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B2B Marketplaces Revisited

Version One Ventures

Twenty years ago – in the midst of the Web 1.0 boom – expectations were high for B2B (product) marketplaces. Yet today, the world of B2B marketplaces still lags far behind its B2C counterpart. A marketplace needs to bring product catalogs from multiple suppliers and aggregate them in one convenient spot for customers.

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B2B Ecommerce Sites: What Works for B2B Buyers?

ConversionXL

If you’re a B2B ecommerce shop that sells… inexpensive products; in small quantities; exclusively to B2B buyers; The best B2 C ecommerce sites are equally good examples for your B2 B ecommerce site. What works with the average B2C consumer won’t always work with B2B ecommerce buyers. So what changes? A more complex sales cycle.

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

View from Seed

As my partner Rob Go has written , our goal is to invest half in consumer web and mobile and half in business-focused ventures. 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. Physical-World Ecommerce.

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The high road to building an enterprise SaaS company

The Next Web

Developing an enterprise-grade SaaS product is not easy. B2B companies, often due to the higher barriers to develop a working product, have historically been less popular with early-stage investors – such barriers sometimes involve tough requirements for core IP and deep technology. This story continues at The Next Web.

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Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller

SoCal CTO

He has a really interesting background as a product manager and now an entrepreneur. Like many product managers, my background is fairly eclectic. That's where I learned I enjoyed interacting with customers and working with development teams to build and launch products. Tell me a bit about your background. How did it help you?

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Why This Startup Teaches Everyone to Code + a Framework to Find a CTO

View from Seed

In the 10th edition of Traction, we hear the story of Vin Vacanti , co-founder/CEO of Yipit.com (daily deals aggregator) and YipitData (analyzes web data for institutional investors). As a result, Vin has a great framework for deciding if this is a viable path for your product. So much tactical goodness rolled into one episode.

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Shattering The Mold: Unleashing the Creator Economy in B2B Marketing

Duct Tape Marketing

Shattering The Mold: Unleashing the Creator Economy in B2B Marketing written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing The Duct Tape Marketing Podcast with Christie Horsman In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interviewed Christie Horsman, who brings a decade of expertise in both B2B and B2C marketing within the SaaS arena.

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