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Why Do Consumer IPOs and B2B IPOs Get Treated Differently?

View from Seed

Zoom is a B2B company Pinterest and Lyft are obviously B2C companies. All three have different business models… SaaS, media/ad, and consumer transactional. Fairly frequently public market investors believe that a new consumer company is “the next X”. All three are impressive and valuable businesses in their own right.

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Why Do Consumer IPOs and B2B IPOs Get Treated Differently?

Agile VC

Zoom is a B2B company Pinterest and Lyft are obviously B2C companies. All three have different business models… SaaS, media/ad, and consumer transactional. Fairly frequently public market investors believe that a new consumer company is “the next X”. All three are impressive and valuable businesses in their own right.

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How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood

David Teten

The majority of funds are using the popular B2C websites and services for basic due diligence, e.g., Linkedin, Twitter, HackerNews. One global institutional investor is investigating setting up a large-scale co-investment vehicle, similar to Correlation Ventures, but focused on private equity transactions. 6) Negotiate deal.

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

“We’re using … TinyLetter for our “Content Newsletter” … and Buffer to schedule social media posts. Point Nine Capital uses Mention for media monitoring. I use Hootsuite to coordinate my social media activity, which consists of Teten.com, PEVCTech.com , Linkedin , AngelList , and (passively) Twitter and Facebook.