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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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Can You Trust Any vc's Under 40?

Steve Blank

Posted on September 14, 2009 by steveblank Over the last 30 years Wall Street’s appetite for technology stocks have changed radically – swinging between unbridled enthusiasm to believing they’re all toxic. Tech acquisitions went crazy at the same time the IPO market did. 3) invest in and take equity stakes in exchange for capital.

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Marching through quicksand

Startup Lessons Learned

The other revels in the world as we all know it will be someday: limitless distribution enabled by new technologies, the importance of collaborative filters, and on-demand availability of all content for end-users. But, as any startup can tell you, this opens up a tremendous set of opportunities for the rest of us. Is that a lot?

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You Should Probably Send More Email Than You Do

www.kalzumeus.com

Statistically speaking, you’re probably reading it either through a feedreader or on an aggregator like Hacker News. The rest of y’all are missing out, seriously. So I can see why this would be successful: Most people have no desire to learn how to use technology to its fullest – just enough to barely get by.

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Not All Traffic Is Created Equal

www.pakman.com

But if your service attracts particular verticals of content engagement, not all content is created equal, and some is much more valuable than others. Things like business white-papers or product reviews are perfect examples of informational traffic. The rest is just semantics. There is no “Facebook of China.”

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Startups are the new MTV – and 15 other thoughts for 2015

Start Up Blog

As we are now in 2015, midway through the second decade of the new millennium, I thought I’d reflect on shifts I am seeing in culture, commerce and technology. That is a type of technology which could become a species threat before we realise what we’ve created. The first thought is pretty obvious. Bring it on.

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Startups are the new MTV – and 15 other thoughts for 2015

Start Up Blog

As we are now in 2015, midway through the second decade of the new millennium, I thought I’d reflect on shifts I am seeing in culture, commerce and technology. That is a type of technology which could become a species threat before we realise what we’ve created. The first thought is pretty obvious. Bring it on.