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B2B Marketplaces Revisited

Version One Ventures

boom – expectations were high for B2B (product) marketplaces. Yet today, the world of B2B marketplaces still lags far behind its B2C counterpart. By reducing the friction for North American companies to find suppliers in China, they’ve been the most successful B2B marketplace to date. How to monetize a B2B marketplace.

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A Quick Primer on B2B Conversion Optimization

ConversionXL

Conversion optimization is a little different if you’re in B2B. You’ll still need to do the same types of conversion research, persona building, and experimentation that is common across conversion optimization, but let’s talk a bit about how and why B2B is different. It’s called Optimizing for B2B.

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Top 10 Emerging Marketplaces for Chemical Industry in 2022

ReadWriteStart

Accordingly, people were obliged to look for opportunities on online B2B chemical marketplaces. People in the chemical industries became closer even before COVID-19, B2B digital marketplaces: A New Era. Essentially, the scenario is that there are flexible aggregators as. Microsoft Teams. Google Meet. Seller side platforms.

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Requests for Startups in 2024

VC Cafe

I’ve recently come across several of such lists and I thought it could be useful to aggregate them and share them here. AI to build enterprise software – In the future, every enterprise could have their own custom ERP, CRM or HRIS that is continually updating itself as the company itself is changing.

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Announcing our investment in DemandStar, a marketplace for government procurement  

Version One Ventures

We recently wrote that B2B marketplaces need to nail four things : aggregate product catalogs, automate procurement processes, increase trust/social proof, and integrate with key services in the ecosystem. DemandStar is on a great path toward executing against all four of these opportunities. .

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CXL Live 2022 Recap: Main Takeaways From 6 World-Class Marketers

ConversionXL

B2B buyers aren’t all-rational, and they will often follow and recommend tools they’ve heard of even if they’ve never used them. Gaetano DiNardi: “Outdated B2B vs. Modern B2B” Gaetano delivered his insights on which indicators you should use for your demand gen program. Daniel Layfield.

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Why This Startup Teaches Everyone to Code + a Framework to Find a CTO

View from Seed

In the 10th edition of Traction, we hear the story of Vin Vacanti , co-founder/CEO of Yipit.com (daily deals aggregator) and YipitData (analyzes web data for institutional investors). Why Vin decided to pivot the business (read: launch a second startup) and what he learned going from B2C to B2B.

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