Austin Startup

OCTOBER 15, 2017

What seems to be the best way to create customers and revenue may result in a business model that is out of vogue with the investment world and shortchanges you on enterprise valuation. But, it is likely the major differentiator between a win and a loss whether you are selling B2B or B2C. No further conversations ensued.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 11, 2018

Through all of those posts, we’ve received one common question from founders: Are all Everyday Economy startups consumer-facing? Impact First, Business Models Second. In the history of NextView, we’ve invested in approximately 60% consumer and 40% business oriented startups. BookBub ), hybrid B2C/B2B2C models (e.g.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 16, 2020

As a co-founder myself, I have come to realize a few points where most of the mistakes are made while building a startup. The success of a startup or any business is directly proportional to the market opportunity for their products or services. Making your startup thrive is all about how efficient your business model is.

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View from Seed

MARCH 3, 2015

NVV: Lots of marketers are under pressure to come in and generate demand right away, whether because sales is asking for leads or founders are demanding PR or user growth. Even identifying as a demand-gen marketer or branding or B2B or B2C leaves a lot of decisions still on the table to actually execute. Where do you start?

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 30, 2020

The relationship between a founder and their startup is a unique one?—?we’re We ran a series of experiments to see if we could move the needle in a more sustainable way with our current core business model - 1) Change the consumer interaction point: we rolled out a consumer facing app to streamline payment and bookings.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

Benchmarks are typically specific to stage/business model/geo. In this post I’ll focus on benchmarking resources for seed and series A in the following three categories: SaaS B2C / Consumer apps Deep tech. 500 Startups created a helpful primer on key B2C metrics. Consumer apps and services.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

But the CEO was able to talk not only about his co-founders and vision in his pitch, but also presented detailed pre-launch interviews with a handful of prospective customers who indicated they’d participate in a paid beta once the product was ready. Once you cross the chasm of launching v1.0,

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 9, 2017

by Tina Hay, founder and CEO of Napkin Finance. Define Your Business Model. There are numerous types and will determine how you grow and run your business. Some of the most common include: B2B: Business to Business – Selling a product or service to other businesses.

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Up and Running

JULY 10, 2017

Different sources define freemium as a business model or a pricing strategy. I talked to Adam Hempenstall, founder and CEO at BetterProposals , who has been using freemium for three years for his SaaS product: “Honestly, I think it was a mistake. It’s mostly popular with B2C markets. Freemium isn’t free. Youtube ads. $1

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Version One Ventures

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Aileen Lee, founder of Cowboy Ventures, posted a brilliant analysis on why VCs have to look for billion dollar companies (“unicorns”) to deliver acceptable returns, and how rare it is to invest in one: “The odds are somewhere between catching a foul ball at an MLB game and being struck by lightning in one’s lifetime.”. Be thesis-driven.

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David Teten

JANUARY 11, 2020

In the venture capital/private equity business, investors are B2B microinfluencers. We market to four populations: High-potential founders. I have a tiny audience compared with the B2C influencers, but my audience are overwhelming businesspeople in tech and finance. High-potential prospective employees of portfolio companies.

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Seeing Both Sides

JULY 11, 2013

Before this occurs, the sales process is a craft or an art - custom-made by the founder or evangelist sales VP. Across our portfolio and in my own entrepreneurial experience, I have seen three main sales models work successfully in scaling B2B sales: 1) Enterprise; 2) Telephone; and 3) Developer-driven. I''ll discuss each one below.

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Mucker Lab

APRIL 6, 2023

Are there types of companies, market segments, industries, or business models where PLG does not make sense? What should an early-stage startup founder focus on if they want to implement PLG? What should the founder avoid if they want to implement PLG? Hila is a mentor with Mucker Capital. That’s never happened.

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 24, 2018

Noreen Sablotsky is the founder and CEO of Imalac , a revolutionary company in the breastfeeding world. Her responsibilities included: strategic counseling, business modeling and deal negotiation for the various for medical startups in the portfolio and is a limited partner at NGT3 Medical Accelerator in Israel.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 29, 2019

Hailing from the Pacific Northwest, their three founders — Tim Nybo, Sean Agatep, and Aaron Hallerman — spent four years in China after graduating from Gonzaga. We had a chance to sit down with Tim and get his thoughts on how the direct-to-consumer business model is changing the retail game.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 22, 2019

He is the founder of Backlinko.com a place where you can get actionable SEO advice. So for example, a B2B national company that sells say like software as opposed to a B2C local company that does I don’t know, basement waterproofing. That’s the whole business model and it works really well.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

On the other hand, Easytobook , a B2C company, had 1.5 It seems that B2C companies might benefit far more from social login than B2B, but even that seems to depend on a company’s expectations. More detailed and reliable data allows you to tailor your business model, monitor trends, and measure how they might impact future demand.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Tim Friedman, Founder, PE Stack , said, “If I could offer one piece of advice to today’s managers, it would be to take the time to understand the demands of the modern institutional LP. Russell Rothstein, Founder and CEO, IT Central Station , a product review site, said, “We see VCs on our site very often. 3) Raise capital.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 24, 2014

On the other hand, Easytobook , a B2C company, had 1.5 It seems that B2C companies might benefit far more from social login than B2Bbut even that seems to depend on a company’s expectations. More detailed and reliable data allows you to tailor your business model, monitor trends and measure how they might impact future demand.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Modern entrepreneurship began at the turn of the 21 st century with the observation that startups aren’t smaller versions of large companies – large companies at their core execute known business models, while startups search for scalable business models. This circular loop can cause them to churn, pivot, and fail.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Chasing funding versus chasing customers and a repeatable and scalable business model, is one reason startups fail. Is there a profitable business model? The Traditional VC Pitch Entrepreneurs who pursue the traditional product development model don’t have customer data to answer these questions. Can it scale?”

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Reid Hoffman

AUGUST 17, 2021

says Ramaswamy, who joined Greylock in 2018 following 15 years at Google, where he ran the company’s massive advertising business. But the key is to ensure your product has a strong differentiator, which is exactly how Ramaswamy and his Neeva co-founders positioned the search engine company when it launched last year.

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Reid Hoffman

AUGUST 17, 2021

says Ramaswamy, who joined Greylock in 2018 following 15 years at Google, where he ran the company’s massive advertising business. But the key is to ensure your product has a strong differentiator, which is exactly how Ramaswamy and his Neeva co-founders positioned the search engine company when it launched last year.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 23, 2022

The discussion that ensued was insightful and I thought it would be worth sharing it here for founders who are dealing with a similar issue. In this post, I will cover why revenue is important, why it’s a bad north star KPI and what startup founders should consider when choosing a North Star Metric (NSM).

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 16, 2012

TripAdvisor may be one of the most fascinating companies I know and so I was excited to dig into their business model as part of my series on scaling. TripAdvisor is more of a classic consumer Internet success story, but with even more powerful network effects and an amazing business model. Henry Harteveldt, Forrester.

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This is going to be BIG.

JULY 21, 2015

These small businesses needed a single delivery solution in order to focus on what they do best--whether it's making food or curating products to sell in a store. It's not a B2C company. It found a better business model that solves doing right by customers and doing right by its staff. That's what Homer is.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 2, 2017

Others take bets on certain verticals or business models, such as marketplaces, SaaS, or enterprise technology. For this reason, we’re excited to announce that we have closed on NextView’s $50M third fund, with a mission to champion founders who are redesigning the Everyday Economy. . Improvement is linear and incremental.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 8, 2013

William Hsu is the co-founder and managing partner of MuckerLab. Many investors love “disruptive” businesses. This is in part because these businesses are unencumbered by legacy constraints that had previously been hardwired into the companies and industries these startups are trying to disrupt.

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 18, 2010

Before: After: And thenI ran into a Mixergy interview where 37signals founder, Jason Fried, talks about their free plan (6:00 into the interview): “… The majority of the revenues for our products come from people who sign up for the paid versions upfront. I saw that 37signals had hidden theirs. 5 Ben K on 08.18.10

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Steve Blank

JUNE 23, 2021

This allowed us to emphasize how to differentiate a technical spec from a value proposition and expand on the parts of the business model that are unique for science and engineering startups. Ended in Week 10 as a B2C platform for scheduling on-demand at-home senior care. If you can’t see the Celsius video, click here.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

Harvard professor Noam Wasserman and WSJ small-business editor Vanessa OConnell took reader questions about avoiding start-up pitfalls on Sept. Consider Daniel Dreymann, a founder of Goodmail Systems Inc., Languishing businesses were counted as survivors. INTERNET BUSINESSES. Business Services (B2B). Software. -

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David Teten

MARCH 18, 2021

(co-written with Stephane Nasser , co-founder of OpenVC , an open-source initiative to collect and analyze all VC theses.). OpenVC is a new, open-source initiative to collect and analyze all publicly available VC theses, to help founders more efficiently find the right investors, and vice-versa. Technical founders .

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View from Seed

APRIL 20, 2020

The result is that capital tends to flow towards founders with established VC relationships and away from folks who may be equally talented but are several steps removed from investor networks. WHO WE ARE : Everyone on the NextView partnership has deep operating experience as founders and operators scaling high-growth internet companies (e.g.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 1, 2017

We can say the same thing for B2C products, for example, HeadSpace. There are tons of choices when in comes to some B2C apps, including using none of them. If they try once, and leave, that’s a massive leak in your funnel and a huge hole in your business model. So it comes down to this: how loyal are you to Headspace?

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 1, 2017

We can say the same thing for B2C products, for example, HeadSpace. There are tons of choices when in comes to some B2C apps, including using none of them. If they try once, and leave, that’s a massive leak in your funnel and a huge hole in your business model. So it comes down to this: how loyal are you to Headspace?

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Austin Startup

MAY 29, 2019

Yesterday I was having a discussion with one of our executives on the strength of network effects inherent in the data.world business model. This led to a far ranging strategic discussion that got us both really excited about the huge potential of our business. 8, which was released earlier this week.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 2, 2020

Byron Sharp and the Ehrenberg-Bass Institute have criticized differentiation, arguing that its role in the B2C setting is less important. It requires radical product/service innovation, combined with business model innovation, aided by data about future category demand. When differentiation doesn’t matter. One-hundred percent.

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