crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2012

miiCard supports the UK, North America, Western Europe, India, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. This offline stage, responding to Anti Money Laundering, Know Your Customer Regulations and the Proceeds of Crime Act, is a massive barrier to global trade and the market demands its elimination. What made you use crowdSPRING?

Small Business 75

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 27, 2011

This partnership speaks to a core philosophy of the program where we encourage entrepreneurs to get as much customer validation as possible before raising too much money, use other people's channels if you can get to them, don't burn too much cash, and all that good fiscal conservative stuff. million in revenue. Brainscape.

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Dilution Revenue Finance Entrepreneur 114

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 27, 2011

The 1M/1M Channel on Stanzr. It is also an excellent platform to address the questions from prospects and help clarify issues and objections for any sales process, which is one of the primary ways Voluble is seeing some of its major early customers using it. Taariq Lewis, the founder of Voluble, is a 1M/1M premium entrepreneur.

Entrepreneur 116

Entrepreneur San Francisco Technical Review New Jersey 116

Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 23, 2023

Marketing was like me, and we bootstrapped this business to 10 million in revenue through building this traction community where we're bringing our ICP, our audience together around their aspiration and their goals. They don't have the best features, but they fall in love with their customers and sell that aspiration. It's commodity.

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Community Kuwait Cofounder Bootstrapping 51

Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

Everyone on my team is obsessed with the products, so it’s been fun managing the social media channels. So for this year we try increase our revenue and launch a social campaign to get our customers to be more involved. We wanted our customers contribute their story and showcase their little kids wearing our clothing.

Los Angeles 48

Los Angeles Las Vegas Entrepreneur Phoenix 48

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Depending on its complexity, new product development can last for years, accruing research, prototyping, and production costs without bringing in revenue. For this reason, it could be a good idea to get a minimum viable product (MVP) as early as possible to show how your product will work to investors and customers. Image source.

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Product Marketing Software Review Social Media 142

YoungUpstarts

JULY 8, 2018

Well it’s the admixture of robust technology and human touch that has facilitated this consumer revolution and will also ensure enhanced facilities for the customers. It also throws light on how to enhance the supply chain management and trends that could channelize your operation in a synchronised way with better understanding.

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Demand Cofounder India Mobile 100

ReadWriteStart

JUNE 9, 2011

In my experience, wealth managers often refer experts to their clients and Ankit could position his service through that channel. Lead Generation & Qualification With a Channel Partner. One of the members of the channel partner team was actually present in the room and shared his point of view as well.

Silicon Valley 113

Silicon Valley New Jersey Entrepreneur Massachusetts 113

ReadWriteStart

APRIL 7, 2011

Also, the business is primarily on CD-ROMs right now, but the good news is that the CD-ROM product is selling and generating revenue. The good news, again, is that this business is generating revenues. The company sells to the marketing departments of corporations, has 50 customers, and is already profitable. Techsailor.

Malaysia 114

Malaysia Incubator Silicon Valley Entrepreneur 114

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 13, 2011

for the app and has 30,000 customers. He asked me if he should offer the app for free to get more customers. It is much better to grow organically with revenue. Michaeline is a 1M/1M premium member, trying to make decisions around fund-raising versus growing organically using channel partnerships. I said, no.

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Business Model New Hampshire Dallas Entrepreneur 122

ReadWriteStart

MAY 12, 2011

First up, Vrushali Humnabadkar from Pune, India, presented Penworks, a technical documentation outsourcing service. Vrushali is moderator of a forum for technical documentation professionals and gets a lot of her clients through that channel. She has, thus far, not done any other formal customer acquisition initiative.

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San Francisco Entrepreneur Silicon Valley India 125

Transformify

AUGUST 16, 2020

Transformify , a UK-based Freelancer Management System (FMS), has partnered up with Xoxoday , an HR Software company based in India that has offices in Singapore, Australia, the US, Ireland and the Philippines, to boost its expansion across Asia. During the last few months, Transformify has seen a 500% increase in demand in India alone.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Bhupendra has built a product and has started engaging a few customers. My key advice to him was to focus on acquiring customers, and getting a thorough positioning exercise done based on segmentation, competitive analysis and market sizing to identify a segment where competition is less active and the product is particularly effective.

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Senegal Nevada Bootstrapping Silicon Valley 117

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

Distribution Channel for Product Companies. Then Amit Gurung pitched a business plan to create a distribution channel for product companies trying to cater to the rural base-of-the-pyramid (BPO) market in India. Detailed segmentation analysis and target customer definition at a fairly granular level. Photo by designkryt.

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India Silicon Valley Incubator Bootstrapping 115

ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 6, 2011

This curriculum is based on the various questions entrepreneurs have asked me over these 64 sessions, spanning financing, positioning, customer acquisition, marketing, sales, channel, and various other early stage, startup-related issues. In the Entrepreneur Journeys methodology, we focus on customer validation as early as possible.

Vertical 115

Vertical Web San Francisco Entrepreneur 115

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 28, 2010

At today's roundtable we saw three very nice businesses, each with pilot customers, and each working on real problems. Antonio has 100 trial customers at the moment, and is looking to figure out exactly what his company positioning is going to be. At the end of the session, each left with specific action items. If possible, of course.

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Partner Belgium Portugal Bootstrapping 117

The Next Web

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

Whether you’re a freelancer, content outlet, or brand of product/service, email marketing can prove to be an effective means of reaching your audience of stakeholders, customers or media contacts. That means you have a captive audience consisting of customers, stakeholders, and site visitors who have subscribed to updates from you.

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Email Social Media Marketing Audience 135

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2010

Clearstone currently invests out of a $200 million fund based in LA with offices in Menlo Park and in India. We discussed whether investing in the second largest player in a category makes sense given that Groupon is 10x the revenue, 3.5x But LivingSocial is reportedly doing around $180,000 per day in gross revenue.

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IPO .Net Venture Capital Strategic Investors 236

ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

OrangeScape positions itself as an Application Platform As A Service (APaaS) provider, and has some marquee customers in India including Unilever, Citibank, Pfizer, AstraZeneca, and Sterlite. They will now be leveraging the 1M/1M-Persistent channel to go to market in the United States. Building new apps is also not as simple.

Entrepreneur 114

Entrepreneur India Silicon Valley Massachusetts 114

ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

Google PPC is a key channel for customer acquisition for many e-commerce and online businesses, yet keywords have become quite competitive, and the costs of campaigns for certain keywords tend to be extremely high. As such, Deepak hasn't really ventured out of his shell yet to incorporate the voice of the customer.

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PPC Entrepreneur Silicon Valley Incubator 114

ReadWriteStart

MARCH 3, 2011

Then Greg Snead, also from Tacoma, discussed Orbiter , an RFID venture that is moving along quite nicely, having clocked more than $700,000 in revenue last year. Orbiter expects to give its investors a 15 times return on investment based on their current pipeline and revenue forecast. Happy Grasshopper. Social Pulse.

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San Jose Entrepreneur United States Washington 115

ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

The premium lounge includes an online curriculum addressing the common topics specific to very early stage entrepreneurship; private roundtables that many of you have requested; customer, channel partners, and investor introductions; media and analyst access; and a variety of other value-added services to make our entrepreneurs successful.

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Startup India Silicon Valley Incubator 113

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

I’ve built a loyal customer base and by selling directly through image consultants, stylists, at shows and on my website I am able to give my clients top quality at almost wholesale affordable prices. (I I have encountered numerous companies with bad customer service, or bad financial management, or unprofessional stuff, you name it.

Entrepreneur 91

Entrepreneur LLC Cofounder Green 91

www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

But if youre in the US for example, then your development cost will be anything from 5-10 times higher than offshoring to India or Eastern Europe. Our offshore development team is in India and the result has been excellent because we followed a disciplined process in both selection and ongoing development.

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Bootstrapping Offshore Startup EC2 41

Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 21, 2017

Digital agency TIS India , likens this social media marketing tool to a pulse monitor for your Facebook account, where you can monitor virtually everything about your Facebook page. AgoraPulse. Best for: Facebook. Price: Starts $49/month with FREE 15-Day Trial. Price: Starts at $19/month with FREE Trial. Iconosquare. Best for: Instagram.

Social Media 63

Social Media Media Artificial Inteligence Analytics 63

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

At today's roundtable, we had entrepreneurs presenting from Brazil, Israel and India. In fact, I was pleased to even see an entrepreneur from Kolkata, India, the city in which I was born and raised. Estate Lister. As I keep reiterating, 99% of the businesses that go out for financing get rejected. ServiceSutra.

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Brazil India Entrepreneur 115

www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

These are areas that may be gaps in the portfolio of large companies, and are perfect for M&A deals in three to five years after building enough validation and $10-$20 million in revenue. Raymond has built a nice business through efficient distribution deals and will do about $250,000 in revenue this year.

Marketing 52

Marketing Bootstrapping Incubator Angel Investor 52

www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

These are areas that may be gaps in the portfolio of large companies, and are perfect for M&A deals in three to five years after building enough validation and $10-$20 million in revenue. Raymond has built a nice business through efficient distribution deals and will do about $250,000 in revenue this year.

Marketing 52

Marketing Bootstrapping Incubator Angel Investor 52

K9 Ventures

JULY 21, 2016

Custom parts can also sometimes lead you down a rabbit-hole of building your own equipment to build those custom parts (and yes, I’ve had multiple companies that have had to do this!). What channels work best for you product? But very soon they need to expand to figure out other distribution channels.

Software Review 48

Software Review Forecast Portfolio Distribution 48

maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

I would focus on one product and set a goal to generate $1M in yearly revenue from it. Near shoring development with your team (ex: your team is based in Canada / India) is cool, but not outsourcing. Outsourcing is something a big company, with a known customer / problem (that has revenue & traction) does to save cost.

Technical Review 44

Technical Review Startup Cofounder Software Review 44

Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

My professional career spans three countries: India, Saudi Arabia and the United States. My career spans customer service, engineering, finance, product development, marketing, sales, and corporate functions. The last people to get laid off in a company are the ones closest to creating revenue.

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Saudi Arabia Green Leadership Framework 166

Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Only after reaching $1M in CMRR should you consider hiring European sales and services execs behind customer demand. Be prepared to cross the desert - SaaS requires R&D and sales expense up front for a multi-year stream of revenue, so it demands enough investment capital to fund 4+ years of runway. 16 comments: BdH. Great list!

Software Review 48

Software Review North America Europe Metrics 48

Transformify

APRIL 12, 2020

Hence, customer support representatives, account managers and all other remote workers who are required to work on a predefined schedule are likely to be classified as ‘’employees’’ Attending regular team calls, participating in training programs, etc. No revenue at all. Looks great, isn’t it?

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Bangladesh Philippines Salary Cofounder 98

Occam's Razor

MAY 27, 2015

It saddens me deeply that they are not being able to take full advantage of all the new product, marketing, customer relationship opportunities in front of them. Our advertising will rain down massive revenues! !" The content of the letter could be customized to Stephanie's data/behavior. RM+RP+RT is finally possible.

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Analytics Marketing Mobile Audience 60

techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

The rest can be outsourced to wherever (Estonia – Skype; someone mentioned digg above; you can even send this junk to India and get it with questionable quality). Thus had to spend hard cash building a half way completed demo outsourced to India. Twitter is an excellent distribution channel for us. (B)

Technical Review 84

Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder Software Review 84

Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

You start to see weird things like Russia and India are the same. At a glance you can see all the big clusters of sources (close to the channels view in Google Analytics). If you are interested in any particular channel, Miscellaneous as an example, you can click on it and… boom! Yes, it was in the table. Makes me mad.

Analytics 143

Analytics Sierra Leone Channel Conversion 143

Life Beyond Code

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

One Million by One Million is a global initiative that aims to nurture a million entrepreneurs reach a million dollars each in annual revenue and beyond by 2020, thereby creating a trillion dollars in global GDP and ten million jobs. 1M/1M Program has a bold mission. This is where numerous ventures fail.

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Programming Silicon Valley Bootstrapping Technical Review 116