ConversionXL

APRIL 28, 2021

My co-founder and I consider his sister to be a trusted confidant. To give you some context, my co-founder and I operate a website called Solitaired , which ties classic card games to brain training. Gamification isn’t the domain of B2C or gaming sites alone. Could this be true across the board? Conclusion.

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Email Product Marketing Cofounder 151

ConversionXL

MARCH 4, 2016

We often talk about online conversion optimization without mentioning that many businesses, especially B2B, rely on offline sales to produce revenue. Examples: Clearslide , Salespatron (I’m a co-founder) and Brainshark. Look at some typical B2B marketing KPIs: Number of leads generated. It starts with sales enablement.

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B2B Sales Technical Review Software Review 48

ConversionXL

APRIL 28, 2020

In that unannounced meeting, Brett Hurt, our CEO and co-founder, laid it out for us. It wasn’t quite a flip from B2C to B2B, but it was close. Profitwell says overall Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC) is up nearly 50% over the past five years for B2B and B2C companies. Lesson 2: Make your funnel airtight.

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Demand Revenue SQL B2B 101

The Next Web

JULY 17, 2014

David Arnoux is Head of Growth and co-founder of Twoodo, helping teams organize using simple #hashtags. Each of the 21 B2B growth hacks listed here is an article in itself, but I’m going to keep it brief. Many B2C growth hacks can be creatively tweaked to be valuable as B2B growth hacks.

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B2B B2C Cofounder Web 158

Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2011

The email continued, &# The problem I’m working on is that many founders are either making uninformed decisions or inefficiently learning the new skills they need. The solution I’m exploring is a just in time learning methodology that accelerates founders’ learning curve by aggregating relevant content, peers and mentors.&#.

Technical Cofounder 333

Technical Cofounder Early Stage Startup Silicon Valley 333

Up and Running

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Too many founders try to do huge advertising bursts at the end of the year in a lazy attempt to hit sales numbers. Instead, founders should be focusing on developing a content strategy for 2015 that allows them to educate, engage, nurture, and close sales throughout the entire year. – Kelsey Meyer, Influence & Co.

Founder 124

Founder B2C Cofounder B2B 124

VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

As startup founders ask themselves this question, some of the answers might be specific to their product: i.e. we should improve our onboarding, change our freemium model, etc. Or Briga, Co-founder and CEO of Novos.gg. We co-develop our product with our community. Alon Grinshpoon, Co-founder and CEO of Echo3D.

Cofounder 171

Cofounder B2C Design Portfolio 171

View from Seed

JUNE 22, 2016

TIM: I would say in between 4 and 5, but specifically in a B2B software. LEE: I agree that the biggest commercial impact of drones will be in B2B applications. DAVID: On investment conviction, I’m a 4, and I agree that the interesting things from a venture standpoint will be B2B. So how do you invest behind that?

Technical Review 159

Technical Review Startup Software Review B2B 159

Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 24, 2018

Noreen Sablotsky is the founder and CEO of Imalac , a revolutionary company in the breastfeeding world. eld of marketing and sales for Ciba- Geigy Pharmaceuticals before co-founding Noven Pharmaceuticals in 1986. Trends in the breastfeeding world are changing for the better. Before Imalac, Noreen began her professional career in the

Founder 91

Founder Miami Cofounder 91

Austin Startup

MAY 29, 2019

I encourage startup founders or anyone interested in social commerce to read it: [link] When you think about Big Data Applications (a term coined in 2012 by Raj De Datta in this TechCrunch article ), Bazaarvoice is one as Raj points out in his article. B2C startups we’ve invested in like ROIKOI and Thread are tapping into network effects?—?and

Networking 48

Networking Fractional CTO CTO Hire B2C 48

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. As Sujan Patel, co-founder of Right Inbox notes, making any interaction mutually beneficial increases success rates.).

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B2B Social Media Email Campaign 142

View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

Traction is a biweekly podcast where founders share the creative or unusual things they did during the seed stage to make early progress. Founders from LinkedIn , DraftKings , General Assembly , The Muse , Behance , InsightSquared , and more have appeared on the show. How did both these companies come into being at the same time?

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Framework Cofounder Seed Stage B2C 120

View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Pre-launch customer development data is another way, sometimes in the form of user surveys for consumer companies or interviews with potential beta customers for B2B businesses. One of our portfolio investments, a B2B SaaS company, was a pre-product startup at the time of the seed round. B) Post-Product Companies.

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Seed Stage B2B Seed Capital Revenue 149

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 5, 2010

I have personally sold many copies of his book, and continue to recommend it as one of the most important books a startup founder can read. Four Steps primarily centers its stories and case studies on B2B hardware and software startups. Four Steps primarily centers its stories and case studies on B2B hardware and software startups.

Customer Development 166

Customer Development Developer San Francisco Customer 166

SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

From there, I became the first non-founder employee at an e-commerce startup called BITSource, which was the first electronic software distributor delivering electronic volume software licenses to corporations. It was also beneficial because I got some good experience with both B2B and B2C business models. It sounds interesting.

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Management Product Entrepreneur Silicon Valley 150

View from Seed

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

But during this period, many founders and investors do prize growth above most everything else. Secondary transaction liquidity also starts to become a reality for founders and early investors. Of course one must be aware of the cyclical zeitgeist as it impacts the behavior of competitors, co-investors, and others.

IPO 202

IPO Early Stage Cofounder B2C 202

Austin Startup

JANUARY 25, 2020

Capital Factory’s Saturday Startup Spotlight series features intimate chats with some of the latest founders taking hold of the startup ecosystem today. We’re returning this week with the co-founders of Swayy : Rajya Atluri and Clio Harralson. Rajya: I think it’s definitely hard being a student founder.

B2C 62

B2C Startup B2B Cofounder 62

View from Seed

AUGUST 2, 2017

For this reason, we’re excited to announce that we have closed on NextView’s $50M third fund, with a mission to champion founders who are redesigning the Everyday Economy. . While our lens on the Everyday Economy is focused on our actions as individuals, it’s not constrained to B2C companies.

Seed Stage 273

Seed Stage Portfolio Cofounder B2B 273

David Teten

JANUARY 11, 2020

But for B2B sales, meeting people in person is often mandatory. In the venture capital/private equity business, investors are B2B microinfluencers. We market to four populations: High-potential founders. Jourdan Urbach, Managing Partner of Brandt & Co. Harbinger – B2B Sales & marketing.

Social Media 60

Social Media Technical Review Media Private Equity 60

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 16, 2011

“There had to be a scalable and smarter way for people to handle and pay their bills, especially helping them to stop their paper bills, says co-founder Narulla. But the founders admit they’ve been extremely fortunate to ride the trends which has helped them get to this place. The Journey.

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Green Singapore B2C Aggregator 248

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

According to Hugh Mason, co-founder and CEO at JFDI.Asia , around the world accelerator programs like theirs are evolving as a consistent way to direct innovation, teach entrepreneurship and manage the risks involved. “Early-stage business is becoming less of an art and more of a science,” he adds.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

Many tools designed for B2B marketing in general are also relevant to investors. I previously posted a detailed presentation with sales technology tools useful for B2B sales. Signal is a fundraising tool for founders run by NFX Guild, which identifies the most relevant VCs for you. . 1) Market fund. Pitchbot.vc

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Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Technical Review 60

YoungUpstarts

MAY 23, 2018

Whether you’re B2B or B2C, your customers are your lifeblood. Think long and hard before you hire a dozen new teams and move to that luxury co-working space across town. That way, you can trust their decisions and not lose any sleep over it. Keep Your Customers in Mind.

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Management Startup B2C Forecast 191

Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 15, 2017

We were witnessing, firsthand, the dramatic shifts in B2C e-commerce, and the resulting incredible experiences and benefits brands were delivering their retail consumers. The differences between B2C and B2B within the same brands were staggering! Buyers were using pen, paper and fax machines to place orders.

Entrepreneur 114

Entrepreneur Czech Republic Retention B2C 114

ConversionXL

JUNE 24, 2014

MailChimp, the B2B subscriber email management service, recorded a 66% drop in failed logins after introducing social login. On the other hand, Easytobook , a B2C company, had 1.5 It seems that B2C companies might benefit far more from social login than B2Bbut even that seems to depend on a company’s expectations.

Social Network 130

Social Network Viral Social Media B2C 130

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

To learn more about this space, I suggest join an online community I co-founded, PEVCTech. . Many tools designed for B2B marketing in general are also relevant to investors. I previously posted a detailed presentation with sales technology tools useful for B2B sales. The 11 Steps of Investing in Private Companies.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

View from Seed

JUNE 5, 2018

We launched the Hiring Bootcamp to equip portfolio founders and hiring managers with the best practices around building a hiring machine , so they can maximize their chances of getting the best talent into the door efficiently. The quest for building such hiring machine is universal across companies at various stages.

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Hiring Portfolio Metrics B2C 120

VC Cafe

MARCH 27, 2022

For founders reading this, hope its help you better understand how investors think and address it in your pitch. Metaverse – it has both B2B and B2C applications. Yuga Labs Pitch Deck: BAYC founders project $455M NFT revenue (2022) from Pitch Decks. Metaverse goes beyond just virtual worlds and gaming.

Cofounder 179

Cofounder Venture Capital Equity 179

Version One Ventures

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Aileen Lee, founder of Cowboy Ventures, posted a brilliant analysis on why VCs have to look for billion dollar companies (“unicorns”) to deliver acceptable returns, and how rare it is to invest in one: “The odds are somewhere between catching a foul ball at an MLB game and being struck by lightning in one’s lifetime.”. B2B marketplaces.

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Vertical B2B B2C Venture Capital 153

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 17, 2014

by Alex Miller, Co-founder of PosiRank . Automation is essential to B2B (business to business) marketing. The increased difficulty and added opportunity is ironic and problematic for business-to-business companies as well as B2C (business to consumer) advertisers. However, marketing in the 21 st century is different.

Architecture 180

Architecture Marketing SEO Cofounder 180

YoungUpstarts

JULY 29, 2013

by Meng Weng Wong, co-founder and social engineer at JFDI Asia. Some founders stay at hostels. Each founder who owns shares in the startup and has attended JFDI will be invited. Each founder who is part of the team and has attended JFDI will be expected to be there to man your startup’s booth. TRACTION and GROWTH?

Asia 207

Asia Singapore Cofounder Incubator 207

Agile VC

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

But during this period, many founders and investors do prize growth above most everything else. Secondary transaction liquidity also starts to become a reality for founders and early investors. Of course one must be aware of the cyclical zeitgeist as it impacts the behavior of competitors, co-investors, and others.

IPO 100

IPO Early Stage Cofounder B2C 100

Reid Hoffman

AUGUST 17, 2021

Greylock investor Sridhar Ramaswamy , who co-founded search engine startup Neeva , says it’s more important for startups to think about creating a product that is useful and resonates with people before worrying about whether a large incumbent is doing it. So as a founder, how should you respond to this competitive effect? TRANSCRIPT.

Cofounder 69

Cofounder Differentiation Search Advertising 69

Reid Hoffman

AUGUST 17, 2021

Greylock investor Sridhar Ramaswamy , who co-founded search engine startup Neeva , says it’s more important for startups to think about creating a product that is useful and resonates with people before worrying about whether a large incumbent is doing it. So as a founder, how should you respond to this competitive effect? TRANSCRIPT.

Cofounder 69

Cofounder Differentiation Search Advertising 69

The Next Web

DECEMBER 8, 2013

William Hsu is the co-founder and managing partner of MuckerLab. By the end, 99 percent of the B2B marketplaces had cratered and only B2C eBay was left standing and thriving. The prevailing consensus at the time was that B2B marketplaces were too hard (e.g. Many investors love “disruptive” businesses.

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B2C B2B Demand Vertical 136

mashable.com

OCTOBER 5, 2012

He currently runs marketing at tech incubator QLabs and previously co-founded travel site Wanderfly. Generally speaking, a name is more valuable to a B2C (marketing-driven) company than a B2B (sales-driven) counterpart, so allocate your efforts accordingly. Like Tweet +1 Share Pin It Share. Create a Google spreadsheet.

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Naming Startup Social Media RSS 84

ConversionXL

AUGUST 5, 2015

Use this if you’re marketing B2B software, agency services, etc. Neil Patel , founder of QuickSprout , uses a short-form case study from Ben Huh , a widely recognized name in tech, to encourage conversions. This type of social proof is most effective for B2C products and services, but that doesn’t mean it never works for B2B.

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Technical Review Software Review Social Media Conversion 48