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B2B Marketplaces Revisited

Version One Ventures

As such, successful B2B marketplaces will do the following well: Aggregate suppliers and provide price transparency. A marketplace needs to bring product catalogs from multiple suppliers and aggregate them in one convenient spot for customers. Tie in with the rest of the ecosystem. Referral fees.

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How Online Video Companies Can Increase Margin and Build Better Businesses

Both Sides of the Table

You must find ways to get some distribution through other online partners like Hulu or package up shows for distribution on Roku or Xbox. You need to roll up videos into aggregated channels, “networks,” that are 30% of your views in the long-run. MSN & AOL. One of the best I have seen in the market is Epoxy.TV.

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NextView’s Greatest Hits

View from Seed

So, we decided to aggregate NextView’s “greatest hits.” 7 Common Mistakes Entrepreneurs Make in VC Pitches and How to Fix Them “Different partners in a VC firm are different. Here’s What Still Makes No Sense. “Non-partner venture roles are not easy. ” (Lee Hower).

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Tune In, Turn On, Drop Out – The Startup Genome Project

Steve Blank

The solution I’m exploring is a just in time learning methodology that accelerates founders’ learning curve by aggregating relevant content, peers and mentors.&#. But he left to work on what he told me he came to do - crack the innovation code of Silicon Valley and share it with the rest of the world.

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The 4 Types of Stories Founders Need to Tell When Fundraising

View from Seed

Generating excitement in others solely rests on you and the power of your story. The same metaphor is true for modern, “legacy” businesses — most businesses that exist today have co-evolved against one another in a careful dance of suppliers, distributors, competitors, and partners. Enter the Kudzu.

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Do Less. More.

Both Sides of the Table

There’s too much PR and too many tech blogs and too many newsletters and aggregators and Twitter summarizers to even try to catch everything that’s going on and equally there’s so much noise that it becomes harder to be heard. partners and now principals making investments that number is the right-sized fit for our firm.

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This Post Has Nothing to do with #SXSW

Both Sides of the Table

You may choose some where your customers aggregate, others where you hope to find biz dev partners & still others where you want to meet investors. Don’t assume that you’ll fortuitously run into potential customers or biz dev partners. Be very targeted in which events you attend. All it takes is one.