VC Cafe

OCTOBER 24, 2022

A look at the overall exits for both enterprise (B2B) and consumer (B2C) companies from 1995-2022 shows that both categories can produce power law returns, but they vary substantially: The top five enterprise companies with the largest exits account for $188B in value creation, or 12% of the $1,609B generated in the enterprise category since 1995.

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B2C IPO B2B 103

abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Pierre Omidyar founded AuctionWeb in September of 1995, and its rise to fame is legendary. In 1999, Jack Ma created Alibaba , a Chinese-based B2B marketplace for connecting small and medium enterprise with potential export opportunities. Swing is now at over 1,200 school partners and has filled over 115,000 teacher absence days.

Internet 88

Internet Matching Vertical Hosting 88

Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

I bought Forevervinyl.com back in 1995 and went online. Well, we’re a B2B marketing agency that specializes in services and intangible products. Several years ago, my partner and I were busting our tails for 18 hours a day, but we weren’t really running our home services business. 11- Quite simple.

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Naming Entrepreneur Green LLC 97

David Teten

APRIL 1, 2011

Peter Lehrman, CEO, AxialMarket Daniel Confino, Founder, MergerID ( a Financial Times business) Dan Burstein, Managing Partner, Millennium Technology Value Partners. His professional career has been substantially dedicated to building high-value technology-powered B2B marketplaces where many thought they couldn’t exist.

Private Equity 68

Private Equity Merger IPO Equity 68

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 23, 2017

When people [00:12:59] customer centric company, talked about this you know in [00:13:03] 1995, this was his approach. Bryan: That’s it and it sets expectations for B2C and B2B right and [00:23:11] at this point as well. [00:23:13] How do I turn those into insights? Are you an independent marketing consultant or an agency?

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Tampa Florida Customer Audio 34