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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. I don’t follow the Chinese startup market as closely as I follow the US, but Alibaba’s 2014 IPO was a similar watershed moment. 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

This post also appears on NextView’s blog. Zoom is a B2B company Pinterest and Lyft are obviously B2C companies. I don’t follow the Chinese startup market as closely as I follow the US, but Alibaba’s 2014 IPO was a similar watershed moment. 2019 is off to an exciting start for IPOs of VC-backed startups.

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Looking for your summer internship? Look no further.

Austin Startup

is a conversational Marketing Service that drives quality web traffic to your blog/web content by engaging with relevant people when they have relevant Tweet conversation. Candidates will learn our culture and how to go through steps of sales cycle with Lead Generation, B2B and B2C sales and account management. SkimKing SocialMatters.ai

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Marketing Your Startup: A Billion-Dollar Company’s First Marketer Reflects Back

View from Seed

Ellie Mirman was the first marketer hired by the CMO of HubSpot, the Boston-based marketing software startup that IPOed in 2014. We started with a general webinar about how to turn your website into a marketing machine, then we went on to SEO, then blogging, then social media. How did you address that? EM: We had waves of topics.

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How to get your mobile app discovered in 2021

VC Cafe

Worldwide mobile app revenues in 2014 to 2023 (in billion U.S. As a VC that invests in B2C, I often try to put myself in shoes of a founder looking to grow the audience for their new app to consumers. dollars) (source: Statista ). Owners of new smartphone devices are more likely to install a number of new apps at once.

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10 Things All Founders Should Do in the Last Months of 2014

Up and Running

What has your business accomplished in 2014, and what is still left to do? If you’re a B2C company, advertise to customers who have caught shopping fever and are excited to spend their Christmas bonus on new, fun things. – Firas Kittaneh, Amerisleep. The new year is fast approaching. What have you accomplished?

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Closing Data's Last-Mile Gap: Visualizing For Impact!

Occam's Razor

I felt it might be of value to see the product and services dimensions together, comparing them across B2B and B2C. It jumps from 2014 to 2017 without any visible explanation. and reflect on how this graph is long-term job security for everyone who reads this blog. One final touch. Here’s that version…. Regardless, I gave up.

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