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Traction is the new IP

Version One Ventures

In today’s web landscape, word of mouth drives adoption and can lead to “winner takes all” (or almost all) in both B2C and B2B markets. In the past, the adoption of an enterprise tool was primarily driven by the quality and aggressiveness of a sales force to win over more customers. Let’s take my own portfolio as an example.

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boldstart ventures in 2014 – our ethos

BeyondVC

While this sounds simple, there is a ton of work that goes into helping our portfolio companies get to a successful Series A. We also help our teams find key engineers, and sales and marketing folks who can help build and refine the gotomarket strategy for the entrepreneur. finally, this theme is also applicable for b2b.

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The #1 thing successful founders think about for their next startups

Hippoland

As always, there are exceptions: if you build a viral consumer product (such as an Instagram) where people are just coming to your site / app in droves at no cost to you, then you’ve got a great business. For example, if you are running affiliate ads for hotels, you might get 3-5% on a sale. 2) B2B startups have high margins.

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The #1 thing successful founders think about for their next startups

Hippoland

As always, there are exceptions: if you build a viral consumer product (such as an Instagram) where people are just coming to your site / app in droves at no cost to you, then you’ve got a great business. For example, if you are running affiliate ads for hotels, you might get 3-5% on a sale. 2) B2B startups have high margins.

Founder 48
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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

However, in private markets, there is more room to optimize across all 11 steps of the investing process: firm management , marketing, fundraising , origination , manage relationships, due diligence, negotiation, monitoring, portfolio acceleration , reporting, and. It sounds simple; however, very few asset managers actually do it.”

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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. Portfolio. (3). sales and marketing. (10). Impact of the recession on SaaS Sales&Marketing pr.

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How I invest as a pre-seed investor?

Hippoland

V4: Helping directors of marketing at series B B2B SaaS companies who have previously bought ads in email lists get customers profitably. The reason I like deer-hunting businesses is that from my own experiences, I can see a clear path to bring in sales profitably. I know nothing about viral marketing.