Crunched Blog

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

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

Topics: startup sales

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

Topics: Advertising, Reddit

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

This post originally appeared on Copyblogger Blog written by Greg Digneo Have you ever wondered if your landing page is … missing something? You look at the conversion stats on your latest landing page and sigh in disgust. Yeah, some people are subscribing or buying, but you know you should be seeing better results. Say you’ve thoughtfully used… Read More

Topics: Crunched, landing page, marketing

This post originally appeared on HBR Blog written by Jack Zenger and Joseph Folkman Conjure up the term “bad boss” and what comes to mind? Scenes of red-faced people berating subordinates in public. Smarmy souls taking credit for other people’s work or saying one thing and doing another. Cutting remarks. Yelling. Feel free to continue — we’re sure… Read More

Topics: Crunched, HBR, sales

This post originally appeared on HBR Blog written by Julian Birkinshaw We all know bad managers — be they ambitious and aggressive, doing whatever it takes to move up the corporate ladder, or the opposite: managers thrust into their position without the skill or the will to do the job properly. I continue to be a little puzzled… Read More

Topics: Crunched, HBR, management, sales

This post originally appeared on HBR Blog written by John Coleman When David Petraeus visited the Harvard Kennedy School in 2009, one of the meetings he requested was with author Doris Kearns Goodwin. Petraeus, who holds a PhD in International Relations from Princeton, is a fan ofTeam of Rivals and wanted time to speak to the famed historian about her work…. Read More

Topics: Crunched, HBR, leadership