View from Seed

JANUARY 24, 2024

For example: Technologies: AI, IOT, Cloud, Blockchain Areas: Vertical SaaS, Crypto, Security, Consumer, Deep Tech There is nothing wrong with this approach, but it has never been native for us. This manifests itself in consumer, B2B, Health, and other mass market categories that form the Everyday Economy. AI Picks and Shovels.

Vertical 194

Vertical Cloud Software Technology 194

Eric Friedman

JANUARY 3, 2020

With the stock price off since IPO and the need to “rollup” enterprise chat + video MSFT takes a swing at solving a huge b2b problem with a startup friendly platform. For the first time, all roboadvisor strategies are tested and some experience a run on funds under management. 7/ Microsoft buys Slack. 10/ Community is a moat.

Technical Review 79

Technical Review Software Review Vertical IPO 79

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

He has more than 4 years of experience in marketing technology products to global businesses and has worked with B2B technology companies across diverse business verticals.

eCommerce 118

eCommerce Channel Artificial Inteligence Technical Review 118

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 22, 2016

Salesforce does the same thing in the B2B world. There are elements of vertical integration and franchising , classic business strategies for achieving operational efficiency and scale. To stay competitive, businesses have to learn to leverage the power of platforms. That starts with platform thinking. What is platform thinking?

Japan 100

Japan Global Asia Analytics 100

View from Seed

JANUARY 11, 2018

We dove deep into how this investment thesis extends to major verticals of consumer spending like entertainment , clothing , and home. We think there are two main categories of Everyday Economy B2B startups: enabling layers and pervasive tools. Types of B2B Everyday Economy Companies. Let me explain. 1) Enabling Layers.

B2B 120

B2B B2C Vertical Portfolio 120

Where to Play

AUGUST 18, 2020

Most of their business growth was vertical by focusing on food, tentage, and decoration for marrying couples and their families. The time to revenue is much longer due to the seasonal and B2B nature of this opportunity. The sale cycle with Govt.

Pakistan 62

Pakistan Sales Cycle Marketing Technical Review 62

Agile VC

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

But B2B startups need to take a different tack. We invest in internet enabled companies at NextView and our portfolio is roughly equally split between consumer and B2B businesses. Arguably revenue is the best signal of product-market fit for B2B startups.

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Revenue Product B2B Marketing 234

Transformify

JULY 4, 2018

v) B2B Freelance Marketplace. (vi) Our clients source candidates across all geographies and verticals. Transformify Recruitment CRM comes with B2B Freelance Marketplace equipped with billing, self-billing and payment functionality. Loaded with: (i) Job board/ Job Marketplace. (ii) ii) Candidate Sourcing.

Technical Review 40

Technical Review Software Review Database Algorithm 40

Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 20, 2022

TikTok is very much vertical, short form, you know, 50 to 15 to kind of 62nd videos. I think part of it is just that consumption, you know, people have moved towards, yeah, that kind of, that vertical feed, that short form content we're conditioned to these short attention spans. I actually love Instagram for b2b.

Marketing 95

Marketing Social Media Video Technical Review 95

ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

This is particularly true for complex verticals such as B2B SaaS products, where product marketing’s ability to pinpoint users with the most need and educate them on product features and benefits proves useful. Post-launch, product marketers focus on improving sales enablement and work to drive demand and adoption of the product.

Marketing 110

Marketing Product Audience Equity 110

Version One Ventures

JUNE 5, 2019

Is it vertically integrated? What about a B2B model? And what might a smart toilet business look like? Could the toilet be like a smartphone (hardware) with a software platform where people can build “apps” (assays) to test for particular diseases? Should the company be B2C so that it can completely own the data?

B2C 164

B2C Vertical B2B Software 164

ConversionXL

MAY 22, 2017

After that, the adoption of the cloud as a more scalable and cost-effective approach allowed small/medium business to build CRMs around very specific market needs and establish dominance in new vertical segments. Is it a B2B or B2C email?” , “What is the company where this contact is working at?”

Customer 92

Customer Marketing Artificial Inteligence Clickthrough 92

Version One Ventures

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

This makes it laboriously difficult to identify rising stars and make comparisons within a specific vertical. At Version One, we have 6 investment themes (and more to come – stay tuned): Vertically integrated commerce. Vertical SaaS. B2B marketplaces. We are interested in platforms that power this space.

Vertical 153

Vertical B2B B2C Venture Capital 153

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 27, 2013

The main reason that your advisors tell you to focus on your vertical, your age demo or your users favorite destination is that this is the obvious way to interest your user base. If you’re a fashion product you obviously care about having way more products featured in the vertical trade mags or niche blogs for that sector.

PR 309

PR Campaign Vertical B2B 309

A Crowded Space

OCTOBER 2, 2018

3) Niche Managed Marketplaces – Within many verticals, there are opportunities to significantly improve customer experience. Ebay has been around forever, and GOAT comes along out of nowhere and destroys Ebay’s sneaker vertical – a surprisingly large segment of GMV. Let’s take a look at GOAT.

Vertical 60

Vertical B2B Early Stage Mobile 60

OnlyOnce

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

But in a B2B environment with smaller numbers of customers and smaller numbers of SKUs, this comment makes a lot more sense. I’m a big believer in the diminishing differences between the B2C and B2B universes, but this area may be one where the difference is still sharp. No, thank you. It could be employee or customer training.

B2B 74

B2B B2C Reputation Vertical 74

David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

Investment Criteria: B2B SaaS or tech-enabled services with proven, recurring contracts. We developed Scaleworks venture finance loans to fill a need we saw for our own B2B SaaS companies. We’re currently evaluating about 20 companies a month and issuing term sheets to 25% of them; those that fit our investment criteria. ARR of $500K+.

Revenue 60

Revenue Technical Review Software Review Equity 60

This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 8, 2023

You could also accomplish this by poking around on Twitter for posts where people have asked “Who are the top B2B SaaS pre-seed founds?” Grab a free trial and start sourcing names by doing searches of similarly staged companies in the same basic verticals that have recently raised. and a bunch of people have already responded.

ChatGPT 78

ChatGPT Database Salary Naming 78

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 26, 2011

Developed in 1998, this vertical B2B and entertainment industry portal has grown to become the world’s largest and most active production community search site and as well as a fast growing freelance network of film, television, video, digital media and live event professionals.

Search 154

Search Media Greece Product 154

SVPG

JANUARY 26, 2014

For a B2B product, I consider the product to have demonstrated Product Market Fit once you have achieved a threshold number (I advocate at least 6) of live, referenceable customers for a given vertical market. For B2B companies, I usually favor a product strategy where we tackle one vertical market at a time.

Product 84

Product Marketing Vertical B2B 84

Version One Ventures

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

If you haven’t already, check out previous posts detailing Andrew Chen’s (Uber) fireside chat on growth strategies , Anthony Marino’s (ThredUp) talk on managed marketplaces , and B2B marketplace dynamics from Shippo’s Mikhail Ledvich. Expand into different verticals. Don’t spread across verticals too fast.

San Francisco 60

San Francisco Vertical Equity Cofounder 60

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

The Forrest Four-Cast: February 27, 2020 A B2B tech company, Flugauto is developing a world-class UAV platform for aerial delivery of industrial cargo for the energy industry. B2B customers simply book on their platform and sit back until the goods are delivered. What the Flugauto system looks like.

San Francisco 65

San Francisco Cofounder Georgia B2B 65

OnlyOnce

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

But in a B2B environment with smaller numbers of customers and smaller numbers of SKUs, this comment makes a lot more sense. I’m a big believer in the diminishing differences between the B2C and B2B universes, but this area may be one where the difference is still sharp. No, thank you. It could be employee or customer training.

B2B 48

B2B B2C Vertical Reputation 48

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

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. The VC Software Stack — the Untouched Vertical. 1) Market fund. Stanford List of Venture Capital and Private Equity Sources. A (Micro) VC’s Tech Stack. *

Private Equity 60

Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Technical Review 60

Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

This post is written with B2B startups in mind, but should be generally applicable. This is useful for a number of reasons, the most obvious of which is to help you navigate the right channels in your vertical and open doors to potential customers. Never discount the power of a warm intro.

Advisory Board 48

Advisory Board Sweat Equity Marketing Vertical 48

Lightspeed Venture Partners

MAY 3, 2016

Then while at Stanford Graduate School of Business, Vincent took this basic idea and thought why not apply this to any B2B company — use data science to help any B2B company identify its best customer prospects. With this new platform, the B2B marketer defines a segment (i.e. Vincent Yang, EverString.

Architecture 60

Architecture China B2B Sales Cycle 60

abovethecrowd.com

JULY 8, 2010

ITA owns a primarily B2B airfare search and pricing system called QPX. “It’s funny how fallin feels like flyin, for a little while…” - Jeff Bridges, Crazy Heart Soundtrack On July 1st, Google announced its intention to acquire ITA Software.

Vertical 51

Vertical Revenue B2B Search 51

Cracking the Code

JANUARY 25, 2021

The first time I met Matan, the founder of Melio, he told me that his mission was simple: he wanted to “help small businesses stay in business” by making B2B payments fast, simple and flexible. More than 40% of B2B transactions in the US, which is roughly a $25 trillion market , are still made with paper checks compared to 5-7% for consumers.

B2B 62

B2B Cloud Europe 62

Hippoland

OCTOBER 16, 2016

These are products that can and should generate revenue right out of the gates in both B2B and consumer ideas. Obviously within this category there are a LOT of verticals that are looked at very different — everything from e-commerce to B2B SaaS to marketplaces.

Startup 48

Startup Vertical Early Stage Bootstrapping 48

Hearpreneur

JUNE 24, 2022

We talked about how moving the ball side to side was good for control, but to achieve that yearning score, we needed to move the ball vertically down the field. So, the word vertical is what I have been looking for. I was coaching my son’s football team, and it was at a practice that the business's name popped up in my mind.

Naming 110

Naming Entrepreneur South America Social Media 110

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 25, 2018

It starts with having the right data in the system,” noted Kamil Rextin, who wrote about B2B attribution. For B2B marketers, demand generation tactics—no matter how well targeted—fail if they focus exclusively on how a product or service benefits the prospect alone. Data types are important. Strategies are based on bad data.

Demand 132

Demand Vertical Campaign Channel 132

Hippoland

AUGUST 8, 2018

Or second time founders focus on lucrative verticals that pay more per eyeball or focus on ad formats that pay more (such as email newsletter sponsorships). 2) B2B startups have high margins. Many serial entrepreneurs tend to gravitate towards building B2B startups. B2B companies can have great unit economics.

Founder 48

Founder Sales Cycle Affiliate Retention 48

Hippoland

AUGUST 8, 2018

Or second time founders focus on lucrative verticals that pay more per eyeball or focus on ad formats that pay more (such as email newsletter sponsorships). 2) B2B startups have high margins. Many serial entrepreneurs tend to gravitate towards building B2B startups. B2B companies can have great unit economics.

Founder 48

Founder Sales Cycle Affiliate Retention 48

Hippoland

JUNE 19, 2016

1) The investor doesn’t / no longer invests in your vertical / space. Similarly, within software, there are lots of nuances between say mobile apps and B2B software. Or even within B2B, say adtech and HR SaaS. E.g. Glitch was a game that pivoted into a B2B communication software platform called Slack.

B2B 48

B2B Angel Investor Portfolio Vertical 48

Brandanew

MARCH 24, 2016

If you’re wondering whether your B2B company need to prioritize social media, this is for you. Most B2C businesses have gone totally social , with major consumer brands investing a good amount of their time and money on social media, but is it of any worth for B2B companies? Why Do B2B Companies Need To Prioritize Social Media.

Social Media 100

Social Media B2B Media Vertical 100

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Today, Grizzle is a full-service content marketing and SEO agency that provides B2B and SaaS companies end-to-end services. Most B2B buyers know this. Choose to expand vertically or horizontally. Competition , at an initial glance, is far lower than the current B2B environment. Image source ).

PR 120

PR B2B Lean Audience 120

The Startup Magazine

JUNE 26, 2018

Depending on your vertical, total cost of business name change can run into millions of dollars like the attempt to change UTA to TDU. Several businesses on scaling realize that their original name isn’t reflective of their new status. Source: Pixabay. That said, here are, 5 SIMPLE BUT POWERFUL BUSINESS NAMING TIPS .

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Naming eCommerce Startup Database 70