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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. BUSINESS-FOCUSED (B2B). Network Effect B2B. Lastly, given our Boston location, it isn’t surprising that seven investments were Boston-based.

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Why You Should Be Doing Product Discovery

YoungUpstarts

by Nick Frandsen, co-founder and managing partner at Dovetail. For a B2B product, this means figuring out what kinds of businesses are suited for your product. Nick Frandsen is a co-founder and managing partner at Dovetail. Dovetail designs, builds and invests into fast-growing technology companies. It’s genius!

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Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller

SoCal CTO

He has a really interesting background as a product manager and now an entrepreneur. Like many product managers, my background is fairly eclectic. I was in charge of all product management and marketing for the first year-and-a-half, that was a great learning experience with a very talented team of folks.

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Stories of Opportunity from the First Round Capital Key Hire Wire – VP of Sales, CTO, VP of Engineering

This is going to be BIG.

You'll be responsible for the successful management of the sales organization in order to meet the objectives of the Company. You will hire (over time) and manage a field and inside team of Sales Directors and Market Developers, including for each direct report creating and managing goals directly tied to Company goals.

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Are You Putting Your Rock Star Customers To Work?

YoungUpstarts

While its B2B social media team was attracting large audiences in its market, it failed to engage them because it lacked credible, regularly refreshed content. It’s a little like hawking a ‘get rich quick in real estate’ scheme at a TED conference. Wrong message, wrong audience.

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Product Launches: 5 Unexpected Lessons from the Real World

ConversionXL

Instead, the product manager should keep iterating on the press release until they’ve come up with benefits that actually sound like benefits. Nichole Elizabeth DeMeré , a B2B SaaS consultant, lamented that. Great product launches manage those expectations; failed ones let them run wild. Showcase behind-the-scenes work.

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A framework for categorizing and comparing cloud platforms

bijoor.me

Conversation Management. Sales Activity Management. B2B Sales Process. Technology. Affordable Technology. Information & knowledge management. Workflow Management. Thanks to Alex Popsecu’s NoSql blog , found a well articulated thesis by Johan den Haan , CTO at Mendix. Cloud Computing.