Posts Tagged ‘groupon’

Groupon, Cinderella and Opportunity

Ross | December 2nd, 2010

Most people know the classic folk tale Cinderella. It’s a story about a young woman living in obscurity and neglect who unexpectedly finds love and happiness. Cinderella’s story illustrates something that we often forget. There’s only one Cinderella. In our efforts to achieve success, we often try to emulate successful people and companies. Basketball players [...]

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Focus On Your Core Business Or You Will Fail

Ross | July 7th, 2010

Too often, startups risk getting misdirected by the media and customers to add features and functionality to a product or service that turn out to be collateral to the core business. I believe this is happening with Gowalla and Foursquare, among others. Both services have become media darlings, and both are obsessed with adding features [...]

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Twitter Link Round Up

Angeline | October 27th, 2008

Every week on the crowdSPRING Twitter account, I post loads and loads of fun links pertaining to logo design, web design, social media, business, online marketing, and more! However, due to the fast-paced nature of microblogging, these links become buried within a few hours. So, I figured that it’d be nice to start the week [...]

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