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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.

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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.

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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. Here’s another great B2C example from consumer goods brand YETI. You’d think that no one could recreate a product so sophisticated and advanced as space rockets, right? In 2002, Elon Musk created Space X. With enough resources, products can always be copied.

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Never Mind the Valley: Here's Paris

ReadWriteStart

The JEI program was created in 2004 and is managed by the Ministry of Research. PriceMinister, a site for C2C/B2C sales of new and used goods (at a fixed price) is the top e-commerce platform in France (recently surpassing eBay.fr It also provides support and guidance well beyond that phase. and Amazon.fr). It has infiltrated the U.K.,

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Don’t drink your own Kool-Aid (surviving TC50)

Both Sides of the Table

Around this time B2C eCommerce had been dominating the media but the wheels were starting to come off. 2001-2004 were very humbling but we built a real company. We had scrambled to get a product to market, built our first website, rapidly hired a technology team, raised our seed round of capital ($1.5 That story for another day.

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4 Steps to Leveraging Your Network to Build Your Business

Duct Tape Marketing

For example: “[MY COMPANY NAME] is an app that connects parents and family-friendly events, and we’re looking for angel investors interested in mobile B2C apps to close out our seed round. Jonathan has been heavily involved in startups and online marketing since 2004, a nd has advised hu ndreds of technology companies.

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Scaling is Hard, Case Study: TripAdvisor

Seeing Both Sides

Going B2C was daunting and not in our core DNA,” Kaufer remarked. The company agreed to be acquired by Expedia/IAC in 2004 for $210 million in cash, a huge win for all, particularly given their amazing capital efficiency: they had only raised $4 million in venture capital.