Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

In times when venture capital is hard to get, investors extract high costs for failure (down-rounds, cram downs , new management teams, shut down the company.) Marketing demand creation programs (Search Engine Marketing, Public Relations, Advertising, Lead Generation, Trade Shows, etc.)

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Can you imagine getting your competitors to advertise for you? How You Get Slaughtered in a Down Round: When Taking Venture Capital Doesn’t Go as Planned – crowdspring.co/MvF29W.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 10, 2013

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! What Steve Jobs Can Teach Us About Management and Leadership – [link]. What Steve Jobs Can Teach Us About Management and Leadership – [link]. “Embrace skeptics.

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Reid Hoffman

JUNE 8, 2021

What’s some of the ways that that kind of informs your leadership? Everyone’s pulled back on advertising. And I made a decision not to do an equity round, because I thought it would be a down round. And I said, I think it’s going to be a down round, because people are scared. So you met me in 2010.

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Reid Hoffman

JUNE 8, 2021

What’s some of the ways that that kind of informs your leadership? Everyone’s pulled back on advertising. And I made a decision not to do an equity round, because I thought it would be a down round. And I said, I think it’s going to be a down round, because people are scared. So you met me in 2010.

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

It’s sort of like a supercharged version of Excel that lets you suck in data, you can suck in all your Facebook advertising campaigns, you can suck in all your Salesforce.com data, and you can run — you can actually, yourself, as a small business person, actually analyze and find friends and data. I just think people get confused.

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