crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2018

If you want to supercharge your marketing and accelerate growth and revenue, you’ll love this guide. If you want to learn more about chatbots generally, read Drift’s The 2018 State of Chatbots Report: How Chatbots Are Reshaping Online Experiences. Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Messenger Basics.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 17, 2018

If Elon Musk is an advisor to your transportation startup, that is major traction, even without a product or revenue. If you don’t have revenue, it definitely is valuable to have orders, letter of intents, value testimonials, or even calls returned and email responses. Who you know is still often more important than what you know.

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David Teten

MARCH 5, 2021

Kauffman Fellows Report (2020): “Diverse Founding Teams generate higher median realized multiples (RMs) on Acquisitions and IPOs]. BCG (June 2018): “Startups founded and cofounded by women actually performed better over time, generating 10% more in cumulative revenue over a five-year period: $730,000 compared with $662,000.”.

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NZ Entrepreneur

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

The data suggests half as much funding in 2018-19 than in the peak time of 2016-17 (Alex McCauley, CEO, StartupAUS, 2019). Customer acquisition and revenue are an early-stage company’s most significant success factors but resource poor, with an endless stream of action points, finding customers and building revenue can be overwhelming.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 11, 2019

Acquisition entrepreneurship is a model in the same vein. With acquisition entrepreneurship, you focus on establishing revenue and earnings first, and then you provide a platform for a lifestyle business or major innovation from there. ” The Boston Red Sox won the 2004 World Series by adopting the same strategy.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

How long does it take me to pay back my original customer acquisition costs? Throughout the first year we made many fixes and saw our revenue base in these markets accelerate so we felt we were ready to attack Los Angeles, amongst the most important storage markets in the country. How profitable is my product or service?

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Version One Ventures

JANUARY 8, 2019

You can read about the acquisition here. Booster Fuels is generating $180K in revenue per day delivering gas. That’s the recap from Q4 2018. The post Q4 2018: Portfolio News and Activities appeared first on Version One. A reminder that as we go into this new year, we are spending lots of time in crypto and bio.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 17, 2018

As we wrap up 2018, we went back through everything we’ve published this year to find the 10 most-read articles. Mixpanel vs. Google Analytics: The 2018 Guide. You’re likely familiar with different growth frameworks, like AARRR (Acquisition, Activation, Retention, Referral, Revenue). Here’s the list: 10.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 3, 2023

Whether it’s gaming, commerce/ DTC or creator economy, there are many Israeli startups selling at over $10M and even $100M in annual revenue. I wanted to highlight a few of the ‘old school’ B2C success stories, several of them are “Centaurs” , or startups that passed the $100M revenue mark.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

by Robbie Kellman Baxter, author of “ The Membership Economy: Find Your Super Users, Master the Forever Transaction, and Build Recurring Revenue “ Everyone knows that retention is crucial for subscription-based companies. Blue Apron is hardly alone with its churn problem. Maybe he just wanted to binge watch his favorite show.).

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 1, 2014

Companies need the same service on partner and acquisition candidates, even vendors. On the movie production side, it’s time to start doing analyses on movie scripts, based on reaction to similar movies, to predict box office revenue and cities to hit. billion by 2018. Customer retention with churn modeling.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 23, 2018

The entrepreneur who founded and grew the largest startup in the world to $10 billion in revenue and got fired is someone you have probably never heard of. In the spring of 1920 with company had to go to the banks and he got an $80 million loan (about a billion dollars in 2018) to finance operations. But not for Durant.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 13, 2018

It could be more revenue, hiring clients or launching a new product or service, but every new year & quarter is an exciting time because it’s ripe with opportunity. At Zest, we all wrote down our personal goals for 2018, so we can celebrate in a year what we’ve managed to accomplish. 3- Customer acquisition.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 30, 2019

The top 5 retailers in the US made nearly $230 billion dollars in 2018. ( $228.4 And, as a result, the Kirkland Signature brand accounts for nearly a third of Costco’s revenues. This change came shortly after Walgreen’s competitor CVS made a major acquisition of a health insurance provider. by Katie Lundin of crowdspring.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

In 2018, after two short years and $3 million raised in startup funds, recruitment AI company Ansaro shut down due to bad market fit. It partners with sales to close more revenue, informs product teams to deliver better products, and in some cases, co-owns demand generation activities with marketing teams.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 3, 2019

This can be customer acquisition cost, revenue growth, profit, or whatever other parameters are key to your success. You can fail by not being there at all (see the United Breaks Guitars story ), or making a big mistake (see The Biggest Social-Media Fails of 2018 ). Pick the ones that fit your desired outcome.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Before their launch in 2018, Woodhead faced a challenge. While those acquisition efforts worked well, not all do. Cheap acquisition is (too) cheap. Growth does require large-scale acquisition, but a product launch may not be the best time to do it. But cheap acquisition meant cheap leads. Test launch tiny products.

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Mike Michalowicz

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

The Judge Group is the 12 th largest staffing company in the country and it is the recipient of the Inavero’s 2018 Best of Staffing Client Diamond Award. Bow String Advisors specialize in Mergers and Acquisitions, Raising Capital, and providing Financial and Strategic Advisory services to the Health Care Staffing Industry. .

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 17, 2017

John Imlay of MSA occasionally took me on road shows with analysts to talk about his new acquisition Peachtree Software. Hurricane Irma had a major negative revenue impact on one whose fall book of business was mostly in Florida. None of us can un-ring the bell for whatever happened in 2017, but we can decide now to improve in 2018.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 6, 2019

An eMarketer study estimated that, in 2018, 25% of U.S. The strategy, according to Google, improves ad recall (and, undoubtedly, YouTube revenues). In March 2018 , LinkedIn video ads became available to all companies. The same video content likely works well in other channels. The growth of B2B video marketing. Image source ).

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ConversionXL

APRIL 28, 2020

I got one of those in 2018, mere months after I started at data.world as their first growth marketing and demand generation hire. To do that, we built a demand funnel that took us from nothing to 44X revenue growth in a single year. Among misaligned organizations, by comparison, just 37% met their revenue goals, and just 7% beat them.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 24, 2022

When it comes to the total value of exits, consumer startups cumulatively exceeded enterprise exit value in the period of 2018-2022. For my latest thoughts on this subject, I invite you to check out the podcast episode I recorded with Mike Gelb at the Consumer VC.

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Haystack

NOVEMBER 24, 2018

However, 2018 has other ideas, with the most money ever invested in U.S. It’s been a few years now since BlackBerry made phones, and this represents its largest purchase to date (by a factor of 3) since its 2015 acquisition of Good Technology.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 3, 2018

The 2018 edition of CXL Live brought together 400 practitioners from 22 countries and everyone was “locked in” at a beautiful resort for a full three days. Julian Gaviria (@juliangav) March 30, 2018. Stefan Koenig (@koenigst) March 30, 2018. — Tom van den Berg (@TomvdBerg1) March 28, 2018. And we’re off!

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 4, 2019

It could be more revenue, hiring clients or launching a new product or service, but every new year is an exciting time because it’s ripe with opportunity. In 2018 I learned to drive a car on a left-hand side, started to meditate, learned how to play poker and make an ollie on a snowboard. What are your business goals for 2018?

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Up and Running

JULY 10, 2019

Meanwhile, Soulcycle, the spinning obsession of every trendy New Yorker, filed for IPO in 2018 only to withdraw at the last minute. This ensures you have some recurring revenue coming to cover overheads in the beginning. Why is boutique fitness booming? Another advantage of doing this is that you can start a referral program early.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 27, 2018

Allocate funds for intrapreneurship and acquisitions. What would happen in your company if all bonuses were predicated on at least 20 percent of revenue coming from products launched within the last three years? Metrics can be used to change ingrained behavior, as well as build revenue. People work on what they get measured on.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 16, 2019

As of 2018, “ since its launch, nearly 1,000 companies have registered with the SEC on 50 platforms, and over $127 million has been committed to campaigns. We plan to raise a limited amount from SeedInvest first, and then get institutional investors for the rest as we scale revenue.”

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

More than investment, entertainment is one of the largest industries in the world in revenue terms, projected to reach $2.5 And last year alone Audible generated $1 billion in revenue for Amazon. . A Nielsen survey from 2018 shows that U.S trillion by 2022 ( Statista ).

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 8, 2019

On the heels of seeing the 10% influencer base increase the referrals process yielded, the team at Intellifluence pushed to create a brand-to-brand referral program as well, intent on creating user acquisition flywheels wherever possible. My inaugural book had released at the end of 2018 and already the reception was good.

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Reid Hoffman

OCTOBER 21, 2019

If you add together Apple, Alphabet, eBay, Facebook*, Lyft, Palo Alto Networks*, PayPal, Salesforce, ServiceNow*, Twitter, Uber, and Workday*, these twelve companies alone have a market capitalization of $3 Trillion, a little bit more than the annual GDP of the United Kingdom in 2018. What is Blitzscaling? High Gross Margins.

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Ben's Blog

AUGUST 31, 2020

In fact, according to a 2018 study by TSYS, approximately 54 percent of Americans prefer to use debit cards, while only 26 percent prefer credit cards. According to a Fed payments study, debit card transactions were almost double that of credit cards in 2018: 87 billion debit card payments, versus 45 billion credit card payments.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 5, 2018

acquisition of Jet.com in August 2016 transformed the company beyond the addition of the Jet platform. Jet.com founder Marc Lore ascended to CEO of Walmart’s US e-commerce operations, and since joining has taken the company on an e-commerce/apparel acquisition spree. POTENTIAL ACQUISITION TARGETS. Walmart’s $3.3B

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Cracking the Code

JULY 12, 2019

For example, UiPath, the leading Robotic Process Automation company from Romania, valued at $7 billion, may well be one of the fastest-growing enterprise software companies of the decade, with revenues growing from $5 million to $200 million in around 30 months. billion+ invested from 2016 to 2018). As researched by Tech.eu

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 24, 2020

At the time, the company didn’t have the tools or insight to see that the economic boom they thought would last indefinitely had already ended before the ink on the acquisition documents was dry. Paul was recognized in 2018 as Chief Outsiders’ CMO of the Year. The Takeaway. Recognizing where you “are” is half the battle.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Financial Summary: Explain your business model, startup costs, revenues, and liabilities to the company. For instance, in 2018, Trulia ranked El Paso in the top five hottest real estate markets out of 100 of the country’s most populated metropolitan areas. Are they seeking a starter home or a more permanent residence? Be specific.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 3, 2019

Compare that to more than two-thirds of CMOs who expect to increase customer acquisition, increased purchase volume, and more effective cross-selling: That’s too bad. Because a Manta report found that 61% of small businesses surveyed indicated that more than half of their revenue came from repeat customers. The result?

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