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Startup CTO Speaking

SoCal CTO

So, here goes: Dr. Tony Karrer Over the past 15 years, Tony has been a part-time CTO for more than 30 startups. Select Startup CTO Speaking Topics Ten Lessons from Working on 30+ Startups Over the Past 15 Years Tony looks back over his experience working with startups and extracts elements that have led to success or failure.

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Rob Stevens & Rob Go B2B GTM AMA Recap

View from Seed

Stevens has held roles across verticals such as head of sales, marketing, product, and professional services at five startups over twenty years. He has experience in B2B, supply chain, robotics, SaaS, and IoT spaces. He helps early-stage startups with sales, marketing, and general “go to market” topics. Be flexible.

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Ecommerce Trendwatching: How To Find, Follow, and Set Trends

ReadWriteStart

In 2023, personalization will remain a critical aspect of e-commerce trends, whether you are B2B or B2C. 3 Watch out for Startups and Emerging Markets Analyzing competitors’ activity in the market is essential, but businesses should think outside the box and keep track of startups and emerging markets.

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How to Found a Startup in a New Industry

View from Seed

Most startups’ founding mythologies are full of the same phrases : “hard work,” “agile strategy,” “smart scaling.” Here are three keys to creating a startup in a new industry. But if you’re a B2B company, you can be your own best case study—before you even have great case studies.

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Finding new Market Opportunities in Food Business: A Case Study of GOPA Pakistan

Where to Play

A good indicator for this fact is the growing number of Chai-Startups in India. The time to revenue is much longer due to the seasonal and B2B nature of this opportunity. Step 3: Agile Focus Dartboard. This opportunity focuses primarily on B2B customers, and they share no traits with the customers from the main opportunity.

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Why Do Consumer IPOs and B2B IPOs Get Treated Differently?

Agile VC

2019 is off to an exciting start for IPOs of VC-backed startups. Zoom is a B2B company Pinterest and Lyft are obviously B2C companies. I don’t follow the Chinese startup market as closely as I follow the US, but Alibaba’s 2014 IPO was a similar watershed moment. The post Why Do Consumer IPOs and B2B IPOs Get Treated Differently?

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First Mover Fallacy

Agile VC

While our portfolio at NextView is roughly equally weighted to consumer facing and B2B companies, it seems that for consumer companies in particular being first mover confers little benefit and the drawbacks probably outweigh whatever weak advantage might exist. This usually takes a lot of time, money, and energy.

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