crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 14, 2013

Berger explains why people talk about certain produces and ideas more than others, why some stories have a greater tendency towards a viral effect and why some rumors are simply more infectious than others. By how much did Gary increase the family revenues that first year? c) $4 million to $50 million. d) Social Media.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Neither would have achieved virality had customers not received something tangible for their efforts. Once you’ve established your ideal customer, you can better focus your growth hacker marketing efforts to improve revenue and ROI. On its official launch in 2014, it had 15,000 daily users. This helped grow revenue by 637%.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

View this post on Instagram Watch our detachable soles being made near Milan #mahabis #soles #shoes #factory #milan #italy #videooftheday #instadaily #ig #sneakers #kicks #design #fashion #yellow A post shared by mahabis (@mahabis) on Apr 10, 2014 at 5:53am PDT. Andrew Macarthy wrote about social media use during the Mahabis launch.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 6, 2019

Don’t copy the style of a popular video (especially a “viral” one) if you’re trying to drive home your unique value proposition or establish your brand. The strategy, according to Google, improves ad recall (and, undoubtedly, YouTube revenues). As Seinfeld said , “There is no such thing as an attention span. Stay on brand.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

For this article, we asked 14 SaaS CEOs a simple question: “How much did you spend on your MVP before you had your first dollar of revenue?”. The MVP took around four months to build, during which time the company earned no revenue. They then spent the first year qualifying the product and testing out their revenue model.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

The New Bubble : (2011 – 2014): Here we go again…. (If VC’s worked with entrepreneurs to build profitable and scalable businesses, with increasing revenue and consistent profitability – quarter after quarter. With Netscape’s IPO , there was suddenly a public market for companies with limited revenue and no profit.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Over the years, despite massive losses, Netflix was able to bounce back and improve its revenue by 47%. WhatsApp became one of the most popular apps for social media by 2014. Both of these startups came to market with a social media platform focused on short, viral videos that were ideal for quickly sharing on social media.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 4, 2017

In 2014, a recruitment platform went viral by emailing a user’s Facebook friends after a sign-up. They’re a startup I’ve been admiring since they launched and already pulling in real revenue with only $50k raised from angels to date. Don’t focus on them internally. Tracking clarity metrics builds great businesses.” “In

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 31, 2014

These days, even viral marketing requires real money, for events and promotions. Professional investors always look for a proven business model and an existing revenue stream to minimize the risk. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 5/22/2014. Make sure allocation amounts are reasonable.

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Up and Running

MARCH 28, 2016

In a foreshadowing of what the sports industry has learned, Sandberg’s article—published in June of 2014—describes the progress that was being made, even then. If the sports league sponsors had stuck to their assumptions and good-ole-boy guns, they’d be missing out on the massive revenue opportunity that women offer.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 20, 2014

Nice to have does not motivate a revenue stream. This means more time and money for viral marketing, product iterations and promotions. Martin Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 9/12/2014. Look for customer willingness and ability to pay. Limit the features and complexity.

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BeyondVC

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

As we look into 2014, we thought it was important to reflect on our activities in 2013 and refocus and refine our thinking and messaging as a firm. Smart enterprises are analyzing all of this data to make better decisions, increase revenue, and improve operating performance. finally, this theme is also applicable for b2b.

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Making Your Fundraising Campaign Go Viral Online. The ALS Ice Bucket Challenge in 2014 is a prime example of an effective international charity campaign that went viral right across social media sites. In order for a fundraising campaign to go viral online, it must be engaging, amusing, and entertaining.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 13, 2022

Their innovation lay not just in their product, but their viral video marketing campaign involving slamming raw eggs on their mattress to show that they wouldn’t break due to their mattresses’ high-tech cushioning. Businesses that operate online are the most likely to use the freemium revenue model. Thanks to Kavin Patel, Convrrt !

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 12, 2015

It’s really all about revenue. The key to more revenue? Consider that 40% of an ecommerce store’s revenue is created by 8% of its customers and that 82% of companies agree that retention is cheaper than acquisition. In 2014, a Huzzah Media survey found that referrals were the most successful marketing tool (52%).

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ConversionXL

APRIL 11, 2016

Big brands are spending tens of thousands on videos that fall flat while a lucky few are going viral. Research conducted in 2014 found that 73% of American B2C marketers think video is an effective content marketing tactic. Revenue: Measure close to the money. Play / Watch rate, conversion rate and revenue are your pillars.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

This is native advertising in real life, on a real website, acting as a key player in the race for the strongest, viral, engaging content. Eighty-four percent of publishers believe there is a value add for consumers through native advertisements, according to Hexagram’s ‘The State of Native Advertising 2014.”. Native to what?

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VC Cafe

JULY 15, 2021

According to Statista, revenue generated from apps (paid downloads and in-app advertising) will reach $935 billion by 2023, and that doesn’t doesn’t include the many trillions of dollars transacted via apps in the last decade alone (think Amazon, Uber, games, etc). Worldwide mobile app revenues in 2014 to 2023 (in billion U.S.

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BeyondVC

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

As we look into 2014, we thought it was important to reflect on our activities in 2013 and refocus and refine our thinking and messaging as a firm. Smart enterprises are analyzing all of this data to make better decisions, increase revenue, and improve operating performance. This is yet another example of the consumerization of tech.

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Hunter Walker

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Claire Hughes Johnson Joined Stripe in 2014 After a Decade at Google. We overlapped at Google where she was a VP on the business side of the house but more notably she left the Plex in 2014 to join Stripe as COO when it was just a few years old. Her Management Tips Are Legendary. Now They’re Published.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

” April, 2012 – Andrew Chen writes Growth Hacker is the new VP Marketing , which goes viral (2.4K Now, people begin defining growth hacking as a process, a systematic approach, a “viral loop”, etc. They can’t make a bad product’s revenue move up and to the right.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 15, 2016

According to a 2014 State of SaaS report from Compass , SaaS is a $10B industry in North America. In fact, mobile app revenue for 2016 is estimated at $58 billion. It’s close to the revenue, it’s measurable, it’s directly linked to onboarding. Why Are User Onboarding Flows Important? via Inbound.org).

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klinger.io

JANUARY 17, 2014

6th January 2014. Conversion Rates, Landing Page Optimizations, Funnel Optimizations, Viral Loops, Quick questions and insights are they typical examples of usecases of exploration. Cohort Retention Tables, Customer Happiness Reports, Traffic Referral Reports or Revenue Reports are typical examples for accounting reports.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

Google realized that being the way to find the world’s information was a blitzscalable market, thanks to the network effects in its AdWords revenue engine. Dropbox made a great file-sharing product, for instance, but it was their viral marketing campaign that allowed them to cheaply acquire millions of customers.

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conversionxl.com

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

Join my private newsletter and get the Complete Guide to A/B testing: Jan 31, 2014. Sidetrack: What Are The Elements of a Viral Pre-Launch Page? For Brookdale – a community for senior citizens – sticking with video would have cost them $108,000 in monthly revenue. Feb 01, 2014 @ 06:04:47. 1:1 Consultations.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 30, 2015

Buffer, a popular social media sharing tool, leveraged a guest network to generate millions in revenues. Outbrain boasts a global reach of over 560 million (as of September 2014, comScore), with 80% of the world’s leading brands already working with them. This approach does take time, but it works. Cost-per-Click (CPC) $0.25–$0.35.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 3, 2019

The only blog post I had ever written went viral in 2014. I love being able to make exactly as much money as I need by taking on additional projects, adding services or otherwise creating additional revenue streams. It did mean, however, that I wasn’t the right fit for Apple. Eventually, I left. 29- Making as much money.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 11, 2020

He was president of the startup accelerator YCombinator from 2014-2019, and is currently the CEO of OpenAI, which he co-founded. There's a good enough vaccine to get the virality rate below one. I think the important thing to really be severe about is modeling a decline in revenue as you're redoing your FP&A to survive this.

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VC Cafe

JULY 27, 2017

According to the Interactive Advertising Bureau, podcast industry ad revenue will reach $220 million in 2017, up 85 percent from 2016’s $119 million ( source ). Serial exploded in popularity and spread virally. Founded in 2014 and based in Brooklyn, it has already produced some of my favourite podcasts: StartUp?—?Gimlet’s

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ConversionXL

JUNE 4, 2019

” It reinforces the playfully irreverent nature of the brand, which disrupted the industry, while also connecting back to their original viral ad. We can’t empathize with a multi-billion-dollar company losing a fraction of their revenue, but we’ve all endured a foot injury. “Shave time. Shave money.” Image source).

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VC Cafe

JULY 27, 2017

According to the Interactive Advertising Bureau, podcast industry ad revenue will reach $220 million in 2017, up 85 percent from 2016’s $119 million ( source ). Serial exploded in popularity and spread virally. The show starts with the history of Podcasts and ends with where they may be headed. itunes.apple.com.

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