crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 30, 2017

Despite repeated efforts, only a few cities outside the Valley (New York and Boston) have historically had the critical mix of funding, network, and talent to fuel vibrant startup centers. Silicon Valley has dominated the U.S. startup ecosystem for many decades. That culture helped garner upwards of $1.7

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 2, 2024

His clients include global brands such as Citizen Watch, ExxonMobil and bva. Also, we expect consumers will figure out that they can type in much longer queries, not just restaurants in Seattle, restaurants in Seattle for a family of four with an infant, and the dad loves spicy food and oh, by the way, the wife is lactose intolerant. (06:04):

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

Elon Musk touts launch of ‘SpaceX Seattle’ | Business & Technology | The Seattle Times crowdspring.co/1BadR6p. 99% of Networking Is a Waste of Time – HBR crowdspring.co/1zbdv4f. How to Network Successfully on Google Plus crowdspring.co/162tows. Resilient Networking: Planning for Failure crowdspring.co/1LBcpSE.

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techcrunch.com

APRIL 26, 2013

As Smartphones Reach A Global Tipping Point, Why Your Product Isn't As Simple As You. Life360, A Family Networking App With More. Life360, A Family Networking App With More. Seattle Meetup. Seattle, WA. Google Crashes Facebook Home's Easy. EA's Internal Memo On The Layoffs. HTC One Review.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 30, 2017

Despite repeated efforts, only a few cities outside the Valley (New York and Boston) have historically had the critical mix of funding, network, and talent to fuel vibrant startup centers. Silicon Valley has dominated the U.S. startup ecosystem for many decades. That culture helped garner upwards of $1.7

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fi.co

DECEMBER 4, 2012

Globalizing Silicon Valley - See the Worldwide Schedule - Lead a Local Chapter. -->. Our vision is to Globalize Silicon Valley by creating and fostering local startup ecosystems in promising markets across the globe. Applications to the Seattle Founder Institute are also due this Sunday, February 26th: click here to apply.

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 26, 2017

Image Credit: Seattle Sutton. I started Seattle Sutton’s Healthy Eating over 30 years ago and I am still involved with the family business financial bookkeeping at age 85 because I like to know where I stand financially at all times. Thanks to Seattle Sutton ! #8 Thanks to Melisa Alaba, Eliza Mary Global Network ! #16

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A Crowded Space

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

This is what investing in hype looks like: At Jackson Square Ventures, we look for great teams building underlying great businesses with sustainable metrics and increasing economies of scale or network effects. Sometimes they are just building software for unsexy industries like the $380 billion global shipping industry.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 21, 2013

Six years later , TechStars is a global operation and, more fundamentally, the accelerator model is among the decade’s most important entrepreneurial innovations. Irrespective of what happens to Techstars ahead, development of the accelerator as a global industry ensures that Techstars will remain historically relevant.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 23, 2013

Corporate accelerators are a recent phenomenon, both in Israel and globally. billion ), Microsoft is pleased with the outcome and has now launched accelerators in Bangalore, Beijing, Berlin and London, with programs planned for Seattle, Moscow, Paris and Rio de Janeiro. CellMining . ConferPlace .

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abovethecrowd.com

JULY 10, 2014

For the market size, he states, “For my base case valuation, I’m going to assume that the primary market Uber is targeting is the global taxi and car-service market.” He then goes on to calculate a global estimate for the historical taxi and limousine market. The global market would obviously be much larger. Today I only Uber.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 17, 2020

and Seattle. offering business opportunities in residential and commercial real estate for global and domestic startups. Tech business in Austin is at an all-time high, and some unlikely companies are jumping in to support the growth. It also ranked third nationwide for tech employment growth.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 10, 2012

Our experience with TechStars – starting in Boulder, but expanding to Boston, Seattle, and New York – helped us understand not just TechStars’ role and impact on a startup community, but what drives startup communities over the long term. Announcing Ari Newman as TechStars Network Catalyst.

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mashable.com

MARCH 24, 2011

As a side note, if you’re interested in applying to TechStars Seattle for this fall, the application page just went live a few days ago and can be found here: [link] It was by far the best decision we’ve made, and I’d highly recommend this route for any early-stage entrepreneurs. an iPad 2 Killer? All Rights Reserved.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 6, 2012

I was in Oklahoma City earlier this week with the entrepreneurs at the Blueprint for Business accelerator (it’s a member of the Global Accelerator Network ). Yesterday, I spent 30 minutes with one of the teams in TechStars Seattle that I’m a lead mentor for.

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Up and Running

JULY 21, 2016

To determine which cities made the cut, I turned to Compass’s Global Startup Ecosystem Report for 2015. Chicago Guide for Startups—Networking in the Windy City. Seattle, Washington, USA. At number eight according to Compass, Seattle ranked third for startup experience, and fourth for available talent. AngelList Seattle.

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Cracking the Code

APRIL 27, 2018

Today, seven of the top 10 global technology companies, 18 of the top 20 global pharmaceutical companies, and 10 of the top 15 global financial services companies are DocuSign customers. With the first global enterprise-wide deployments, the team strengthened the scalability, security and certifications of the platform.

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Agile VC

APRIL 13, 2012

And if you look elsewhere at places like Seattle you see the same pattern; Microsoft may have been built in Redmond, but Amazon and many of the more recent startups like Zillow, Redfin, Zulily, etc are all in Seattle’s downtown core. So why are software & internet startups more urban today than 5-10 years ago? Alex Panelli.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 6, 2011

John has rightly observed that many small companies, as well as foreign companies trying to get into the United States, have limited budget, and could use 25% of the time of a sales rep in each geography, say, New York, San Francisco, Chicago, and Seattle. In the case of J.J's business, the customer is the Network.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

Or are they running to a fresh perspective, a massive talent pool, and an innovation culture that balances social impact with global domination? In short, the first wave of internet companies were widely distributed and brought people online (AOL in Virginia, Microsoft in Albuquerque and Seattle, Dell in Austin, etc.)

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VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

SAP Global Trade Services, SAP R/3, Other Technologies / ITO Agreements / IT Intel ABC has created a custom application server using Oracle Fusion Middleware and Oracle WebLogic Server called ABC Unified Strategic Information Optimization Network, or FUSION. Citrix Presentation Server 4.0, Citrix Presentation Server 4.5,

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 28, 2015

We made a bunch of intros for David and he reached out to a number of the successful entrepreneurs and a few investors (as individuals) around the Techstars network that existed in 2009. We had programs in Boulder, Seattle, Boston, and New York. Before he knew it David had $2.5 million lined up.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 30, 2014

Ubiquitous computing, ambient intelligence and pervasive networks are changing the way humans interact with everything. It’s taking established trends—the quantified self and sensor data, ubiquitous networks and cloud computing—and applying them to a specialized set of consumers.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 27, 2010

This segment of the population consumes large amount of data so their challenges are more around network speeds and tiered data-plans and handset capabilities (that is, what they can do with the handset). For others, the concerns are more about cost. In the early 2000s, Austin was a hot bed for mobile/wireless.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

We estimate that the global GMV for ride sharing was over $100B in 2018 (including Uber, Didi, Grab, Lyft, Yandex, etc) and still growing handsomely. Rover.com (*) in Seattle, which was founded by Greg Gottesman and Aaron Easterly in 2011, is the leading player in this market.

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prosperati.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Zoecity’s headquarters is in Seattle but we have a satellite office in Kuala Lumpur, the capital of Malaysia. We were able to hire both senior and junior level engineers at roughly 1/4 and in some cases 1/5 the going rates in Seattle. Seattle and Kuala Lumpur has a 15-hour time difference.

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www.thenameinspector.com

DECEMBER 5, 2011

If you’re releasing something on a global scale and are concerned about what your name might mean in other languages, there’s simply no way to get around asking native speakers. Try online social networks. Seattle Interest (14). To avoid embarrassment in other languages, ask the experts. Nothing else will work.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 16, 2020

Momentum Education’s Executive Director Robinson Lynn would never have imagined that 11yrs after the passing of his mom, the groundwork she had laid out would prepare him to become interim Executive Director and help so many people globally deal with traumatic situations.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 16, 2020

Momentum Education’s Executive Director Robinson Lynn would never have imagined that 11yrs after the passing of his mom, the groundwork she had laid out would prepare him to become interim Executive Director and help so many people globally deal with traumatic situations.

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 7, 2021

Network effects of cities and innovation — and how it ties to inequality Just as there are network effects in online platforms, where a network grows more valuable to users the more users that join and use it, there are also network effects in the physical world. The same applies to cities.

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thenextweb.com

AUGUST 6, 2012

Mikhail is now the Associate Director of Product at Merchantry, an e-commerce merchant network, after being introduced to the co-founders by someone he met while at ClickFacts. I flew out from Seattle, where I lived, to Boston to Paul’s lecture on the back of his essay,” Phil tells me. you just believe yourself, then you success.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 20, 2018

We’ve previously looked at the best cities in the US to build your startup , and we’ve even looked at some of the best cities globally. The Global Startup Ecosystem Report put Vancouver as the 15th best city in the world to start a tech company and for good reason. Refunds can be as high as 65% of the R&D cost.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 22, 2019

But if your company is located someplace like Silicon Valley, Seattle, Boston, or New York, you’re entering the race with a handicap. In the third quarter, the Seattle company expanded by another 143,000 square feet in San Francisco, space for more than 700 additional employees, according to brokerage data. The Real Question.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 20, 2018

We’ve previously looked at the best cities in the US to build your startup , and we’ve even looked at some of the best cities globally. The Global Startup Ecosystem Report put Vancouver as the 15th best city in the world to start a tech company and for good reason. Refunds can be as high as 65% of the R&D cost.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 26, 2016

These designers help small to mid-sized brands design/develop quality product by exposing them to big company best practices and a global network of factories, trim suppliers, fabric sources, etc. We are ready to go national with expansion deals already in place in Seattle and San Francisco. 10 – Unique Social Network.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 24, 2014

Entrepreneurs need to understand and believe the reasons why they should want to cluster in your region given there are other alternatives (nationally Silicon Valley or New York; regionally Seattle and Bellevue, Portland and Bend). Summary: Bend Is a Global Entrepreneurship Experiment. Local Early-Stage Risk Capital.

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www.huffingtonpost.com

MAY 10, 2011

Minted.com is both a global design community and stationery retailer. Having two well-regarded and well-networked engineers on an advisory project created a stream of terrific VP candidates for Minted and taught me a great deal about the culture and current popular beliefs of the hottest engineering talent in the Valley.

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