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First Mover Fallacy

Agile VC

While our portfolio at NextView is roughly equally weighted to consumer facing and B2B companies, it seems that for consumer companies in particular being first mover confers little benefit and the drawbacks probably outweigh whatever weak advantage might exist. We sometimes think of being a fast follower in pejorative terms.

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A Guide to Reputation Management: Build an Audience of Superfans

ConversionXL

If we’re a B2B company selling into brick-and-mortar retail environments, and we’re looking to find an audience of retail executives, we’ll start with a simple Google search. Michael Fertik, the founder of Reputation.com, said in an interview : “People, employers, and customers find you because of the internet.

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4 Ways to Improve Your Online Storefront

Up and Running

In fact, according to Shopify , global retail ecommerce sales are on track to reach $4.5 B2B ecommerce sales , (businesses selling directly to other businesses) generate three times as much revenue as B2C, at $7.7 If they’re like most people today, they turn to Google and start to browse the internet for shoelaces. That’s great!

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27 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

Remember, we’re on the Internet right now, and the Internet is owned by cats. My company is named MARQETED and is a marketing consulting and services company for small businesses in the B2B sector. I’ve been a member of the North Face global athlete team for over 10 years. And it just sounded really cool to me.

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A dumb American’s perspective on investing in Southeast Asia

Hippoland

B2B, for example, hasn’t even even really started as a category yet. People in the US can pay for things electronically and can get most services and goods today from the internet – things in the US generally work, so improvements in these areas are all incremental. Other customer audiences are laggards in adopting the internet.

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A dumb American’s perspective on investing in Southeast Asia

Hippoland

B2B, for example, hasn’t even even really started as a category yet. People in the US can pay for things electronically and can get most services and goods today from the internet – things in the US generally work, so improvements in these areas are all incremental. Other customer audiences are laggards in adopting the internet.

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a16z Podcast: Growth in Turbulent Times

Ben's Blog

And if step one or two of the growth model start hitting a lot of friction, then of course it’s just going to get harder and harder, because each group of users is going to produce fewer and fewer users from an acquisition standpoint. And so, we’ve seen a product-led growth motion certainly in the B2B space happening slowly.

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