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Startup Benchmarks

VC Cafe

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. The main B2C benchmarks have to do with traction: growth in user acquisition, user retention/churn, monetisation, as well as the effectiveness of consumer marketing + virality.

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[Review] The Rise Of The New East

YoungUpstarts

They should also consider launching online B2C or B2B platforms incorporating mobile and social-commerce. The old paradigm of manufacturing in China and selling in Europe and US is no longer entirely true. Asian economies may also want to consider how freight networks and warehouses could be structured to facilitate e-commerce.

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Does Your VC have an Investment Thesis, or a Hypothesis?

David Teten

A typical VC thesis: “we invest in tech startups in Europe at an early stage” However, our experience shows that in many cases: . “Europe” means a handful of countries, for instance, France, UK, and Germany. B2B vs B2C) within the business model preference. . 3) Geography-defined funds.

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How One Startup Combines Boston’s B2B Sense with the Valley’s Social Media Style

View from Seed

This is a guest post by Alignable CMO Dan Slagen about the missed opportunity the company has identified in social networking, and why they’ve chosen to build the business on the East Coast. These companies are all over the map: B2B, B2C, SaaS, ecommerce, healthcare, SMB-focused, enterprise-focused, etc. 2029 Stierlin Court.

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How to Navigate the New Era of SEO: Strategies for Understanding Consumer Search Behavior

Duct Tape Marketing

And that looks different for a B2C journey versus a B2B journey. So on the B2C side, that could be TikTok, Amazon, YouTube, and on B2B side, that could be maybe they're searching in LinkedIn or YouTube again, or software SaaS searching like Capterra or something like that. But that's when we've been thinking about it.

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Never Mind the Valley: Here's Paris

ReadWriteStart

Through them, entrepreneurs can hook up with R&D resources in universities and companies, and get access to a robust support network that provides opportunities for visibility, growth and financing. LeWeb , Europe's largest (and the world's second largest) Internet conference is held in Paris every December. and Amazon.fr).

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10 challenges investors face in Metaverse and Web3

VC Cafe

Metaverse – it has both B2B and B2C applications. Cameron Winklevoss, one of the twins from ‘the social network’ movie about Facebook and president of bitcoin exchange Gemini Trust, called Biden’s executive order a “watershed moment” for the industry. Regulation is coming. Source: Visual Capitalist.

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