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Leading Business Transformation – Featured Founder Mitul Ruparelia

The Startup Magazine

They provide a hands-on transformation and revenue growth partner for B2B technology companies. Later in 2014, Mitul played an instrumental role in transforming a loss-making mobile handset business into a profitable, and growing B2B enterprise cyber security business, achieving $2.7 billion in market capital.

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Why B2B Marketplaces Are Red-Hot

Haystack

In addition to this trend, in 2019 I’ve noticed another one — a growing interest among VCs in B2B marketplaces. Let me state upfront that the idea of B2B marketplaces is not new. As a result, I believe more founders are looking at variations on b2b models, and now more of those happen to be marketplaces.

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What Angel Investing & Florida Condos Have in Common

Both Sides of the Table

above inflation yet in many markets in the US & Europe prices were rising at 10-25% per year. They have marked-up paper gains propped up by an over excited venture capital market that has validated their investments. I still love B2B application. “Yeah, but there is a shortage of supply. Why should you care?

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

Both Sides of the Table

I’m not going to cover in this post the obvious post-show marketing tasks such as following up on all those business cards you grabbed, communicating with all those people who registered at your site and leveraging your new found fame to score venture capital. We were it in Europe: B2B. Don’t drink it.

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In Q4 2022, founders face tough choices

VC Cafe

Mature startups with proven business models and the potential to reach the public markets within a few years will be the safest place to park any new venture capital that comes into the ecosystem. Europe faced a similar fate and funding for the third quarter in Europe totalled $16 billion, down 44% year over year from $28 billion.

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Cracking The Code: Happy New Year 2008!

Cracking the Code

Eloqua is bringing this revolution to the B2B marketers by providing on-demand applications and best-practice expertise for B2B marketers to execute, automate and measure effective marketing programs that drive revenue. Europe Consumer. (1). Venture Capital. (3). In search of Europe's next tech stars.

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boldstart ventures in 2014 – our ethos

BeyondVC

For example, when we funded Plain Vanilla Games (Quizup), the team had launched a small test app in Europe called Eurovision Quizup where they were able to sign up 10,000 users in a week and one month later still had 30% of the users come back up to twice a day for 30 minutes a day. finally, this theme is also applicable for b2b.