View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

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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Framework Cofounder Seed Stage B2C 120

ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

77% of users believe social login is a good registration solution… …and should be offered by any website, according to the aggregated research published by WebHostingBuzz. Mailchimp, a B2B email marketing platform, recorded a 66% drop in failed logins after introducing social login. Impressive, but since only 3.4%

Social Network 73

Social Network Viral Social Media B2C 73

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 16, 2011

That’s also how Anand Singh and Harveen Narulla felt, and that is why they founded GreenBills Pte Ltd, the technology start-up behind e-bill aggregation solution GreenPost. Singh and Narulla believe they have found the answer, and that is: aggregated e-billing. Not to mention, it’s a massive waste of paper.

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Green Singapore B2C Aggregator 248

Austin Startup

JANUARY 25, 2020

They’re a carefully-curated clothing aggregator, with an emphasis on creating customized shopping experiences. Rajya : We’ve met and talked to a lot of people who are doing B2B, but meeting B2C people is really key for us. There’s not a lot of B2C retail tech that we’ve been able to meet in Austin.

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B2C Startup B2B Cofounder 62

View from Seed

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Aggregate VC investment in 2009 hits a low of roughly $20B, a figure last seen in 2003 in the wake of the bursting of the dotcom and telecom bubble and 2001 recession. We’re only a few months past Sequoia’s famous “R.I.P. Good Times” presentation (Oct 2008). Image from Sequoia Capital presentation. 2017-2018: Rediscovery of Unit Economics.

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IPO Early Stage Cofounder B2C 202

ConversionXL

JUNE 24, 2014

77% of Users Believe Social Login Is A Good Registration Solution… … and should be offered by any website, according to the same aggregated research published by WebHostingBuzz. MailChimp, the B2B subscriber email management service, recorded a 66% drop in failed logins after introducing social login.

Social Network 130

Social Network Viral Social Media B2C 130

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

Advances in machine learning, specifically natural language processing, have made generating these baseline, aggregate datasets possible, at scale, with high accuracy. Many tools designed for B2B marketing in general are also relevant to investors. 1) Market fund. 6) Negotiate deal. 9) Time, market, and exit investment.

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Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Technical Review 60

The Next Web

DECEMBER 8, 2013

By the end, 99 percent of the B2B marketplaces had cratered and only B2C eBay was left standing and thriving. The prevailing consensus at the time was that B2B marketplaces were too hard (e.g. Start with aggregating scarce and in-demand inventory. Investment stopped, and entrepreneurs focused on other categories.

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B2C B2B Demand Vertical 136

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 2, 2014

The Uberflip platform starts with aggregating all the content you create and curate. Here’s some food for thought to end off with: we’ve been looking at our relationship with customers as B2B or B2C (and that latest one, H2H or Human to Human ?).

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Marketing Curation B2C Audience 162

Rob Go

JUNE 7, 2012

Our recent investment in Farmeron is leveraging the rising availability of data being produced in the farming and agricultural sector, and other companies are similarly aggregating and making accessible oceanographic data. But this is happening in massive areas that we never think about. They are far more foundational to what is to come.

Technical Review 61

Technical Review SMS Internet B2C 61

Agile VC

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Aggregate VC investment in 2009 hits a low of roughly $20B, a figure last seen in 2003 in the wake of the bursting of the dotcom and telecom bubble and 2001 recession. We’re only a few months past Sequoia’s famous “R.I.P. Good Times” presentation (Oct 2008). Image from Sequoia Capital presentation. 2017-2018: Rediscovery of Unit Economics.

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IPO Early Stage Cofounder B2C 100

Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 7, 2020

Some business owners have written off the concept of paid search because they’re not a retailer or B2C. And it doesn’t matter what kind of business it is—B2B or B2C, retailer or service provider—people are opening up a search browser to find you online.

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Search PPC Kansas City B2C 71

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Many tools designed for B2B marketing in general are also relevant to investors. I previously posted a detailed presentation with sales technology tools useful for B2B sales. The majority of funds are using the popular B2C websites and services for basic due diligence, e.g., Linkedin, Twitter, HackerNews.

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Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 29, 2016

There’s a reason such resources are in high demand: 88% of all B2B businesses are investing in content marketing , along with 80% of B2C businesses. Think about how you and your brand can make their lives better or easier with the information you aggregate. Of course folks are gonna want to know how to get it right.

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Marketing B2C Audience Aggregator 48

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 6, 2013

eBay aggregated buyers and sellers of stuff, mostly stuff in the attic and garage, and took a fee on the sale. Unfiltered as it is though, the Internet is a bit like going down to market and finding that if you walk through the stalls for about fifteen years you wouldn’t even make a dent in what’s there.

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Channel Small Business Distribution B2C 61

Venture Chronicles

JANUARY 5, 2014

An open question that in unanswerable right now is the degree to which the infrastructure, service providers, and various data intermediaries serving b2b and b2c markets treat the government as a hostile actor. 3) Big data takes a breather. big data with just your stuff is rarely big data.

Silicon Valley 62

Silicon Valley Cloud B2C Mobile 62

ConversionXL

APRIL 22, 2015

Let’s say you run a B2B site, and drive your visitors toward a quote request page. B2B and B2C. A click map is a visual representation, aggregated data of where people click. This comes down to the most important thing about conversion optimization – the discovery of matters. Click maps.

Analytics 48

Analytics Technical Review Conversion Framework 48

VC Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2011

Established location-based services to enable the CSP offer B2B and B2C services based on mobile positioning, tracking & locating, turn-by-turn navigation and mobile local search. Logia has the unique combination of being both a content aggregator and a billing aggregator. Mce Systems. MailVision.

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Mobile Securities and Exchange Commission Flash IP 103

Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

This is a clear example where business-to-business (B2B) marketers need to learn from their business-to-consumer (B2C) counterparts. Yet many B2B companies don’t have a clue. 3) Analyze the aggregated data to determine best practices and benchmarks across your customers.

Software Review 48

Software Review North America Europe Metrics 48

Up and Running

MAY 21, 2014

” You know, just simply sharing, aggregating and filtering other people’s content can actually be a great way to really be a valuable content resource for people because you’re showing them the 5 or 10 blog posts that they should read this week as opposed to telling them or leaving them to their own to go out and find the.

Marketing 72

Marketing Social Media Sales Media 72

Occam's Razor

MAY 20, 2013

As is common in these types of educational companies, aggregators rule the roost. The above image only illustrates three segments and their conversions – search, referrals, and aggregators – purely for the sake for simplicity. The answer is simple: Aggregators. They do everything. Which fire should we add more fuel to?

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Analytics Aggregator Channel B2B 139

Occam's Razor

JANUARY 28, 2013

There is a lot any business — B2C, B2B, A2Z — can learn from Songza. by creating a great experience, reassuring me with clear pricing, and they won't even have to pay a bounty to their aggregators! I love the social nature of sharing playlists. The suggestions engine they have.

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Web Design Marketing Security 164