View from Seed

MARCH 24, 2021

So, we decided to aggregate NextView’s “greatest hits.” Why Do Consumer IPOs and B2B IPOs Get Treated Differently? Because of that, foods are being increasingly engineered to achieve certain goals or outcomes, and consumers are willing to accept some pretty weird form factors to achieve this.”

Seed Stage 177

Seed Stage Hiring IPO Analytics 177

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

My colleagues Sebastian Soler , Steven Greenberg and I recently launched a new online community, PEVCTech.com , exclusively for PE/VC investors; engineers who work at PE/VC funds; and other technologists who specialize in working on this problem. Many tools designed for B2B marketing in general are also relevant to investors.

Private Equity 60

Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Technical Review 60

Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

” Increasingly, when folks turn to a search engine, they aren’t looking for something around the world, they’re looking for something around the block. Below are five local search engine optimization and search engine marketing plays that you can do today to improve your chances of coming up big in the local search game.

Search 69

Search Software Review Technical Review Engineer 69

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 5, 2012

But Chicago-based startup MentorMob ( www.mentormob.com ) wants to change that – the free, community-based collaborative service aims to aggregate and organize the best online educational content on any topic, so it’s easier to find. With MentorMob , you spend more time learning and less time searching.”. Learning From Others.

Illinois 165

Illinois Aggregator Chicago Widget 165

View from Seed

OCTOBER 7, 2015

Sector: B2B On-Demand. B2B on-demand is the perfect combination between two of our existing portfolio strengths: The fact that half of our investments are business-focused startups, and our expertise with consumer on-demand services like Paintzen , TaskRabbit , and Scratch. davidbeisel | LinkedIn. Authenticity to NextView.

Search 120

Search B2B Artificial Inteligence Semantic 120

View from Seed

OCTOBER 7, 2015

Sector: B2B On-Demand. B2B on-demand is the perfect combination between two of our existing portfolio strengths: The fact that half of our investments are business-focused startups, and our expertise with consumer on-demand services like Paintzen , TaskRabbit , and Scratch. davidbeisel | LinkedIn. Authenticity to NextView.

Search 120

Search B2B Artificial Inteligence Semantic 120

Rob Go

JUNE 7, 2012

It feels like we are in the early/mid 1990’s again, or, more appropriately, like we are on the cusp on the second industrial revolution where we saw massive developments centered around the foundational innovations of steel, the internal combustion engine, and electricity. But this is happening in massive areas that we never think about.

Technical Review 61

Technical Review SMS Internet B2C 61

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. ff Venture Capital hired two full-time engineers to build out Totem. It sounds simple; however, very few asset managers actually do it.”

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

ConversionXL

MARCH 20, 2019

Given the number of people involved in B2B decisions, account-wide coverage has value in addition to one-to-one targeting. That’s only one segment of the B2B market. Aggregate that data at an account level to know which accounts to target. The aggregation of individual behavior at a company level was the critical innovation.

Software Review 117

Software Review Software Marketing IP 117

Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 7, 2020

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. So you understand that having a presence on search engines, particularly Google, is important. Increasingly, Google is where people head to find information about businesses.

Search 71

Search PPC Kansas City B2C 71

Cracking the Code

JANUARY 28, 2008

Eloqua is bringing this revolution to the B2B marketers by providing on-demand applications and best-practice expertise for B2B marketers to execute, automate and measure effective marketing programs that drive revenue. " Become.com is a search engine designed to help consumers searching for products on the web.

Software Review 48

Software Review Technical Review Los Angeles Europe 48

VC Cafe

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Microsoft bought visual identification video search engine Videosurf , which developed a technology that locates video clips on the Internet. Treato , an Israeli web site that aggregates and analyzes user-generated data is said to revolutionize the way patients, physicians and drug companies share info about medications.

Nebraska 99

Nebraska Silicon Valley Miami 99

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Startups for startups – the top B2B tools used by Startups – Includes the list of top 50 startup vendors in 2012 by Vendorstack , a reviews and Q&A platform on enterprise vendors for startups and mid-market companies. Firebase : Are all your developers front-end engineers? Google Custom Search Engine.

Software Review 53

Software Review Technical Review Startup 53

VC Cafe

JUNE 22, 2010

ForNova provides a B2B turnkey solution to enable building aggregation solutions for classifieds eCommerce, travel and many other specific content verticals. In addition, Footbo has developed a stand alone fantasy football application ( 11Kicks.com ) which is available to partners as a white label product.

Media 145

Media Social Network Flash 145

Occam's Razor

JULY 1, 2013

Originally I'd recommended it for content, or B2B, sites, over time I've come to rely on it for pretty much any type of company. But fresh relevant content is also of value in our search engine optimization efforts, keeps a pipeline of socially shareable assets going. Your users are happier. Not a problem. You can't.

Search 135

Search Analytics PPC Green 135

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. Dasur’s solution is based on a unique, patented pattern recognition engine. Cellint provides the best road traffic information service world wide.

Mobile 103

Mobile Securities and Exchange Commission Flash IP 103

Up and Running

MAY 21, 2014

John Jantsch is a marketing consultant, speaker and the best-selling author of Duct Tape Marketing , Duct Tape Selling , The Commitment Engine , and The Referral Engine. Whereas LinkedIn has always been very B2B focused, very networking, very “I’m here to do business.”

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?

Analytics 139

Analytics Aggregator Channel B2B 139

Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

In this case, fully-burdened is not just the salary, bonus, and benefits of the sales rep, but also allocations for sales engineering support, executive support, marketing expense, and professional service expenses associate with securing the customer. Yet many B2B companies don’t have a clue.

Software Review 48

Software Review North America Europe Metrics 48

ConversionXL

MAY 27, 2020

I’ve been in the B2B link-building game for almost five years, and the true value of link building isn’t quick fixes. B2B copywriting almost always requires more skill and time compared to B2C. Being featured on sites like Search Engine Journal (SEJ), Moz, Entrepreneur, and HubSpot is solid social proof.

B2B 142

B2B Social Media Email Campaign 142

Hunter Walker

MARCH 11, 2023

Repeat this question for everything B2B. AI ‘Native’ Applications What are the conditions by which the addition of AI catalyzes new product offerings built around this technology versus ‘AI’ being a feature that the market leading applications can build into their platforms.

Artificial Inteligence 67

Artificial Inteligence Non-Compete Generative AI IP 67

mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

ScheduleOnce – Scheduling engine to get everyone who needs to meet together at one time. b2b CRM – A Web-based CRM that manages contacts, activities, and your sales pipeline, and integrates with Outlook and Word. Shiftboard – Online scheduling for businesses to coordinate worker schedules.

Software Review 78

Software Review Social Media Social Network Software 78

Occam's Razor

AUGUST 12, 2013

" In this case it was a B2B client, long conversion cycle that lasted around 65 days, ignoring the outliers, so I picked 75. You don't have to do attribution analysis for all your conversions in aggregate. Just to be conservative. Look at your own Time Lag report, come up with your own number. You do too. #3.

Channel 161

Channel Analytics Campaign Conversion 161

Occam's Razor

JANUARY 28, 2013

The suggestions engine they have. There is a lot any business — B2C, B2B, A2Z — can learn from Songza. Then they match it back to their rules engine that serves me the best options. So like every other human on the planet I go to my favorite search engine and type in "ADT Security Plans."

Web 164

Web Design Marketing Security 164

ConversionXL

JUNE 13, 2016

The good news is: If you use the new Smart Stats by VWO or Optimizely’s Stats Engine , the procedures to correct for an increasing probability of error for multiple test variants are applied automatically. In test 2 you change the Recommendation engine algorithm, such that you primarily show sale articles here. Why is that?

Distribution 48

Distribution Conversion Non-Compete Revenue 48

ConversionXL

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Many B2B companies run into the same problem, particularly those that are: Complex, with products that require deep expertise to understand and use. Most niche industries have some form of representation on these channels, like: This subreddit for commercial audio-visual engineers.

B2B 133

B2B Marketing SEO Search 133

Occam's Razor

MARCH 23, 2010

Email campaign ideas, content improvement, behavior targeting, testing product prices , hiring a supposedly awesome consultant, using offline calls to action, measuring impact of television on the web, opening a twitter account of a B2B business, doing… Anything you can think of I can do it. Usually for free. Usually at least a test.

Analytics 118

Analytics Web Metrics Channel 118

ConversionXL

MARCH 26, 2014

What I find most useful about this report is the ability for B2B companies to gain insights with regards to their leads or prospects (could be applied to lead scoring within a CRM). After removing the gross offenders such as Amazon, Microsoft, and Peer, we see that the overall conversion rate has jumped from 1.55% to 2.06%.

Analytics 131

Analytics Conversion Metrics Europe 131

SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

Many of our job postings for Engineering positions describe the company as a place “where the word ‘millions’ is used frequently and in many contexts&#. So, I’ve had about 4 years on the “inside” of a fast-growing, venture-backed B2B SaaS startup. Each of those domains would get one point in the aggregated list.

Software Review 217

Software Review Startup Venture Capital Technical Review 217

abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 2, 2021

Also, take a look at this critically important data point , also aggregated by Professor Jay Ritter. The others are all B2B companies. I am a member of this group, and I have developed these perspectives over many years of watching from the inside and being equally gullible. of VC-backed companies vs Buyout-backed companies.

IPO 82

IPO Customer Matching Silicon Valley 82