crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 15, 2012

I was named after the poet Dylan Thomas, and my mother has worked as a librarian for many years (she still does in the Miami-Dade County Public Library System). I have been writing professionally for 15 years, and started my own company, Word Is Born, in 2004, while still living in Miami. Henry Miller was a strong influence.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 27, 2022

I live in Miami now five years, a little over five years I've been here, complete lifestyle choice, which actually wasn't pre-planned. Unlike one, I could even wrap up in a, in a 20 minute conversation, because it's everything. Enter your name and email address below and I'll send you periodic updates about the podcast.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

I started as a programmer, and then a database designer, and then a project manager, and I led conversion teams. So I went from San Diego to LA to Miami to the south of France. You’re two guys in a garage, two guys across campus trying to make a name for yourself. It was all technical. So that didn’t suck.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 4, 2020

You can listen to my conversation with Max Henderson on Apple , Google, or wherever you like to download podcasts. My name is Eric Ries. One of the recurring themes in these conversations is that exponential growth is hard to understand. As the name suggests, Covid Act Now is not just a model, it's not just about data.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

And the reason I left is midway through my career there, I had earned my MBA, I was considering going back to school again because our company gave us tuition reimbursement… Ryan Hawk: And as I was looking at another graduate degree, I was very fortunate to have a dinner set up with a guy by the name of Todd Wagner. Experiment.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

The conversations usually go down the same path, ending with a you’re how old? At the same time it seemed that whenever I would have a conversation with a friend, family member, colleague, manager, executive–you name it!–about Why the name? 5 – Old Man Strength. Image Credit: Joe Battisto.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

These names aren’t the end of the story?—?they I expect to see more announcements of big name people and companies moving to Texas every month in 2021. Dallas (North) is the ninth largest city and was recently named the number one commercial real estate market in the US. Joe Lonsdale. Drew Houston. Jim Breyer. Charles Schwab.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

OCTOBER 16, 2011

A Typical Day In My Life (Sports Blogger Miami Mitch). I address my paying members emails first if I can sort them out, then I look for names I recognize and finally opportunities. For me writing just flows , like if I were having an easy conversation. When I get up in the morning the first thing I do is look at my live stats.

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Occam's Razor

JUNE 15, 2010

" I would like to know when conversion rate dips below q%, let me go see if that happened last week. " Give your alert a name. Far too often we are obsessed with conversion rates in an eCommerce context. I like an alert like this one: Tell me when I have an amazing increase in my daily revenue (not conversion!)

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 10, 2020

You can listen to our conversation on Apple , Google, or wherever you like to download podcasts. My name is Eric Ries. Here's my conversation with Sal Khan. Sal Khan : My name is Sal Khan. I think it was that very weekend when we had those late-night conversations. She had trouble with unit conversion.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2012

Even though social media and internet rule, customers make purchase decisions using a combination of old media, new media, and old-fashioned conversations with friends and family. According to a relatively old study (2009) by Harris Interactive, the most common methods of gathering information prior to making a purchase are. Coincidence?

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2016

Right now mine shows the Miami GOP Debate because that just happened and “Kobe/LeBron: The Finale.” You can change your name if you want to be called something else in the app. Below your name (and that of others) is a number and it took me for freaking ever to figure out WTF this was.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Listed in alphabetical order by category name, here are all the participants for this exciting competition (along with links to their recent interviews on Medium). The Pitch Award Ceremony , announcing winners in each of ten different categories, will be take place Sunday, March 10 from 6:30 pm-8 pm at the Hilton Hotel (6th Floor, Salon H).

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

I had an emotional call with Herb Scannell who flew out to Philadelphia, Cleveland and Miami in three successive weeks to canvass door-to-door. When I went to add partners at Upfront I called an LP of mine and told him I was trying to recruit a new partner named Kara Nortman. I couldn’t have married somebody I didn’t feel was my equal.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 29, 2020

In the time since our conversation, data and science have shown again and again that wearing masks is an incredibly effective, low-cost and simple way to prevent viral spread. You can listen to our conversation on Apple , Google, or wherever you like to download podcasts. Here's my conversation with Jeremy Howard.

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