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All The Questions You Wanted Answered about Bird Scooters and Their Recent $300 Million Funding

Both Sides of the Table

How could Bird really be worth the reported $2 billion valuation that I read about in this press? While I promised not to comment on the exact valuation you can assume that it is very large and perhaps the fastest rise from zero to what some have called a “unicorn” valuation. Forget the valuation?—?I Not really.

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5 Considerations For Driving Growth In A New Business

Startup Professionals Musings

Should they focus on increasing revenues and profitability, or entice more and more users with “free” services, to increase their valuation. These days, you need customer evangelists who see the value and will pull in their friends through viral actions to keep the business growing. Traditionally, it was simple.

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30 Entrepreneurs Explain the 2023 Trends They See in Their Industry

Hearpreneur

3- Social media Photo Credit: Tom Miller In my professional view, social media will continue to play a crucial role in the digital marketing strategies of successful businesses. 9- Social commerce Photo Credit: Adam Wood I would say, that historically, brands have utilized social media to improve brand awareness and generate leads.

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5 Strategies For Balancing Revenue Versus User Growth

Startup Professionals Musings

Should they focus on increasing revenues and profitability, or entice more and more users with “free” services, to increase their valuation. These days, you need customer evangelists who see the value and will pull in their friends through viral actions to keep the business growing. Traditionally, it was simple.

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6 Mistakes Often Made By Entrepreneurs Due To Passion

Startup Professionals Musings

With the success of Facebook and Twitter, I still see new social media startups almost every day, with most destined to fail. Perhaps the most famous bubble for startups was the dot.com craze that crashed 20 years ago, where the highest valuations were given to companies with massive user growth, but minimal revenue or profit.

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How Well Versed Are You In Startup Investor Jargon?

Startup Professionals Musings

This term is currently applied to recent startups who profess a current valuation which exceeds $1 billion. Frothy startup valuations. This term is used to describe non-traditional ways to incent growth such as social-media and viral marketing. Prime examples include Uber, Airbnb and Snapchat. Growth-hacking” marketing.

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Cracking The Code: Popular Media: the key to viral marketing

Cracking the Code

Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. Popular Media is a hosted, web-based technology platform that enables customers to quickly create, optimize, and scale viral marketing programs - and it seems to work pretty well. Detailed SaaS Spreadsheet (Valuation and CAC benchmark). SaaS 13 Index Valuation.