crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

The Myth of Venture Capital | Re/code by Jon Oringer – crowdspring.co/1tNFeV7. Bad Notes on Venture Capital – crowdspring.co/1u3NJvn. Busting the Lean-Startup Myth – crowdspring.co/1ozOXHA. How to Spot & Avoid Bad Web Hosting Companies | InstantShift – [link] crowdspring.co/YqAyHQ.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

The problem with a Lean Startup: the Minimum Viable Product | Paul Kortman – [link]. Want Venture Capital Funding? Real-Time Marketing is Upon Us–Here’s How Advertising Needs To Adapt | Co.Create – [link]. Ad Nauseum Leadership: Use Repetition to Reiterate What’s Important – [link].

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 30, 2017

There are also a number of less traditional sources worth turning to: Advertising representatives for statistics and data on your competition or the industry in general. Depending on the size and goals of your venture, you may need to seek financing from an “angel” investor or from a venture capital firm.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2010

One is the “denominator problem&# which says that if an LP invests X% (the denominator) into “alternative investments&# such as venture capital and if their total amount available to invest (the numerator) goes down by 30% then the amount they allocate to VC will by definition need to go down by 30% to stay the same percentage.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

However the Customer Development Model and the Lean Startup work equally well for startups on the web. Union Square Ventures The next morning I got to spend time with Brad Burnham , partner at Union Square Ventures talking about their investment strategy and insights about web-based businesses. Keep teaching!

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

For those of you who have been following the discussion, a Lean Startup is Eric Ries ’s description of the intersection of Customer Development , Agile Development and if available, open platforms and open source. Over its lifetime a Lean Startup may spend less money than a traditional startup.

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VC Cafe

MAY 21, 2024

Instead of competing with established players like Microsoft in the B2B space or Meta and Google in advertising, startups can explore other verticals where AI can add significant value. In contrast, incumbents operating on the application layer are slower to innovate and do not have the same resources and culture to lean-into Gen AI as fast.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Advertising. Dave Graham Business Venture Capital Private Equity GlobalLogic Inc. Venture Capital Firms. But Ive definitely had to lean on Dave. Of course, Arizona Bay is a consulting company, not a venture capital firm, and doing the work of both simultaneously can be time consuming.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

We faced this same problem in entrepreneurship and venture capital, but we are getting past it. Just like in the world of startups, we can start to use micro-scale pilot programs, executed in lean fashion, to gather real facts for making ROI decisions about new project investment. 12comments: Dougvs said.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 19, 2011

Business model: o They bought a lot of ad inventory (banner ads/advertising) driving people to signup forms, converting (fill out form) and sold leads, o Initial strategy was first comparison shopping and then monitoring and upselling on more savings. . Mark’s view: too much money can eliminate discipline.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

He then worked in consulting which gave him a broad base of business experience working with the newspaper, cable, and advertising industries. He was introduced through mutual friends to Highland Capital. At the time consumer internet venture capital was still suffering from the collapse of the Tech Bubble.

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Altgate

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

It’s a dating website that is free for users and makes money from advertising. The servers are in the cloud, his advertising sales is with Google, etc. Advertising. … Tom Eisenmann Furqan: Does outsourcing engineering work well when following a lean approach with lots of iterative learning?

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Steve Blank

JULY 30, 2009

As another example, I could see which magazines are on people desks, and that tells me where to advertise. Reply 4 Anti-Lean Startup Archetypes at Market By Numbers , on August 4, 2009 at 11:30 am Said: [.] I can make similar comments about watching people use your product.

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 14, 2011

This focus on customers is one of a number of things that Amazon does that is consistant with lean startup principals. To have one company be a major player in or have obvious designs on eCommerce, cloud, music & entertainment, hardware, advertising, e-mail and discount local deals is really impressive in its ambition.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 9, 2009

We will accomplish this through demand-creation activities (advertising, PR, tradeshows, seminars, web sites, etc.), To do that we will create end-user demand and drive it into the sales channel, educate the channel and customers about why our products are superior, and help Engineering understand customer needs and desires.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 25, 2009

All the marketing materials, data sheets, advertising, press releases, trade shows, etc. Our company’s graphics boards were designed to speed up a key part of the Macintosh graphics operating system called QuickDraw. focused on the technical fact that we accelerated (made much faster) this arcane piece of computer code.

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Steve Blank

MAY 22, 2009

While one could argue that a trade show is just another demand creation activity akin to advertising or PR, trade shows are the closest eyeball-to-eyeball contact you’re company is going to have with customers, competitors and partners.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

Step 1: Start with a lean plan. It’s the fastest way to get your idea onto paper, and it’s the very first step in the lean planning process, which is much easier and more iterative than traditional business planning methods. Introducing Lean Planning: How to Plan Less and Grow Faster. How to Write a Traditional Business Plan.

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cdixon.org

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

link] Lean Startups Blog – rants and raves from the startup trenches. and an investor, has a great blog on entrepreneurship and venture capital. and an investor, has a great blog on entrepreneurship and venture capital. link] 200+ Startup Questions Distilled Down To Five | Startup Lean. [.]

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

Advertising. SIGNIFICANCE PROMINENT. --> The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail. An entrepreneur with a hot technology and venture-capital funding becomes a billionaire in his 20s. The National Venture Capital Association estimates that 25% to 30% of venture-backed businesses fail.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Finally, I’ll write about how Eric Ries and the Lean Startup concept provided the equivalent model for product development activities inside the building and neatly integrates customer and agile development. All this leads up to a flurry of press events and interviews, all geared to the product/web site launch date.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

In future posts I’ll describe how Eric Ries and the Lean Startup concept provided the equivalent model for product development activities inside the building and neatly integrates customer and agile development. Prodigy spent $50 million on advertising and in-store displays. Like that, but better&#. What made it so easy?

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 26, 2017

Thanks to Ken Schaefer, Schaefer Advertising ! #2 7 – Better be a lean moorhen on a pond than a fat sparrow in a cage. In short, venture capital is a lot like debt bondage. Ted Turner replied: Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell and advertise! Advertising & Public Relations. #16

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Up and Running

JULY 24, 2015

Entrepreneurship Through the Lens of Venture Capital. Advertising and marketing. The Lean Startup by Eric Ries. The Lean Startup is a popular book for entrepreneurs. To make sure you’re up for the challenge, check out this Business USA site. Tax strategies. Inc.com has a comprehensive guide to business taxes.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 27, 2009

This series of posts is a brief explanation of how we’ve evolved from Product Development to Customer Development to the Lean Startup. The company has a large press event, and Marketing launches a series of programs to create end-user demand (trade shows, seminars, advertising, email, and so on). Marketing is at its peak.

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Steve Blank

MAY 21, 2009

Design your graphics, pre-show promotion, literature and show directory advertising around your focused message and theme. If you think you are going to offend your customers or embarrass your engineering organization, get out of the marketing department. IBM doesn’t have to shout to get noticed, but you do.

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Venture Chronicles

MARCH 3, 2011

But they don’t focus enough on building a solid product that can command loyalty and payment from consumers, and instead try to gain profitability through advertising and turning to outside venture capital. Seek Money from Customers, not VCs.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 21, 2014

Given the number of funding resources available today, you shouldn’t have too much of a problem getting that initial start-up cash, especially if you focus on a lean business model or MVP route to market. Angel investment/venture capital funds. Day 21: Advertise. You can do it even if you start from home.

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Seeing Both Sides

MARCH 2, 2011

The foursquare team was consumed this week with SXSW preparations, but we were fortunate to have as class guests Charlie O'Donnell, who wrote the original blog post on foursquare that got many in the community excited about the company, and Andrew Parker, who was an associate at Union Square Ventures at the time of their Series A investment. .

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 17, 2015

In Stage 2, the corporation adds venture capital and/or mergers-and-acquisition teams to provide these functions. Examples of Stage 2 Outposts include: BMW’s Silicon Valley development group, working on self-driving vehicle technologies, while their venture group has been making investments in companies like ChargePoint and Nauto.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 26, 2013

Empower Your Small Business: trust & loyalty, marketing insight, lean business – [link]. Don’t Use Social to Generate Sales; Make Selling Social | Advertising Age – [link]. “So many folks in the venture capital business are sheep that just want to follow the herd. ” – [link].

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David Teten

OCTOBER 1, 2015

I’ve seen a range of options for supporting entrepreneurs, which I can rank from least to most involvement in companies by investors: financier VCs, e.g., Correlation Ventures. portfolio operator VCs, e.g., Andreessen Horowitz, ff Venture Capital, First Round Capital, Google Ventures. mentor VCs, e.g., most VCs.

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www.usatoday.com

JULY 16, 2012

Veteran investor Timothy Draper says venture-capital firms are taking notice of Silicon Beach. But most start-ups in Silicon Beach are young and lean and cant afford to provide Silicon Valley-like perks as trumpeted by Google, such as free food, pool tables and massages. "If Advertisement. But there will be," Citron says.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

Reply My take on Customer Development and the Lean Startup | Recess Mobile Blog , on January 9, 2010 at 5:29 am Said: [.] Reply Lean Startup Customer Discovery & the Value of First Impressions , on January 25, 2010 at 6:12 am Said: [.] Reply Yuri Ammosov , on December 15, 2009 at 4:28 pm Said: Hmmm. Then WHAT it IS?

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Advertising consulting. To help businesses with their online and offline advertising campaigns. basic infrastructural costs like phone and internet service, scheduling and invoicing software, etc… marketing and advertising costs. times the size of the global venture capital industry today.

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abovethecrowd.com

DECEMBER 18, 2017

In their marvelous book, Lean Solutions , James Womack and Daniel Jones unpack what it means to apply the discipline of lean manufacturing to service industries. They are more likely to disclose, or perhaps even advertise their prices. That same shift is now coming to healthcare. healthcare market.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 19, 2009

Since this was the marketing department, I was going to be planning to spend some advertising and public relations dollars. Now I had happy and surprised customers walking around with paid advertising for my company. Who did they think were the leaders in the color graphics board and monitor market? What magazines did they read?

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