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A Behind-the-Scenes Look at Our Recent Seed-Stage VC Investments

View from Seed

We’ve been remarkably consistent on this dimension as well: five of the recent 13 investments were B2C, five were B2B, and three you could categorize as B2B2C. More interesting, however, is reflecting on what “rhymes” across multiple investments within our portfolio. Recent Investment Themes. Physical-World Ecommerce.

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How To Get Ready To Participate In An Acceleration Program

YoungUpstarts

However, it is important to check the portfolio of the program and see how many companies from your industry have participated. On the other hand, if the program’s portfolio demonstrates that they worked with quite a few companies in your field, you are good to go. Contact accelerator staff. It was all hypothetical.

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Why Investing in the Everyday Economy Isn’t Just a Consumer Strategy

View from Seed

And in the entertainment category, our portfolio company TripleLift provides monetization for online publishers through native ad technology. In our portfolio, Code Climate is a perfect example of this, as its software becomes embedded within an engineering team’s daily workflow. BookBub ), hybrid B2C/B2B2C models (e.g.

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

David Teten

VCs tout themselves as frontier technology investors, but most are using the same infrastructure tools they have used for the past 20+ years: Excel and recent college grads searching Google. Coalesce address the more general problem of searching through large data sets for best fits. 8) Accelerate portfolio company value.

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Build a Competitor Profile for Clues to Delivering Better Value

Up and Running

Like most B2C product categories these days, your product may compete in a very crowded environment. Probably too many to count; beverage giant Coca Cola has a portfolio of more than 3,500 beverages: diet, regular, sparkling, still, fruit juice, fruit drinks, waters, sports and energy drinks, soy-based beverages, etc.

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How to Radically Stand Out with Brand Marketing

ConversionXL

It helps them audit existing content portfolios (blog posts, landing pages, etc.) Take search-oriented creative agency Rise at Seven. Here’s another great B2C example from consumer goods brand YETI. For example, let’s say you’re building a new tool for content marketers. Twitter followers.

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Simple But Powerful Tips for Naming Your Business or Startup

The Startup Magazine

1) Make it Flexible and Extendable: A good business name should be flexible and extendable: able to accommodate a growing portfolio of additional products, services or territories. A Google search for your business name may place you in page 3 with alternative or similar suggestions in pages 1 and 2. Any known negative connotations?

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