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A Behind-the-Scenes Look at Our Recent Seed-Stage VC Investments

View from Seed

In the past 18 months at NextView, we’ve made 13 new investments (out of the 36 we’ve made since the inception of the firm back in 2010). We’ve been remarkably consistent on this dimension as well: five of the recent 13 investments were B2C, five were B2B, and three you could categorize as B2B2C. Recent Investment Overview.

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Tune In, Turn On, Drop Out – The Startup Genome Project

Steve Blank

In April 2010 I received an email that said, “I’m an incoming Stanford student in the fall and working on a project that a number of people suggested I get in touch with you about.&#. B2C vs. B2B is not a meaningful segmentation of Internet startups anymore because the Internet has changed the rules of business.

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How to Build a Beloved Product Without Email Marketing

ConversionXL

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. Gamification isn’t the domain of B2C or gaming sites alone. This was something we saw on a broader level.

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The Entrepreneur's Guide to Customer Development

Startup Lessons Learned

This new volume also tackles examples from the Internet and wireless startups of today, both B2B and B2C. This new volume also tackles examples from the Internet and wireless startups of today, both B2B and B2C. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

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Southeast Asia Startup Ecosystem Continues to Prosper Post-Pandemic

ReadWriteStart

In 2010, the VC investment in Southeast Asia startups was just $100 million. The startups in Southeast Asia were traditionally focused on offering services to individuals and followed a B2C scheme. Also, Southeast Asia’s startups raised a record $6 billion in the first quarter of 2021. However, this amount could reach $9.6

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The Lean Startup Workshop - now an O'Reilly Master Class

Startup Lessons Learned

We attempted to use Waterfall and market ourselves as B2C. 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.

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JFDI.Asia Accelerator: Bootcamp Practicalities

YoungUpstarts

B2C) Is there a PRE-SALES promotion activity driving the top of the funnel? 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 have a REPEATABLE SALES process whose LTV > CAC? Can we articulate the Big Vision?

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