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The Consumerisation of Enterprise IT is now the Standard

VC Cafe

The consumerisation of enterprise was a big investment trend in 2011-2012. Employees got used to working with the best tools and expect them to be available Good UI/UX for B2B software is now table stakes Anyone can purchase the product with a credit card Freemium model used to onboard new users Mobile, remote access is key.

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ReachForce Banks $6.4M

Austin Startup

million in growth financing. In conjunction with the financing, Mark Koulogeorge, Managing General Partner of MK Capital, will join the ReachForce Board of Directors. 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.

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Cracking The Code: Happy New Year 2008!

Cracking the Code

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. ► 2011. (2). Yahoo Finance. Online marketing changed it. sales and marketing. (10). software. (10).

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April 4-Innovation in Private Company Liquidity-Online Merger Markets, Social Media, Secondary Markets, Non-US Markets, Private Equity, and the Disappearing IPO

David Teten

His professional career has been substantially dedicated to building high-value technology-powered B2B marketplaces where many thought they couldn’t exist. SecondMarket was recently honored by the World Economic Forum as a 2011 Technology Pioneer. Monday, April 4th, 2011. a 2005 book about new developments in Web 2.0

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Is There a Valuation Bubble for Social Media Companies (and if so, is it Bursting)?

Pascal's View

The former includes the Twitters, Facebooks, Linkedins, Tesla Motors of the World and the latter is the 95% of companies (B2B SaaS, Semiconductors, Cap Equipment, Biotech, MedTech, etc) that need to be marketed (Supply Push) by legions of brokers. And I agree with Mike Arrington that what is going on now is different.

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Money Out of Nowhere: How Internet Marketplaces Unlock Economic Wealth

abovethecrowd.com

In 1999, Jack Ma created Alibaba , a Chinese-based B2B marketplace for connecting small and medium enterprise with potential export opportunities. In November 2011, David Rosenblatt took over as CEO and has been scaling the company ever since. Poshmark was founded by Manish Chandra in 2011.

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LinkedIn Explores What It Takes To Be an Entrepreneur [INFOGRAPHIC]

mashable.com

September 1, 2011 09:04:39 Reply 0 Flag this comment jamespmedd Follow Interesting information but an awful looking infographic! September 1, 2011 09:24:15 Reply 3 Flag this comment Aaron Pace Follow Not everyone can create awesome infographics. September 1, 2011 09:31:29 Reply 0 Flag this comment Bess Menousek Follow Agreed.