crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Rebranding is a marketing strategy in which a business develops a new name, symbol, logo design, or combination of those elements, in order to create a new brand identity in the minds of consumers, prospects, competitors, employees, and others. Give your employees a say. A generic logo will hurt your business.

Small Business 86

Small Business Reputation Non-Compete Technical Review 86

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 26, 2016

The key to being able to run a business that isn’t yet profitable (on operating margin) is availability of capital to finance losses and preferably at a cost that isn’t too punitive to the founders and employees. What are the re-marketing or retention cost assumptions? So here are some more details …. The first input is CAC.

Metrics 150

Metrics Cost Acquisition Startup 150

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 11, 2017

In the job market today, employees don’t stay in one place for as long as they used to. While numerous factors can contribute to this, there are a few things business owners can do to boost morale and keep a higher retention rate. Businesses must stop categorizing employees into generational groups with specific shortcomings or habits.

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Employee Non-Compete Retention Small Business 124

ConversionXL

JANUARY 28, 2019

It’s a prime reason that email marketing is the preferred marketing channel for customer acquisition and customer retention ( 80% and 81% , respectively). For non-compliant email clients such as Outlook (which doesn’t support GIFs, background images, or videos), you need to appropriate fallback. Compatibility. More on that later.

Email 118

Email Media Audio Software Review 118

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 2, 2015

I love the enthusiasm, the boundless energy and the sense of possibility that comes from having an idea that hasn’t yet been beat up in the marketplace of competing ideas, customer contracts, VC skepticism, jaded journalists or fickle consumers who are on the The New, New Thing. And it turns out that employee reviews matter.

Operations 150

Operations Metrics Early Stage Non-Compete 150

Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 10, 2019

So for the coming year, I have as my main goal to let go and trust that my wonderful, and very competent staff will be able to deliver the same level of quality that I would. 5- Promote employee engagement. I think that the key to running a leading workforce is to ensure that your employees are happy and plan to stick around.

Entrepreneur 126

Entrepreneur Security SEO Community 126

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Small companies often make the error of basing job offers on their budget rather than on market realities, thereby being slow out of the gate and less likely to compete in the race. Make non-work life easier: dry-cleaning pickup and delivery; transit passes; pet-friendly office. These are areas where the startup can shine.

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Sales Startup Salary Non-Compete 164

David Teten

JULY 10, 2017

– Unique employee benefits to retain and excited senior talent. – A unique employee benefit which helps corporations maintain a long-term relationship with their current and past executives. This could be structured as an increase in compensation, or just as a different currency by which to pay employees.

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Employee Balance Sheet Syndicate Syndication 60

Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 8, 2019

So for the coming year, I have as my main goal to let go and trust that my wonderful, and very competent staff will be able to deliver the same level of quality that I would. 5- Promote employee engagement. I think that the key to running a leading workforce is to ensure that your employees are happy and plan to stick around.

Entrepreneur 62

Entrepreneur Security SEO Community 62

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 7, 2012

While non-compliance with federal, state and local regulations is not insignificant in terms of financial penalties and litigation risks, consider taking a proactive and common sense approach to HR and HR compliance. Such an approach eases the burden of compliance while advancing business growth and encouraging employee commitment.

Non-Compete 150

Non-Compete Salary Retention Hiring 150

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 17, 2017

70–80% of the costs of most startups are employee costs so what you’re really talking about when a company is unprofitable is that they are growing their staff ahead of their revenue. They got a bigger office space so their employees would feel comfortable and they could improve employee retention. Not necessarily.

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Stock Options Startup Dilution Venture Capital 227

Reid Hoffman

MARCH 2, 2021

Dara manages Uber’s fast-growing business in 63 countries around the world and leads a global team of more than 22,000 employees. And you were beloved by Expedia employees. And we were forced to be very transparent with our employees regarding both the good and the bad. They had to fight for the right to compete.

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Iran Technical Review Non-Compete Lean 39

Mike Michalowicz

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Surprises always work to instill loyalty and retention. Donate several of your products or services to a non-profit organization that is sponsoring a live auction and the proceeds will be donated to the charity. Help Other Employees. Offer employee incentives to various big businesses, or to smaller businesses in your hometown.

Small Business 167

Small Business Marketing PR Social Media 167

Austin Startup

AUGUST 20, 2017

Compensation decisions obviously affect hiring and retention. Startups often hand out shares, options, and warrants for employees and for contractors rendering needed services. And, there are potential tax traps as well, especially when Non Qualified options are traded for services. Even for ISO’s, have you heard of form 83(b)?

Technical Review 48

Technical Review Software Review Cap Table Securities and Exchange Commission 48

Transformify

JULY 30, 2019

She later led its diversity and inclusion refresh to accelerate results, helping MassMutual increase the diversity of its customers, employees, financial advisors and suppliers, as well as driving forward a protocol that measures diversity and inclusion results as part of company performance. This crosses a variety of efforts.

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Hawaii Nicaragua San Francisco Non-Compete 56

Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

But in today’s world, speed-to-scale entrepreneurship is what we need to improve society, transform industries, and create massive value for customers, employees, and investors. When the market conditions are right, you should blitzscale for the benefit of all stakeholders: customers, employees, investors, and society.

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Cofounder Business Model IPO Non-Compete 28

Altgate

NOVEMBER 19, 2016

She has extensive experience in the domain of assessment and development specializing in Assessment/Development Centers, Potential and Readiness Assessment, Candidate Coaching and Competency Based Interviewing. Lorraine’s passion is to make an impact on the business’ bottom line through her work and this is how she measures her success.

Partner 28

Partner Non-Compete Framework Retention 28

Hearpreneur

JULY 10, 2015

We use a hybrid approach of using data analytics and expert human recommendations to pick flavors, and through this approach, we’ve had great success in member retention. Offering great prices alone is not good enough if I want to compete with the big brands and chain stores. Thanks to Tri Nguyen, Zodist ! 2) Facebook Ads.

Entrepreneur 48

Entrepreneur Software Review Technical Review Small Business 48

dondodge.typepad.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

Community is more powerful than money or technology » August 11, 2007 How much equity for investors and employees? How much equity should I grant to early employees? The key is to have several VCs or investors competing for the deal to arrive at a "fair" valuation. How much equity should be given to employees?

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Equity Employee Dilution Valuation 40

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

I was driven by my desire for freedom and that’s what I got; along with an amazing opportunity to help transform my employees’ and my client’s lives through homeownership and real estate. I desired to use the non-analytical side of my brain to create, inspire, lead, and find a new type of success.

Entrepreneur 91

Entrepreneur LLC Cofounder Green 91

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

This approach is fundamentally non-scalable. This is why companies often get out-competed by former employees (Palm vs Handspring to name just one), even though the upstart lacks all of the familiar resources, tools, processes, and support they used to have. They are closing orders. They are gaining valuable customer data.

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Customer San Francisco Lean Hockey Stick 167

Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 24, 2009

The solution for app developers caught in this vicious cycle is to develop competency in positioning. At IMVU , we would routinely find retention effects that would stem from registration changes and have impact days or weeks later. Luckily, a great example of the power of positioning fell into my lap recently. So, in summary: 1.

Metrics 88

Metrics San Francisco Lean Viral 88

blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Or, rather, more offensively to Facebook and Google employees, less offensive to.NET developers, though the underlying message is the same.). It appears that your job listing needs updating, because the top position hasn’t been filled yet and there is no job listing for a competent CEO. More comments at the end. Get a grip.

Java 107

Java PHP Software Review Coder 107

maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

Product/Metrics (70%/30% time) * Get your product activation (sign-up + meaningful action) to 60% * then, Get your product retention to 20% weekly. Non of this academic stuff. Entrepreneurs always struggle with competing priorities and manage expenses very closely. It all depends on where you’re at. 2) Do less and iterate.

Technical Review 44

Technical Review Startup Cofounder Software Review 44

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

customer retention, churn reduction, lifetime value. questions and answers for non-programmers. BambooHR -Â Employee Records, Benefit Information, Payroll Data, etc. Cloudomatic. The Toolkbox. Batchbooks. Market Research. LaunchRock. Google Insights. Keyword Research. Google Keywords. Wordtracker. Traffic Research. SlideShare.

Software Review 53

Software Review Technical Review Startup 53