crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 10, 2013

Building Loyalty The Lady Gaga Way: Focus On 1% Of Your Customers | Forbes – [link]. The critical metrics for each stage of your SaaS business | by Lars Lofrgren – [link]. Building Loyalty The Lady Gaga Way: Focus On 1% Of Your Customers | Forbes – [link]. ” – [link]. “Embrace skeptics.

Social Media 93

Social Media Small Business Design Media 93

Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

Some will demonstrate strategically justifiable metrics and have fantastic ‘up round’ exits; others may see liquidation preferences kick in which will negatively impact founders and employees; others may fulfill the adage “IPO is the new down round” , which has been the case for more than half of the public companies on our list.

Liquidation Preference 70

Liquidation Preference Burn Rate Balance Sheet .Net 70

Growthink Blog

MAY 23, 2011

With this seed capital – more often than not totaling between $100,000 and $1,000,000 - the company accomplishes a number of key technical milestones, gets a beta customer or two, and then goes on a "road show" to venture capitalists around the country for capital to “scale” the business.

Angel Investor 112

Angel Investor Venture Capital Sweat Equity Cram Down 112

Reid Hoffman

JUNE 8, 2021

The burden [should] just be that we care; that if we learn something, we improve it, and that we don’t only use single output metrics and its growth at all costs. We identified five, and the trifecta of employees, shareholders and customers, everyone has those, we also added two more. So it works for as many stakeholders as possible.

Silicon Valley 69

Silicon Valley Hosting Rhode Island Design 69

Reid Hoffman

JUNE 8, 2021

The burden [should] just be that we care; that if we learn something, we improve it, and that we don’t only use single output metrics and its growth at all costs. We identified five, and the trifecta of employees, shareholders and customers, everyone has those, we also added two more. So it works for as many stakeholders as possible.

Silicon Valley 36

Silicon Valley Hosting Rhode Island Design 36

NZ Entrepreneur

JULY 8, 2019

The situation I see time and again is an over-valuation on a markedly smaller-than-anticipated business, revenue numbers not achieved, and then needing to do another raise on a lower valuation (a ‘down-round’). Who does this investor know in the customer, partner and executive space they can introduce you to? The Rolodex.

New Zealand 42

New Zealand Entrepreneur Valuation Dilution 42

Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

So originally the customer was the Department of Defense. It was the first customer for the computer. The advantage of the consumer businesses is they tend to be much broader-based, much larger number of customers, that tend to over time be a lot more predictable. Alexia Tsotsis: Yes, and we are watching that now.

Software Review 22

Software Review Startup Venture Capital Stock 22