YoungUpstarts

MAY 29, 2011

B2C vs. B2B is not a meaningful segmentation of Internet startups anymore because the Internet has changed the rules of business. We found 4 different major groups of startups that all have very different behavior regarding customer acquisition, time, product, market and team. You can get more findings from the report.

Silicon Valley 230

Silicon Valley Cofounder Technical Cofounder Startup 230

View from Seed

MARCH 24, 2021

So, we decided to aggregate NextView’s “greatest hits.” Put differently, it’s amazing how crappy or bare bones products or services are when they start to show meaningful adoption and wildly happy customers.” Why Do Consumer IPOs and B2B IPOs Get Treated Differently? ” (Rob Go). Industry Trends.

Seed Stage 177

Seed Stage Hiring IPO Analytics 177

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

Advances in machine learning, specifically natural language processing, have made generating these baseline, aggregate datasets possible, at scale, with high accuracy. Many tools designed for B2B marketing in general are also relevant to investors. 1) Market fund.

Private Equity 60

Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Technical Review 60

Venture Chronicles

APRIL 20, 2014

A successful organization that fed impressive growth, reaching growth and revenue records year over year, the marketing organization relied on a proven B2B outbound marketing model that precisely measured lead capture rates. Marketing Uncategorized B2B inbound marketing Ping Identity'

B2B 45

B2B Marketing SEM Bandwidth 45

Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

A B2B example might include maintaining a calendar of networking events or business related seminars. Using a little RSS magic and a bookmarking tool like Delicious, you could even automate the aggregation of news and other related content for neighborhoods with very little work.

Search 69

Search Software Review Technical Review Engineer 69

This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

That girl now has now has 200,000 paying customers and a profitable run rate of over $40M within 18 months of raising capital. This includes establishing sales objectives and compensation plans for all sales personnel, including salary structures, commission plans, sales contests and bonus plans. How do you like them apples?

Part-Time VPE 92

Part-Time VPE CTO Hire Engineer Sales 92

VC Cafe

APRIL 21, 2022

trillion times in aggregate ( source ). They are also the only ones to publicly share the long list of organisations using their product, which you’ll have to agree is an impressive bunch: Customers using Hololens 2 (source: Microsoft ). million lenses, which have been viewed over 3.5 Snap Spectacles. Magic Leap.

Mobile 198

Mobile Global Aggregator Bootstrapping 198

Austin Startup

JANUARY 25, 2020

They’re a carefully-curated clothing aggregator, with an emphasis on creating customized shopping experiences. Rajya : Right now we’re focused on getting more customers to use the site. Rajya : We’ve met and talked to a lot of people who are doing B2B, but meeting B2C people is really key for us.

B2C 62

B2C Startup B2B Cofounder 62

Scalable Startup

JANUARY 12, 2015

Online review management systems are an established part of the web for both consumer and B2B. In the consumer markets, 86% of all customers rely on online reviews when they buy something, and 72% of all people say online reviews are their top reason for choosing a local business. Self funded to date, 10-20 employees. >

Management 20

Management Los Angeles Angel Investor B2B 20

ConversionXL

MAY 13, 2020

After a few hours playing around with SQL , I was already able to deliver insights I never could have with aggregated Google Analytics reports. What’s the difference between raw and aggregated data in Google Analytics? Google Analytics, in the free version, provides only aggregated data. Do more and more people use Feature X?

Analytics 85

Analytics Aggregator SQL Cloud 85

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 2, 2014

If we transform that into a journey instead, we can do a better job of keeping visitors and customers engaged in a branded experience that lets us understand the buyer personas we’re targeting from the information we gather through metrics. The Uberflip platform starts with aggregating all the content you create and curate.

Marketing 162

Marketing Curation B2C Audience 162

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 27, 2011

When you talk to investors, partners, customers and most potential new team members one of the first thing all of them are going to do is get a sense for who you are and what you've done. Content marketing is creating relevant and valuable information for prospects and customers as part of a brand's overall marketing mix.

Elevator Pitch 144

Elevator Pitch Management Aggregator Curation 144

Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 30, 2017

Consider the following: 78% of organizations say data-driven marketing increases lead conversion and customer acquisition ( source ). 66% of marketing leaders have seen an increase in new customers as a result of data-driven initiatives ( source ). Today, we teach you how. What is Data-Driven Marketing? About the Author.

Marketing 55

Marketing B2B Database Campaign 55

ConversionXL

MARCH 20, 2019

While it doesn’t publish prices publicly, an interview with the Demandbase CEO in 2017 claimed that the average revenue per customer per month was $20,000. The high price tag self-selects Demandbase customers. It’s not just a giant CRM that matches customers with a subset of relevant accounts. Image source ). Image source ).

Software Review 117

Software Review Software Marketing IP 117

Scalable Startup

JANUARY 12, 2015

. > The Larger Market: Estimated at over $10 billion revenue per year, probably a lot more, online review management systems are an established part of the web for consumer and B2B markets. For B2B, online reviews and testimonials and becoming a requirement in healthcare, automotive, government and other industries.

Aggregator 20

Aggregator Management Los Angeles Angel Investor 20

Cracking the Code

JANUARY 25, 2021

The first time I met Matan, the founder of Melio, he told me that his mission was simple: he wanted to “help small businesses stay in business” by making B2B payments fast, simple and flexible. More than 40% of B2B transactions in the US, which is roughly a $25 trillion market , are still made with paper checks compared to 5-7% for consumers.

B2B 62

B2B Cloud Europe 62

Start Up Blog

MARCH 29, 2020

Many of the parts that make an economy are real – like people – but much of it is just aggregated concepts for which measurements are possible. All businesses need people as customers. Even B2B enterprises are just facilitating actions that end up with consumer demand.

Government 87

Government Australia Denmark Balance Sheet 87

crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 29, 2016

There’s a reason such resources are in high demand: 88% of all B2B businesses are investing in content marketing , along with 80% of B2C businesses. Still, your sales team will have valuable insight into your customer base, their preferences, and their personalities. Of course folks are gonna want to know how to get it right.

Marketing 48

Marketing B2C Audience Aggregator 48

Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 7, 2020

And it doesn’t matter what kind of business it is—B2B or B2C, retailer or service provider—people are opening up a search browser to find you online. But it’s equally true for existing customers! Increasingly, Google is where people head to find information about businesses.

Search 71

Search PPC Kansas City B2C 71

SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

We do a lot of B2B and also have an "Early Stage Branding" practice for technology startups. Oh, and I forget to mention in my introduction about B2B. I need to get you into both the Southern California Tech Central and the B2B Marketing Zone. landing pages, etc. Foreign Service. I'll connect offline on both of those.

Early Stage 150

Early Stage Southern California Los Angeles Marketing 150

Occam's Razor

MAY 2, 2017

The goal is for each company’s Google Data Studio to not look like a CDP (customized data puke), but to be a focused strategic dashboard with an emphasis on IABI. Remember: All data in aggregate is crap, segment or suck. If your dashboards are CDPs (customized data pukes) do this every three months. If you want to play along.

Metrics 141

Metrics Acquisition eCommerce Analytics 141

Agile VC

MARCH 8, 2012

The secondary wave of VC-backed IPOs has also come to fruition… both consumer facing (Yelp, Demand Media, Pandora, Carbonite, HomeAway, Angie’s List, et al) and B2B (Jive Software, Brightcove, Imperva, Responsys, etc). The pipeline of companies in registration has continued to grow. Author howerl. Filed under Uncategorized.

IPO 100

IPO Silicon Valley Revenue Seed Stage 100

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 6, 2013

eBay aggregated buyers and sellers of stuff, mostly stuff in the attic and garage, and took a fee on the sale. Pre-built market – some marketplaces have millions of customers visiting on a daily basis. eBay was one of the first to crack the marketplace code online. Advantages of digital marketplaces.

Channel 61

Channel Small Business Distribution B2C 61

Venture Chronicles

JANUARY 5, 2014

An open question that in unanswerable right now is the degree to which the infrastructure, service providers, and various data intermediaries serving b2b and b2c markets treat the government as a hostile actor. 3) Big data takes a breather. big data with just your stuff is rarely big data.

Silicon Valley 62

Silicon Valley Cloud B2C Mobile 62

ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

In other words, potential customers are often put off by the effort to fill out a form, and may even leave the checkout process altogether. 77% of users believe social login is a good registration solution… …and should be offered by any website, according to the aggregated research published by WebHostingBuzz.

Social Network 73

Social Network Viral Social Media B2C 73

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Many tools designed for B2B marketing in general are also relevant to investors. This provides us more time to develop meaningful relationships with prospects and customers. I previously posted a detailed presentation with sales technology tools useful for B2B sales. 3) Raise capital. 6) Due diligence.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

Occam's Razor

JULY 1, 2013

Would you believe me if I said that even leveraging cool features like custom reporting and smart advanced segments might be insufficient in some cases? This is a very simple analysis of the tussle between what you are providing vs. what the customers actually want. And what do happier customers deliver? I understand.

Search 135

Search Analytics PPC Green 135

Occam's Razor

MAY 20, 2013

As is common in these types of educational companies, aggregators rule the roost. The above image only illustrates three segments and their conversions – search, referrals, and aggregators – purely for the sake for simplicity. The answer is simple: Aggregators. They do everything. Which fire should we add more fuel to?

Analytics 139

Analytics Aggregator Channel B2B 139

Occam's Razor

JANUARY 28, 2013

AAA Life Insurance : Truly Customer Centric "Convince Me To Buy" Experience. AAA Life Insurance : Truly Customer Centric "Convince Me To Buy" Experience. There is a lot any business — B2C, B2B, A2Z — can learn from Songza. John Lewis: Thoughtful Cart and Checkout Experiences for Nonline Outcomes.

Web 164

Web Design Marketing Security 164

ConversionXL

JUNE 24, 2014

77% of Users Believe Social Login Is A Good Registration Solution… … and should be offered by any website, according to the same aggregated research published by WebHostingBuzz. MailChimp, the B2B subscriber email management service, recorded a 66% drop in failed logins after introducing social login.

Social Network 130

Social Network Viral Social Media B2C 130

SVPG

FEBRUARY 23, 2014

Understand User and Customer Behavior. But the idea is to understand how our users and customers (remember there can be many users at a single customer at least in the B2B context) are actually using our products. The data we aggregate (from all sources) can be a gold mine. That is but one type.

Analytics 87

Analytics Technical Review Aggregator B2B 87

ConversionXL

MAY 27, 2020

I’ve been in the B2B link-building game for almost five years, and the true value of link building isn’t quick fixes. B2B copywriting almost always requires more skill and time compared to B2C. Another great example of linkable assets are pages that aggregate industry stats, like this one. But they’re wasting their time. .

B2B 142

B2B Social Media Email Campaign 142

Up and Running

JUNE 22, 2021

For a demonstration of this, try making incremental improvements to the average time it takes customers to pay in a cash flow calculator to see the outsize effects. Having easy access to this information makes it easy for business leaders to intervene in the case of chronically problematic customers, to ensure timely invoice payments. .

B2B 102

B2B Campaign Analytics Operations 102

Occam's Razor

AUGUST 12, 2013

I'll close with a custom attribution model into which you can insert all your biases – sorry, I mean expertise – and get something better than good to make incremental progress from where you are today. Customized/Personalized Attribution Model. You can create a customized attribution model. Grab a Red Bull.

Channel 161

Channel Analytics Campaign Conversion 161

Hunter Walker

MARCH 11, 2023

Will Zendesk be replaced by an AI Customer Support startup or does Zendesk integrate AI. Repeat this question for everything B2B. OpenAI is a for-profit, running a venture fund, etc — what types of ‘partnership risk’ is there in backing alternatives who are competing with OpenAI funded startups.

Artificial Inteligence 67

Artificial Inteligence Non-Compete Generative AI IP 67

ConversionXL

JUNE 13, 2016

Because A/B testing considers only a part of the entire customer base (your sample), there are always uncertainties as to actual effects. The goal of the test, however, is to carry-over the effect measured by the test onto the entire customer base. Are customers using the new navigation exactly like the old one?

Distribution 48

Distribution Conversion Non-Compete Revenue 48

Occam's Razor

APRIL 21, 2014

They are actively losing money and actively creating upset customers. I like to analyze my AdWords keyword performance using custom reports , especially using dimensions like Matched Search Query, inside Google Analytics and in context of other campaigns I'm running. If you have a lot of them, aggregate them up.

Analytics 131

Analytics Marketing Campaign Metrics 131