Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Entrepreneurs need to look more broadly into the business-to-business (B2B) space for more lucrative opportunities. Segments that come to mind include product tracking, navigation, safety, security, local business search, and payments. entrepreneur B2B startup smartphones location-based services business'

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B2B Angel Investor Forecast Global 210

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Pitch it to someone with a startup or business related background, but who doesn’t have experience in your industry. Our business model back then was very complex, and it included a B2C as well as a B2B business model, that wasn’t being implemented yet. Don’t describe a 100% theoretical business model.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 2, 2012

But entrepreneurs need to look more broadly into the B2B space for more lucrative opportunities. Segments mentioned include product tracking, navigation, safety, security, local business search, and payments. If your B2B contacts check-in regularly at certain types of locations (entertainment venues, stores, etc.)

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B2B Angel Investor Mobile Forecast 206

The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 28, 2022

By now, everyone knows that B2B Lead Generation Services is the fastest-growing business model, and the best way to build a successful SaaS business is by capturing the attention of potential customers through your marketing efforts. Partner with Other Companies in Your Niche. Conclusion.

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Lead Generation Marketing B2B Audience 142

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

Your product is designed with natural tripwires to trigger other pricing ( Freemium model ), or not (business model left as an exercise to your future self). Requires venture funding because you have no income, and if you’re successful you’ll need lots of people and tech to run the business.

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Bootstrapping Technical Review B2C Sales Cycle 294

YoungUpstarts

MAY 28, 2014

Things like winning startup competitions, getting selected to a startup incubator, partnering with a large company, are all good ways to show traction and some proof that you’re creating value. Go B2B… 2C. Focus on solving those problems and then it’s gravy if you can spin the business model to get their end customers involved.

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Security Incubator Technical Review Bootstrapping 200

Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

I should have gotten on the partner train. I started the agency partner program that you passed on and built that up. billion in annual revenue and 40% of that, or roughly, I don't think they shut publicly that often, but about 40% of that is coming in through partners. So it's a billion dollar business at this point.

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Metrics Analytics Forecast Software Review 75

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 22, 2016

You could probably make a case for any one of these, but here’s the thing: Although on the surface these companies appear to have completely different business models, they all share one very powerful component: a scalable online platform connecting people and ecosystems. Salesforce does the same thing in the B2B world.

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View from Seed

JULY 19, 2019

And additionally, my partners and I use other, more differentiated, lenses like asking if a startup has an “ unfair distribution advantage.” JDCC stands for “Jaw-Dropping customer value through a Competition-Crushing business model.”. In the past, we’ve created and published a flowchart on how we think through these factors.

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Boston B2B Early Stage Portfolio 149

Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

She found her audience and her business model and focused on scaling her concept and she made it work. After working essentially as a leading consultant with a publishing services company helping publishers go digital, I purchased my own niche, declining b2b directory company- and turned it around. 2- Flickr and Slack.

Entrepreneur 78

Entrepreneur Bankruptcy Bootstrapping B2B 78

The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 26, 2021

Online B2B marketplaces are websites where buyers and sellers meet to trade. B2B Marketplaces in Asia. B2B Platforms in the United States. you can still use B2B marketplaces to take a shortcut. Founded in New York City in 2012, Kinnek bases its business model on quality over quantity. B2B Websites in Europe.

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B2B Saudi Arabia Global United Kingdom 125

ConversionXL

JUNE 2, 2022

If ABM gives your ideal customer everything they want and need to become a long-term partner, is there actually a need for lead generation? According to Demand Gen Report, 56% of B2B buyers say that a web search is their first resource, and 79% say the winning vendor’s content significantly impacts their buying decision.

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Lead Generation Marketing Sales Cycle Campaign 94

David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

I’ve been a traditional equity VC for 8 years, and I’m now researching new business models in venture capital. In 2019 we partnered with several revenue-based lending providers, effectively creating a marketplace. “. Investment Criteria: B2B SaaS or tech-enabled services with proven, recurring contracts. Bigfoot Capital.

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Revenue Technical Review Software Review Equity 60

David Teten

JANUARY 11, 2020

But for B2B sales, meeting people in person is often mandatory. They’re taking a $1m check from me, or giving $5m to me as a limited partner. In the venture capital/private equity business, investors are B2B microinfluencers. Jourdan Urbach, Managing Partner of Brandt & Co. Today, I do this manually.

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Social Media Technical Review Media Private Equity 60

View from Seed

JANUARY 11, 2018

For several months now, my partners and I have spent a lot of time talking about why we’re investing in the Everyday Economy. We think there are two main categories of Everyday Economy B2B startups: enabling layers and pervasive tools. Types of B2B Everyday Economy Companies. Let me explain. 1) Enabling Layers.

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B2B B2C Vertical Portfolio 120

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 9, 2012

In this excerpt from The Lean Entrepreneur , by using fishing as an analogy, Brant and Patrick reveal how market segmentation influences your business model and why “For Whom” is as important as “What” to build. Market segments drive your business model. Or perhaps you need to chum (freemium) the waters a bit?

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Entrepreneur Lean Southern California San Diego 167

Mucker Lab

AUGUST 27, 2014

For the last couple of years, I’ve been investing in startups as a partner at Mucker, while spending a lot of time in the Valley working with potential co-investors and partners. After stints as a technology investment banker, a dot-com entrepreneur, and a product manager in Silicon Valley, I moved to Los Angeles in 2006.

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Los Angeles Southern California Silicon Valley Technical Review 138

Hearpreneur

MAY 13, 2018

We are a market-based platform that connects businesses in NYC with couriers to deliver to their customer. It’s a B2B app that allows a business to find couriers instantly and potentially cheaper than an in-house member. What makes you unique? What is your unique selling proposition (USP)? There’s a bid process.

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Business Model B2B Demand Naming 79

View from Seed

JANUARY 5, 2021

And if we’re investing in the company, it then impacts how I might be most helpful as a thought partner to the entrepreneur depending on their archetype. At some level nearly all tech entrepreneurs are evangelizing something… a new technology, a new business model, a new brand. The Mercenary. The Missionary.

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Detroit SEC Founder Affiliate 367

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Recommendations from family and friends are the most trusted source of information , and B2B companies that use them experience higher than average conversion rates. But of the 83% of people that say they’re willing to refer new business to a company they love, only 29% of them do. Webinars are cheap to run. Image source.

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Retention Marketing Acquisition Channel 113

Austin Startup

JANUARY 30, 2020

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. When we tested our now current business model, the results were shocking.

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Sweat Equity B2B B2C Business Model 63

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 31, 2011

As outlined by Adam Holden-Bache recently on Social Media B2B , I’m convinced that business-to-business has more money and more untapped opportunities, along the following lines: Strategic partnerships. If your B2B contacts check-in regularly at certain types of locations (entertainment venues, stores, etc.)

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B2B Startup Angel Investor Forecast 227

Austin Startup

JULY 2, 2021

Chargify, the leading billing platform for B2B SaaS, announced today the massive productivity improvements and decrease in operating costs that CareerPlug has achieved using its new Chargify Business Intelligence product. Visit www.chargify.com to learn more about Chargify Business Intelligence. and Canada.

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San Antonio B2B Texas Ireland 67

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

The Forrest Four-Cast: February 27, 2020 A B2B tech company, Flugauto is developing a world-class UAV platform for aerial delivery of industrial cargo for the energy industry. B2B customers simply book on their platform and sit back until the goods are delivered. Pick your partners wisely. What the Flugauto system looks like.

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San Francisco Cofounder Georgia B2B 65

www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Business Model I would like to propose that in addition to team, product, and market, there is actually a fourth, equally important, core element of startups, which is the need for a viable business model. These new business models focused heavily on how buying behavior has changed because of the power of the web.

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Acquisition Cost Customer Entrepreneur 103

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 11, 2017

In fact, I found that if they didn’t like something about our business model, they usually didn’t say anything. Since only about seven percent of venture partners are women , most of the people you’ll be pitching to are men, regardless of what kind of company you’re raising money for. Target firms with female partners.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 14, 2022

Bob is the Founder and Chairman of the Board of Acceleration Partners, a global partner marketing agency. In this episode, I talk with the Founder and Chairman of Acceleration Partners, Bob Glazer, about why diversifying your marketing strategy with other channels — like partnerships — is the way of the future.

Marketing 90

Marketing Affiliate Channel Software Review 90

Seeing Both Sides

JULY 11, 2013

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. The typical quota for a sales rep varies by type of business model (SaaS vs. perpetual), product gross margin (e.g.,

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Sales Technical Review Software Review B2B 50

Up and Running

AUGUST 25, 2021

Similarly, you don’t want to rely on tools that work well for one business model but not another. Partner with other brands. Odds are, you’ve made some friends among industry experts in your time as a business owner. Let’s say a customer from your partner finds the new product you both created.

B2B 118

B2B Audience Software Review B2C 118

Women Entrepreneurs Can

JULY 21, 2021

Well, every business does to some degree, but does your business model rely on working in supply chains? Are you a downstream B2B company or upstream? The key to the grey area becoming a white or black area in this whole debate is, answering one further question. Do you rely on logistics?

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Operations B2B Distribution Business Model 52

Up and Running

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

What models of eCommerce fulfillment are available? eCommerce fulfillment is available in 3 different business models—self-fulfillment, 3PL fulfillment, and dropshipping. The 3PL businesses are known to provide an array of customized solutions like B2B processing, temperature-based storage, custom packaging , and more.

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eCommerce Customer Retention Reputation 110

Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

While the technology for canning labels is not novel as it stands alone, our biggest accomplishment to date has been our ability to pair custom design and printing with local craft beverages and expert post-canning label operations to develop a novel supply chain and business model in the highly-regulated beer industry.

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Los Angeles Southern California San Francisco Entrepreneur 93

Up and Running

APRIL 24, 2014

We asked nine company founders the following question: What is one creative way to quickly finance a new product-based business OTHER than crowdfunding? Particularly in B2B spaces with high price points, if you’re really solving a major pain point, you can often negotiate payment terms well in advance of product launch.

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Finance Product Equity B2B 115

Growthink Blog

JUNE 14, 2017

But of course the company is incredibly deserving of heavy admiration and emulation for how, in just a few short years, they've re-engineered and become the default offering for a massive business category. Very many companies have as their business model distributing / reselling, - i.e Again and again and again.

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Disintermediation Business Model B2B Revenue 59

Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

So to me, a fractional CMO offer is somebody that comes in and understands the full scope of business, the full life cycle from marketing to sales into onboarding. I only work with B2B clients as well into service delivery. What do you see as the challenges to that business model for most people that attempt to do it?

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Channel Acquisition Framework B2B 66

BeyondVC

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

With a focus on seed investing in the mobile, agile, and smart enterprise and business models that harness the power of network effects, our entrepreneurs have successfully been able to raise over $200 million of financing following our initial seed investment. finally, this theme is also applicable for b2b.

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Hippoland

AUGUST 8, 2018

In other words, if you can get 1000 people to come to your website consistently for under $5, then this business model works for you. This could mean partnering exclusively with someone who makes products offline (and who is not tech savvy to compete online with you). 2) B2B startups have high margins.

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Founder Sales Cycle Affiliate Retention 48