Tons of startups use our platform to pitch VC’s and track their engagement. We analyzed thousands of live and email investor presentations done via Crunched and the results overwhelmingly showed that venture capitalists really don’t pay attention most of the time. The below infographic illustrates most VCs’ abysmal attention span and shows how to increase your… Read More
Yelp was recently ranked one of the top 26 startups to sell for, so we thought we would sit down with their fearless leader and Director of Sales Kayti Sullivan to find out what makes Yelp’s sales team so great and find out everything you ever wanted to know about how Yelp sells. Here are… Read More
This is part 1 of 3 videos from the “Growth Hacking”, aka lean marketing workshop we hosted in New York City. Part 1 introduces the concept of growth hacking, defines the DNA of a growth hacker and reviews case studies like HotMail and Airbnb. There is increasingly more buzz and controversy over growth hacking. Many… Read More
This is part 2 of 3 videos from the “Growth Hacking”, aka lean marketing workshop we hosted in New York City. You can find part 1 here. Part 2 goes into the science of growth hacking, diving deep on user funnelnomics that include user Acquisition, Activation, Retention, Referral and Revenue.
So, it’s finally here! Our spectacular list of top startups to sell for – in alphabetical order. If you don’t know what this list is all about, well then, you really should follow our blog because we routinely do some magical stuff there. But for now, this is the Crunched list of Top 26 Startups… Read More
Next Monday, November 26th we are going to announce the Top 26 Tech Startups to Sell For right here. If you’re like us, you’re bored of reading articles that tell you about the best places to work. Besides it being an idea that is done to death, we aren’t fans of packaging, and then repackaging,… Read More
Reddit has received a lot of buzz lately around its continued growth of highly-engaged, tech-savvy users despite its acquisition by Advance Publications, best known for publishing the New Yorker , Vanity Fair and Vogue. As this month’s Fortune article points out, when mainstream companies buy digital properties, they often run them into the ground. Not so… Read More
As featured on the homepage of SlideShare, see the most stunning images of the devastation Frankenstorm (aka Hurricane Sandy) caused in New York, by clicking the image below, then click “Full Screen” in the Crunched deck viewer to see the entire presentation. Frankenstorm Eats New York — Presentation Transcript by Slide: 1. This nighttime satellite image of… Read More
This post originally appeared on Harvard Business Review written by Heidi Grant Halvorson During an interview, your potential new boss asks you to briefly describe your qualifications. At this moment, you have a single objective: be impressive. So you begin to rattle off your list of accomplishments: your degrees from Harvard and Yale, your prestigious internships, your… Read More
