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Why Do Consumer IPOs and B2B IPOs Get Treated Differently?

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All three have different business models… SaaS, media/ad, and consumer transactional. Google was a one such company when they went public in 2004 and Facebook was too at their 2012 IPO. In just the last month or so we’ve seen Lyft go public ( my analysis of the company’s S-1 here ) and more recently, Zoom and Pinterest.

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How One Startup Combines Boston’s B2B Sense with the Valley’s Social Media Style

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Incepted in 2012, Alignable’s platform hit the market in 2014, and since then, we’ve seen hundreds of thousands of business owners in North America join. The post How One Startup Combines Boston’s B2B Sense with the Valley’s Social Media Style appeared first on NextView Ventures.

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Should Startups Blog? An Essay (with Data) to Decide Once and For All

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My definition is as follows: Content marketing is just solving the same problems that your product solves through media you create and promote. While it was somewhat surprising to see such a simple post generating so much traffic, it was the publish date of the article that really blew me away: October 2012. That’s it!

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Should We Take Harvard MBAs Seriously as Startup Founders? [New Data]

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Going to business school and becoming a startup founder are often positioned as conflicting choices by the media and startup bloggers. That means that the classes of 2012-2014, which so far have raised a bit under $200 million among all companies, could represent $1 billion of further investments likely to occur over the next couple of years.