VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

It doesn’t matter if your company is B2B or B2C, as Y Combinator puts it, you need to build stuff people want, and obsess about making it as user friendly, friction free and smooth as possible. A founder should know (more or less) what milestones she can achieve with the current round (in terms of product, revenue, etc).

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 8, 2023

million people and generate monthly revenue. In 2023, personalization will remain a critical aspect of e-commerce trends, whether you are B2B or B2C. In my experience, I follow different resources, for instance, the Andreessen Horowitz blog , one of the top venture capital funds reporting trends in their newsletters, and INC.5000

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Venture Capital is driver by power laws, meaning that a small percentage of companies drive the majority of the returns. A recent report by Sapphire Ventures took a data-driven approach to answer that question. In other words, VCs are looking for the needle in the haystack vs. the average company to drive economic returns.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

The global rise in venture capital didn’t skip Israel, which has been breaking new records the amount of venture capital raised by companies in 2021. Israel was historically known for semiconductors and cybersecurity but it’s now punching above its weight in consumer (B2C), gaming and commerce.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. . The majority of funds are using the popular B2C websites and services for basic due diligence, e.g., Linkedin, Twitter, HackerNews. TruthFinder and Intelius provide basic background vetting.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 15, 2017

What seems to be the best way to create customers and revenue may result in a business model that is out of vogue with the investment world and shortchanges you on enterprise valuation. If you bill for your technology services on a percentage of ad spend, you are guaranteed to look like an agency that deserves a revenue multiple of 1–2X.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 26, 2019

However, we also discovered key challenges we could not overcome with the capital and window of our team. You might notice what’s not on that list above: revenue, investors. No revenue isn’t always a problem for venture-style businesses; no investors + no revenue = challenges for most founders without tremendous self-funding.

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Austin Startup

MAY 29, 2019

Brands would get higher margins but lower revenues while retailers would get lower margins but higher revenues (generally speaking, with Apple being a notable exception owning both sides of that for much of their sales). In investing in B2C, we also look for network effects but usually those are created rather than natural.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

A Progress Graph on the right visually shows how far you’ve come (in whatever units of goodness you’re tracking – revenue, units, users, etc.) Good if you have your own money, better if the cash comes from investors, but best if it’s revenues from customers. Get back up and running.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 27, 2022

Over the past few weeks, we’ve witnessed the launch of ginormous new venture funds focusing on the space. Venture capital firms poured more than $32 billion into digital-asset startups last year and there’s plenty more dry powder out there: Haun Ventures – $1.5

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 16, 2012

Last week, I wrote about Akamai , a company with strong network effects that successfully transitioned from a single product to build a platform that garners over a billion dollars in revenue and is now a core part of the Internet’s fabric. Going B2C was daunting and not in our core DNA,” Kaufer remarked. Big Data meets travel…in 2000.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Fast forward to today; since we founded Taxfyle in 2015, it has earned the support and investment of numerous venture capitalists and is one of the fastest-growing companies in any sector in the U.S. 5000 list , which lists private American companies based on three-year revenue growth between 2016 and 2019. Magazine’ Inc.

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Jeff Hilimire

AUGUST 30, 2013

While Atlanta has B2C “operational talent” — evident by the city’s cluster of major media and marketing companies — it lacks B2C “entrepreneurial talent,” Cummings said. “We We just need more successful B2C companies to take advantage of the talent,” he said. It’s handy, it’s right with you.”.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Be prepared to cross the desert - SaaS requires R&D and sales expense up front for a multi-year stream of revenue, so it demands enough investment capital to fund 4+ years of runway. Farming is also often overlooked, but can help grow customer accounts and revenues from 30% upwards (if successful). Great list!

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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

A quick look around all the B2C startups shows that, although viral growth is often hoped for, in reality it is extremely rare. It appears that LTV should be about 3 x CAC for a viable SaaS or other form of recurring revenue model. Aim to recover your CAC in < 12 months, otherwise your business will require too much capital to grow.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 3, 2019

It doesn’t mean you won’t be able to help other companies, and we are in many B2C startups, for example. Likewise, we invested in Multicoin Capital because we personally don’t specialize in cryptocurrency and blockchain. And we invested in Forerunner Ventures because they understand B2C and serve a different geography, and others.

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