View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Depending on the composition of the founding team, you might or might not have near-term holes in certain functions at the exec level – e.g. you’ll most likely need to bring on a CTO/VP of Engineering shortly after the seed round if you don’t have a technical co-founder.

Part-Time VPE 195

Part-Time VPE Seed Stage CTO Hire Forecast 195

ConversionXL

MARCH 4, 2016

We often talk about online conversion optimization without mentioning that many businesses, especially B2B, rely on offline sales to produce revenue. And sales enablement software helps arm sales teams with the information they need to close sales. Examples: Clearslide , Salespatron (I’m a co-founder) and Brainshark.

B2B 48

B2B Sales Technical Review Software Review 48

nikcub.appspot.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Finding a Technical Co-Founder. In the recent weeks, I have also had no less than three people email me and ask about finding a technical co-founder, which has also been a very frequent topic on the Hacker News forums. Business of Software - Joel Spolskys forum which has been running for over a decade now.

Cofounder 40

Cofounder Web Founder South Korea 40

View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Dispense is a B2B software company, focused on transaction software specifically designed for the cannabis industry. In recent years, cannabis has emerged as a legal industry, and thus, companies operating in this new market have often had to find or build new software stacks in order to operate their businesses.

Cofounder 234

Cofounder B2B Early Stage Software 234

Austin Startup

MARCH 13, 2020

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. kudos to ya’ll.

B2C 62

B2C Austin B2B Cofounder 62

View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Dispense is a B2B software company, focused on transaction software specifically designed for the cannabis industry. In recent years, cannabis has emerged as a legal industry, and thus, companies operating in this new market have often had to find or build new software stacks in order to operate their businesses.

Cofounder 202

Cofounder B2B Early Stage Software 202

View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Most of these rhyme with what we’ve said in the past, but some have also evolved to fit the changing landscape and our own convictions about what really matters for founders and their investors at the seed stage. Of the last 15 investments we’ve made, we’ve been the lead or co-lead investor over 80% of the time. .

North America 120

North America Seed Stage Early Stage Lead Investor 120

View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Dispense is a B2B software company, focused on transaction software specifically designed for the cannabis industry. In recent years, cannabis has emerged as a legal industry, and thus, companies operating in this new market have often had to find or build new software stacks in order to operate their businesses.

Cofounder 156

Cofounder B2B Early Stage Software 156

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 25, 2022

Paul is the founder and CEO of Marketing AI Institute, and the founder of PR 20/20, HubSpot’s first partner agency. He’s also the co-author of a new book launching in June 2022 — Marketing Artificial Intelligence: AI, Marketing, and the Future of Business. Marketing Podcast with Paul Roetzer. So Paul, welcome back.

Artificial Inteligence 87

Artificial Inteligence Marketing Cofounder SMS 87

ConversionXL

JULY 21, 2022

Its study of B2B buyers shows an even split in how decision-makers interact with sales reps traditionally, remotely, and self-served digitally: Of the B2B leaders that use omnichannel marketing, 83% say it’s a more successful way to prospect and secure new business than traditional “face-to-face only” selling.

Customer 118

Customer Marketing Channel Audience 118

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

If we’re a B2B company selling into brick-and-mortar retail environments, and we’re looking to find an audience of retail executives, we’ll start with a simple Google search. The audience size identified is encouragingly large, and the frequently used phrases and words (brick mortar, retail, founder) align directly with our target audience.

Reputation 134

Reputation Audience Management Social Media 134

ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 19, 2019

A startups seeds are sown and sprouted either because the founder(s) have come up with a unique solution with a product (like a software or a physical product) or service. As Sanjay Nath, Co-founder and Managing Partner of Blume Ventures, tells YourStory: “ Indian entrepreneurs never lacked imagination.

India 131

India Startup Cofounder Software Review 131

Hunter Walker

MAY 5, 2024

Here he provides actionable advice for founders who are building long-lasting companies but know M&A might be the eventual, and successful, outcome. Read this if you want to know how Jesse Itzler went from white college rapper to Marquis Jet cofounder to this guy: His home is an incubator for optimization.

Cofounder 75

Cofounder Incubator B2B Framework 75

Hearpreneur

JUNE 4, 2021

9- Providing Legitimate B2B Customer Data in the Era of Mistrust. That's when I was struck by the idea: Why not provide a legit B2B customer database that is neither dodgy and nor a bad fit for a business? Thus, I started my B2B customer data-mining firm. Thanks to Nikita Chen, LegitGrails ! #9- Photo Credit: William Cannon.

Entrepreneur 133

Entrepreneur B2B Database Technical Review 133

David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

RBI normally requires founders to pay back their investors with a fixed percentage of revenue until they have finished providing the investor with a fixed return on capital, which they agree upon in advance. For background, see Revenue-Based Investing: A New Option for Founders who Care About Control. Decathlon Capital.

Revenue 60

Revenue Technical Review Software Review Equity 60

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

GrowthHackers founder and former Head of Growth at Dropbox, Sean Ellis , coined the term: “A growth hacker is a person whose true north is growth. In his course on Growth Mindset (part of CXL’s Growth Marketing Minidegree ), WeTheFuture.org founder John McBride describes three key components of a successful growth marketer: 1.

Retention 113

Retention Marketing Acquisition Channel 113

crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

Inside the Mind of a Technical Founder | OpenView Blog by Larry Kim – crowdspring.co/1u7Fz1b. 5 Signs You’ve Got the Wrong Co-Founder – crowdspring.co/1u17ovZ. 12 Qualities To Look For In A Co-Founder – crowdspring.co/1m97mzy. What’s the Best Time to Send Email Newsletters?

Social Media 94

Social Media Small Business Design Media 94

Hearpreneur

MARCH 15, 2019

Henrik and I co-founded Fisker Inc. 12- Solve a problem in international B2B payments. With Remitr I saw that opportunity to solve a problem in international B2B payments that was crying for a technology-enabled solution and decided to plunge into it with my co-founding team. 2- Develop world-class vehicles.

Entrepreneur 115

Entrepreneur Technical Review Software Review Atlanta 115

crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2012

Inside the IPO pipeline: It’s all B2B, all of the time | GeekWire – [link]. Five UX Research Pitfalls from cofounder of Meebo – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. Five UX Research Pitfalls from cofounder of Meebo – [link].

Social Media 100

Social Media Small Business Design Media 100

Austin Startup

AUGUST 9, 2021

Chargify, the leading billing platform for B2B SaaS, today announced the appointment of Matt Downs as Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) effective immediately. In 2008, he co-founded a first-to-market payments company, Century Payments, and was one of the pioneers in driving security and payments monetization for software and SaaS companies.

Revenue 72

Revenue Georgia Texas Colorado 72

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

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. Signal is a fundraising tool for founders run by NFX Guild, which identifies the most relevant VCs for you. . 1) Market fund. Pitchbot.vc

Private Equity 60

Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Technical Review 60

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.

Management 150

Management Product Entrepreneur Silicon Valley 150

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 27, 2018

by Joanna Malaczynski, founder of DESi. Pete Girard, Co-Founder of Toxnot, can attest to the importance of this. Toxnot is a sustainable product and supply chain management software used by manufacturers and designers to eliminate problematic chemicals from their products. Engage with End-Users.

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Customer Cofounder Demand B2B 153

Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Forrester Research estimates that the average B2B CMO invests over 24% of their marketing budget in live events. CRMs, marketing automation software, customer success software). You can then integrate your CRM with your marketing automation software so that these registrants are entered into a nurturing cadence.

Campaign 72

Campaign Marketing Social Media Software Review 72

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 5, 2010

I have personally sold many copies of his book, and continue to recommend it as one of the most important books a startup founder can read. Four Steps primarily centers its stories and case studies on B2B hardware and software startups. The visionary’s lament The Superbowl ad test Lo, my 57692 subscribers, who are you?

Customer Development 166

Customer Development Developer San Francisco Customer 166

Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Most of these rhyme with what we’ve said in the past, but some have also evolved to fit the changing landscape and our own convictions about what really matters for founders and their investors at the seed stage. Of the last 15 investments we’ve made, we’ve been the lead or co-lead investor over 80% of the time. .

North America 36

North America Seed Stage Early Stage Lead Investor 36

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Nichole Elizabeth DeMeré , a B2B SaaS consultant, lamented that. Hugo Woodhead is the founder of Pilcro , which sells brand management software. Kim and his co-founder, Theo Lee, did the formal market research—including a thorough investigation of Kickstarter. Test launch tiny products. His solution?

Product 110

Product Campaign Acquisition Social Media 110

Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 7, 2022

” Melanie is also the Co-Founder of The Convoy and GroupUps, B2B marketplaces that help small businesses save money so they can invest more in themselves and their communities. That's true in like the B2B space. Key Takeaway: You say your company is amazing. So you know, that may not, that's a little catchy.

Marketing 76

Marketing Audience B2B Framework 76

YoungUpstarts

MAY 20, 2015

by Anand Srinivasan, founder of LeadJoint.com. The essential takeaway from our experience was that if you are in the B2B space and do not do webinars, you are missing out on something really big. Hangout is a pretty powerful software and works pretty great for webinars. Co-brand whenever possible.

Cofounder 100

Cofounder B2B Later Stage Audience 100

ConversionXL

MARCH 28, 2014

If you’re a B2B software company you’ll be happy to know a Forbes study titled “Video in the C-Suite” revealed that 59% of C-Suite executives would prefer to watch video over reading text if both are presented on a page. What if it turned out that other invoice software companies saw similar results?

Video 122

Video Software Review Cofounder Metrics 122

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 11, 2017

by Karla Friede, CEO, co-founder, and member of the Board of Directors at Nvoicepay. Earlier this month, my co-founders and I raised our sixth round of venture capital funding for Nvoicepay. We were working on a business strategy for a software company in California, and I’ll never forget my first meeting at the company.

Cofounder 100

Cofounder B2B Early Stage Venture Capital 100

Austin Startup

JANUARY 25, 2020

Capital Factory’s Saturday Startup Spotlight series features intimate chats with some of the latest founders taking hold of the startup ecosystem today. We’re returning this week with the co-founders of Swayy : Rajya Atluri and Clio Harralson. Rajya: I think it’s definitely hard being a student founder.

B2C 62

B2C Startup B2B Cofounder 62

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

According to Hugh Mason, co-founder and CEO at JFDI.Asia , around the world accelerator programs like theirs are evolving as a consistent way to direct innovation, teach entrepreneurship and manage the risks involved. DocTree , from Singapore and India, have software for medical practice management. Duable Chinese (?able)

Singapore 157

Singapore New Zealand Malaysia Vietnam 157

The Equity Kicker

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

We are holding our second open office hours for solo founders of ecompanies in the commerce ecosystem on 19th Sept. ——————– We will be holding Open Office Hours on September 19th to meet solo-founders of ecommerce companies at the idea stage. Are you a solo founder with an idea?

Partner 112

Partner Founder Cofounder eCommerce 112

ConversionXL

MAY 27, 2022

The average B2B buyer has 27 brand interactions before deciding. Only around 10–15% of B2B leads turn into paying customers, and it’s because tactics optimizing for the early stages of the funnel only cater to early-stage goals. Very few, if any, of these interactions are with a sales rep.

Demand 95

Demand Management B2B Campaign 95

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.

Vertical 153

Vertical B2B B2C Venture Capital 153

ConversionXL

JUNE 8, 2017

Having worked as a consultant at an A/B testing and personalization software company, I’ve seen many personalization efforts getting stuck in the weeds. If you are in B2B, you’ve certainly heard of account-based marketing by now. So you will need smarter software to augment you. Image Source. The solution? Firmographics.

Programming 97

Programming Revenue Analytics Software Review 97