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A Behind-the-Scenes Look at Our Recent Seed-Stage VC Investments

View from Seed

We’ve been remarkably consistent on this dimension as well: five of the recent 13 investments were B2C, five were B2B, and three you could categorize as B2B2C. A few themes which have emerged from our 13 most recent investments: CONSUMER (B2C). BUSINESS-FOCUSED (B2B). Network Effect B2B.

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Clubhouse put a big bullseye on social audio

VC Cafe

The early buzz of Clubhouse (despite being invite-only and iOS having a total reach of about 2 million users) along with the rising popularity of podcasts has shown that consumers crave social audio interactions and that there’s plenty of room for innovation in the space. Similar to Saga , a family-focused audio social network.

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Traction is the new IP

Version One Ventures

“Traction is the new IP ” sums up perfectly how the technology space has evolved over the past decade due to the nature of the web. In today’s web landscape, word of mouth drives adoption and can lead to “winner takes all” (or almost all) in both B2C and B2B markets.

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How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood

David Teten

Many tools designed for B2B marketing in general are also relevant to investors. I previously posted a detailed presentation with sales technology tools useful for B2B sales. Relationship Science makes it easier to understand and map social networks into potential limited partners. 1) Market fund. 4) Manage deal flow.

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Increase Repeat Purchases with Cohort Analysis

ConversionXL

Overall acquisition costs for both B2C and B2B have gone up by 50% in the past five years. The exact coupon code that converted people speaks volumes about the kind of promotions that influence their decision to buy. Drop sub-par products and concentrate on the ones that consistently bring repeat purchases and good reviews.

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Transcript of Creating a Winning SEO Strategy

Duct Tape Marketing

You’d go look at a website and you’d look at the source code and you’d go what is all this stuff? 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. John Jantsch: That was always my favorite.

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

However, in private markets, there is more room to optimize across all 11 steps of the investing process: firm management , marketing, fundraising , origination , manage relationships, due diligence, negotiation, monitoring, portfolio acceleration , reporting, and. It sounds simple; however, very few asset managers actually do it.”