Austin Startup

OCTOBER 15, 2017

What seems to be the best way to create customers and revenue may result in a business model that is out of vogue with the investment world and shortchanges you on enterprise valuation. But, it is likely the major differentiator between a win and a loss whether you are selling B2B or B2C. No further conversations ensued.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

From there, I became the first non-founder employee at an e-commerce startup called BITSource, which was the first electronic software distributor delivering electronic volume software licenses to corporations. It was also beneficial because I got some good experience with both B2B and B2C business models.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 30, 2020

The relationship between a founder and their startup is a unique one?—?we’re We ran a series of experiments to see if we could move the needle in a more sustainable way with our current core business model - 1) Change the consumer interaction point: we rolled out a consumer facing app to streamline payment and bookings.

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View from Seed

MARCH 3, 2015

NVV: Lots of marketers are under pressure to come in and generate demand right away, whether because sales is asking for leads or founders are demanding PR or user growth. Even identifying as a demand-gen marketer or branding or B2B or B2C leaves a lot of decisions still on the table to actually execute. Where do you start?

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David Teten

JANUARY 11, 2020

But for B2B sales, meeting people in person is often mandatory. In the venture capital/private equity business, investors are B2B microinfluencers. We market to four populations: High-potential founders. Harbinger – B2B Sales & marketing. Plus, my wife doesn’t let me date celebrities. .

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 9, 2017

by Tina Hay, founder and CEO of Napkin Finance. Define Your Business Model. There are numerous types and will determine how you grow and run your business. Some of the most common include: B2B: Business to Business – Selling a product or service to other businesses.

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Version One Ventures

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Aileen Lee, founder of Cowboy Ventures, posted a brilliant analysis on why VCs have to look for billion dollar companies (“unicorns”) to deliver acceptable returns, and how rare it is to invest in one: “The odds are somewhere between catching a foul ball at an MLB game and being struck by lightning in one’s lifetime.”. B2B marketplaces.

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Seeing Both Sides

JULY 11, 2013

Before this occurs, the sales process is a craft or an art - custom-made by the founder or evangelist sales VP. Across our portfolio and in my own entrepreneurial experience, I have seen three main sales models work successfully in scaling B2B sales: 1) Enterprise; 2) Telephone; and 3) Developer-driven. 1) Enterprise Sales.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 22, 2019

He is the founder of Backlinko.com a place where you can get actionable SEO advice. So for example, a B2B national company that sells say like software as opposed to a B2C local company that does I don’t know, basement waterproofing. That’s the whole business model and it works really well.

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Mucker Lab

APRIL 6, 2023

Are there types of companies, market segments, industries, or business models where PLG does not make sense? What should an early-stage startup founder focus on if they want to implement PLG? What should the founder avoid if they want to implement PLG? Hila is a mentor with Mucker Capital. That’s never happened.

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 24, 2018

Noreen Sablotsky is the founder and CEO of Imalac , a revolutionary company in the breastfeeding world. Her responsibilities included: strategic counseling, business modeling and deal negotiation for the various for medical startups in the portfolio and is a limited partner at NGT3 Medical Accelerator in Israel.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

Mailchimp, a B2B email marketing platform, recorded a 66% drop in failed logins after introducing social login. On the other hand, Easytobook , a B2C company, had 1.5 It seems that B2C companies might benefit far more from social login than B2B, but even that seems to depend on a company’s expectations.

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Social Network Viral Social Media B2C 73

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Many tools designed for B2B marketing in general are also relevant to investors. Tim Friedman, Founder, PE Stack , said, “If I could offer one piece of advice to today’s managers, it would be to take the time to understand the demands of the modern institutional LP. It sounds simple; however, very few asset managers actually do it.”

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Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

ConversionXL

JUNE 24, 2014

MailChimp, the B2B subscriber email management service, recorded a 66% drop in failed logins after introducing social login. On the other hand, Easytobook , a B2C company, had 1.5 It seems that B2C companies might benefit far more from social login than B2Bbut even that seems to depend on a company’s expectations.

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Social Network Viral Social Media B2C 130

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Modern entrepreneurship began at the turn of the 21 st century with the observation that startups aren’t smaller versions of large companies – large companies at their core execute known business models, while startups search for scalable business models. This circular loop can cause them to churn, pivot, and fail.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Chasing funding versus chasing customers and a repeatable and scalable business model, is one reason startups fail. Is there a profitable business model? The Traditional VC Pitch Entrepreneurs who pursue the traditional product development model don’t have customer data to answer these questions. Can it scale?”

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 23, 2022

The discussion that ensued was insightful and I thought it would be worth sharing it here for founders who are dealing with a similar issue. In this post, I will cover why revenue is important, why it’s a bad north star KPI and what startup founders should consider when choosing a North Star Metric (NSM).

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Metrics Revenue B2C Portfolio 179

Reid Hoffman

AUGUST 17, 2021

says Ramaswamy, who joined Greylock in 2018 following 15 years at Google, where he ran the company’s massive advertising business. But the key is to ensure your product has a strong differentiator, which is exactly how Ramaswamy and his Neeva co-founders positioned the search engine company when it launched last year.

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Cofounder Differentiation Search Advertising 69

Reid Hoffman

AUGUST 17, 2021

says Ramaswamy, who joined Greylock in 2018 following 15 years at Google, where he ran the company’s massive advertising business. But the key is to ensure your product has a strong differentiator, which is exactly how Ramaswamy and his Neeva co-founders positioned the search engine company when it launched last year.

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Cofounder Differentiation Search Advertising 69

View from Seed

AUGUST 2, 2017

Others take bets on certain verticals or business models, such as marketplaces, SaaS, or enterprise technology. For this reason, we’re excited to announce that we have closed on NextView’s $50M third fund, with a mission to champion founders who are redesigning the Everyday Economy. . Improvement is linear and incremental.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 8, 2013

William Hsu is the co-founder and managing partner of MuckerLab. Many investors love “disruptive” businesses. This is in part because these businesses are unencumbered by legacy constraints that had previously been hardwired into the companies and industries these startups are trying to disrupt.

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 18, 2010

Before: After: And thenI ran into a Mixergy interview where 37signals founder, Jason Fried, talks about their free plan (6:00 into the interview): “… The majority of the revenues for our products come from people who sign up for the paid versions upfront. I saw that 37signals had hidden theirs. 5 Ben K on 08.18.10

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Software Review Software Revenue Cofounder 78

online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

Harvard professor Noam Wasserman and WSJ small-business editor Vanessa OConnell took reader questions about avoiding start-up pitfalls on Sept. Consider Daniel Dreymann, a founder of Goodmail Systems Inc., Languishing businesses were counted as survivors. INTERNET BUSINESSES. Business Services (B2B).

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David Teten

MARCH 18, 2021

(co-written with Stephane Nasser , co-founder of OpenVC , an open-source initiative to collect and analyze all VC theses.). OpenVC is a new, open-source initiative to collect and analyze all publicly available VC theses, to help founders more efficiently find the right investors, and vice-versa. of venture capital deals.

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Technical Review Cofounder Venture Capital Deal Flow 78

View from Seed

APRIL 20, 2020

The result is that capital tends to flow towards founders with established VC relationships and away from folks who may be equally talented but are several steps removed from investor networks. Consumer and SaaS B2B companies that use technology drive a brighter collective future for mass market end users, per our investment approach thesis.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 1, 2017

In larger and more complex purchases (think B2B here), there’s a whole lot more reflection and contemplation. We can say the same thing for B2C products, for example, HeadSpace. There are tons of choices when in comes to some B2C apps, including using none of them. So it comes down to this: how loyal are you to Headspace?

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Customer Retention B2C Programming 114

ConversionXL

AUGUST 1, 2017

In larger and more complex purchases (think B2B here), there’s a whole lot more reflection and contemplation. We can say the same thing for B2C products, for example, HeadSpace. There are tons of choices when in comes to some B2C apps, including using none of them. So it comes down to this: how loyal are you to Headspace?

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Customer Retention B2C Programming 91

Austin Startup

MAY 29, 2019

Yesterday I was having a discussion with one of our executives on the strength of network effects inherent in the data.world business model. This led to a far ranging strategic discussion that got us both really excited about the huge potential of our business. 8, which was released earlier this week.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

– Mike [link] Reply Jeff Skinner , on May 24, 2010 at 9:28 am said: Steve, you don’t know me though I use your ‘Customer Development process’ video in my classes (Entrepreneurship at London Business School). Jeff skinner Faculty, London Business School. Can we touch base on this.

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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. Bit2go has launched a breakthrough middleware connecting the WWW and the mobile environment.

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