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Don’t drink your own Kool-Aid (surviving TC50)

Both Sides of the Table

We had scrambled to get a product to market, built our first website, rapidly hired a technology team, raised our seed round of capital ($1.5 Around this time B2C eCommerce had been dominating the media but the wheels were starting to come off. We were it in Europe: B2B. There was talk of an IPO in 12 months.

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A dumb American’s perspective on investing in Southeast Asia

Hippoland

B2B, for example, hasn’t even even really started as a category yet. But for B2B, for example, decision makers for older businesses can’t be found easily online. 3) B2B requires selling to other startups This brings me to my next point. more on this below). These fast sales cycles tend to come from selling to other startups.

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A dumb American’s perspective on investing in Southeast Asia

Hippoland

B2B, for example, hasn’t even even really started as a category yet. But for B2B, for example, decision makers for older businesses can’t be found easily online. 3) B2B requires selling to other startups This brings me to my next point. more on this below). These fast sales cycles tend to come from selling to other startups.

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April 4-Innovation in Private Company Liquidity-Online Merger Markets, Social Media, Secondary Markets, Non-US Markets, Private Equity, and the Disappearing IPO

David Teten

I hope that you can join us Monday night, April 4, midtown NYC, at a panel on “Innovation in Private Company Liquidity-Online Merger Markets, Social Media, Secondary Markets, Non-US Markets, Private Equity, and the Disappearing IPO” The program is sponsored by the HBS Club of New York and the HBS Angels of NY.

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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #18: The strength of natural network effects

Austin Startup

unfortunately, social commerce morphed to mean solutions like Facebook eCommerce stores offered by numerous small vendors who are now mostly no longer in business. I think any SaaS startup would be wise to identify if their B2B market has a natural network effect to tap into. It is one of the key ingredients we look for.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

Every startup faces multiple choices and decisions when it comes to technology. Startups for startups – the top B2B tools used by Startups – Includes the list of top 50 startup vendors in 2012 by Vendorstack , a reviews and Q&A platform on enterprise vendors for startups and mid-market companies. Preloaders.net.