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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. Furthermore, one of our recent investments was in Silicon Valley, as all three of us have lived and worked there. BUSINESS-FOCUSED (B2B). Network Effect B2B.

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The Consumerization of Business Software ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

The Consumerization of Business Software. One of the themes that we’ve been most interested in at NextView over the last 12+ months has been the impact of consumer web trends on business software. People have been selling software over the web for awhile and indirect selling via screensharing and webinar, etc isn’t new.

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Active Capital Raises Second Fund Worth $25 Million

SiliconHills

Both funds are focused on providing seed-stage capital to business to business software as a service companies, known as B2B SaaS companies located outside of Silicon Valley, […]. A year ago, the San Antonio-based venture capital firm raised a $21.5 million fund.

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Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller

SoCal CTO

My first job out of school was at one of the early bioinformatics companies in Silicon Valley, working as the head of technical services. It was also beneficial because I got some good experience with both B2B and B2C business models. After BITSource was successfully acquired, I moved to L.A. It sounds interesting.

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The Courage to Monetize

Austin Startup

However, that is wishful thinking if your customer decision makers have budgets for percentage payments and software buying is handled by a different group and a different procurement process. In the long ago I spent a brief period of time assisting Pertec, the San Fernando Valley company that bought MITS and its Altair product line.

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Acquire New Users by Adding Growth Hacking to your Marketing Strategy

ConversionXL

As InVision App’s marketing manager Sophia Eng explains: “It is rare for a large company at a late stage or an enterprise software company to be doing growth marketing with all of the channels at top peak performance. For example, if you run a software company, talking to clients at a trade show might put you in touch with the right audience.

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28 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

12- Solve a problem in international B2B payments. With Remitr I saw that opportunity to solve a problem in international B2B payments that was crying for a technology-enabled solution and decided to plunge into it with my co-founding team. This was followed by moderate success in starting my own cloud-based HR software.