VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Revuze (2011) – The company graduated from the Nielsen Innovate incubator in Caesarea, the company analyzes user sentiment on products, product-attributes and brands by analyzing reviews as well as sentiment extraction from survey responses, call-center text and social media. Raised $2M in seed funding in March 2016.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2013

Small Business and Startups: End-of-Year Mishegoss, 2013! - crowdspring.co/1aTk8Jc. Small Business and Startups: End-of-Year Mishegoss, 2013! - crowdspring.co/1aTk8Jc. When Marketing Is Strategy | Harvard Business Review - crowdspring.co/1jtztSC. Here are some of the links that I’ve liked and shared this past week!

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2014

Our Love Affair With the Tablet Is Over | Re/code - crowdspring.co/Nv1PDw. Most active venture capital investors of 2013 in the US by stage – pic.twitter.com/cfCFXWmpbH. Court Rules Yelp Reviewer Guilty of Defamation: Review At Your Own Risk? - crowdspring.co/NeImqH. by Jeremiah Owyang - crowdspring.co/1dCpve7.

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Transformify

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Kenya and Nigeria are of a particular interest for the employers in the UK due to the high percentage of English speakers who have received bachelor’s degree or higher. Java EE, Java SE, Javascript, PHP, Software, Development, Software Testing, SQL. What are the most common skills in each category?

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

Why Good-Better-Best Prices Are So Effective | Rafi Mohammed-Harvard Business Review – [link]. Will Software Eliminate Physical Retail? How should one go about pricing their software product? Why Good-Better-Best Prices Are So Effective | Rafi Mohammed-Harvard Business Review – [link]. LinkedIn – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2013

It compares a 2013 smart phone (an iPhone) to what you had to carry just 10 years earlier (in 2003) to have some of the same tools (camera, video, music, etc.). The Top 5 Brand Twitter Fails of 2013 | Digiday by @sweissman – crowdspring.co/19g0x6F. Free Fonts Best of 2013 | Graphic Design Junction – crowdspring.co/1gkGcRS.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2012

Key Digital Marketing Trends For 2013 | crowdSPRING Blog – [link]. Why You Should Want to Pay for Software, Instagram Edition | The Atlantic - [link]. Bonnstetter-Harvard Business Review - [link]. Andreessen Horowitz, Github, and Box Share 2013 Enterprise Insights - [link]. | Think Traffic – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2012

Bonnstetter | Harvard Business Review – [link]. Nine Ways Successful People Defeat Stress | Heidi Grant Halvorson -Harvard Business Review – [link]. 20 Tech Trends That Will Define 2013, Selected By Frog|Co.Design – [link]. Webbmedia Group 2013 Tech Trends – [link]. TechCrunch – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 18, 2013

Don’t Hire the Perfect Candidate | Lance Haun-Harvard Business Review – [link]. 8 Major Mistakes Entrepreneurs Will Make In 2013 | Forbes – [link]. Scaling Your UX Strategy | Robert Fabricant-Harvard Business Review - [link]. Creative Forecast: How Marketing Will Change In 2013 | Co.Create – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 19, 2013

MIT Technology Review – [link]. Increase Your Team’s Curiosity | Harvard Business Review – [link]. Can you Crowdsource Your Employee Reviews? The Dinosaurs of Cannes | by John Winsor, Harvard Business Review – [link]. 2013 Search Engine Ranking Factors | Moz – [link]. – [link].

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ithacaVC

OCTOBER 30, 2014

For more than a decade Harold van Es, Cornell Professor and Chair of CALS Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, has lead a team of researchers and analytical software developers to create a modelling tool which would help address these issues. The resulting product adapt-N has become the initial offering of Agronomic Technology.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 17, 2013

Martin – Harvard Business Review – [link]. Good reminder from Fred Wilson that your instincts should sometimes guide you when due diligence does not – [link]. Martin – Harvard Business Review – [link]. 25+ New Indesign Tutorials of 2013 | Dzineblog360 – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 13, 2013

Why You Should Be Crowdsourcing in 2013 | by Marc Levesque – [link]. Why You Should Be Crowdsourcing in 2013 | by Marc Levesque – [link]. Why Successful Companies Stop Growing | Ron Ashkenas – Harvard Business – Review [link]. Why You Should Be Crowdsourcing in 2013 | by Marc Levesque – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 25, 2013

SMB Marketing in 2013: 68% of small businesses to increase marketing budget | MarketingSherpa Blog – [link]. Five of Steve Jobs’s Biggest Mistakes | Peter Sims-Harvard Business Review – [link]. SMB Marketing in 2013: 68% of small businesses to increase marketing budget | MarketingSherpa Blog – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 4, 2013

Five Linking Myths That Need To Go Away In 2013 – [link]. Five Linking Myths That Need To Go Away In 2013 – [link]. 8 Major Tech Predictions for 2013 | Business Insider – [link]. Will 2013 Be Harder For Startups Than 2012? (by Will 2013 be the year of conversion optimisation? Quora – [link].

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blog.alinelerner.com

JUNE 21, 2013

Jun 21, 2013. Because I used to be an engineer, one part of my job was conducting first-round technical interviews, and between January 2012 and January 2013, I interviewed roughly 300 people for our back-end/full-stack engineer position. Frequency of buzzwords (programming languages, frameworks, OSes, software packages, etc.).

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 12, 2013

Bonnstetter-Harvard Business Review – [link]. Bonnstetter-Harvard Business Review – [link]. Bill Gates says you should read these 5 books in 2013 | GeekWire – [link]. 20 Fresh Awesome Free Fonts From 2013 | Creative Nerds – [link]. Creative Logo Designs for 2013 – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2012

Why a jewelry startup had to build enterprise software to survive - [link]. Dear silly web: 20 things to banish in 2013 | Econsultancy – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. Software that keeps an eye on Grandma - [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 12, 2013

How and Why to Be a Leader (Not a Wannabe) | Harvard Business Review – [link]. “Less than half of US display ad impressions delivered between May 2012 and February 2013 were in-view” – [link]. 40 Fresh Best Illustrator Tutorials From 2013 | Creative Nerds – [link].

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www.theenterprisearchitect.eu

MARCH 26, 2014

The Enterprise Architect building an Agile Enterprise Home MDD PaaS Startup Presentations About The cloud landscape described, categorized, and compared October 12, 2013 Johan Den Haan 10 comments “I work for a PaaS company” I answered him. Contents: Layer 1: the software-defined datacenter. Layer 3: deploying code.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 13, 2014

Entrepreneurs Need a Better Way to Cash Out | Kanyi Maqubela – Harvard Business Review – crowdspring.co/SKltNW. US non-Internet media advertising outlook, 2013-2018. You just need some smart bots | MIT Technology Review – crowdspring.co/1hLIBY3. tl;dr: They all suck. pic.twitter.com/0JXrl9vfVR. 1hLIBY3. .

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AUGUST 29, 2013

After reviewing 300 startup applications, this is what I learned – [link]. 20 Awesome Fonts for 2013 | Vector Diary – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. Rebuilding Startup Culture for Enterprise Sales — [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 5, 2013

Four Ways to Market Like a Startup | Brian Gregg and Vivian Weng-Harvard Business Review – [link]. Seven Rules for Managing Creative People | Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic-Harvard Business Review – [link]. Four Ways to Market Like a Startup | Brian Gregg and Vivian Weng-Harvard Business Review – [link].

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Up and Running

MAY 10, 2017

I discovered this firsthand when I contracted a software developer to build a system for the English teaching company that allowed classes to be purchased and scheduled via web application. After several meetings with the developer, I was ready to get moving on it. Resolving these questions before work began was easy.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 8, 2013

Glaser-Harvard Business Review – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. Top 10 Web Designing Trends Which Will Rule 2013 | Dezine Robotics – [link]. Rafi Mohammed-Harvard Business Review – [link]. Penney Survive?

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 31, 2013

Four Lean Advertising Campaigns That Went Viral | Harvard Business Review – [link]. 13 Excellent Photoshop Tutorials to Learn in 2013 – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. Are there examples of native ads done right?

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 21, 2014

I came up with the idea for Hazel Lane in November 2013 and we launched our first box in December (with subscribers and everything!), It’s good to review your goal and determine if it is still SMART. Without a good team, you’re only as good as the slowest person, especially in software development. T=Time bound.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2013

You Can’t Be a Wimp—Make the Tough Calls | Harvard Business Review – crowdspring.co/H4gLnT. 140 Quirky and Serious Free Fonts of 2013 | 1stwebdesigner - crowdspring.co/1gqp3Ey. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link].

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conversionxl.com

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

I feel like “conversion rate optimization” is in 2013 what “social media marketing” was in 2009. The traditional method of product development, known as the waterfall model , the design and creation of a product follows a very liner, and sequential process. Sep 06, 2013 @ 12:24:13. Most startups fail.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

To get FDA clearance, Apple reportedly submitted two studies to the FDA (so far none of the data has been published or peer reviewed). Its purpose is to make sure that drugs, devices, diagnostics, and software products don’t harm thousands or even millions of people so the FDA wants a process to make sure they get it right.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 11, 2012

How to Build Trust in a Virtual Workplace | Harvard Business Review – [link]. 1 Enemy of Creativity: Fear of Failure | Harvard Business Review – [link]. The Danger of Celebritizing Entrepreneurship | Harvard Business Review – [link]. Six Expected Web Design Trends in 2013 – [link]. – [link].

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

I feel like “conversion rate optimization” is in 2013 what “social media marketing” was in 2009. The traditional method of product development, known as the waterfall model , the design and creation of a product follows a very liner, and sequential process. Most startups fail.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 26, 2013

10 Breakthrough Technologies 2013 | MIT Technology Review – [link]. Why developers are leaving the Facebook platform | by Andrew Chen – [link]. Job Titles Aren’t That Important | Matt Ferguson-Harvard Business Review – [link]. The Only Thing Apple Really Sells | Gizmodo – [link].

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 21, 2014

When they met to discuss and attempt to address the issue in January 2013, they realized they had little insight into exactly why customers were leaving. Often, however, they’re unable to see the benefit of using the software. Basecamp and Mavenlink) or accounting software (eg. The Research. The Execution. image source.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2013

11 Ways Big Companies Undermine Innovation | Scott Kirsner – Harvard Business Review – crowdspring.co/1aksObQ. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. 50 awesome freebies for web designers, October 2013 | Webdesigner Depot - crowdspring.co/1aBbMX9.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 3, 2013

Well written Google Glass review from Engadget – [link]. The 2013 Creative Employment Snapshot – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. Why More Is Not Always Better – [link]. ” – [link].

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JANUARY 10, 2014

Tech Angels Cross The $1Billion Mark In 2013 | TechCrunch – crowdspring.co/1fehao1. The Four Stages of Disruption | Re/code – crowdspring.co/1cN4HzJ. The Dangerous Rise of “Entrepreneurship Porn” | Morra Aarons-Mele Harvard Business Review – crowdspring.co/JEtYpu.

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