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29 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

I have been working with my Partners since November 2000. We were witnessing, firsthand, the dramatic shifts in B2C e-commerce, and the resulting incredible experiences and benefits brands were delivering their retail consumers. The differences between B2C and B2B within the same brands were staggering!

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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. In founding TripAdvisor, Kaufer wanted to take his hard core engineering skills and apply them to vertical search in travel.

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Scaling Sales: From Craft to Machine

Seeing Both Sides

B2C sales and customer acquisition efforts are a different matter (and one I''ll perhaps address in a future blog), but for B2B, those three models are the most common pattern. customer acquisition cost or CAC). I''ll discuss each one below. 1) Enterprise Sales. in quota for a rep (i.e., $1m

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

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The results were similar when he examined data for companies funded from 2000 to 2010, he says. In early 2011 an acquisition by a Fortune 500 company fell apart. Engineering & Accounting Svcs. Consumer Services (B2C). He also combed the portfolios of VC firms and talked to people at start-ups, he says. Legal Services.

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Special: The 56 Israeli Companies Exhibiting in Mobile World Congress 2011

VC Cafe

Established location-based services to enable the CSP offer B2B and B2C services based on mobile positioning, tracking & locating, turn-by-turn navigation and mobile local search. Dasur’s solution is based on a unique, patented pattern recognition engine. Series ORG-2000 is OriginGPS smallest fully featured GPS receiver.

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