Global Community Hub by Spring
Tools & Training to Help You Change The World
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Book 1-on-1 time to get the support you need for your business
What is the Right Rhythm for my Business
The biggest factors for success in a start-up
Facing Contraints and Limitations: Embrace the Shake
Strategic Planning Nuts & Bolts
Conscious PR - 10% discount for online courses
FreshBooks Accounting - 1 month FREE
NEW - Google Cloud: UP to $20,000 in credit
Hubspot: 90% off Inbound Marketing (have your proof of Spring participation ready)
NEW: Metronome Growth Systems - 50% off
Proto: App prototyping software - 50% off
NEW: UpViral VIP Offer: 33% Discount
Sendpulse: Email and SMS Marketing Optimization; Up to $5,000 Grant for Sendpulse
ZenHub: project management for developers. Free annual licence
Collage HR - CANADA $30 off benefits package
CodeCore: VANCOUVER Web development - $500 off full-time programs
Futurpreneur Community Program: BC AND YUKON - $15,000 in funding (British Columbia & Yukon)
CampTech: VANCOUVER 15% off CampTech classes using code: Spring15
Mobi bike share: VANCOUVER - Discounted membership
The HiVE co-working space: VANCOUVER - Free set up + first month discount
App-Scoop: CANADA - Discounts up to 25% on web & mobile solutions
Bean Around the World: VANCOUVER - 10% off
Float House: VANCOUVER - floatation therapy
Stretch Yoga: VANCOUVER - 15% Discount
Finding your Why
Defining your Values
An Example of Why and Values
Discussion Thread: Defining your Why and Values
Impact Framework 101
How we think about Impact @ Spring
What is Impact and Are you an Impact Company?
Spring Impact Company Checklist
What is Shared Value?
A peek at impact measurement
Let's talk about impact and more
What is Lean?
An overview of Lean
Clarifying the Problem
Who is your ideal customer?
The Basics of the Business Model Builder
Business Model Builder: The Essentials
Fledge presents: Defining your Market Size
Business Model Builder: Defining the Competition
Fledge Presents: Defining your Competitive Landscape
Fledge Presents: Your Uniqueness
Fledge presents: Creating Competitive Advantage
Business Model Builder and the Customer
Business Model Builder: The Customers
The Spring Business Model Builder Template
A complete overview of customer discovery
How to Run a User Interview
How To Do (And What To Expect From) Early-Stage Customer Development & Sales
Email Prospecting
Avoiding mistakes in Customer Discovery
The Ultimate List of Customer Development Questions
Minimum Viable Product by App-Scoop
Fledge presents: Minimum Viable Product
Spring: Launch Plan Template
Building your Launch Plan
Sales Process
Generating Leads
Sales Funnel
Sales Script
Cold Calling
AMPLIFY Your Sales Talk: Dr. Andreas Boettcher, the "Ironman of Sales"
Template: Draft Call Script
Sales Proposals
Getting to a Close
NEW: Build a Six Figure Sales Funnel using LinkedIn Automation
NEW: Managing complex Business-to-Business (B-to-B) with the Miller Heiman BlueSheet
Fledge presents: Marketing vs. Sales
Fledge presents: Sales Topics
Fledge presents: The Sales Funnel
Fledge presents: Handling Sales Rejection
Fledge presents: Sales Channels
Fledge presents: Organizing the Sales Team
Fledge presents: A not so good sales example - Glengarry Glen Ross
Fledge presents: Motivating Salespeople
Do we pay Sales Commission?
Fledge presents: Projecting Sales
Fledge presents: Pricing
Fledge presents: Rule of Thumbs for Pricing
Fledge presents: Deal Flow
Fledge presents: Tracking Prospects
Fledge presents: Big Complex Sales, or Business Development
Fledge presents: Sales Tactics - Listen!
Fledge presents: Closing
Fledge presents: Your First Sale
Fledge presents: After the Sale
Fledge presents: Your Sales Process
Fledge presents: Everyone helps to Sell!
Naming your company
Inbound Marketing & Sales
Hubspot's Free Inbound Marketing Course
A Guide to Content Marketing, by LinkedIn
Discussion Thread: Marketing
NEW: PR with $0 Budget
Is it worth doing paid advertising with your current budget
NEW: Top Tactics to Promote your Mobile App through Social Media
Fledge presents: What is marketing?
Fledge presents: Your marketing plan
Fledge presents: Creativity and Iteration
Fledge presents: Core essence
Fledge presents: Words
Fledge presents: Your Website
Fledge presents: Social media
Fledge presents: Mobile
Fledge presents: Blogs
Fledge presents: Lists
Fledge presents: Purple Cows
Fledge presents: Real life purple cows - Freezer Display Cabinet
Fledge presents: Real life purple cows - The first iPhone
Fledge presents: Rules
Fledge presents: The Next 5 Steps
Fledge presents: Your Mission Statement
Fledge presents: Storytelling
Financial Plan Overview
Building a budget and financial plan
Cash Flow Template by Spring Partner Futurpreneur
NEW: BDC presents Mastering your CashFlow e-book
Software Company Profit & Loss Template
NEW: THE NEXT STEP by Fledge: A Guide to Building a Startup Financial Plan
Fledge presents: Financial Plan and Story
Fledge presents: Financial Plan and Assumptions
Fledge Presents: Financial plan and Unit Sale
Fledge presents: Starting on the plan
Fledge presents: Months 1-3 of your Financial Plan
Fledge presents: Months 4-12 of your Financial Plan
Fledge presents: Visualizing your Financial Plan
Fledge presents: Years 1-3 and your Financial Plan
Fledge presents: Attention to detail in your Financial Plan
Fledge presents: Not Done Yet
Funding Foundations
Crowdfunding101
NEW: Early stage Company Valuation: The What and How
NEW: 2016 NACO Report Angel deals in Canada
NEW: THE NEXT STEP by Fledge: The Realities of Funding a Startup through the lens of an American Startup
Fledge presents: The Realities of Funding
An overview of Grants (Canada Focused) with Spring partner Granted
Debt Financing for Startups, by Eamonn Gamble of Royal Bank of Canada (RBC)
List of Canadian Funding Programs
NEW: Impact Monday Finder by Vancity: Funding sources and resource
Innovation Canada Funding Tool
Fledge presents: Forms of Funding
Finding your Ideal Investor: Rank and File article by Spring's Co-Founder Keith Ippel
Defining your ideal investor
TEMPLATE: Ideal Investor Profile
Fledge presents: Funding is a Sales Process
Investor Tracking Template (CRM)
Sample investor update email by Spring
Fledge presents: Sources of Funding & stages of a company
Fledge presents: Preparing for the Ask
Fledge presents: Angel Investors
Fledge presents: Angel Groups
Fledge presents: Venture Capital
Fledge presents: Investor Returns
The Due Diligence Process
Fledge presents: Investor perspective - Traction
Fledge presents: Investor perspective - Preferences
Negotiation and Getting to a Close
Fledge presents: After the close - Investor Relations
Your Funding Pitch Deck
Y-Combinator Pitch Deck Templates
An overview of storytelling and pitching
Fledge presents: No Perfect Pitch
Fledge presents: Why you prepare for 3 Pitches in your business
Fledge presents: Pitching Problem and Customer
Fledge presents: Pitching Opportunity
Fledge presents: Pitching Competition
Fledge presents: Pitching Team
Fledge presents: Pitching Financials
Fledge presents: The ask
Fledge presents: Pitching - Handling Questions and Closing the Pitch
Fledge presents: Excitement!
Fledge presents: No thinking
Fledge presents: Face the audience
Fledge presents: Pixar Purple
Fledge presents: Own the room
Fledge presents: In their shoes
One Page Plan: Your basis for leadership and measuring against results
Leadership: Co-founders
Spring: Leadership Fundamentals
NEW: Optimizing your time with tasks like email by StoryTap Chief Product Officer Sean Braacx
The Comprehensive Co-founders Handbook
NEW: Introductions - Top 13 Dos and Don'ts when people make an introduction for you
NEW: How do I overcome Imposter Syndrome?
What's a Pivot and why do I care?
Types of Pivots
A overview of mentors & advisors
Template: Sample Advisor Agreement
Sample investor update email by Spring
NEW: Networking 101 - A Spring Guide
NEW: Top 5 Steps to Meet Influential People
NEW: How to Answer a question that you don’t know HOW to get the answer: The workback
Food Business: Co-packer/Commercial Kitchen Directory
A Guide to Developing Partnerships
Partnership Proposal - TEMPLATE
Partner NPS Questions
Fledge presents: Corporate Culture - Moon Shoes
Fledge presents: Dilbert and The Office
Fledge presents: Freedom and Responsibility
Fledge presents: No Managers at Valve
Fledge presents: The Method Method
Fledge presents: Radical corporate democracy
Fledge presents: Holacracy
Fledge presents: Your Culture?
NEW: What if I need to let someone go?
NEW: Setting up an Employee Stock Option Plan (ESOP) - The Basics
ESOP - How much do I give each role?
ESOP - Tips & Tricks
ESOP - an alternative approach
Blankslate Partners - New Employee Set Up