crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

How to Use Social Media to Drive Traffic for B2B Companies – crowdspring.co/1nPz9An. 67 Open Source Replacements for Really Expensive Applications | Datamation – crowdspring.co/1yevQN7. How To Think Like an Entrepreneur: the Inventure Cycle | by Steve Blank – crowdspring.co/1wkTR3b. 1s3Gfsi.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 12, 2014

This week marked the annual b2b marketing frenzy known as the Consumer Electronics Show (URL) in Las Vegas. Leverage Open Source Platforms. Take advantage of the myriad of Open Source platforms and self service systems to stimulate creativity and drive innovation. Create Communities that Share. Listen Intently.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 3, 2018

Renee Thompson – How to Win at B2B Optimization. The team from @northwoods watching #b2b optimization at #CXLLive presentation by @rsdthompson #relevanttopic #DigitalMarketing pic.twitter.com/edr237aHNf. What makes B2B different? Knowledge Repo – open sourced. Offline sale – typically.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 5, 2021

He also famously championed a philosophy of not having salespeople , and though that ultimately wasn’t the case Butterfield and others did spread a commercial model centered more on bottoms-up adoption and customer success teams than traditional outbound sales which is now being replicated across many B2B software businesses.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Tim O’Reilly, Founder at O’Reilly Media and promoter of open source and Web 2.0 On the one hand, Austin VCs prefer working with predictable B2B companies and get a little scared when they hear the word “consumer”. You don’t want to run out of gas on your trip, but you’re not doing a tour of gas stations.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

Open source typeface “Hack” brings design to source code crowdspring.co/1JPW7C3. Logo for B2B buying group crowdspring.co/1UxyZgU. Stylish Geometric Clutches Are Made From Folded Paper crowdspring.co/1KsIoXE. Every Music Video Should Feature A Light Painting Machine crowdspring.co/1LVxRBo. McWhopper crowdspring.co/1LVydrP.

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The Startup Lawyer

MARCH 8, 2010

Here’s the type of startups TechWildcatters is looking for: -Applications: B2B Web/Enterprise 2.0, Technology: Web, SaaS, open source, data integration, middleware, etc. BI/data/analytics, gaming/simulation, etc. Customers: SMB through Fortune 500 (no consumer apps).

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The Startup Lawyer

MARCH 8, 2010

Here’s the type of startups TechWildcatters is looking for: -Applications: B2B Web/Enterprise 2.0, Technology: Web, SaaS, open source, data integration, middleware, etc. BI/data/analytics, gaming/simulation, etc. Customers: SMB through Fortune 500 (no consumer apps).

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Technical Review Dallas Seed Capital Angel Investor 40

steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

interactions, widgets, effects Django – high-level Python framework Cappuccino – open source framework for app development Kodingen – cloud development environment, code editor, hosting service, collaboration platform. Reply Jarek , on February 27, 2011 at 11:51 pm said: What about CRM?

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

[INFOGRAPHIC] How Agencies Are Spending Online Media Budgets [INFOGRAPHIC] Global Internet Traffic Expected to Quadruple by 2015 [INFOGRAPHIC] The History of Advertising on Twitter [INFOGRAPHIC] What Makes the Modern Media Agency [INFOGRAPHIC] How Does the iPad 2 Compare to the Tablet Competition?

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

VC Cafe highlights everything you need to know from hosting your code in hackathons to open source legal docs. High Quality, and open sourced! Mantis (Open source). Nagios (open source). Panda (Open source). launchpad (bzr only, also only open source projects).

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

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. It sounds simple; however, very few asset managers actually do it.” This move also undoubtedly created more inbound M&A opportunities for them. .

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 19, 2014

Those were basically the makers of the time--only big Fortune 500 companies had the resources to create at scale, so if you were building tools for makers, it was a B2B sale involving a lot of big iron. Tools like AWS, open source and web frameworks made the barriers to producing technology applications lower.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

An open source bit of software, Vanity allows you to conduct A/B testing on your site and returns a simple report back to you. Whats Hot in Social Media This Week HOW TO: Organize a Mashable Meetup View More » Business 5 Proven Strategies for B2B Social Me. Facebook Wins Another Patent for Its. OpenTable Seated 15.4

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Generally speaking, a name is more valuable to a B2C (marketing-driven) company than a B2B (sales-driven) counterpart, so allocate your efforts accordingly. Open Source Lists. Using the former can be a competitive advantage for your company, especially when feature sets are roughly the same. Holiday Lists. Identity Lists.

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David Teten

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

A similar, open-source, highly visual tool focused on VC is Venture Dealr. There are countless examples, e.g., most of the large B2B banks , Kapitus , Kalamata Capital , United Capital Source , etc. For each of the major categories of investors, you can find online databases of the major providers.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

b2b CRM – A Web-based CRM that manages contacts, activities, and your sales pipeline, and integrates with Outlook and Word. MagSuite – An open source marketing automation, sales force automation, accounting, service automation and inventory control system. zendesk – A branded online customer support system.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Flash vs. HTML5: The "Pong" Version 37Signals Creates iPad-Only Web App An Open Source, HTML5 Framework for i. YouTube Hits 1 Billion Subscriptions, View More » Dev & Design 10 Intermediate and Advanced Tips fro. Code for America Chooses 20 Developer. View More » Apple iOS 4.2 Goes Gold, Brings New Multita.

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nikcub.appspot.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Freenode is the network most popular with developers today, especially with open source projects (channels such as #python, #rubyonrails, ##php etc. Partnerships - B2B business development work can commence before you have a product. IRC - I booted my entire tech career through people I met on IRC. just an example)).

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Hippoland

OCTOBER 16, 2016

Open source libraries (such as TensorFlow) make technology more accessible for less skilled or self-taught developers such as myself to use. These are products that can and should generate revenue right out of the gates in both B2B and consumer ideas. So a lot of previously “super high tech” ideas are no longer that high tech.

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The Startup Lawyer

JANUARY 20, 2010

Here’s the type of startups TechWildcatters is looking for: -Applications: B2B Web/Enterprise 2.0, Technology: Web, SaaS, open source, data integration, middleware, etc. Their first Demo Day is scheduled for June 30, 2010. BI/data/analytics, gaming/simulation, etc. Customers: SMB through Fortune 500 (no consumer apps).

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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Next Generation Business Models Because a number of smart entrepreneurs realized the importance of lowering CAC, they created new business models such as Open Source, SaaS, Freemium, etc. Some of the early B2B pioneers in this space were companies like JBoss ( story here ), SolarWinds, ConstantContact, HubSpot, etc.

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mashable.com

MAY 5, 2011

link] May 5, 2011 10:24:50 Reply 0 Flag this comment Aniekan Okono Follow We put us out too [link] and got some very interested users sign up, since we are a b2b social network and our targets are small and medium scale businesses.

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Mucker Lab

APRIL 6, 2023

For GitLab, we had an open source version of the product. Hila Qu: I love when people think about the user journey because sometimes it's not thought about enough in B2B because it’s complicated. Can you grow a B2B company utilizing PLG without ever having the need for a sales team? I would say there are two parts.

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ConversionXL

MAY 13, 2020

This is a challenge for most B2B sites. Matomo is an open-source analytics tool that may need to be installed on your own server—you get raw data right in your database. You can also calculate more advanced and confidential metrics, such as margin instead of revenue. client ID, SHA-256 hashed email, generated ID, etc.),

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Piwik is the open source alternative to Google Analytics. Here’s a review from Yehoshua Coren of Analytics Ninja: Yehoshua Coren : “ Pros: Piwik is sometimes referred to as the Open Source alternative to Google Analytics. Very handy for detecting culprits that slow down the site.

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VC Cafe

JULY 5, 2010

It is the B2B advertiser’s Mecca, but it is an undeserved market when it comes to user experience and consolidation of services. Yair Margolin: Php, MySql (built for scalability on servers) and open source (you can add any API very quickly abd it’s also cheap). C onferences are big business.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 14, 2016

Unlike a great deal of B2B marketing, the page communicates like one human talking to another. Oracle Makes More Moves to Kill Open Source MySQL” (TechCrunch). Dropbox Business does this beautifully. On their landing page, technical jargon has been eliminated almost completely. John Capes). Negatives. “10 How To’s. 
“How

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 18, 2011

Kaltura - Kaltura provides the first Open Source platform for video management, creation, interaction and collaboration. Focused on delivering easy-to-deploy solutions, its patent-pending technology fits into existing TV provider networks, involves minimal costs and provides quick ROI.

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BeyondVC

NOVEMBER 5, 2003

Backing Tilion’s vision in a December 2000 article from Internet.com , Eric Schmidt, now CEO of Google, commented, “Tilion finally allows large enterprises and exchanges to go beyond the simple enablement or automation of B2B transactions. Tilion allows you see into systems which were designed to be closed.

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

It does not matter if you are a B2B or B2C or A2K, you will always see this. Countly 's claim to fame is that it is open source (a free version is available along with paid ones). Transactions, Revenue and Ecommerce Conversion Rate. What do you learn from this report?

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Analytics Metrics Mobile DC 141