crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 25, 2011

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! 73 Essential Social Media & Tech Resources for Small Businesses – [link]. Here are some of the links that I’ve liked and shared this past week! Where are the women?

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 9, 2014

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Fantastic essay by @abbymyles on the current obsession with design/designers & market realities – crowdspring.co/1lWpMjT. 1j0IXIT. . ” – crowdspring.co/1j0HTod.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! 10 Tips To Help You Build a Successful Small Business Brand | Duct Tape Marketing – [link]. I don’t care about crowded markets | by StartupCFO : Mark MacLeod – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 18, 2013

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! The Number One Mistake People Make When It Comes To Referral Marketing - [link]. Thanks To Facebook, Strongest Year For IPOs Since 2000 With $21.5

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 21, 2013

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Surprise Is One Of The Most Powerful Small Business Marketing Tools – [link]. Surprise Is One Of The Most Powerful Small Business Marketing Tools – [link].

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Agile VC

APRIL 30, 2019

2019 is off to an exciting start for IPOs of VC-backed startups. All three have different business models… SaaS, media/ad, and consumer transactional. In some respects though Zoom has had the most “successful” IPO of the three companies, which has surprised some folks. This post also appears on NextView’s blog.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2021

To assist his consulting firm clients with attracting investors willing to fund an unknown business, Luke Lazarus uses an IPO or acquisition model to ensure the highest possible value for his client’s organization. Luke Lazarus Comments on the Top Marketing Trends of 2020. Luke Lazarus’ Social Media Presence.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 5, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! My advice to startups pitching the media – [link]. Some Thoughts On The IPO Market For Web Companies (by @fredwilson) – [link]. – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Facebook Handled their IPO Exactly Right – [link]. Market – [link]. 10 Steps to reinvent media strategy – [link]. – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 24, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! 3 Ways to Amplify Small-Business Marketing with Crowdsourcing – [link]. Why Email Marketing is King – [link]. Why Email Marketing is King – [link].

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View from Seed

MARCH 3, 2015

Ellie Mirman was the first marketer hired by the CMO of HubSpot, the Boston-based marketing software startup that IPOed in 2014. Below, she shares lessons learned from the earliest days of marketing the company and how this has translated to her second startup role as VP of Marketing at Toast.

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Agile VC

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Twitter’s IPO has garnered a ton of attention in the tech and popular press. So their revenue figures, pre IPO financing and ownership, and other info is all widely available. Twitter Is A Media Business. Despite it’s long-standing protestations, Twitter is indeed a media company.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 16, 2011

It has been at least a decade since going public via an Initial Public Offering (IPO) has been considered a credible exit strategy for startups. Usually a small company can sell about 20 percent of its stock in an IPO. The market is moving back up, but slowly. The market is moving back up, but slowly. How’s the timing?

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 14, 2022

Media tech. Advertising and marketing tech. Here the company looks to grow and strives to create a dominant position in the market. Indian startups have excelled in various segments and industries. Some sectors where they have left their indelible mark are – Health tech. Education tech. Financial tech. Retail tech.

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 19, 2012

The other day I wrote a post about the lack of Enterprise Software disruption coming out of NYC —and a lot of people responded that I wasn’t citing Buddy Media. Our current focus is on creating sticky, super viral applications that help users get more out of Facebook and other social media.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 3, 2019

They get data from traditional sources, such as analysts and industry publications, but they’re also connected with social media, peer networks and review sites. The real power of influence in sales and marketing has shifted from content to context, from value to viewpoint and from evaluation to experience.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 3, 2015

For financial reasons alone, an IPO is a statistically rare phenomenon, happening just 275 times in 2014 , out of almost 500,000 startups. As an advisor and mentor to startups, I try to make sure entrepreneurs understand both the pros and cons of an IPO as an exit strategy. The public is not an easy master to satisfy.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 10, 2018

by Ryan Gould, Vice President of Strategy and Marketing Services at Elevation Marketing. You’ll find exceptions to this rule, like Snapchat, which was operating at a loss at its IPO, when it experienced high initial trading prices due to its huge popularity and untapped monetization capabilities. billion within a week.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 21, 2021

Then there is the pressure to go public ( IPO ), and open your investment to thousands, maybe millions, of small investors. Of course, customer relationships, and penetration into new market segments are also critical elements. Isolate marketing from sales for maximum customer focus.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 21, 2009

Projected IPOs for 2009 are an embarrassing 10 total deals, down from 86 just 2 years ago (it was 265 in the go-go years of 99-00) but at least up from 6 in 2008. the people who buy companies) in Q2 of this year of technology & media companies. Montgomery expects M&A to rebound to the normal recent levels at 450 deals by 2010.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

If you want the full SlideShare deck with many slides not in either post it’s in this link –> The LA Tech Market. Has it begun to mature or is it just better marketed than in was say 5 years ago? Given how efficient markets are when a large market like LA starts to blossom it attracts capital pretty quickly.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 29, 2018

Hundreds of new micro funds somehow keep getting into the market. More and more angels will be minted as the 2019 IPO class emerges. If every sector is to be transformed by technology, and if private markets keep growing, it makes today’s conditions understandable. 5/ Early Effects Of The Softbank Effect.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 6, 2019

Market Research. In this stage, you will also search the market to check if your idea is viable. If there is a gap in the market, there will be demand. Now the question is: How to find gaps in the market? MVP is the product that you can bring to the market. Next is marketing. There is a simple rule of thumb.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

The tech market is filled with many stories of early-stage funding. Our investments focus heavily on the financial services industry, digital media, mobile applications & infrastructure, SaaS / Cloud and retail innovation. Lyn Kirby ran Ulta Cosmetics from its early days through its successful IPO.

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Agile VC

MARCH 8, 2012

Tech IPOs Are Back – So Now What? Three of the five “blockbuster” tech IPOs I predicted have happened (LinkedIn, Groupon, Zynga) and the biggest of all (Facebook) has filed and will likely go public within the next 90 days. I see several dynamics at work in today’s IPO markets. March 8, 2012.

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Start Up Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

The upcoming Facebook IPO is a very interesting scenario. Not just from a startup / social media or tech point of view but from an economic one. If you have an idea on how to do this get moving, because the stock market pressures will ensure that startups with revenue generation via Facebook will be targeted.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 3, 2021

If this is personally your first startup, it’s very important to highlight prior leadership experience in school, business, or public life, and your ability to attract skilled people for your team, as well as advocates from your industry, social media, or prior relationships. Pitch a rational plan for expansion and growth.

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Gust

JANUARY 31, 2013

The move came as a shock to many in the tech business community, in which we’ve become accustomed to real-time disclosure by company executives through social media. Public companies have dealt with financial disclosure in ways that evolved over time with markets and technologies. What could be wrong with more transparency?

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Growthink Blog

MAY 29, 2012

Unfortunately, lost in too much of the "dramatic" coverage of the Facebook IPO has been the real lessons to be learned for those interested in successful technology and growth company investing. And for a uniquely high profile deal like Facebook, the media also plays a less than "innocent" role. Part of the confusion is understandable.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Eventually, Reddit became wildly popular and was bought by Condé Nast, the owner of 20 other brands and media like Vanity Fair, Vogue, and The New Yorker. Having a simple background in sales and marketing , he came up with attractive employee benefits. Thanks to Raven Cobb, Clearstep, Inc ! #6- 6- Lord Alan Sugar.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 16, 2012

Look out for more products that aggregate and organize existing accounts and automatically scrub your inboxes, feeds and social media connections. Lane Sutton , Social Media from a Teen. Facebook’s IPO was a tell-tale sign that startup valuations are very unpredictable and susceptible to major changes.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 2, 2022

The future of social media and 3D interaction is the biggest priority to Facebook. To live to its potential as a core part of the Metaverse Meta has to overcome a challenging market and a confused brand. Roblox is publicly traded and has a market cap of $27.2 There are now 2.8B 2021 Gaming Report, Unity for Games.

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David Teten

APRIL 1, 2011

I hope that you can join us Monday night, April 4, midtown NYC, at a panel on “Innovation in Private Company Liquidity-Online Merger Markets, Social Media, Secondary Markets, Non-US Markets, Private Equity, and the Disappearing IPO” The program is sponsored by the HBS Club of New York and the HBS Angels of NY.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

As I’ve highlighted I believe we’re in a unique period similar to 2005-08 where the biggest tech firms of Silicon Valley (and some media companies) are scooping up small software companies as “talent acquisitions&# versus accretive revenue / profit generators. Total disruption on the funding market? I doubt it.

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SiliconHills

JUNE 17, 2013

The Austin-based online coupon site, formerly Whale Shark Media, has applied to have its stock listed on the Nasdaq market under the ticket symbol “SALE.” The post RetailMeNot Files its IPO Worth An Estimated $230 million appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Start Up Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

The upcoming Facebook IPO is a very interesting scenario. Not just from a startup / social media or tech point of view but from an economic one. If you have an idea on how to do this get moving, because the stock market pressures will ensure that startups with revenue generation via Facebook will be targeted.

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Mucker Lab

OCTOBER 12, 2016

So when an investment thesis becomes popular, when a new technology becomes available, when a new media consumption platform becomes dominant, if we believe in the trend, we have to “seed” an investment within the first three years and hope to “harvest” 5–10 years later. The road ahead for entrepreneurs.

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