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3 Tips For Entrepreneurs Entering The B2B Industry

YoungUpstarts

Johnson, co-founder and CEO of TeamSupport.com. The B2B (business-to-business) industry can be challenging. So what should entrepreneurs entering the B2B industry know? B2B customers are more valuable and more difficult to replace than B2C. The B2B industry does not move as quickly as B2C.

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The longest shortest 2 years

Austin Startup

Since then, we’ve served 500+ unique customers, worked with 10+ space partners, pivoted our business model from B2C to B2B, signed on advisers, and have raised money from outside investors. Your partner matters To all those solo-founders out there?—?kudos Our biggest example of this was our pivot from B2C to B2B.

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14 Interesting Findings From The Startup Genome Project

YoungUpstarts

The report was co-authored by Berkeley and Stanford faculty members along with other contributors including Steve Blank , the Sandbox Network and blackbox teams. Founders that learn are more successful. Investors who provide hands-on help have little or no effect on the company’s operational performance.

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How to Build a Beloved Product Without Email Marketing

ConversionXL

My co-founder and I consider his sister to be a trusted confidant. To give you some context, my co-founder and I operate a website called Solitaired , which ties classic card games to brain training. Gamification isn’t the domain of B2C or gaming sites alone. Could this be true across the board?

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Does Your VC have an Investment Thesis, or a Hypothesis?

David Teten

(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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How to Create a Demand Funnel (for 44X Revenue)

ConversionXL

In that unannounced meeting, Brett Hurt, our CEO and co-founder, laid it out for us. It wasn’t quite a flip from B2C to B2B, but it was close. Choose the model that aligns best with your business: How complex is your marketing and sales operation? Takeaways on demand funnel selection. Image source ).

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

Steve Blank

The email continued, &# The problem I’m working on is that many founders are either making uninformed decisions or inefficiently learning the new skills they need. The solution I’m exploring is a just in time learning methodology that accelerates founders’ learning curve by aggregating relevant content, peers and mentors.&#.