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Why Do Consumer IPOs and B2B IPOs Get Treated Differently?

View from Seed

Zoom is a B2B company Pinterest and Lyft are obviously B2C companies. Google was a one such company when they went public in 2004 and Facebook was too at their 2012 IPO. That not only bodes well for strong companies seeking to go public, regardless of whether they’re B2B or B2C. appeared first on NextView Ventures.

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Why Do Consumer IPOs and B2B IPOs Get Treated Differently?

Agile VC

Zoom is a B2B company Pinterest and Lyft are obviously B2C companies. Google was a one such company when they went public in 2004 and Facebook was too at their 2012 IPO. That not only bodes well for strong companies seeking to go public, regardless of whether they’re B2B or B2C. This post also appears on NextView’s blog.

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25 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

Whilst teaching 16-18-year-old college students part-time, I had taken on a Flash website build in mid-2004 for a highly-reputed jewelry company in Bristol, UK, referred to me by a friend, and done a good job, other website opportunities started to come in. 9- Providing Legitimate B2B Customer Data in the Era of Mistrust.

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How to Radically Stand Out with Brand Marketing

ConversionXL

He was swiftly followed by Richard Branson and Virgin Galactic in 2004. Studies show that only 5% of B2B buyers are ready to buy. What: Wynter helps marketers to improve their copy with a panel of engaged B2B professionals. There’s only so much you can say about B2B panels in a way that nobody else has.

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Support an Entrepreneur: Buy Local Technology

ReadWriteStart

As someone who spent two years in 2003 and 2004 in NYC selling technology to Wall St trading firms and having my friends and clients wonder what this whole startup thing was about and why I was "wasting" my career doing this after doing a fellowship at Carnegie Mellon University it is great to see how vibrant the NY Startup community has become.

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Okay, I'm Creating Content How Do I Get Someone to Read It 2.

Duct Tape Marketing

She is a columnist for Inc.com “Women in Business” and has been published in DM News as well featured in Entrepreneur Magazine, ClickZ, and B2B Magazine. Janine is VerticalResponse’s CEB (Chief Executive Blogger).

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The Golden Age of the Boston Internet Entrepreneur

Genuine VC

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. Today the landscape is very different from 2004.

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