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Scaling Sales: From Craft to Machine

Seeing Both Sides

B2C sales and customer acquisition efforts are a different matter (and one I''ll perhaps address in a future blog), but for B2B, those three models are the most common pattern. customer acquisition cost or CAC). Many companies will design their sales and marketing machine as a blend of each of these approaches.

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Scaling is Hard, Case Study: TripAdvisor

Seeing Both Sides

Founded in 2000 by Stephen Kaufer and Langley Steinert, Boston-based TripAdvisor is a travel website that provides reviews and other information for consumers about travel destinations around the world. Big Data meets travel…in 2000. Going B2C was daunting and not in our core DNA,” Kaufer remarked. Magical, really.

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29 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

I have been working with my Partners since November 2000. We were witnessing, firsthand, the dramatic shifts in B2C e-commerce, and the resulting incredible experiences and benefits brands were delivering their retail consumers. The differences between B2C and B2B within the same brands were staggering!

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

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The results were similar when he examined data for companies funded from 2000 to 2010, he says. In early 2011 an acquisition by a Fortune 500 company fell apart. Consumer Services (B2C). Web Design/Tech Services. He also combed the portfolios of VC firms and talked to people at start-ups, he says. Social Services.

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Special: The 56 Israeli Companies Exhibiting in Mobile World Congress 2011

VC Cafe

Aerotel Medical Systems is a world leading manufacturer of modular, home and mobile telecare and telemedicine solutions designed to transfer essential data over the telephone, mobile phone and the Internet. This allows customers to create, manage and track processes that include tagging of physical objects using barcodes. Mer Telecom. -

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