crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

Why Good-Better-Best Prices Are So Effective | Rafi Mohammed-Harvard Business Review – [link]. Will Software Eliminate Physical Retail? How should one go about pricing their software product? Before You Add That Feature, Do You Know The Real Cost? Will Software Eliminate Physical Retail? Quora – [link].

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2010

But VC is an “illiquid asset&# so funds didn’t disappear quickly - In 2000/01 the stock market quickly adjusted punishing investors in the NASDAQ and in individual public technology stocks. side note: our last fund at GRP Partners is currently ranked as the 5th best performing fund of the year 2000.

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Ben's Blog

JUNE 18, 2011

In the last bubble, the S&P hit 44x in January 2000. Firstly, the cost of running an internet application has fallen 100-fold. In 2000, I was CEO of the first cloud computing company, Loudcloud, where the price for a customer running a redundant version of a basic internet application was approximately $150,000 per month.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 29, 2010

The A round was done in February 2000 (end of the bull market) and my B round was done in April 2001 (bear market). I talked also about 409a valuations and why common stock purchases cost less than preferred stock purchases. I explain in the video what happened in my first company (e.g. I eventually needed more money. Do it early.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 5, 2013

I wanted to find a way to vastly simplify loyalty programs, eliminating most if not all of the costs and making them much lighter to deploy and manage. Throw in some basic CRM processing and analytics, and merchants can get 90% of what loyalty programs provide, for a fraction of the cost. A new paradigm. Early results are exciting.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 22, 2012

I’m a huge fan of William and his writing as you can see from my review of his book Avogadro Corp. There seem to be two schools of thought on how to predict the future of information technology: looking at software or looking at hardware. The same spreadsheet also predicted we’d see a music downloading service in 1999 or 2000.

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

Investors use a consulting CTO for technical due diligence. Why Use a Consulting CTO A consulting CTO can help you complete a business plan by estimating costs and timelines for the company’s technology development and deployment. Though after the dotcom collapse of 2000-2001, there are many more than there were!

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 20, 2022

While employees are often inspired by success stories and case studies of triumphant innovation tales of large companies, the cost of not innovating is often overlooked. Sharing the stories of organizational failure due to a lack of enterprise innovation can create a sense of urgency in employees and make them understand the stakes.

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www.joelonsoftware.com

MARCH 24, 2010

Joel on Software Fog Creek Compensation by Joel Spolsky Wednesday, August 30, 2000 At Fog Creek Software, the way we make sure that people are paid fairly and rewarded for excellent work is based on a professional ladder. So all Fog Creek software engineers are ranked at one of several different levels, level 8 through level 15.

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www.joelonsoftware.com

JULY 10, 2012

Joel on Software. Software Inventory. Keeping inventory costs money. Inventory may have other costs too, like spoilage. Because there are costs associated with running out of things, too. The software production process has several major “inventory” accumulation points, itself. That code is inventory.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 20, 2017

Make your choices only after you’ve done some due diligence with other companies where they’ve served. Can you acquire them at a sustainable cost? Is there a development step that you must take to fulfill demand for a particular use case, and, if so, how does that cost get absorbed? Are the logistics manageable?

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Ben's Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2010

So much so that our diligence found him working round the clock, running a hyper-intense environment and looking very much like a 20 year old entrepreneur on a mission from God. The market change: Software as a Service. With these costs radically reduced, companies today deploy 10X as many applications as they did just 10 years ago.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. We have also been very busy with our next release, which is due out by December 11th (but I’ll save that for a different post). Consumer approach to software for business users. Page 6: We already have several pilot customers including a very large, unnamed software firm.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

I know that most people who are close to them tend to deny their existence, as we saw in the great housing bubble of 2002-2007 and the dot com bubble of 1997-2000. It’s like people arguing that there’s a beautiful beach house in 2006 that represents great long-term value due to scarcity of similar property.

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 11, 2009

And thus it is with the majority of open source software: Open source software is free if your time is worth nothing. I’m bracing my inbox for emails from disgruntled Gimp users explaining how charging for software is bad, commercial software is evil, and my mother dresses me funny. But I don’t buy it.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 22, 2019

With new project management software that’s enhanced with Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) capabilities, teams can be more prepared than ever before by receiving reports in real time on a range of KPIs, from schedule performance to project profitability. 122 million is wasted due to lacking project performance.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

For web services, we write use cases, including code snippets, which describe ways you can imagine people using the product. I see this happen far too often when people submit products to me for review to post on Product Hunt. Another plus: It costs almost nothing to produce. Write the User Manual. Test launch tiny products.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 4, 2016

And sales enablement software helps arm sales teams with the information they need to close sales. Say, which industries generate the maximum LTV to cost of sales, what is the typical time to close a deal in a specific market or what messaging performs the best with a certain user profile, can be well understood. Cost per lead.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Business Software. Last spring, Dave Graham , founder of software consulting firm Arizona Bay, learned that a major client, Jumpstart Automotive Media, had been acquired for more than $80 million. Jumpstart was one of Grahams first clients; it signed on shortly after he founded Arizona Bay, in 2000. Human Resources (HR).

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Seeing Both Sides

JULY 11, 2013

80-90% software products vs. 40-50% advertising products) and company maturity (e.g., Typically you want to see a 3x ratio between the contribution margin per rep (factoring in the lifetime value of the customer, or LTV) and the cost per rep to acquire that customer, fully loaded (i.e., customer acquisition cost or CAC).

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

Looking ahead at the next decade I am excited by what I believe will be viewed as one of the best and most rational investment periods for venture capital due to seven discrete factors: 1. Cloud computing and the open source movements have brought down the costs of starting a company by more than 90%. The Funding Problem.

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Software By Rob

DECEMBER 10, 2008

No manager in their right mind would fire the technical lead of a big software project. Show Up Early, Leave Late I’ve talked about how crunch time should be the exception in software projects. How much would an extra $1000 or $2000 per month help during that time? But desperate times may call for some extra hours.

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Software By Rob

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

Even though I’ve coded more than a dozen custom credit card integrations, have accepted payments online for 10+ years, and sell invoicing software that supports half a dozen credit card gateways, I had never been through the application process myself. Total cost: less than $100. A week later the changes are done.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 9, 2017

This is really my new go-to CRM, ESP, marketing automation, really low cost. They’re pulling in things like critical reviews so if a business is on [00:03:32] or Eater or some of these other — depending on your industry you know maybe it’s something like Superlawyers if you’re a lawyer. David: Sure.

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

These businesses were helping people straighten their teeth at a much lower cost and with less pain than traditional alternatives such as braces. If manufacturers can increase productivity , they can produce more without increasing costs, then they are more globally competitive. Photo Credit: Alex Dask. 11- Out of necessity.

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Ben's Blog

MARCH 24, 2011

In the great bubble of 1998-2000, the boom in public valuations mirrored the boom in private valuations. Companies that produce little value today might still receive high valuations due to high growth expectations. And hence the great crash of 2000 and 2001. High valuations are fine if the underlying value is there.

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 16, 2012

“TripAdvisor is to travel reviews what Kleenex is to tissues.”. . Founded in 2000 by Stephen Kaufer and Langley Steinert, Boston-based TripAdvisor is a travel website that provides reviews and other information for consumers about travel destinations around the world. Big Data meets travel…in 2000.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 28, 2015

First, your average human today is inundated with over 2000 outbound marketing interruptions per day. Second, it has become far more convenient and cost-effective to learn about something new (or to shop) using the internet, versus attending a day-long seminar at the Marriott or flying to a trade show in Las Vegas.

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Up and Running

MAY 1, 2018

I took a course on innkeeping through a company in Florida, found through online searches and reviews. Through his class, I learned what to expect as far as occupancy, cost of goods, insurance, taxes, real estate needs, and more. When 9/11 happened, we had finished our most profitable year in 2000. We had many cancellations.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! 04:45): And if we understand what are things that light us up that make us money, and what are things that take our energy that, that drain us, that that could cost very little pay somebody else. Learn More About The Agency Intensive Certification: Learn more Like this show?

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abovethecrowd.com

AUGUST 23, 2020

But in light of where we are in 2020, especially with regard to the degrading efficiency and sky-rocketing cost of capital through the structurally broken IPO process, SPACs may emerge as a legitimate third option for helping Silicon Valley companies efficiently and cost-effectively transition into the public markets.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 17, 2023

Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! You know, you're not only getting twice as many leads or sales or whatever your conversion is, you're cutting the cost per conversion in half. These are big enterprise expensive software system. I think he has a goal of something like 2000 words a day. Like this show?

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SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Their code base had diverged and it was extremely slow and costly for Microsoft to be implementing Word separately for each platform: Windows, DOS and Mac. It also meant that there was great pressure to get the release out so they could start to gain the efficiencies of a single code base. In 1993, Word 6.0

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Software By Rob

FEBRUARY 10, 2009

As a software developer I want things in neat little boxes. But the problem is that marketing isn’t like coding. Coding is a highly constrained environment and, with most problems, a well-known path to success. Marketing Isn’t Coding. Design is a less constrained environment than coding.

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Software By Rob

JANUARY 7, 2009

I ruffled a few feathers with my recent post The Software Product Myth. The unrest surrounded my statement that making $2500/month from your software product wouldn’t allow you to quit your day job. I’m amazed at how many business costs I pay throughout the course of a year. Costs range from $300-$1000 per year.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 19, 2010

I got out of the university in early 2000 and I never went on to a full-time job, so it’s always been an online business for me. The difference here is the entry-level cost to buying web property, not physical property, is much lower than what it is to buy real-world properties. DOING DUE DILIGENCE.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 29, 2017

www.bioquark.com) due to the fact that in spite of generating close to $1 trillion annually, my former industry was incapable of generating any cures for the chronic diseases responsible for the majority of human degeneration, suffering, and death. Now I run a website that helps homeowners estimate roof costs, find contractors, etc.

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