crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 13, 2011

The image above is an outdoor advertisement for Hot Wheels toy cars. You’ll find more creative outdoor advertising in the Social Media & Marketing section below. US newspaper revenues faced a 30% decline 2007-09. 30 Very Clever Outdoor Advertisements – [link]. In France, the decline was – 4% [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2013

A Startup’s Minimum Revenue Per Employee - crowdspring.co/GNlKua. Design Tips for Building an Exquisite Portfolio - crowdspring.co/1gqnM0o. The Future of Business Models Will Be Centered on Crowds - crowdspring.co/16aTTiD. Why we play Moneyball rather than Powerball - crowdspring.co/16aXflK. ” - crowdspring.co/16aZ5Ts.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 24, 2018

When we create new platform initiatives, our team tries to think about how we can be the most impactful with our portfolio companies. Today, we’re thrilled to announce a new program that we hope will help our portfolio companies with two of these bullets. Building a great product. We want to talk to you! Back to Top).

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K9 Ventures

JULY 21, 2016

That’s 7 out of about 29 investments that K9 has made to date and so that’s almost 1/4 of the K9 portfolio. In at least one case, one of my portfolio companies wasn’t able to source the parts they would have really wanted because Apple had locked up the entire supply chain for that part!

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 15, 2013

How These 7 Companies Increased Revenue by an Average of 425% | KISSmetrics – [link]. How These 7 Companies Increased Revenue by an Average of 425% | KISSmetrics – [link]. Did Google just kill PR agencies? Google Did Not Just Kill PR Agencies – [link]. Do This | Entrepreneur – [link].

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

These are areas that may be gaps in the portfolio of large companies, and are perfect for M&A deals in three to five years after building enough validation and $10-$20 million in revenue. Raymond has built a nice business through efficient distribution deals and will do about $250,000 in revenue this year.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

These are areas that may be gaps in the portfolio of large companies, and are perfect for M&A deals in three to five years after building enough validation and $10-$20 million in revenue. Raymond has built a nice business through efficient distribution deals and will do about $250,000 in revenue this year.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 25, 2013

Don’t Confuse Growth with Success, and Don’t Delay the Revenue Model | Startup Management – [link]. PR Nudges Its Way to the Content Table | by Josh Sternberg – [link]. Is Native Advertising an It Girl? 35 Creative Print Brochure Designs For Advertising – [link]. Running a SaaS business?

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 22, 2015

A Much Better Revenue Model for Podcasting [link] crowdspring.co/1KnzO7N Diario/Journal FICCI on Los Andes Portfolios [link] crowdspring.co/1KQ2tDo Erase Hate / Skate Deck on Corcoran Portfolios [link] crowdspring.co/1H4GMB5 Will Millennials Kill Email Marketing? link] crowdspring.co/1RQwXK2 1A7xhOR . 1F1Zbwa .

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 24, 2015

Why Revenue Isn’t the Most Important Financial Metric for Startups buff.ly/1DhyQo4. BASIK on Pratt Portfolios on.be.net/1G0HbP9. Will the New Concierge Economy Mean the End of the Errand? nymag.com/daily/intellig…. Having constraints helps you to succeed … Constrained – buff.ly/1JRykD9. 1D65BVn.

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

You can sign up here – I donate all revenues to charity. Perhaps one of the most difficult ones is to figure out complex relationships over long periods of time: Does brand advertising ( sometimes hideously also called “upper funnel” ) actually drive performance outcomes in the long run ? So delicious. ONE BUTTON!

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 11, 2011

Marketing Inspiration: 100 Clever and Creative Advertisements – [link]. 28 Creative Automotive Advertisements – [link]. Interesting perspective arguing that focus on ROI is dangerous because it ignores advertising creative – [link]. 28 Creative Automotive Advertisements – [link]. – [link].

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 11, 2014

Now angels are a different story because there are all kinds of angels and typically angels don’t care about the nature of the exits, meaning because an angel doesn’t have a fund with all the fund dynamics, they’re not subject to that same portfolio theory. How do you split revenue? I’ve invested all this money.”

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 22, 2017

As I looked at my competition it felt as though each advertising law firm created advertisements that seemed very self-centered. I met with an advertising agency and we brain stormed several ideas that were consistent with this core value. including leaders of our portfolio companies. Image Credit: Matthew Driggs.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 29, 2013

Indeed, 70% of brands and 77% of agencies used content marketing for advertising purposes in the past year ( April 2013 survey by MailOnline ). Increase Sales / Revenue by entering the consumer’s decision process. Become a thought leader. Increase loyalty. Create passionate brand advocates. 2) Demand generation. Generate Leads.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 27, 2014

And that’s why we need to collectively scrap the usual hiring process if we want to bring in great writers to run our blogs, our PR, or our content marketing in general. Naturally, this leads to more open jobs for in-house writers at startups, instead of your more traditional media outlets, PR firms, and advertising agencies.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 22, 2012

Facebook to Debut Ad Exchange in Bid to Boost Revenues – [link]. What Advertisers Find Out About You When You Click ‘Like’ On Facebook – [link]. 10 skills the PR pro of 2022 MUST have – [link]. 40 Super Creative And Crazily Unique Web Designer Portfolios: 2012 – [link]. – [link].

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Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 4, 2008

A few times per year, Bessemer organizes a CxO event for our portfolio companies and we decided to focus our first session of 2008 on Software-as-a-service (SaaS). This invite-only event for our portfolio companies and close friends of the firm was designed to be fairly intimate and interactive. Monday, February 04, 2008.

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techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Researchers divided the portfolio companies into six stages and startups are still operating a loss in each of the first four. Those categories represent roughly 84% of all portfolio companies. Paglia, Pepperdiine’s Denney Academic Chair and Associate Professor of Finance. A few more stats make that picture look worse. just my 2 cents.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 26, 2016

Members from the strategy team might have some insights that can help the Public Relations Team, while the PR Team might have share ideas to pitch to Creative. Phlatbed is unique in-that it is a peer to peer moving services platform that enables people turn idle capital into revenue sources.

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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). Let's say you have a stock portfolio with someone like E-Trade.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

for anyone needing user interface, design and branding for their project visit my portfolio: [link] we love to build bold identities for fresh ideas. One thing I look for is that if their own portfolio site needs a lot of help then theyre probably too busy to update it. Pay more attention to actual websites, blogs, and portfolios.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

billion and revenues likely exceeding $250 million (Wikipedia lists 2015 revenue at $167 million). Jonah said that 50% of BuzzFeed’s revenue now comes from video and the pace of this change really surprised him. The 30-minute interview of Jonah Peretti is here but my summary in the notes below. I asked Jonah about this. “I

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