crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

Amazon is surprisingly quiet/inactive when it comes to acquisitions | Re/code – crowdspring.co/1dhwOrm. Startup founder salaries: Younger, more inexperienced entrepreneurs pay themselves less | The Next Web – crowdspring.co/1f87xE1. The Complete Quantitative Guide To Judging Your Startup | TechCrunch – crowdspring.co/1gBDzfA.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 14, 2014

As a start-up, it’s seemingly impossible to compete with the Facebooks and Googles of the world, who can offer six figure salaries to the talented professionals you’d want on your team. As much as competitive salary is one of the perks, the more important thing is to sell your vision and dream about the future. Offer More Than Salary.

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Colombia Salary Startup Entrepreneur 169

ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

This led giffgaffs’ social media and PR manager, Heather Taylor, to blog about the unfair practice of allowing consumers to comment for free on Pownum but charge companies to reply. Some members have reported making large sums of money, paying for weddings, or supporting themselves alongside a full- or part-time salary.

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Customer Community Revenue Software Review 85

socialmatchbox.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

These days sales, marketing and PR people seem to grow on trees. How To Calculate Whether A Freelance Web Application Programmer Is Asking For Too Much Step 1: Use the Indeed.com Salary Tool to Search for Their Job Title By Salary Level. The answer to this requires a small amount of research. at this stage.

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Part-Time VPE Sweat Equity DC Washington 41

ConversionXL

JANUARY 8, 2018

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is one of the biggest levers that a business can use within their acquisition strategy as part of their Growth goals. You’re likely familiar with the different Growth frameworks like AARRR (Acquisition, Activation, Retention, Referral, Revenue). It all start with Acquisition.

SEO 134

SEO Metrics Analytics Search 134

VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 26, 2010

The newly formed teams then work for the entire weekend, with the help of some experienced mentors from the industry, who volunteer their time to share advice on product, technology, legal, PR and other issues. It’s nice to have protected IP, but that will mostly matter later on in the event of an acquisition. When to raise?

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Elevator Pitch Incubator Technical Review Startup 102

Hearpreneur

AUGUST 9, 2019

I saw five years ago that the traditional form of marketing and PR was going the way of the dinosaur if digital weren’t a huge component and direction of the business offering. I couldn’t fulfill my wish if I took a regular job, however money I might earn as salary. Why digital marketing?

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Entrepreneur LLC San Francisco Mexico 115

Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

Increased investment in Facebook as an engagement/acquisition channel has translated into requests from CEOs, CMOs and other CxOs about the return on that investment. Compute ROI: (cost of Facebook campaigns + salary of people running campaigns + agency creative costs) vs. profit from incremental product sales.

Metrics 165

Metrics Advertising Marketing Social Media 165

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Many MBAs took marketing courses but have never been on the front line of A/B testing, email campaigns or PR initiatives. They looked at total cost to the student and lost wages and then they plotted the incremental increases in salary that students who graduated got over the course of their careers. It’s how we move products.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 11, 2014

You may call it employee number one with a really low salary and really generous stock options and as the company grows, you’ll fix their salary. And some of that may be exactly to hire this other person to do whatever, like acquisition, and fuel the growth that way. Maybe that’s one way to go, right? Edwin: The ROI?

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Technical Cofounder Cofounder Software Review Management 220

Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

The top performing SaaS companies typically achieve annual customer renewal rates above 90% - with most of the churn due to death (bankruptcies) or marriage (acquisitions) - and over 100% renewals on a dollar value basis due to up-sells into this installed base. upfront acquisition cost, making the CLTV equal to $2.5-$0.7= means a $0.7

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Software Review North America Europe Metrics 48

Scalable Startup

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

Via Stanford, Berkeley, Facebook, Google, recruiting Harvard and MIT undergrads, their wonderful PR machine, advertising free meals, free car washes, free dry cleaning, free day care. 150,000 salary right out of college. Unlimited vacation. Where else can you gat all this?

Silicon Valley 22

Silicon Valley San Francisco Angel Investor Hawaii 22

Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

It is our go-to SEO tool for doing audits, for tracking position and ranking, for really getting ideas on how to get more organic traffic for our clients, competitive intelligence, backlinks and things like that, all the important SEO tools that you need for paid traffic, social media, PR and of course SEO. This is John Jantsch.

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Chad SBA Kansas City Australia 46

www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

So the acquisition came toa screeching halt while we tried to sort this out. If youre the sort of person who wouldlike to solve the money problem once and for all instead of working for a salary for 40 years, then a startup makes sense. Almost everyone who worked for us was an animal at what they did.

Startup 105

Startup Cofounder Software Stock 105

techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Options and future value are great ‘add ons’ but not for a welfare check salary until ‘this great idea makes it.’ So frequently embarrassing failures are masked by spinning PR or fudging numbers to give the illusion of success. ’ Maybe this article is a little too simplistic, a fairy tale.

Technical Review 84

Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder Software Review 84

Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

UPDATE: If you want to download three advanced custom reports to do Page Efficiency Analysis, Visitor Acquisition Efficiency Analysis & Paid Search Performance Analysis please check out: 3 Awesome, Downloadable, Custom Web Analytics Reports ]. This is a "teach a person to fish" type post. No Goals, No Glory. Paid Search?

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Customer Analytics Metrics Acquisition 98

Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

One thing I cannot stress enough is the importance of getting a rock star PR person on your team. Besides the cost of a press manager’s salary, getting media mentions is a low-cost acquisition channel that can have a huge return. Outsourcing media relations to an agency or paying a press distribution service will not cut it.

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Marketing Channel Analytics Metrics 28

Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

The way it works is that you compute the total cost of your Social Media program: SM employee salaries and benefits, agency fees, content acquisition/production costs, analyst salaries, executive time invested etc. Toyota's SM team / agency / PR entity continues to use Facebook to primarily pimp. MoR test outcome?

Social Media 60

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 29, 2013

Innocent on the other hand clearly understands Conversational Marketing (they are a small company, not yet corporatized I suspect, and likely deal with a smaller combination of lawyers/PR types/Social Media Gurus/Agencies – a sad likely bane on Tide's existence). Don't start with LTV, it is hard. And you'll get promoted.

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Metrics Marketing Search SEO 166