Success Story with Scott D. Clary
Lessons - Getting Our First 100 Customers Was Impossible | Jager McConnell - CEO of Crunchbase
Published on Dec 18, 2024, 7:06:00 AM
Total time: 00:12:23
Success Story with Scott D. Clary
Published on Dec 18, 2024, 7:06:00 AM
Total time: 00:12:23
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In this "Lessons" episode, Jager McConnell, CEO of Crunchbase, shares insights on how leveraging an existing audience and focusing on data quality can accelerate growth for startups. He discusses the importance of building strong partnerships, becoming an indispensable resource in your industry, and the evolution of Crunchbase’s business model.
Leverage Existing Audiences: Jager highlights how Crunchbase capitalized on its 20 million monthly visitors to drive early customer acquisition without a large marketing budget.
Data Optimization: He emphasizes the critical role of high-quality, reliable data in creating a scalable platform and how early data challenges shaped Crunchbase’s evolution.
Partnership-Driven Growth: Jager explains the importance of forming strategic partnerships for data integration and platform growth.
Building a Business Ecosystem: He talks about how leveraging external partnerships allowed Crunchbase to focus on its core strengths and minimize internal costs.
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Welcome to the Success Story Podcast, hosted by entrepreneur, business executive, author, educator & speaker, Scott D. Clary (@scottdclary). On this podcast, you'll find interviews, Q&A, keynote presentations & conversations on sales, marketing, business, startups and entrepreneurship. Scott will discuss some of the lessons he's learned over his own career, as well as have candid interviews with execs, celebrities, notable figures and politicians. All who have achieved success through both wins and losses, to learn more about their life, their ideas and insights. He sits down with leaders and mentors and unpacks their story to help pass those lessons onto others through both experiences and tactical strategy for business professionals, entrepreneurs and everyone in between. To get more of the Success Story podcast, go to www.successstorypodcast.com.