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B2B Marketplaces Revisited

Version One Ventures

As are a handful of vertical marketplaces that have emerged over the past few years (e.g. But overall, we’ve yet to see the large-scale success of B2B marketplaces across the full spectrum of verticals. As such, successful B2B marketplaces will do the following well: Aggregate suppliers and provide price transparency.

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How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood

David Teten

In venture capital in particular, early-stage companies are often operating in frontier industries, where the rules are unpredictable and conventional analytic frameworks may be misleading. Sebastian Soler recently launched Knowledge.vc , which uses software and machine learning to enhance deal sourcing and diligence for VC firms.

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How to Handle Mobile “Moneyball Syndrome” & Cross-Device Attribution

ConversionXL

Although this gap is decreasing due to the rise of mobile website optimization , conversion rates for these websites are still poor when compared to their desktop counterparts. These users may be visiting to check inventory, look at reviews, read blog articles, or even compare pricing. In fact, a survey by Quiex states that 49.7%

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Spectacles and $SNAP’s $20B Valuation

Austin Startup

Had Facebook not purchased Instagram, Facebook’s aggregate numbers likely would have dipped as millennials have largely abandoned Facebook for Instagram and Snapchat. The smartphone is for everyone, we don’t have to think the iPhone is about a certain demographic, or country or vertical market: it’s for everyone.

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

However, in private markets, there is more room to optimize across all 11 steps of the investing process: firm management , marketing, fundraising , origination , manage relationships, due diligence, negotiation, monitoring, portfolio acceleration , reporting, and. They read reviews of the products of target investments.

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Can You Trust Any vc's Under 40?

Steve Blank

For instance, I’ve been warned when being introduced by other entrepreneurs not to trust certain older VCs due to their disposition towards using young startups to do their friends favors, prove a point, gain some insight, etc. My experience of 2001-2004 is very remote from what you are describing.

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Tracking Multiple Domains: Setup & Reporting for Dozens of Sites

ConversionXL

What about corporation-wide reporting for different brands, verticals, portals, or even companies within a multinational concern, all of which operate in different countries? Aggregate them and consider how those needs transfer to your web analysis tool: What do you want to analyze? What are your business requirements?