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All Markets Are Not Created Equal: 10 Factors To Consider When Evaluating Digital Marketplaces

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Aggregating suppliers is a necessary, but insufficient step on its own. You must also organically aggregate demand. Great marketplaces do not simply aggregate a market; they enhance it. OpenTable enables the consumer to search reservation availability across hundreds and hundreds of restaurants in a matter of seconds.

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Groupon's S-1: From Zero to Like? Billions in 30 Months ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

How They Do It: Build email list of consumers interested in local deals (mainly via paid search & social network ads), sell coupon programs to merchants via telesales. Keep in mind Yipit is an indirect competitor in the daily deals space (essentially a meta aggregator of deals sites), but the analysis is sound IMO.

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Cracking The Code: The Bessemer 10 laws of SaaS - Fall 2008.

Cracking the Code

The most innovative B2C companies are lead generation machines, leveraging search engine optimization (SEO), viral marketing, Search Engine Marketing (SEM), email marketing, and other technically-advanced methods. Stay local - Prove your business in North America first. Yet many B2B companies don’t have a clue.

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Why You Must Change Your Content Marketing Approach

Duct Tape Marketing

Over the years my email newsletter has become more of a place to filter, aggregate and share other people’s content in snack sized versions. So over the past two years we’ve added an event in Asia Pacific, as well as five additional events in North America. Joe Pulizzi. Content Marketing Institute.

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The 10 laws of SaaS unveiled at Bessemer CEO Summit

Cracking the Code

This introduction was also the opportunity to illustrate the amazing growth of our software and saas portfolio in the past years, with aggregated revenues reaching $1.2B Prove your business in North America first. In search of Europe's next tech stars. You will need to sell directly for a long time. Stay local.

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Special: The 56 Israeli Companies Exhibiting in Mobile World Congress 2011

VC Cafe

Established location-based services to enable the CSP offer B2B and B2C services based on mobile positioning, tracking & locating, turn-by-turn navigation and mobile local search. Logia offers Mobile Operators a range of solution for their Apps Stores starting from Content Aggregation, Billing aggregation to full white labeled Apps Store.

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The Ezra Klein Show: VC Bill Gurley on Transforming Health Care

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Our firm has had the good fortune to invest in many two-sided networks that used information aggregation, supplier aggregation, and user generated content to attract and inform consumers and resultantly disrupt and change different industries. The employer is in the system for what reason exactly? That creates a ton of problems.