crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

After all, without customers, there is no revenue. Or a market perceived to be global can be dominated by a few regions. The global art market is believed to be about $61 billion (2011). If you try to sell your products and services to everyone in the world, you will waste both time and money. Commercial gallery sales?

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 12, 2010

Given the predictability of SaaS GAAP revenues on a quarterly basis, the fact that the 08/09 projections were unchanged is not a surprise. Given that the revenues are not growing very fast, this means that most of the companies have reduced their sales force and focused on productivity improvement. Global Warning! Software 2.0:

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Most businesses have a handful of target accounts they dream of closing—big, prestigious companies that could generate a whole lot of revenue in a single deal. For a flooring company I worked with, that white whale was Hilton Hotels: one company in charge of flooring purchases for 14 global brands across 5,000 locations. Conclusion.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 25, 2017

Revenue needs to grow 20x, and margins must expand dramatically. I won’t dive into cost structure in this blog post, but let’s think through how Snap could grow revenue 20x. I won’t dive into cost structure in this blog post, but let’s think through how Snap could grow revenue 20x. Global smartphone revenue is about $420B.

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Start Up Blog

JANUARY 28, 2015

They are not only a cool thing to be involved in, but as like pop stardom in the 1980s, the promise of potential riches and global fame are part of the attraction. But on the acquisition side, it’s far more likely in the modern age that the company chooses to keep the newly acquired company separate from the new owner.

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Start Up Blog

JANUARY 5, 2015

They are not only a cool thing to be involved in, but as like pop stardom in the 1980s, the promise of potential riches and global fame are part of the attraction. But on the acquisition side, it’s far more likely in the modern age that the company chooses to keep the newly acquired company separate from the new owner.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 19, 2016

billion, and by 2017, nearly half of global mobile users are likely to own a smartphone. Marketers should also be looking at acquisition (visits, unique visitors, pageviews), behavior (pages per visit, time on site, bounce rate), and revenue (if you’re eCommerce). Aggregate Audience Data. billion smartphone users in 2012.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Data companies more focused on later-stage companies include Avention , Bureau Van Dijk , BizQualify, Dow Jones , FactSet , Genesis , S&P Global Market Intelligence , DueDil , Core 2 Group , D&B Hoovers , InsideView , LexisNexis , Pitchbook , Preqin , PrivCo , SourceScrub , Refinitiv , and Unquote. See their blog post on multiples.).

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Occam's Razor

JULY 13, 2017

Oh, or your main traffic sources and the visitor acquisition metrics? For example… Let’s say they end up looking at Visitors, Conversion Rates, and Revenue. Why not build in a model where the decision maker can change Conversion Rates, to see the impact on Revenue? Show impact on Revenue and Profit.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Based on third-party stats, Twitter has around 330 million monthly users globally. Check aggregator sites that feature tweets. With those strategies as a foundation for profile growth, you can start to think about ways to do something more than gain revenue-free attention on Twitter. But there are other options.

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pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

But the angels who’ve staked their funds on spreading bits of money all over the Valley are increasingly anxious that only 20 percent of their deals — in aggregate — will get the chance to keep going. iOS App Store revenue still dwarfs Google Play’s, but the challenger is catching up fast. Open Sesame! (A

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Be prepared to cross the desert - SaaS requires R&D and sales expense up front for a multi-year stream of revenue, so it demands enough investment capital to fund 4+ years of runway. Farming is also often overlooked, but can help grow customer accounts and revenues from 30% upwards (if successful). Great list! Philippe Botteri.

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Occam's Razor

MAY 19, 2014

The examples cover elements we optimize for in our acquisition ( what are we doing to attract traffic ), behavior ( what happens once they land on our website ) and outcomes ( did we end up making money, were the customers satisfied ) strategies. The purists amongst you might notice that I'm really using Revenue as the BFF.

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Austin Startup

JULY 5, 2017

For a sense of scale, consider that Tesla generated $7B of revenue in 2016. Of that, Tesla does not even break out non-automotive revenue, meaning that their battery/solar business today is small fraction of total sales. This was the basis of Tesla’s recent acquisition of Grohmann Engineering.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 30, 2017

Consider the following: 78% of organizations say data-driven marketing increases lead conversion and customer acquisition ( source ). 64% of marketing executives “strongly agree” that data-driven marketing is crucial to success in a hypercompetitive global economy ( source ).

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 12, 2015

We live in a global and rapidly changing world. DataSift passes 95% of the data revenue back to Twitter. Twitter announced its acquisition of our competition Gnip almost a year ago. Facebook, LinkedIn and increasingly YouTube. Again, no big surprise. Let me make it easy on you – this number is wrong. Ninety five.

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ConversionXL

JULY 11, 2016

Paul Rouke – Opening keynote: Tackling the Global Pandemic That is B t Optimisation. “Umbrella terms” are when you aggregate multiple features and benefits under one vague term, like “powerful” or “easy-to-use.” Three tactics to maximize revenue from a CRO program: Free test software.

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Agile VC

MARCH 8, 2012

But even during the macroeconomic boom of 2004 to early 2008 (inflated by various credit bubbles – housing, sovereign debt, LBOs) tech IPOs were extremely rare and then the global economic crisis of late 2008 – 2010 only further dampened hopes for a recovery. Zynga – 8x+ trailing revenue. trailing revenue.

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Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 4, 2008

T he response rate has been overwhelming and we ended up with 40+ companies and 80+ attendees, most of them CEOs and CxOs of leading public and private saas companies representing around 80% of the revenues of the SaaS industry in 2007. Your key business metrics are CMRR (Contracted Monthly Recurring Revenue) and cash.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2011

3GVision is the global leader in mobile barcode services that use the camera phone to scan barcodes. This highest quality of the traffic information, never achieved before, together with the perfect applications generate significant revenues for the operator and maintain customers’ loyalty. Craze Productions. GoNet Systems.

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Site-centric analysis is primarily focused on looking at direct competitors, or adjacent ones, and learning from what is happening with Acquisition, Behavior and Outcomes on their website (desktop and/or mobile). Easy question to answer, and free with Compete (remember, this is US visits only) or SimilarWeb (global traffic).

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betashop.com

OCTOBER 8, 2012

From the start we said that we would never make a decision as to what features to build or what products to sell based on revenue alone, rather we would focus on things that make our customers smile and by doing so lots and lots of revenue will fall out over time. Sticking to that philosophy has been one of the keys to Fab’s success.?.

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 7, 2014

11: Close to zero aggregated analysis exists, everything's segmented. #10: If the company has the revenues or size, it is important to hire for both roles to ensure the ROA will be positive. 11: Close to zero aggregated analysis exists, everything's segmented. All data in aggregate is crap. Total revenue.

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