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B2B Marketplaces Revisited

Version One Ventures

The assumption was that online platforms would completely automate all supplier-customer transactions including retailing, wholesaling, and procurement. Yet today, the world of B2B marketplaces still lags far behind its B2C counterpart. Twenty years ago – in the midst of the Web 1.0 Alibaba is an exception. Referral fees.

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Tune In, Turn On, Drop Out – The Startup Genome Project

Steve Blank

The solution I’m exploring is a just in time learning methodology that accelerates founders’ learning curve by aggregating relevant content, peers and mentors.&#. B2C vs. B2B is not a meaningful segmentation of Internet startups anymore because the Internet has changed the rules of business. Hmm, now I’m getting intrigued.

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14 Interesting Findings From The Startup Genome Project

YoungUpstarts

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.

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25 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

These 6 KRIs are The CHICAGO MetricsR and are the result of an aggregation algorithm based on any number of tactical metrics. We were trying to pick a name that would indicate what it is we do since we are a B2C company. 14- HQ in Lisbon and our target customers are San Francisco. 21- Surveys to potential customers.

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Starting Up In Singapore (Part I) – Product/Market Fit

YoungUpstarts

Some founders go GD1 whilst still based in Singapore, some make their move to the US to be closer to their users/customers. Consumer Facing B2C. If you need to partner with other businesses to reach customers/users who are consumers. E.G. Reebonz, BuzzCity, Groupon Singapore etc.

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A Quick Primer on B2B Conversion Optimization

ConversionXL

Some of the same underlying principles apply, but because of the inherent differences in buying decisions and sales cycles, pulling B2C optimization practices straight from the book might be a bad idea. When would you ever try to produce less sales in B2C eCommerce? To what points in the customer journey do they correspond?

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9 Things You Should Know About Social Login & CRO

ConversionXL

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. On the other hand, Easytobook , a B2C company, had 1.5 The number of visitors directly correlates to revenue – whatever business you are in.