ConversionXL

APRIL 28, 2021

In general, open rates and click-throughs have decreased 45% since 2010 as users have become fatigued by email marketing and more concerned about their privacy. This was something we saw on a broader level. This was more than enough data to suggest that we should at least consider pausing our email marketing efforts.

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Email Product Marketing Cofounder 151

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

But I’ll judge the angel class of 2009/2010 on a 7-10 year time horizon. I was very active in 2009 / early 2010. I still love B2B application. Bad times are when M&A halts to a trickle and this is when many businesses are rushing to get exits. We’ll re-compare notes then. Investors are conformists by nature.

Florida 299

Florida Technical Review San Antonio Los Angeles 299

ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2012

This applies equally to B2B - 71 percent of enterprise purchase decisions in the United States begin with research conducted on a search engine. A 2010 study by The Nielsen Company confirmed what we already knew – people read reviews and decide by them. Most people do online research and compare different options.

Social Media 129

Social Media Technical Review Arlington Clickthrough 129

Feld Thoughts

APRIL 15, 2018

There are a few mentions of Zynga (which we were investors in) in the various article chain which caused me to reflect even more on the 2007 – 2010 time period when free-to-consumer (supported by advertising) was suddenly conflated with freemium (or free trials for enterprise software).

Advertising 171

Advertising B2B Algorithm New York 171

VC Cafe

APRIL 21, 2022

After billions raised and no mass adoption consumer product, Ronnie Abovitz, who founded the company in 2010, stepped down as CEO in Sep 2020 and made room for Peggy Johnson, a senior Microsoft and Qualcomm exec, who focused the company on Enterprise B2B, rather than consumer products, directly positioning Magic Leap in competition with Microsoft’s (..)

Mobile 198

Mobile Global Aggregator Bootstrapping 198

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 17, 2011

5000 2006-2010), a leading self-service direct marketing provider to over 100,000 small businesses. She is a columnist for Inc.com “Women in Business” and has been published in DM News as well featured in Entrepreneur Magazine, ClickZ, and B2B Magazine. Janine Popick Janine Popick is the CEO and co-founder of VerticalResponse (Inc.

Small Business 41

Small Business Social Media Engineer Matching 41

Hearpreneur

MARCH 15, 2019

12- Solve a problem in international B2B payments. With Remitr I saw that opportunity to solve a problem in international B2B payments that was crying for a technology-enabled solution and decided to plunge into it with my co-founding team. Graduating in 2010 in marketing at the height of a recession, was well, the worst timing.

Entrepreneur 117

Entrepreneur Technical Review Software Review Atlanta 117

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 14, 2009

We changed our model to B2B and adopted Agile around 2002. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Facebook Fans Recent & Upcoming Events 2010 I am experimenting with using Plancast to track my 2010 event schedule. May 14, 2009 5:23 AM David said.

Lean 60

Lean San Francisco Continuous Deployment Software Review 60

Agile VC

MAY 21, 2012

On the B2B SaaS side or enabling services (e.g. Included are some of the large companies above like Google and Microsoft but also active on the B2B/enabling side have been acquirers like Salesforce.com (Radian6, Heroku notably) and Apple (Quattro Wireless, Siri). Pingback: this. Pingback: [link]. Read More ».

Acquisition 162

Acquisition Silicon Valley B2B Seed Stage 162

Agile VC

MAY 16, 2012

Back in 2010 we were observing more and more new B2B startups emulating the product and customer acquisition strategies of existing consumer web companies which my partners & I have long been familiar with. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. Pingback: [link]. Pingback: [link].

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Seed Stage Silicon Valley B2B Syndicate 124

Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 28, 2009

Or, phrased more hopefully, "I see how you can use continuous deployment to run an online consumer service, but how can it be used for B2B software?" Or, phrased more hopefully, "I see how you can use continuous deployment to run an online consumer service, but how can it be used for B2B software?" April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

Continuous Deployment 122

Continuous Deployment San Francisco Lean Metrics 122

Cracking the Code

JANUARY 28, 2008

Eloqua is bringing this revolution to the B2B marketers by providing on-demand applications and best-practice expertise for B2B marketers to execute, automate and measure effective marketing programs that drive revenue. ► 2010. (5). State of the SaaS 13: Q1 2010 Sentiment. Happy New Year 2010! ► 2009.

Software Review 48

Software Review Technical Review Los Angeles Europe 48

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 5, 2012

Founded in 2010, MentorMob essentially curates and aggregates content such as YouTube videos, Wikipedia and About.com articles into intuitive, how-to courses or what they call “learning playlists” This makes it easy to find and learn a new skill, hobby or technique, say, salsa dancing, golf or a new language.

Illinois 165

Illinois Aggregator Chicago Widget 165

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 4, 2015

Leadspace was founded in 2010 and maintains offices in both San Francisco and just outside Tel Aviv in Hod HaSharon, Israel. In our experience, having offices in both locations is ideal for a B2B tech company because the complementary strengths of the two locales open the door for fast and sustained growth.

B2B 100

B2B San Francisco Semantic 100

Agile VC

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

One other way to put Twitter’s IPO, and other consumer & B2B IPOs recently, in context is the broader macroeconomy and investing environment. LinkedIn is a little unusual in that it’s essentially a B2B SaaS business, a consumer premium services business, and a media business all wrapped together. Growth IPOs Are Back.

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IPO Aggregator B2B Internet 194

Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

So that was 2010. For our clients, they’re all what we call brainiac B2B clients, which basically means they have a complex product or service. John Jantsch: Awesome. So I built maybe a dozen websites in FrontPage. Lance Cummins: Okay. Lance Cummins: Yeah. So it really depends on your audience, right? That’s nectafy.com.

Audio 57

Audio Boston Video HTML 57

Agile VC

MARCH 8, 2012

In the fall of 2010 I laid out reasons why all the tech “bubble” chatter was really more the hallmark of a reasonably sustained boom , and then revisited the topic almost one year ago to the day. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC. Read More ».

IPO 100

IPO Silicon Valley Revenue Seed Stage 100

Occam's Razor

JANUARY 6, 2010

Before all the excitement of the new year wears out, here are five simple things I would love for you to try so that your company will have a glorious truly data driven 2010! #1: In 2010 Consider trying just two tools listed above that you have not used so far. 1: Don't suck. Seems obvious.

Analytics 99

Analytics Web Campaign PPC 99

BeyondVC

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

Founded in 2010, we have backed 27 awesome teams including Indiegogo , divide.com , goinstant (sold to salesforce), blaze.io (sold to Akamai), Plain Vanilla Games (quizup), rapportive (sold to LinkedIn), and klipfolio. finally, this theme is also applicable for b2b. There is also a b2b theme as companies like ooomf and emissary.io

Seed Stage 110

Seed Stage Agile Viral API 110

YoungUpstarts

JULY 29, 2013

B2B) Is that sales process implemented in a SALES ORGANIZATION which does not require much founder time? Meng Weng Wong is co-founder and social engineer at JFDI Asia , which he helped started in 2010 to bring the TechStars model of startup incubation to Southeast Asia. Do we understand the conversion mechanics of our sales FUNNEL?

Asia 207

Asia Singapore Cofounder Incubator 207

techcrunch.com

MARCH 8, 2012

My experience: I exited my last company, an award-winning B2B telecoms operator, and knew that I wanted to build a SaaS product. I wanted to maximise my chance of success, so I set out to find a technical co-founder who would complement me, which I did early in 2010, and with his help we launched Teamly into beta in the summer.

Technical Cofounder 49

Technical Cofounder Cofounder San Antonio Europe 49

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

ReachForce experienced significant customer growth in 2010 adding over 100 new customers and over 100% annual growth in its information-as-a-service solutions. According to Marketing Sherpa’s 2011 B2B Marketing Benchmark Report, 78% of respondents said that generating high quality leads was their top priority for 2011.

B2B 54

B2B Acquisition Retention Finance 54

VC Adventure

MARCH 21, 2012

Launched in April of 2010, the company was scaling quickly even during the time when we were first looking at at and later working through the details of our initial investment ($4.25M which closed in the fall of that year). Integrate brings together advertisers performance marketing campaigns in one platform.

B2C 81

B2C Cofounder B2B Advertising 81

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Would you modify any of this if you had a B2B product instead of a B2C product, where every potential customer is also a potential competitor? Reply Charlie Crystle , on April 8, 2010 at 12:31 pm Said: brilliant post. Reply Curtiss Middlebrooks , on November 11, 2009 at 5:23 am Said: Great stuff Steve. Progress is the same.

Customer Development 262

Customer Development Developer Customer Silicon Valley 262

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

by Dan Adams, author of “ New Product Blueprinting: The Handbook for B2B Organic Growth “ Maximize shareholder value. 2010 ) researched and compared the pre-maximize era (pre-1976) with the post-maximize era (post-1976). If you’ve heard it once, you’ve heard it a thousand times. percent to 5.9

Stock Options 176

Stock Options Stock B2B United States 176

Austin Startup

OCTOBER 19, 2010

I have the pleasure of hosting the Innotech Beta Summit again for 2010, and I have a select group of the freshest technology products that Austin has to offer. RecycleMatch is an Online B2B Marketplace for Commercial Waste and Recyclables. Hurricane Party bridges the gap between social networking and actually being social. SocialSmack.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Social Network Cloud B2B 78

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Zilliant , the leading provider of price optimization and management solutions for B2B manufacturers, distributors, high-tech, and industrial service companies, today announced strong financial results for the second half of 2009. Such activity is a strong indicator of what we can expect to see for 2010.”.

B2B 48

B2B Analytics Revenue Software 48

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

We must get established EDI companies and new SAAS B2B platform operators to adopt our EDI API, with all of its amazing advantages. Reply Alan Wilensky , on December 7, 2009 at 11:23 am Said: I am responsible for evangelizing an API that is disruptive to an established industry dominated by old guard, old think.

Silicon Valley 324

Silicon Valley Software Review RSS Technical Review 324

Growthink Blog

JUNE 14, 2017

Warby Parker is an online store for prescription sunglasses and eyeglasses that since their founding in 2010 has taken the Lenscrafter “eye doctor in a mall” concept and fully “Internet-ized” it. For profitable reselling, Grainger. And for lifetime customer value, McDonalds. Warby Parker. billion in its last round of funding.

Disintermediation 59

Disintermediation Business Model B2B Revenue 59

The Startup Lawyer

JANUARY 20, 2010

TechWildcatters is now accepting applications for their first 12-week accelerator “bootcamp” and 20 startup teams will have the opportunity to pitch on March 11, 2010. The first program begins April 5, 2010. Their first Demo Day is scheduled for June 30, 2010. BI/data/analytics, gaming/simulation, etc.

Dallas 44

Dallas Seed Capital Angel Investor Bootstrapping 44

Agile VC

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

Just under half our portfolio is B2B in nature, slightly more than half is consumer-facing in some way. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. In launching NextView and raising capital for this first fund, we had the privilege of meeting a lot of potential limited partners. PMarchetti.

LP 100

LP Seed Stage Silicon Valley Limited Partner 100

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 17, 2011

5000 2006-2010), a leading self-service direct marketing provider to over 100,000 small businesses. She is a columnist for Inc.com “Women in Business” and has been published in DM News as well featured in Entrepreneur Magazine, ClickZ, and B2B Magazine. Janine Popick Janine Popick is the CEO and co-founder of VerticalResponse (Inc.

Small Business 54

Small Business Marketing Cofounder Social Media 54

VC Adventure

MARCH 21, 2012

Launched in April of 2010, the company was scaling quickly even during the time when we were first looking at at and later working through the details of our initial investment ($4.25M which closed in the fall of that year). Integrate brings together advertisers performance marketing campaigns in one platform.

B2C 48

B2C Cofounder B2B Advertising 48

ConversionXL

JULY 1, 2014

This may seem pretty straight-forward, yet, data from The Relevancy Group’s 2010 survey suggest that the majority of marketers are still primarily focused on Demographic & Geographic customer data. If B2B try to get information about industry and position in the company. If demographics matter, ask- If they don’t, don’t bother.

Customer 76

Customer Design Software Review Lead Generation 76

nikcub.appspot.com

MARCH 8, 2012

5th November 2010. #. Partnerships - B2B business development work can commence before you have a product. New Web Order. Finding a Technical Co-Founder. My own anecdotal evidence indicates that the number of tech startups being founded is on the rise again. just an example)).

Cofounder 40

Cofounder Web Founder South Korea 40

This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 13, 2012

I first met Wiley Cerilli on April 23, 2010. If you've ever met Wiley, you know you can bank on him maxing out that additional $30 million. You don't give a sales team like that a target without expecting him to crush it. I biked down Broadway to his temporary office space at SoHo Haven. Wiley was soft spoken and extremely professional.

Syndicate 131

Syndicate Syndication Viral B2B 131

Occam's Razor

JANUARY 20, 2010

We will cover measuring success of SEO efforts on one web page, how to do search engine optimization for b2b websites, how to rank for highly saturated industries / categories / keywords, and which competitive intelligence tools do I use for search program optimization (and targeting display ads using search data!). Well don't give up.

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Analytics Search SEO Metrics 90