OnlyOnce

OCTOBER 31, 2013

Fred Wilson has been a venture investor and director in Return Path since 2000, first with Flatiron Partners and then with Union Square Ventures. Look for VC portfolios that have a lot of “like” companies (B2B, B2C, media, tech, etc.). Selecting Your Investors. We’ve been through a lot of wars together.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

And so it happened that between 2000-2008 I was the biggest buzz kill at dinner parties. I still love B2B application. When the masses start all running one way without questioning “why?&# – and when it defies any logic I can figure out in my head – I call bullshit. I am really bullish on data-as-a-service.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

A customer survey conducted by B2B daily deals service RapidBuyr ( www.RapidBuyr.com ) has found that mobile technologies and travel deals top the list of purchases that small business owners plan to make in the coming year.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 3, 2016

Another reason was because when I started my business it was 2000, and people used the phone more, I wanted something short and sweet I could say while answering the phone all day. As you likely realize, online marketing services are, at heart, a B2B solution. But getting even more granular, my clients themselves are B2Bs as well.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Nichole Elizabeth DeMeré , a B2B SaaS consultant, lamented that. American Biophysics debuted the Mosquito Magnet in 2000, at the height of the West Nile Virus scare. For products with more than one kind of user, we write more than one user manual. startups want to launch their products without at least trying to language-market fit.

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Genuine VC

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

We rode the bubble wave to a successful outcome in 2000 , and after moving away for a few years which included a stint at business school , I returned back to Boston in 2004, and it felt like the web entrepreneurial community had almost entirely scattered after the crash. And that certainly wasn’t the case when I moved back here in 2004.

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BeyondVC

JULY 16, 2007

The article is right in that alot of buzz gets centered on consumer Internet companies like Google or YouTube and that on absolute market capitalization many of the big returns are found in the B2B type deals. Infinera Corp: $345mm pre-IPO with first VC round in December 2000, $2b market cap. market cap. appeared first on BeyondVC.

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ConversionXL

MAY 22, 2017

In early 2000, the diffusion of Personal Computers transformed the way users made decisions and the paradigm buyer/seller changed again. Is it a B2B or B2C email?” , “What is the company where this contact is working at?” Mark Organ , saw a tiny space in the already very crowded CRM industry and founded Eloqua.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 22, 2019

I mean there’s probably 2000 words on that page, but then links off to in a very logical way. So for example, a B2B national company that sells say like software as opposed to a B2C local company that does I don’t know, basement waterproofing. Brian Dean: The B2B company, it would be really similar to the content strategy.

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Seeing Both Sides

JULY 11, 2013

Across our portfolio and in my own entrepreneurial experience, I have seen three main sales models work successfully in scaling B2B sales: 1) Enterprise; 2) Telephone; and 3) Developer-driven. I''ll discuss each one below. 1) Enterprise Sales.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 27, 2015

But recent innovations in SaaS-driven business models have come of age on the backs of B2B solutions, and providers are finally learning how to cater to the underserved VSB market. Scott Petty co-founded Signal Peak Ventures (FKA vSpring Capital) in 2000 and has been a Managing Director since its formation.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

My Story: The public coming out for my first company, BuildOnline, was in early 2000. Everybody thought the real substance was going to come from B2B eCommerce players that would deliver “real value&# by disintermediating supply chains … blah, blah, blah. We were it in Europe: B2B. They always need something new.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 17, 2018

I actually did a study on this a few years ago, and I looked at 351 B2B companies with 50 to 1000 employees, and there was a huge difference between the software companies and the non software companies. That’s real graduate level stuff, and most businesses aren’t taking care of the one or one and one or two kinds of things.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 1, 2013

Although opinions about traditional marketing vary, a large number of marketers, especially in the B2B (business to business) space don’t believe that traditional marketing is effective. In most cases, the goal of traditional marketing is to create brand awareness. Tradeshows. The company folded shortly after the ad aired.

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VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

It allows the company to eliminate the lines between their separate business units as well as improve customer satisfaction, 123 EDI Shipping Outsourcing, ArcGIS geographic authoring, BGT Partners consulting for B2B portal and CMS, Clarity Consulting for ABC QuickShip Application Development, Computer Aid, Inc. Citrix Presentation Server 4.0,

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Occam's Razor

MAY 2, 2017

B2B / Enterprise Sales: Salesforce. I absolutely hate how not data driven most B2B selling is. Mobile is massively undervalued by most B2B companies (including SF), hence the acquisition emphasis there. For a B2B company there are so many things we can measure. Let your competition be lame and play by 2000 worldviews.

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Seeing Both Sides

DECEMBER 17, 2015

By my definition, Reindeer are tech companies founded since 2000 that have created more than $2 billion in market value. Two years ago, I pointed out that there were only three companies that had achieved > $1 billion in value in the tech sector founded since 2000 (i.e., I'm Jewish, so I confess that I had to look that one up).

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Key Takeaway: In a recent Texas Tech Survey, out of 2000 consumers, 89% of them claimed they had a business that they loved enough that they would gladly recommend — only 29% of them actually did it. And then finally, I think most businesses, particularly in the B2B world, uh, can and should create what I call a referral mastermind.

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Pascal's View

AUGUST 21, 2011

The former includes the Twitters, Facebooks, Linkedins, Tesla Motors of the World and the latter is the 95% of companies (B2B SaaS, Semiconductors, Cap Equipment, Biotech, MedTech, etc) that need to be marketed (Supply Push) by legions of brokers. It is intentional. And I agree with Mike Arrington that what is going on now is different.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 14, 2022

However, for some reason, for B2B content, you have to come to my show right next Tuesday at 11, my time zone. So I think it's not only like there's a place for on demand and B2B content. Or you have two of those and now there's 2000 people and everyone's sending a chat. So there's a bit of a disconnect, right. Yeah, yeah.

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David Teten

APRIL 1, 2011

His professional career has been substantially dedicated to building high-value technology-powered B2B marketplaces where many thought they couldn’t exist. He earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Virginia and received his MBA from Stanford Business School. He serves as a Managing Partner of both funds. the 1990s.

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BeyondVC

NOVEMBER 5, 2003

Backing Tilion’s vision in a December 2000 article from Internet.com , Eric Schmidt, now CEO of Google, commented, “Tilion finally allows large enterprises and exchanges to go beyond the simple enablement or automation of B2B transactions. Tilion allows you see into systems which were designed to be closed.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 28, 2015

First, your average human today is inundated with over 2000 outbound marketing interruptions per day. We refer to these methods as “outbound marketing”, where a marketer pushes his or her message out far and wide hoping that it resonates with that needle in the haystack.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

Well, we’re a B2B marketing agency that specializes in services and intangible products. I started a consulting firm called Global Marketing Resources, LLC in 2000 as source for additional income while I was a corporate executive. So why Market Expertise? In other words, we market expertise. Market expertise is what we do.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

We raised a seed round of capital in 1999 and our first venture capital round was the first week of March 2000 (e.g. We were immediately thrust into a globally competitive market for B2B collaboration tools. But this was early 2000 and our US competitors had already closed rounds North of $45 million.

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Brandanew

JUNE 18, 2015

With a European client, we achieved a cost per lead of 7 Euros which was much lower than their normal $80 Euros per lead for B2B and thus exceptionally successful. Usually these would start at $2000 at least. Usually getting an outside-in Content Marketing agency is a good idea to come up with the opportunity-gap analysis.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

In 1999, Jack Ma created Alibaba , a Chinese-based B2B marketplace for connecting small and medium enterprise with potential export opportunities. In 2000, Eric Baker and Jeff Fluhr founded StubHub , a secondary ticket exchange marketplace. The company was acquired by ebay in January 2007.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 8, 2013

By the end, 99 percent of the B2B marketplaces had cratered and only B2C eBay was left standing and thriving. The prevailing consensus at the time was that B2B marketplaces were too hard (e.g. The prevailing consensus at the time was that B2B marketplaces were too hard (e.g. Support series of one-to-many relationships.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 22, 2015

Let’s say you run a B2B site, and drive your visitors toward a quote request page. B2B and B2C. A rough ballpark would be 2000-3000 pageviews per design screen. This comes down to the most important thing about conversion optimization – the discovery of matters. Some things and places matter much more than others.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 28, 2016

This was based on a survey of 2000 participants and brain activity studies of 112 participants. The B2B PR blog has conducted a study that resulted in 68% of the journalists wanting just the facts. The attention span of Americans is approximately 8 seconds, according to a study from Microsoft Corp. Keep your e-mail to the point.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

The results were similar when he examined data for companies funded from 2000 to 2010, he says. Business Services (B2B). His findings are based on data from more than 2,000 companies that received venture funding, generally at least $1 million, from 2004 through 2010. Venture capitalists "bury their dead very quietly," Mr. Ghosh says.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 15, 2017

I have been working with my Partners since November 2000. The differences between B2C and B2B within the same brands were staggering! It was in year 2000 and my friend and I were young and ambitious. Thanks to Emily Mazza, Mazza Virtual Assistants ! #7- 7- To prioritizes employee and client retention.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

b2b CRM – A Web-based CRM that manages contacts, activities, and your sales pipeline, and integrates with Outlook and Word. I have around 2000 emails to verify. Oprius – A contact management software designed for independent sales people. zendesk – A branded online customer support system. Awsome post btw.

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Software Review Social Media Social Network Software 78

alexpoole.info

AUGUST 14, 2012

2000-2001 , Tullis et al., Publications (in German) were: Wendt, Dirk (1970): Zur Lesbarkeit von Druckschriften (On the legibility of print), Umschau in Wissenschaft und Technik 70 (13), p 417-418, and in more detail: Wendt, Dirk (2000): Lesbarkeit von Druckschriften. 2000-2001 , Tullis et al., 1998 , Bernard et al., Bernard, M.,

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 27, 2020

I recommend companies consider investing in product analytics tools when they reach the following numbers: 100+ B2B users (companies) or 2000+ B2C users (consumers); Actively experimenting with different marketing channels; Spending $1000+ per month on user acquisition.

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Analytics Product eCommerce Channel 90

VC Cafe

DECEMBER 11, 2013

All in a 2000 sq ft shared workspace. Daniel and his Co-Founder Stevan will be launching their latest B2B innovation, CurrencyTransfer.com at Finovate in London on February 12. We learnt quickly that the Israel tech scene is a melting pot of emigration & assimilation. For me, this is the magic of Israel.

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ConversionXL

JULY 18, 2017

I recommend companies consider investing in product analytics tools when they reach the following numbers: 100+ B2B users (companies) or 2000+ B2C users (consumers). You can’t take one data point and extract valid conclusions from it. Actively experimenting with different marketing channels.

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