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Why Do Consumer IPOs and B2B IPOs Get Treated Differently?

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Zoom is a B2B company Pinterest and Lyft are obviously B2C companies. All three have different business models… SaaS, media/ad, and consumer transactional. All three are impressive and valuable businesses in their own right. The post Why Do Consumer IPOs and B2B IPOs Get Treated Differently?

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Why Do Consumer IPOs and B2B IPOs Get Treated Differently?

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Zoom is a B2B company Pinterest and Lyft are obviously B2C companies. All three have different business models… SaaS, media/ad, and consumer transactional. All three are impressive and valuable businesses in their own right. The post Why Do Consumer IPOs and B2B IPOs Get Treated Differently?

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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. Harvard professor Noam Wasserman and WSJ small-business editor Vanessa OConnell took reader questions about avoiding start-up pitfalls on Sept. INTERNET BUSINESSES. Replay the event.

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Why Free Plans Don't Work

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Rob, frankly I’m surprised you’re endorsing this business model. #5 at 9:42 am I agree with the point by Reader X that the Free/Premium model is a marketing strategy. Business software is different and shouldn’t be treated in the same way as B2C. 5 Ben K on 08.18.10 23 m3mnoch on 08.18.10