivery. Before there was Facebook, there was BlackPlanet, and before there was Gawker, there was Urban Expose.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

Their answer was a gargantuan web-based spreadsheet, which wasn’t a model that could have grown with the company. Through the Google Chrome extension, Wrike turns any web page into a task. The company’s early operations were based in Mountain View before it relocated to San Jose, San California in February, 2016.

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Genuine VC

OCTOBER 3, 2007

Of course, Google announced its "Universal Search" all the way back in May, touted by Marissa Mayer on their blog "to blend content from Images, Maps, Books, Video, and News into our web results.". I've seen a number of conversations about universal search in the SEO trade circles (e.g. To me, there is potential underserved opportunity here.

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Gust

AUGUST 8, 2012

It might make sense for weekend partiers heading from LA to Vegas on El Cheapo Web-Only Special fares, but doesn’t WiFi come free along with the peanuts since I paid substantially more for a Business Select fare? Nevertheless, Southwest charges $5 for in-flight Internet access, which starts to feel like nickel-and-diming.

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BeyondVC

MARCH 31, 2004

In early 2000, we seeded a Xerox PARC spin-out called Outride (formerly called Groupfire) which aimed to bring personal search to the web by learning from a surfer’s prior searches or his workgroup or community’s prior searches. Google just launched a new version of personal search based on user preferences.

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Professor VC

SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

While VC firms have been easy to find from the old school days of Pratts Guide to Venture Capital , to the early web presence of the 1990s and the current web sites, blogs, twitter feeds, facebook fan pages and sites such as The Funded , angels are still a bit harder to track down.

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Professor VC

JANUARY 17, 2008

I put up my Bodega Partners web site in 1995 and it served its purpose for a number of years, but I just didnt spend the energy to keep it current and finally just took it down last month. I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State. Im so late hopping on the train that we are probably pulling into the station.

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Professor VC

JANUARY 20, 2009

I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State. Tuesday, January 20, 2009. The Most Important Venture Capital Statistic. I typically stay anywhere from 6 months to 3 years depending on a number of factors, not the least important being that I do not have the temperament or attention span for a full time gig.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

San Francisco – Startups with a Lifestyle. Drive an hour up to San Francisco and park next to South Park in the South of Market area. South of Market (SoMa) is the home address and the epicenter of Web 2.0 Café Centro is South Park’s version of Coupa Café. Get invited to an event at Blackbox.vc and the Sandbox Network.

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Professor VC

OCTOBER 11, 2010

I did a little searching around the web to try and find a truth vs. fiction comparison, but the closest I found was "The 10 Most Glaring Lies In The Social Network" on the Business Insider. link] We are developing a software technology that works on the web using cloud computing to build software 100X faster and reduce bugs and cut costs.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 25, 2011

is based in San Jose, CA and has offices in Netanya, Israel. Together with Israeli startup Gizmox (renamed Visual Web GUi), Wanova is considered a ‘hot’ cloud company coming out of Israel. Wanova was founded by Dr Issy Ben-Shaul (CTO) and Ilan Kessler.

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blog.stackoverflow.com

APRIL 20, 2010

I just came from an OpenID Summit near San Jose, CA and we have some great ideas filling the spec development pipe that will hopefully resolve some of the remaining issues you have with OpenID. Sure you can *fix* these problems by paying for a domain name, web server and knowing XML, but see the “usability&# point above.

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Up and Running

MAY 28, 2015

It’s an India-based web design company. Someone tweeted out of San Jose, they did a really amazing review of the book. Jonathan: It’s extremely exciting, and I think people already are loving us. If you want to email us a question, we can talk about it on the show, Bcast@Bplans.com. We do already have somebody who’s emailed us.

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Professor VC

OCTOBER 20, 2009

I laughed and said that our web site made this clear and we may have even put a brief posting to this effect on our twitter feed. I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State. Im also a strong believer that your track record and reputation are your most valuable assets in the venture community.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

I was just looking at your web site. I do everything from raw-metal machine language to experimental languages to all the usual web front and back-end languages, and am one of those “started programming at 12 years old” types who had 5 years of college by the time I was 19. March 25, 2011 at 2:51 pm. I’m with Phil.

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Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

I lived through the time when working in my first job in Ann Arbor Michigan we had to get out a map to find out that San Jose was not only in Puerto Rico but there was a city with that same name in California. For products that are simply “bits” delivered over the web, a first product can be shipped in weeks rather than years.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 4, 2021

TCP and the other foundational technologies of the web had that same property, that there was something really computationally especially complicated about them, but it was their social value. And so while she was at IBM, we were living in San Jose, California, where I grew up in the Bay Area.

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Professor VC

JANUARY 19, 2012

Conceptually, this is very intriguing and goes against the current popularity of accelerators in start-up hubs (Silicon Valley, New York, Boston, Seattle, Boulder) that are filled with recent grads and drop outs looking to build the next web sensation. That is what I am doing with the ELAB program at San Jose State University.

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Cracking the Code

MAY 15, 2008

I attended yesterday the 10th Annual Top Ten Tech Trends organized by the Churchill Club at the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose. the rise of CleanTech, and the next wave of web applications and services, with a hint to the potential of the baby boomers. Thursday, May 15, 2008. Churchill Club 2008 Top 10 Tech Trends.

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