A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

This is often B2C because the value is in quantity of customers, and there’s 100x more consumers than businesses. $1/mo It’s unlikely the product is sufficient out-of-the-box, and you might need in-house professional services or to partner with consulting firms for implementation. simple enough to be self-service).

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OnlyOnce

OCTOBER 31, 2013

Fred Wilson has been a venture investor and director in Return Path since 2000, first with Flatiron Partners and then with Union Square Ventures. Here are a few tips for ending up with the best long-term partner as an investor. Look for VC portfolios that have a lot of “like” companies (B2B, B2C, media, tech, etc.).

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

Jeff Bezos’s private space technology company Blue Origin was founded back in 2000. Here’s another great B2C example from consumer goods brand YETI. YETI also partners with influencers and other brands, borrowing their audience to boost their brand awareness. In 2002, Elon Musk created Space X. Twitter followers. Image source.

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Seeing Both Sides

JULY 11, 2013

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. I''ll discuss each one below. 1) Enterprise Sales. To achieve friction-free revenue (and who doesn''t want friction-free revenue?), 3) Developer Driven Sales.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 8, 2013

William Hsu is the co-founder and managing partner of MuckerLab. By the end, 99 percent of the B2B marketplaces had cratered and only B2C eBay was left standing and thriving. it’s really a software business, not liquidity driven) and that B2C marketplaces could not be built under the giant momentum of eBay’s “ network effect.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

The results were similar when he examined data for companies funded from 2000 to 2010, he says. The company raised $45 million in venture capital from firms including DCM, Emergence Capital Partners and Bessemer Venture Partners, and built partnerships with AOL Inc., Consumer Services (B2C). the previous year.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 15, 2017

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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