Austin Startup

APRIL 17, 2017

Thrillbox Visual Semantics Visual Semantics builds cloud-based software to stream ‘predictive intelligence’ to AR/VR hardware and software applications primary for real time threat analysis. Candidates will learn our culture and how to go through steps of sales cycle with Lead Generation, B2B and B2C sales and account management.

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

Investment Criteria: B2B SaaS or tech-enabled services with proven, recurring contracts. Manuge continues, “Corl connects to a business’ bank accounts, accounting software, payment processors, and other digital services to collect 10,000+ historical data points that are analyzed in real-time. ARR of $500K+. Growth support.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 15, 2017

However, that is wishful thinking if your customer decision makers have budgets for percentage payments and software buying is handled by a different group and a different procurement process. What is your Customer Acquisition Cost? But, it is likely the major differentiator between a win and a loss whether you are selling B2B or B2C.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 19, 2018

After a monumental year that saw Voices.com raise a Series A investment from Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital, followed closely by the acquisition of a formidable competitor in our space, I am more excited than ever to grow our business and its influence. #2- Two goals. Photo Credit: David Ciccarelli. 7- Giving back to the community.

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Seeing Both Sides

JULY 11, 2013

Across our portfolio and in my own entrepreneurial experience, I have seen three main sales models work successfully in scaling B2B sales: 1) Enterprise; 2) Telephone; and 3) Developer-driven. 80-90% software products vs. 40-50% advertising products) and company maturity (e.g., customer acquisition cost or CAC).

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ConversionXL

MAY 27, 2022

The average B2B buyer has 27 brand interactions before deciding. Only around 10–15% of B2B leads turn into paying customers, and it’s because tactics optimizing for the early stages of the funnel only cater to early-stage goals. Very few, if any, of these interactions are with a sales rep.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 23, 2013

Whereas a normal software company might charge $100,000 for an Enterprise deal, and thus immediately earn back those “customer startup” costs plus profit, the same SaaS deal might be $5000/mo, and it might take 18 months to get that same amount of revenue. Drastically reduce the cost of customer acquisition.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 16, 2015

Operations should focus relentlessly on the latter.”. Josh Gebhardt, CEO, MetricStory , observes that horizontal spread across and within an organization’s functional siloes is a good metric for B2B products. Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC). Vanity metrics do not inform, guide or improve the business; they are not actionable.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 24, 2018

Blitzscaling — lays out a useful framework for thinking about this, including the relevant B2B customer scale: Organizational Scale OS1 : Family (1’s) OS2 : Tribe (10’s) OS3 : Village (100’s) OS4 : City (1000’s) OS5 : Nation (10,000’s) As with every model, it is only that? Tortoises can take more time on operations. and they will.

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View from Seed

MARCH 3, 2015

Ellie Mirman was the first marketer hired by the CMO of HubSpot, the Boston-based marketing software startup that IPOed in 2014. Even identifying as a demand-gen marketer or branding or B2B or B2C leaves a lot of decisions still on the table to actually execute. Where do you start? Should you do that at all?

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 17, 2018

I actually did a study on this a few years ago, and I looked at 351 B2B companies with 50 to 1000 employees, and there was a huge difference between the software companies and the non software companies. And you got one point just for having Google analytics on your website, so effectively-.

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Amidst the rise of new funds, new technologies, and potentially disruptive late stage players, I thought it was important to share what we consider to be our core operating principles here at NextView. . It’s been an interesting several years in the early stage venture eco-system, and the sands have shifted considerably.

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Hippoland

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

We recently announced at Hustle Fund that we will start investing in Southeast Asian software startups, and my new business partner Shiyan Koh, who just moved back home to Singapore, will be leading the charge on that. B2B, for example, hasn’t even even really started as a category yet. more on this below).

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Hippoland

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

We recently announced at Hustle Fund that we will start investing in Southeast Asian software startups, and my new business partner Shiyan Koh, who just moved back home to Singapore, will be leading the charge on that. B2B, for example, hasn’t even even really started as a category yet. more on this below).

Asia 48

Asia Indonesia B2B Singapore 48

Steve Blank

APRIL 1, 2020

Operating Numbers. I listened in on a board call with an enterprise software company this week, and when the CEO said, “Our VP of sales assured me our pipeline won’t be affected.” This plan has three parts: Pivots to your new business model, changes to your operating plan, and what initiatives you save for the recovery.

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Mucker Lab

APRIL 6, 2023

You engage the marketing team and you do a lot of acquisition and people are coming. You can begin to work on position a little bit, but the early acquisitions are there to give you more users to work on to continue to build out the product. Then, any marketing budget or any acquisition effort you do at large scale is not wasted.

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Transformify

JANUARY 24, 2021

B2B Experience. Even more, the invoices can be directly uploaded into the clients’ ERP or accounting software. What is Self-billing and How to Choose the Right Self-billing Software? How to Choose a Self-billing Software? All service providers self-bill Transformify. Maintain Just One Vendor in Your Vendor Database.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Click-Through Rate Definition The Conversion Rate Formula: How to Calculate Conversion Rate Bounce Rate: Everything You Want to Know and More How To Calculate and Increase Customer Lifetime Value PPC Click-Through-Rate: What it Means and How to Use It (and Improve It) How to Track and Improve Ecommerce Customer Acquisition Effectiveness.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 28, 2020

It wasn’t quite a flip from B2C to B2B, but it was close. This is the model my customers referenced when I was selling them demand-gen software in 2014. I also liked the DemandGen Framework because it considered customer expansion revenue in addition to the acquisition side , which is covered by the SiriusDecisions models.

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Agile VC

MAY 16, 2012

We also invest only in software & internet enabled businesses. 2) Vast Human Capital Outside Our Walls - Rob, David, and I all try to draw on our experience as founders, operators, and investors in software & internet companies both in looking at new startups and forming investment themes.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 2, 2022

Individuals don’t make B2B buying decisions; groups do. Marketing and sales worked to define an ideal customer profile (ICP) , with several defining factors including: Currently using a data warehouse solution; Has a defined strategy to move to cloud-based operations; Has existing cloud-based solutions from competitor companies.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 14, 2022

So yeah, I, there there's some confusion around these terms, partner, marketing partnership, marketing affiliate market, and you have influencer and B2B. So I just consider affiliate marketing, part of this greater ecosystem of partnership marketing now, which includes influencer and B2B and aspects of business development.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Today, Grizzle is a full-service content marketing and SEO agency that provides B2B and SaaS companies end-to-end services. These days, many agencies start as a lean operation. Most B2B buyers know this. A dramatic example of this is a software development agency offering UX and UI services. Image source ).

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ConversionXL

APRIL 7, 2021

If you’re selling B2B, you know it’s a wide and competitive market. Compared to selling sophisticated software bundled with professional services to large enterprise companies (Fortune 500) which involves navigating a lot of complexity in the buying cycle. They won’t magically show up at your doorstep and sign a $100K cheque.

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Agile VC

MARCH 8, 2012

The secondary wave of VC-backed IPOs has also come to fruition… both consumer facing (Yelp, Demand Media, Pandora, Carbonite, HomeAway, Angie’s List, et al) and B2B (Jive Software, Brightcove, Imperva, Responsys, etc). I remember when it was a rare, extraordinary thing for a software/internet startup to even file an S-1.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 25, 2018

It starts with having the right data in the system,” noted Kamil Rextin, who wrote about B2B attribution. As Tom Tunguz explains : The early and late majority segments comprise 68% of the market, and these buyers don’t buy software the way early adopters buy software. What is the spend on the people, software and media?

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Kodorra

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Since this virtue served me well throughout my entrepreneur journey, here I’d like to share the same money-saving tricks that helped grew my company to its acquisition. Almost every B2B business extends a credit term to their clients. A friend of a friend was paid with air tickets for a software work they did for a discount airline.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

I walk through below how progressive investors are using technology and analytics throughout all of their operations. Many tools designed for B2B marketing in general are also relevant to investors. We are also seeing technology evaluation as an increasingly important part of LP operational due diligence. 1) Manage the firm .

Technical Review 78

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

I’m moving out of an operational role. And now he’s started to build products alongside that and become this integrated product and media company where his audience is telling him what products to sell, software, software as a service, other types of services that they’re now starting to offer, and education, etc.

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www.foliomag.com

JULY 31, 2012

B2B: Business Media. Operations. B2B Publishing. Mix of B2B and Consumer Pubilshing. Accounting and Billing Software. Mergers and Acquisitions. Production Software. Software and Hardware. Featured Jobs. Newest Jobs. Job Seeker Login. Post a Job. Employer Login. Browse Jobs. Search Jobs.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

Are you aware of your cost per acquisition on other channels? B2B Affiliate Programs Look a Little Different. Still, they are active in the B2B space as well (20.55%). Affiliates can share their learnings with you, which can help you guide other affiliates and in-house operations. Software / Tech. Image Source.

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ConversionXL

JULY 9, 2015

Depending on your cost per lead acquisition, as well as conversion rates per traffic source, you’ll want to spend time A/B testing the amount of information asked for, the way it’s asked, and the order it’s asked in (among other things), while prioritizing specific sources. What level of financial commitment does buying your software require?

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ConversionXL

JUNE 2, 2022

If leads-based B2B marketing is fishing with a net, ABM is using a harpoon. How do you sustain growth that precedes the highest IPO in history for a software company? This approach works for both new account acquisition and account expansion. And yet, no one can agree on what account-based marketing is. Keep doing what works.

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Software By Rob

OCTOBER 14, 2010

And after talking about this subject at length, I found myself again evangelizing it last week at the Business of Software conference. But if you have any desire to sell your software, consider marketing a fundamental building block of the process. If all you’re doing is building a hobby project then no marketing needed.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 26, 2019

We tried, and opted out of, potentials for pivots; we pitched for game-changing partners and acquisitions that did not ultimately convert. Even though most of this message was already drafted, we also had a Hail Mary of a final acquisition conversation that closed the following morning. Obviously, it did not convert.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 2, 2022

Account-based marketing is an extremely targeted approach (one-to-one rather than one-to-many), so it usually has a much higher customer acquisition cost (CAC). To execute effectively on your product marketing strategy , marketing and sales need to operate as one unit. Touch 5: Personalized gift.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Adobe’s recent acquisition of Comscore’s Digital Analytix business adds another product integration to their future roadmap. With BrowerStack you fire up different configurations of operating system, display size and browser variation. Cons: Measurement of acquisition channels appears to be a mute point with Clicktale.

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