crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Can you imagine getting your competitors to advertise for you? “The deal values WhatsApp users at $35 each but the current market cap of Facebook values its MAUs at $140 or so.”

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 10, 2013

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! The Damaging Psychology of Down Rounds | by Mark Suster – [link]. Newspapers need to stop lying to themselves — and to advertisers — about their circulation – [link].

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VC Cafe

MAY 29, 2022

Snap’s stock plunged 40% last week after Evan Spigel announced the company will miss revenue targets, which raises questions about other ‘advertising powered’ social networks. Carta’s State of Private Markets Q1 2022. As a result, they are less susceptible to immediate changes in the market environment.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

In times when venture capital is hard to get, investors extract high costs for failure (down-rounds, cram downs , new management teams, shut down the company.) Marketing demand creation programs (Search Engine Marketing, Public Relations, Advertising, Lead Generation, Trade Shows, etc.)

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Reid Hoffman

JUNE 8, 2021

And all of the other smart and operational decisions that have enabled Airbnb to weather the storm and go on to have one of the most successful public market debuts. It’s a market. And I thought, well, no one’s marketing. Everyone’s pulled back on advertising. So we started noticing in large domestic markets, U.S.,

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Scalable Startup

JANUARY 27, 2011

The first trick is to offer something that the world will need more and more over the next few years (growing market), without that it doesn’t matter much anyway; your product/service/thing must “catch on”. This can be somewhat manipulated by your successful marketing execution (i.e. why one iPhone app succeeds vs. another).

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Reid Hoffman

JUNE 8, 2021

And all of the other smart and operational decisions that have enabled Airbnb to weather the storm and go on to have one of the most successful public market debuts. It’s a market. And I thought, well, no one’s marketing. Everyone’s pulled back on advertising. So we started noticing in large domestic markets, U.S.,

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