Feld Thoughts

APRIL 15, 2018

There are a few mentions of Zynga (which we were investors in) in the various article chain which caused me to reflect even more on the 2007 – 2010 time period when free-to-consumer (supported by advertising) was suddenly conflated with freemium (or free trials for enterprise software).

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Cracking the Code

JANUARY 28, 2008

You have been 2,950 to visit the site in 2007 and you looked at 3,920 pages. Looking back at 2007, I wanted to give a quick overview of the investments I have been involved with, since I have not blogged about any of them yet. This has proven to be true in 2007 and we will see how resilient these trends are in a recession.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 17, 2014

Automation is essential to B2B (business to business) marketing. His clients have included some of the most successful brands in the health & fitness industry, and he’s worked side by side with the “who’s who” of the business since 2007. Why You Need It.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 29, 2011

Despite the intense competition, the company has established a strong position in the B2B events industry, with market presence in Asia Pacific (APAC), Africa, and the Middle East. In fact, the company had been doing so well in 2007 that there were plans to set up another branch by the end of that year, then the crisis hit in 2008.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 22, 2019

Because you think Google 2006, 2007, if you searched for a really niche keyword, like how to write a press release or something, there were some results but there weren’t that many. 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.

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Genuine VC

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

For example, it’s much more prevalent today in 2012 to have been a tactical internet marketer for the past five years whereas in in 2007 is just wasn’t. With real clusters of strength in areas like mobile, marketing, and consumerized B2B SaaS – Boston is entering a golden age of internet entrepreneurs positioned for the future.

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SVPG

JANUARY 26, 2014

The term was first introduced by Marc Andreesen back in 2007, where he argued that for a startup, it is all about getting to Product Market Fit. For B2B companies, I usually favor a product strategy where we tackle one vertical market at a time. I define Product Market Fit in different ways depending on the type of product.

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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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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

by Dan Adams, author of “ New Product Blueprinting: The Handbook for B2B Organic Growth “ Maximize shareholder value. Companies that directly engage their customers to understand their needs have operating income growth rates three times higher than those that do not. ( “The Global Innovation 1000,” Booz Allen Hamilton, 2007 ).

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 25, 2022

You know, should we get on Twitter, this, you know, circa 2007 or something like that. I, I think the key for me is as consumers of consumer products, but also in our B2B world, you come to expect convenience and personalization. Um, and, and I always did use the filter. Uh, would this help you serve your existing clients better?

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 17, 2011

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). Note: There have been some updates since I published th. 5 Practical Tips for Gett. : 5 Steps to Successful Fac.

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Ben's Blog

MAY 15, 2020

People saying, “This is what’s happening to B2B SaaS or this is what’s happening to this category.” And so, we’ve seen a product-led growth motion certainly in the B2B space happening slowly. Those things all got created in 2007, 2008. Brian : There’s a couple things about this, though.

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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. tech sector have more than doubled since 2007.

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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Some of the early B2B pioneers in this space were companies like JBoss ( story here ), SolarWinds, ConstantContact, HubSpot, etc. What is Twitter hadn't gone to SXSW in 2007? that directly tackled the problem of acquiring customers. This is a mistake. Absolutely they did, but they were highly influential and mattered a lot.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

In 2007, we didn’t have two nickels to rub together but then created the largest audience around the discipline of content marketing and monetize it 10 different ways today. But if you’re a small company, it’s easier for you to do this and start monetizing quickly. I think we’re a great case study.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

There are a few reasons as to why entrepreneurs should venture into “B2B” (“Business to Business”) service based companies as opposed to any form of “B2C” (“Business to Consumer”) company, “B2B” product-oriented company or strictly a web-based B2B firm.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

This was in 2007. I had been doing B2B sales for several years, and I was really good at it. I walked into the Air Panama office and the CEO told me “we have been waiting for somebody like you” They still use parts of the website I built for them back in 2007. So I built the site I couldn’t find myself.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 26, 2019

Between 2007 – 2016, 1 million Californians relocated outside of the state largely for financial reasons. Danny Haber is the founder of oWOW, a B2B and B2C concern which is directly involved in building modular units for resale to property developers, and as new housing for consumers.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The Negativity Fast: How a Simple Practice Can Transform Your Life written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing The Duct Tape Marketing Podcast with John Jantsch In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast, I interviewed Anthony Iannarino, a renowned expert in B2B sales, bestselling author, and advocate for positivity.

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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. The company was acquired by ebay in January 2007. These transactions, and the profits realized by the sellers, were truly “unlocked” by eBay’s matching and auction services.

Internet 88

Internet Matching Vertical Hosting 88

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

We were immediately thrust into a globally competitive market for B2B collaboration tools. We had agreed to sell the company to Salesforce.com and between the offer in December 2006 and the closing March 27th, 2007 I focused exclusively on the sale to Salesforce.com. a few days before the wheels came off of the market).

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

After the iPhone launched in 2007 to mass adoption, analytics were never the same. As a B2B business, we’ve struggled with this problem for a long time. Cross-device, cross-browser, and private browsing tracking is hard impossible. If a decent percentage of users weren’t authenticated (i.e.

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VC Cafe

JULY 9, 2010

The company was founded in 2007. NYSE: VMW) in 2008 for $67 million; P-cube, which was sold in 2004 for $200 million; web application firewall developer Imperva , B2B market platform developer Bizo , and Web 2.0 On closing of this round the company would have raised $55 million in funding till date. services developer Xconnect.

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Brandanew

APRIL 22, 2016

Taboola was founded in 2007 in New York City, and has been competing with Outbrain head-to-head almost from day one. LinkedIn Ads are the first place a B2B Content Marketer should go when trying to use paid distribution methods for content. LinkedIn Ads.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

This is a clear example where business-to-business (B2B) marketers need to learn from their business-to-consumer (B2C) counterparts. Yet many B2B companies don’t have a clue. . ► 2007. (10). Best Venture and Technology Podcasts for 2007. ► 02/24 - 03/02. (1). Launch of the SaaS 13 Index! ► 2006.

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VC Cafe

JULY 5, 2010

It is the B2B advertiser’s Mecca, but it is an undeserved market when it comes to user experience and consolidation of services. The company eventually closed, and in 2007 I started PeerTV with two other guys as a spin-off, offering client-server software open platform for IPTV. C onferences are big business.

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Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Our analysis estimates that the number of SaaS companies created has grown 4x between 2007-09 and 2013-15, and the amount raised by European SaaS companies has more than doubled. The first is the B2B global platform play, such as Algolia, the search-as-a-service API Nicolas Dessaigne and Julien Lemoine have built out of Paris.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 22, 2010

ForNova provides a B2B turnkey solution to enable building aggregation solutions for classifieds eCommerce, travel and many other specific content verticals. PeerTV’s solution, in actual deployments since 2007, combines Peerstation Internet based Set Top Boxes and MX 3.0

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2011

Established location-based services to enable the CSP offer B2B and B2C services based on mobile positioning, tracking & locating, turn-by-turn navigation and mobile local search. TodaCell is a Managed Premium Mobile Ad Network established in 2007. Todacell is focused on display ads including all wap& in apps solutions.

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abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 2, 2021

The others are all B2B companies. It took courage for Zach Nelson and the team at Netsuite to also use a Dutch Auction in 2007. Look at the following table recently posted on Twitter by Ari Levy, summarizing the DLs of the past 2 years or so. As a group they have done quite well. This is opposite of what Chris proclaimed.

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