YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 22, 2012

And in an increasingly social and networked world — not to mention an economy where every dollar of revenue is critical — this type of third party validation is more important than ever. What could make more sense than to leverage the enthusiasm of happy customers to convince buyers that they need your products and services?

Programming 145

Programming Customer Social Media Advisory Board 145

crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 18, 2013

A VC: MBA Mondays: Revenue Models – Subscriptions – [link]. The Dunbar Number, From the Guru of Social Networks | Businessweek - [link]. Social Networking Eats Up 3+ Hours Per Day For The Average American User - [link]. The Science of Productivity: How To Get More Done In Less Time – [link].

Social Media 94

Social Media Small Business Design Media 94

Up and Running

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

Eyal recommends leaning on your existing business (or even social) network to support you on your big day. If you or your PR firm can get you placement in top industry publications, and you’re putting out sponsored ads on Instagram, Twitter, or Facebook, plus retargeting, you’re already winning,” he says.

Programming 60

Programming Lean Advertising Technical Review 60

Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

VC’s worked with entrepreneurs to build profitable and scalable businesses, with increasing revenue and consistent profitability – quarter after quarter. With Netscape’s IPO , there was suddenly a public market for companies with limited revenue and no profit. 1970 – 1995: The Golden Age. Thus began the 5-year dot-com bubble.

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Internet IPO Silicon Valley Agile 334

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 22, 2011

For me it is a useful shorthand for a very clever set of product features that in my mind would be hard to remain a stand-alone business or themselves to generate enough revenue to justify the company’s existence. And sometimes features (say, Twitter) turn into companies. It’s really not as pejorative as it sounds.

Silicon Valley 295

Silicon Valley Non-Compete PR Social Network 295

crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 22, 2013

Social Networks by Revenue and Employees, Facebook Stands Above All | Web Strategy – [link]. Good post on how culture changes impact employees … Why I left Google – [link]. The tech industry doubles down on design in 2013 | Gigaom – [link].

Social Media 105

Social Media Small Business Design Media 105

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 21, 2011

Are we seeing a time in which pre-revenue companies are more valuable than our offline institutional brands? Will you get the TechCrunch bump, the tier-1 VC anointment, followed by great PR firm support and then the NY Times or WSJ story that follows? It seems almost incomprehensible that only 2.5 But what does this all mean?

Churn Rate 309

Churn Rate IPO Open Source PR 309

Software By Rob

JANUARY 25, 2012

That I’ve had a few “exits” and instead of hunkering down and writing code for 6 months I opted to talk to a few of my buddies at the yacht club and purchase a primed and growing social network for somewhere in the mid-seven figures. The site was once great; marketed by a high-end NYC PR firm.

Acquisition 63

Acquisition Software Review Fresno Algorithm 63

Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

A good business analyst will measure how many clicks came through from Facebook, and she/he will also measure the conversion rate, revenue, etc., The number of PR people you can now fire because your Facebook page is such an awesome PR platform – not. from those clicks. The reduced TV ads you have to run.

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Metrics Advertising Marketing Social Media 165

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 17, 2016

The piece quotes the Small Business Pulse survey from The Alternative Board as revealing that 20% of small business owners admitted that, if they were to do it all again, they would put more money towards marketing, advertising, and PR. Having a solid digital presence goes hand in hand with the marketing efforts mentioned above.

Analytics 100

Analytics Finance Small Business Hiring 100

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

Relationship Science makes it easier to understand and map social networks into potential limited partners. Cobalt helps GPs to optimize their fundraising strategy. This information is used to automate screening during origination.

Private Equity 60

Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Technical Review 60

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Once the product begins to ship, startup sales execs use orders and revenue as its marker of progress in understanding customers. Some think that hiring a PR agency, starting the buzz and getting coverage in hot blogs or on the cover of magazines at launch are objectives. Freemium models have their own scorekeeping.)

Customer Development 227

Customer Development Developer Silicon Valley Customer 227

www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Far more common is a need to acquire customers through a series of steps like SEO, SEM, PR, Social Marketing, direct sales, channel sales, etc. It appears that LTV should be about 3 x CAC for a viable SaaS or other form of recurring revenue model. For more on the topic of Viral Growth, refer to my blog post on that topic here.)

Acquisition 103

Acquisition Cost Customer Entrepreneur 103

www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

Posted by: Matt | September 10, 2007 9:43 AM Hmm, our current startup (now doing more than 1M/year) was bootstrapped for its first year on just 1500$ (and with that we grew revenue to 25K/month). social network for sports fans! That way you can expand but without going beyond your means. www.fantasysportsmatrix.cm.a

Bootstrapping 41

Bootstrapping Offshore Startup EC2 41

Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 26, 2018

Go for ads or PR or something else. When in fact, if you dig into any audience, there’s almost certainly podcasts that they listen to and YouTube channels that they subscribe to and people they follow on social networks. What’s the basic revenue play there? If you hate SEO, you hate content marketing, fine.

Silicon Valley 32

Silicon Valley SEO Startup Technical Review 32

crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 25, 2013

40 Well Designed Free Social Networking Icons – [link]. 40 Well Designed Free Social Networking Icons – [link]. Google Revenues: $14.4 Modern Package Design Examples – [link]. 60 Must Have Free Photoshop Brushes – [link]. 13 Awesome and Inspirational Brochure Designs – [link].

Social Media 108

Social Media Small Business Design Media 108

crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2010

What Startups Can Learn From Watching “The Social Network” – [link]. What is holding back social media investment? Social media critics keep getting it wrong – [link]. Internet Advertising Hits New Revenue Record – [link]. Acquisitions: Pulling Back the Covers – [link]. – [link].

Social Media 90

Social Media Small Business Design Media 90

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 9, 2009

Could we have built the first college-based social network five years before Facebook ? We were focused on revenue, but we didnt understand that revenue is not important for its own sake in an early stage company. We go to mixers, buy fancy offices, focus on PR, and try to one-up each other. I think its wasteful.

San Francisco 94

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC 94

crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 25, 2012

Wondering how your competitors are using Pinterest to increase their revenues? Wondering how your competitors are using Pinterest to increase their revenues? Facebook IPO, and How to Build a Social Network for $389 – [link]. I’ve never seen or heard a 10,000 person chorus – it’s pretty impressive.

Social Media 93

Social Media Small Business Design Media 93

Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

Despite the ongoing recession, I took to my kitchen table in 2013 to launch Digital Air Strike — an award-winning automotive social media and digital engagement company. Tapping into my knowledge of and experience in automotive marketing, I identified a need to monetize social networks for businesses. 24) 9-5 Scares Me.

Entrepreneur 48

Entrepreneur Australia Technical Review Community 48

crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Your brand lives in everyday interactions your company has with its prospects and customers, including the images you share, the messages you post on your website, the content of your marketing materials, your presentations and booths at conferences, and your posts on social networks. Are you interested in comparing revenues?

Marketing 162

Marketing Charlotte Naming Design 162

www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

spent $20 million to get back to the same revenue that I had when I was CEO. created a vastly higher cost structure; I had 80 people mostly on base salaries under $100,000 and was bringing in revenue at the rate of $20 million annually. .”). Too much PR, too early. During this year they. Too much money.

Software Review 79

Software Review Startup Technical Review Vesting 79

betashop.com

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Before there was Fab there was fabulis, a social network meets places guide targeted to the gay community. When we pivoted from fabulis to Fab, from gay social network to design, we made the decision within 10 days to focus exclusively on our new One Thing, and we set a rule that not one person on the team could still do the old thing.

Technical Review 108

Technical Review Technology Software Review Valuation 108

crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 11, 2011

Not surprising that more affluent consumers use social networks differently – [link]. If accurate, remarkable projections of how much Kindle contributes to Amazon’s revenues/profits – [link]. Facebook sponsored ads fare better than FB traditional ads – [link]. I hope you enjoy these links!

Social Media 90

Social Media Small Business Design Media 90

Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 5, 2013

What I plan to talk about is the future of business as I see it, now that social behavior has infiltrated every aspect of our lives. I plan to challenge the thinking that social networks are really channels and, in fact, make a case for things like clarity, culture, content and method as the most important channels of a social business.

Channel 66

Channel Kansas City Kansas Social Media 66

techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Respondents deemed between 12%-16% of companies generating revenues to be essentially “worthless” and deemed 20%-26% of their pre-revenue investments to be “worthless.” I would assume most businesses are going to claim they should get VC funding in order to help their PR, even if no one at the company actually believes it.

Venture Capital 62

Venture Capital Technical Review Sweat Equity Valuation 62

Haystack

JANUARY 13, 2020

Plaid is known within the startup and VC community as a strong company, but it is also a relatively quiet company in terms of its own PR and social media chatter. I saw a tweet lamenting the acquisition price of Plaid as “crazy” because it was 35x revenue. Now it’s scorching.

Acquisition 74

Acquisition Cap Table API Venture Capital 74

Brandanew

JULY 11, 2016

The situation has been made more difficult by social networks. Quality and revenues have been impacted. Revenues of traditional media houses have shrunk heavily. Hello brand journalism: Content Marketing is the brand new revenue channel. Brand content which is just a packaged and spammy PR pitch will not work!

Marketing 100

Marketing Michigan Revenue Media 100

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. 10 – Unique Social Network.

Entrepreneur 93

Entrepreneur Technical Review Harvest Portfolio 93

Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

I believe that it was erroneous not to answer the two questions above, it was erroneous to be tempted by the Big Numbers and not understand how Social Media channels actually worked (streams, home pages, personalization, rankings and more). if your business should be on that network and 2. So, let's fix that error. They should.

Social Media 60

Social Media Media B2C B2B 60

sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Yes its great to implement "task A", but will it drive revenue? I started an app 3 months back which is blend of user demands and social network but yet to finish it. Im looking to create a social networking site (dont laugh. And no I didnt just watch The Social Network movie and get excited).

CTO Hire 84

CTO Hire Hiring Software Review Technical Review 84

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

billion and revenues likely exceeding $250 million (Wikipedia lists 2015 revenue at $167 million). Around 2001 Jonah was studying at MIT Media Lab and began running experiments in viral stories in an era before smart phones (2007) and before social networks took off (2004–2007) and before YouTube (2005).

Media 210

Media Los Angeles Russia Viral 210