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First Mover Fallacy

Agile VC

While our portfolio at NextView is roughly equally weighted to consumer facing and B2B companies, it seems that for consumer companies in particular being first mover confers little benefit and the drawbacks probably outweigh whatever weak advantage might exist. First Movers. Atari (home video game consoles). Twitter (microblogging).

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Why We Think B2B Crowdsourced Logistics Will Be a Big Hit

Both Sides of the Table

Six months ago Upfront Ventures announced its first Partner hire since 2007 – Greg Bettinelli. Another one of his big themes has been B2B crowd-sourcing and he had a company in mind already even before he joined – Deliv. I wrote about him here. The best take on this topic is to read directly what Greg has to say about it.

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Product Market Fit

SVPG

In earlier articles I’ve discussed various aspects of Minimum Viable Product (which I like to refer to as MVP Tests to avoid any confusion with an actual product). In this article I’d like to say more about the critical concept of Product Market Fit.

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What Angel Investing & Florida Condos Have in Common

Both Sides of the Table

I believe that huge financial, productivity and technical gains come from new innovation rather than derivative thinking. I saw VCs doing crazy things in 2007-08 when I first entered the VC market – crazy prices, limited due diligence, large funding rounds. I still love B2B application. We’ll re-compare notes then.

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32 Business and Life Lessons: What I Learned Running Companies on 4 Different Continents

ConversionXL

This was in 2007. I had been doing B2B sales for several years, and I was really good at it. I made a conscious decision to become the best in the world at something, specifically becoming the master of knowing what it takes to get products in the hands of customers. ( Yet there are millions of people struggling with this issue.

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How CareerPlug Saved 25 Days of Work with Chargify Business Intelligence

Austin Startup

Chargify, the leading billing platform for B2B SaaS, announced today the massive productivity improvements and decrease in operating costs that CareerPlug has achieved using its new Chargify Business Intelligence product. This saves our operations and finance teams hours of manual work each week. and Canada.

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Which Is The Best Business Model For Your Startup – B2B Or B2C?

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

Things such as social media, online vacation packages, online dating and video production are not a necessity for businesses or the consumer to purchase and often prove a lot harder to break into than the business plan formula claimed it to be. The reason these companies fail is simplistic.

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