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How to Radically Stand Out with Brand Marketing

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Jeff Bezos’s private space technology company Blue Origin was founded back in 2000. He was swiftly followed by Richard Branson and Virgin Galactic in 2004. At a startup, this can be as simple as defining why the founder started the company in the first place. Here’s another great B2C example from consumer goods brand YETI.

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Scaling is Hard, Case Study: TripAdvisor

Seeing Both Sides

Founded in 2000 by Stephen Kaufer and Langley Steinert, Boston-based TripAdvisor is a travel website that provides reviews and other information for consumers about travel destinations around the world. Big Data meets travel…in 2000. Going B2C was daunting and not in our core DNA,” Kaufer remarked. Magical, really.

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

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His findings are based on data from more than 2,000 companies that received venture funding, generally at least $1 million, from 2004 through 2010. The results were similar when he examined data for companies funded from 2000 to 2010, he says. Consider Daniel Dreymann, a founder of Goodmail Systems Inc., Consumer Services (B2C).

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Don’t drink your own Kool-Aid (surviving TC50)

Both Sides of the Table

My Story: The public coming out for my first company, BuildOnline, was in early 2000. Around this time B2C eCommerce had been dominating the media but the wheels were starting to come off. I sat next to Irwin Jacobs (founder of Qualcomm) on a bus ride. 2001-2004 were very humbling but we built a real company.