crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

… Checking In on Foursquare’s Valuation – [link]. Campaigns | NYT FiveThirtyEight – [link]. Real-Time Marketing is Upon Us–Here’s How Advertising Needs To Adapt | Co.Create – [link]. Red All Over: Newspaper Revenues Fall In Q3 – [link]. Want to create a new habit?

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

Good whitepaper on advertising measurement metrics | by Ben Kunz – crowdspring.co/HsVIMR. Good whitepaper on advertising measurement metrics | by Ben Kunz – crowdspring.co/HsVIMR. Entrepreneur PSA – Advertising Businesses are Hard | Seth’s Blog - crowdspring.co/1aHHgHS. But a nearly $4 billion valuation?

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

The creator economy offers independence and the ability to monetise fan’s attention in a variety of ways (as opposed to advertising/sponsorship only), but the road to get there is riddled with challenges. can help creators create engaging social media content or marketing campaigns to promote their digital products, etc.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

I mean, how do you end up putting some, something that is intangible that is more than like, you know, a, a multiplier of revenue, because there are some people that have created a methodology that have created a framework that have created something exactly a way to actually get, you know, leads. Do you have a leadership team?

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thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 16, 2011

Mobile advertising became more targeted and user friendly by adapting to the small screen — but advertisers are slow to adopt , with much upside still to come. Discovery, in contrast to search, took center stage as Pinterest displayed hockey stick growth (and raised VC money near a $200M valuation in late 2011).

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 22, 2012

They can’t – certainly not based on Facebook’s current revenue opportunities. First , there’s a huge disconnect between Facebook’s user growth and potential revenue per user. That’s very healthy revenue, but significantly below the revenue needed to justify a 100 billion dollar valuation.

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pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Lastly, seed-stage entrepreneurs who have pushed for the maximum valuation possible haven’t done themselves any favors. Meanwhile, their seed investors aren’t particularly incentivized to get them a Series A that crams the previous valuation down. Source VentureBeat ]. - November 29, 2012. Source GigaOM ]. -

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Rob Go

AUGUST 10, 2011

billion valuation. This valuation is for a company with 200 million registered users (although a much smaller # are active) and estimated revenues of around $200 million, equating to a steep multiple of 40 times sales for the microblogging service. Twitter’s Role in Acquire.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

The investors backed down; wedid another round of funding at a reasonable valuation; the giantcompany finally gave us a piece of paper saying they didnt own oursoftware; and six months later we were bought by Yahoo for muchmore than the earlier acquirer had agreed to pay. As if to emphasize the point, Google never did any advertising.

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trada.com

APRIL 7, 2010

Trada Blog: Paid Search Marketing, Online Advertising and Small Biz Trada's blog for small businesses making paid search, online advertising and social media easier to understand. In our world, the size (and growth rate) of the market on both sides (advertisers and optimizers) is in the end the competitive advantage.

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 18, 2010

The only thing that seemed to be consistent about my growth was that my revenue was relatively flat while my user base kept growing. This turned out to be a good move since it doubled their revenue that month. He has a great stats page that shows everything from monthly revenue to the breakdown of users by plan type.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 22, 2018

To get marketing a seat at the table and prove that it can drive revenue and pipeline, we’ve become borderline obsessed with numbers. To reframe marketing as an investment rather than a cost center, we must connect all the dots to revenue—but it’s hard to do without the right tools and models to get started. form fills).

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Start Up Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2016

In case you don’t know, many of them of have the pleasure of only paying 1% tax on their revenue. Their ‘so called’ profit numbers are much lower than you’d expect them to be based on their revenues. So low, that you’d probably close down the business if your profit to revenue ratios ever got that low. tax on $10 of revenue.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 8, 2015

What is the ideal size and make-up of a team for a pre-revenue SaaS startup? The Angel VC: Key Revenue Metrics for SaaS companies – buff.ly/1INSu29. Valuation As A Scorecard – buff.ly/1F0CUyC. Brilliant Video Marketing Campaigns You’ll Actually Enjoy Watching crowdspring.co/1HRwXF7. – buff.ly/1EY9ktL.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

So we could go, we could spend the rest of our time talking about valuation. Is it, is it really any different than a traditional marketing campaign? (19:20): You know, it's gonna be very broad, but what you should see is you should see the annual revenue number and the cash flow. (20:06): So you've gotta get that word out.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

billion in annual subscription revenues not including advertising or eCommerce). Brands didn’t advertise their web pages they advertised “AOL Keywords.&# You couldn’t pick up a magazine in the 96-99 timeframe without seeing AOL Keywords advertised everywhere. Google acquired YouTube for $1.65

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

Instead of buying exposure in the form of advertising, today you give value for free, and just like us information marketers, record companies and musicians are coming to grips with the idea that selling their music is not necessarily how they are going to profit. Limiting distribution to protect profits isn’t a good thing.

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 23, 2012

Choose the right metric and they'll create the most glorious digital experience in the universe, the perfect acquisition campaign, the most amazing customer service channel. Most content sites are currently monetized using display advertising, most commonly on a Cost Per Thousand Impressions (CPM) basis. But it gets worse.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

(there’s a great story from Jonah in the video but you have to watch to hear it :)) But it’s undeniable that it has become a digital media powerhouse having raised around $500 million in capital with a valuation reported at $1.7 billion and revenues likely exceeding $250 million (Wikipedia lists 2015 revenue at $167 million).

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