crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 23, 2013

Facebook and Twitter’s combined customer acquisitions (see below graph from Custora’s study) represented less than one percent in 2013 and for each of the prior four years. Social media has been an albatross for most companies because consumers have become accustomed to receiving discounts and deals on social networks.

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techcocktail.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

But while you are small and lean, take advantage of everyone skills; if someone on your team is a great writer, have them take charge of your press releases and marketing content. Personal Network: Ask your friends and colleagues for suggestions. Your team does not need to be comprised of jacks-of-all-trades.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2015

At Virgin Mobile USA, Mari led early initiatives in mobile commerce, social networking and advertising. We never seek any rights to give Amex preferential treatment at the time of a potential acquisition. Conventional R&D can only address so many areas and it’s not exactly lean or fast. Mari Holds a B.A.

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View from Seed

MARCH 8, 2016

If you’re building a product that can grow virally—a social network, for example—brand is almost certainly less important at launch than product. Can you still operate in some kind of lean or scrappy way and launch a brand that resonates with the market? You can absolutely launch lean and scrappy.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 21, 2013

About 61% of small businesses don’t see any return on investment on their social-media activities … Yet, almost 50% say they’ve increased their time spent on social media, and only 7% have decreased their time. The above conclusions are from a survey released by Manta , a social network for small businesses.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Lean Methodology Sources. Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. Part 3- Lean Cust. Social networking. Social/Sharing. Steve Blank’s Lean Startup Resources. Lean Startup Circle â?? great web customer acquisition tutorials. analytics for social media and online.

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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.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Boardex and Relationship Science make it easier to understand and map social networks into potential limited partners. Lean Case provides standard business models & metrics, so you can apply a standard approach to business planning, modeling, and profitability tracking.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 2, 2016

You have sites who hit too hard, too fast in terms of lead acquisition. There are those who believe the gaffe might have been what cost him the election, and it only got to that level of influence because of the magnifying impact of social sharing. The role of social media in this election is a little different.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 7, 2008

The App Store is a channel for customer acquisition. I think its helpful to think about two kinds of competition for distribution: acquisition competition and retention competition. If your app has incredibly strong retention, you will probably do very well with the current PR/new app system of acquisition. So what can you do?

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Eric Friedman

AUGUST 18, 2021

Previously, he was the COO of digital gift card start-up Giftly from its inception in 2010 to its acquisition by Giftcards.com in 2013. What I mean by this is that a lot of folks are perched on soap boxes across social networks, shouting from the hilltops. On Deciens’ Lean Operation. You take a more tacit approach.

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pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Doctors are in high demand, not just by their patients, but by startups looking to create social networks, marketplaces, and portals around their expertise. Today, HealthTab announced the acquisition of Q&A site Avvo Health specifically to increase the number of doctors within its network, doubling it to 30,000.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

aka: An Open Letter to the Next Big Social Network) - 500 Hats , November 1, 2010 I've held off writing this post for a long time, because I couldn't quite get my head around all the issues. In other words the culture and social institutions of the place. Third, startups are social. but: Something is Still Missing.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 16, 2008

We were trying to broaden the conversation beyond just viral customer acquisition. Facebook , LinkedIn , and other successful social networks have elevated this technique to a high art. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science?

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Up and Running

APRIL 27, 2012

These students are typically attracted to Internet and technology start-ups, given that these share favourable industry characteristics such as significant addressable markets, low barriers to entry, modest initial capital requirements and relatively low costs of customer acquisition. These entrepreneurs soon find out it is not.

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Software By Rob

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

At the same time, by following better business practices one can be lean, flexible, efficient, nimble or fast-growing – whatever is required to succeed. Facebook is a great example here – undisputed leader in social networking, but losing money and quite tiny in the financial scheme of things. #5

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grasshopperherder.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

Q: “What will be your best channel for customer acquisition?&# .&# Q: “When will you have funding secured?&# A: “I don’t know, I’m targeting a six month schedule.&# A: “I don’t know. We’re testing a viral loop, direct sales, and affiliate marketing.&#

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andrewchenblog.com

MARCH 10, 2010

In some cases, this kind of debt can be incurred unknowingly, for example, your company might acquire a company that has accumulated significant technical debt that you don’t identify until after the acquisition. This means: Social networking and Community sites that want to unify chat, forums, polls, videos, blogs, etc.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 29, 2014

…it seems that a higher ROI may lean in the favor of word-of-mouth advertising. If you notice in the examples above, the testimonials are given by directors of growth and customer acquisition. Gigya.com (Review plugin that uses social network login vs standard login. Ask for a Celebrity Endorsement. Conclusion.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

How to stay lean and iterate quickly while you’re building a two sided marketplace, especially when “network effect” and “critical mass” are the two main focuses? Acquisition / Lifetime Value, etc. customer acquisition, like Launchrock, you called that something, what was that again?

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Kevan Lee, VP of Marketing at Oyster , leans into the skimmable method when sharing his thoughts and relevant insights about YouTube ads: He promotes his expertise and encourages engagement with a call to action. Long-form posts (those with 1,900 to 2,000 words) perform the best in terms of views and engagement. Building a blog.

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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.

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