Archive for November, 2011
Small Business Spotlight of the Week: Green Envee Organics
Amanda | November 30th, 2011Remember those lotion commercials from a few years back that featured an alligator roaming around, showing us all how dry, cracked, and just overall unappealing our skin can look because winter is so desolate? And, apparently, this year so snowless. Well, Green Envee Organics can help fix that. Your moisture-sapped skin, that is, not Chicago’s [...]
Small business and startup tips: 5 ways to tune out distractions!
Mike | November 28th, 2011Distractions abound. Every day we start work and spend a great part of the day battling the noise that surrounds any small business owner or entrepreneur. The email, the Facebook, the Twitter, the cell phone, the landline, the snail mail, the deliveries, the lunch orders, the radio,the text messages, the television, the newspapers, the YouTube [...]
10 things entrepreneurs can learn from athletes
Mike | November 21st, 2011Entrepreneurs can learn a great deal from the world of sport, and in particular we can learn from the professional athletes themselves. In the past year, I have written a number of posts about ways we can learn from others and from the world around us; I wrote about how much we can learn from kids, [...]
Small Business Spotlight of the Week: Crowdegy
Amanda | November 16th, 2011All of us are smarter than one of us. And those of us with “crowd” in the name are best. #notsohumblebrag. But in all seriousness, today we bring you another crowdsourcing site: Crowdegy. If you’ve ever wished you could troubleshoot problems your business is having with people who have something of value to say, you [...]
12 Questions: Meet Svetlana (Sofia, Bulgaria)
Audree | November 15th, 2011In our 12 Questions blog series, we feature interviews with someone from the crowdSPRING community. For these interviews, we pick people who add value to our community – in the blog, in the forums, in the projects. Plainly – activities that make crowdSPRING a better community. Be professional, treat others with respect, help us build [...]
What It’s Like To Be An Entrepreneur – crowdSPRING
Ross | November 11th, 2011We’re thrilled to be part of a new web/TV reality series – Trep Life – giving audiences a unique, 360-degree view of what it takes to succeed as an entrepreneur. Each episode focuses on one company or organization. The first episode featured our friends Matt Maloney and Mike Evans from Grub Hub – a terrific [...]
Secrets of The World’s Best Brands
Ross | November 9th, 2011Interbrand has released its annual ranking of the world’s best brands: Best Global Brands 2011 report. Interbrand’s report is considered to be one of the most influential benchmark studies on brand value. Let’s first look at some of the highlights from the report, and then look at some of the important trends and lessons startups [...]
