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B2B Marketplaces Revisited

Version One Ventures

boom – expectations were high for B2B (product) marketplaces. Yet today, the world of B2B marketplaces still lags far behind its B2C counterpart. By reducing the friction for North American companies to find suppliers in China, they’ve been the most successful B2B marketplace to date. Alibaba is an exception.

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Requests for Startups in 2024

VC Cafe

In addition, founders thinking about starting a company can be overwhelmed by choice, as there are so many problems to tackle with technology, but it could be comforting to know that investors are interested in those areas in the first place.

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

When I met my now-wife, I realized that any technology that can find me a spouse is a killer app. I’d argue that the same type of technologies that have revolutionized dating can revolutionize our industry. . I walk through below how progressive investors are using technology and analytics throughout all of their operations.

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Top 10 Emerging Marketplaces for Chemical Industry in 2022

ReadWriteStart

The Chemical Industry has had a Drastic Change Due to COVID-19. The chemical industry is in significant flux due to Covid 19. Accordingly, the Chemical and pharmaceutical industries are also growing business With Technology. Accordingly, people were obliged to look for opportunities on online B2B chemical marketplaces.

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CXL Live 2022 Recap: Main Takeaways From 6 World-Class Marketers

ConversionXL

You can’t beat category kings, and the only exception for this is through tech disruption. B2B buyers aren’t all-rational, and they will often follow and recommend tools they’ve heard of even if they’ve never used them. There’s no in between: it can bridge the gap between tech and people or close it.

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Why Consumer Brands Need To Keep An Eye On Their eCommerce Channel

YoungUpstarts

Engaging in effective practices that leverage modern technologies to monitor and control the eCommerce Channel through brand analytics. These technologies present the information you need to know through dashboards and will send you alerts when something is off the mark. The solution? How can brand analytics help?

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The “Curse of Knowledge”: How Expertise Can Hurt Marketing

ConversionXL

The advanced technical knowledge of university professors in engineering and science, for example, makes it harder for them to teach first-year students effectively. Non-technical readers may be overwhelmed instead of impressed, and they’ll probably click to exit. For marketers in B2B sales, the challenge increases.