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What Boston’s Top Consumer Tech Leaders Think About Boston’s Consumer Tech Struggles [#BostonB2C Recap]

View from Seed

Still others point to the collective sensibility and logic of New Englanders as an operating philosophy. Here’s Mike’s comment: Boston’s B2C problem is one of values. To become a truly special consumer tech community, Boston needs more pillar B2C companies. Some say it’s an investor problem.

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Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller

SoCal CTO

It was also beneficial because I got some good experience with both B2B and B2C business models. to work on an entertainment-related technology project and have stayed ever since. Google is impressive in that in many ways they operate more like a startup than many smaller companies. Tell Rod about the LA CTO Forum.

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Marketing Your Startup: A Billion-Dollar Company’s First Marketer Reflects Back

View from Seed

Initially, we promoted it to a list that we’d already developed through Website Grader, the free app our CTO Dharmesh Shah had built before we even had a product. 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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Product-Led Growth (PLG) For Startups

Mucker Lab

If you work in B2C or e-commerce, you optimize that Add to Cart flow like crazy because that is your revenue. Can you see POC operating in conjunction with a freemium or free trial PLG motion for a particular company? They’re the CEO, they’re the CTO, they never are interested in testing out the product as well. That's great.

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