Austin Startup

MARCH 13, 2020

Since then, we’ve served 500+ unique customers, worked with 10+ space partners, pivoted our business model from B2C to B2B, signed on advisers, and have raised money from outside investors. Your partner matters To all those solo-founders out there?—?kudos Our biggest example of this was our pivot from B2C to B2B.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 3, 2023

While Israeli startups successes are well known in the B2B space (cybersecurity, enterprise tech, devops…), B2C startups are unsung heroes… The landscape of B2C tech in Israel is blossoming, despite several challenges. Israeli B2C – Let’s start with the high level picture.

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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.

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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. Subscribe on iTunes , SoundCloud , or Stitcher.

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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. The two aren’t disconnected, though.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

by Marc Pitart, founder and CEO of onlineresume.us. Our business model back then was very complex, and it included a B2C as well as a B2B business model, that wasn’t being implemented yet. Regarding the B2B model, we had to start reaching out to prospects to get feedback and this actually helped us shape our B2B product.

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David Teten

MARCH 18, 2021

(co-written with Stephane Nasser , co-founder of OpenVC , an open-source initiative to collect and analyze all VC theses.). OpenVC is a new, open-source initiative to collect and analyze all publicly available VC theses, to help founders more efficiently find the right investors, and vice-versa. of venture capital deals.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 18, 2021

That same research highlights the preference extends to B2B and B2C customers, and only 20% of B2B shoppers want to return to in-person sales. However, Amazon’s profits, and those of its founder and CEO, have spurred some conversation about how consumers should spend their money.

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 24, 2018

Noreen Sablotsky is the founder and CEO of Imalac , a revolutionary company in the breastfeeding world. Trends in the breastfeeding world are changing for the better. The second goal is to focus on maximizing the ROI for our investors.

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View from Seed

APRIL 20, 2020

The result is that capital tends to flow towards founders with established VC relationships and away from folks who may be equally talented but are several steps removed from investor networks. Consumer and SaaS B2B companies that use technology drive a brighter collective future for mass market end users, per our investment approach thesis.

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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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YoungUpstarts

MAY 29, 2011

Founders that learn are more successful. They also over-invest in solo founders and founding teams without technical cofounders despite indicators that show that these teams have a much lower probability of success. Solo founders take 3.6x Most successful founders are driven by impact rather than experience or money.

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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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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.&#.

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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? Here’s how we’ve done it.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 13, 2023

1- Our business model is a mix of B2B & B2C Photo Credit: Jordan Adair The business model for my e-commerce wholesale clothing venture revolves around a combination of B2B (Business-to-Business) and B2C (Business-to-Consumer) channels.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 26, 2019

Many people have reached out sharing knowing and kind words about our journey and choice to wind down our venture, as well as their appreciation for my choice to pull back the curtain on what is statistically a common road for many founders. It details a landscape founders like me are excited to sink their teeth into? Of course not!

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OnlyOnce

DECEMBER 8, 2021

I just did a podcast recording the other day for someone who asked me the biggest mistakes founders make and what to do about them. I divided my response into “early stage” and “later stage” founders. Here’s a summary of what I said about early stage founders.

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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?

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 29, 2012

They were mostly a B2B platform enabling game publishers to deliver via Internet streaming their traditional games built for game consoles. But apparently the B2C model meant that many publishers didn’t want OnLive to carry their full inventory. But my take: Gaikai had superior technology & a superior business strategy.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 22, 2021

Although this has been known for years for B2C companies, it is interesting to see B2B companies realizing the importance of marketing early on, as well. . A marketer will help the founders to create the larger vision and story for the company, craft the desired brand essence and values, and explore various go-to-market approaches.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

Studies show that only 5% of B2B buyers are ready to buy. At a startup, this can be as simple as defining why the founder started the company in the first place. CXL’s founder, Peep Laja, has a specific “reason why” his company Wynter exists. There’s only so much you can say about B2B panels in a way that nobody else has.

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VC Cafe

MAY 4, 2021

Slack is looking to build the B2B version of Clubhouse (Slack Virtual Hallways). Capuccino – an audio social network launched in July 2020 by French founders. If you’re a seed and pre-seed founder working on innovative products in this space, you don’t need to wait for a warm intro to contact Remagine Ventures.

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 4, 2017

In this very special episode of Traction, we sit down as a team and discuss the new mission of the firm and talk through B2C and B2B examples of the Everyday Economy. Plus, we share some news about the future of the show.

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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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Mike Michalowicz

AUGUST 3, 2015

He possesses 20 years of experience in branding and marketing with expertise across B2B and B2C industries, including retail, food and beverages, and financial services. As group marketing director of Creditsafe, David Knowles creates and drives the company’s brand and marketing strategies throughout the U.S. and Europe. headquarters.

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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. Anat Shperling, founder and CEO of Toya , a Roblox gaming studio. David Stiff, Co-founder and CEO of Vault AI.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

As we established in my post ‘ In Q4 2022 founders face tough choices ‘, we are currently going through a rough patch for many startup founders. For example, take into account these ‘scorecards’ for series B startups in both consumer (B2C) and Enterprise Saas (B2B). Especially on the growth stages.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 11, 2018

Through all of those posts, we’ve received one common question from founders: Are all Everyday Economy startups consumer-facing? We think there are two main categories of Everyday Economy B2B startups: enabling layers and pervasive tools. Types of B2B Everyday Economy Companies. The answer is no. Let me explain.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 23, 2022

The discussion that ensued was insightful and I thought it would be worth sharing it here for founders who are dealing with a similar issue. In this post, I will cover why revenue is important, why it’s a bad north star KPI and what startup founders should consider when choosing a North Star Metric (NSM).

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Hearpreneur

JULY 13, 2022

Digital transactions are now moving beyond B2C transactions & venturing into B2B, P2P, cross-border remittances, & more. If you are looking for an industry to invest in, as a founder, one fast-growing industry to consider is the cybersecurity industry. Photo Credit: April Maccario.

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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

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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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Austin Startup

APRIL 17, 2017

Candidates will learn our culture and how to go through steps of sales cycle with Lead Generation, B2B and B2C sales and account management. Internship Title: Marketing Intern Compensation: Paid Description: This role works closely with the founders to uncover and explore new online and offline marketing possibilities for the company.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 17, 2022

A lot of it depends on whether you're B2C or B2B. If you're B2C, you wanna build a community, um, around your brand, get traction and make sure Google can see it. And then if your B2B, then the number of searches is gonna be lower is just gonna be lower volume, but still they're gonna be valuable.

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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.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

What types of demos are used, and are there correlations between B2B and B2C demo usage? Let’s dive into the data and trends in this case study to help determine what kind of demo and format might be best for your business: 71% of the companies in this sample are B2B companies, the remaining 29% being B2C or a hybrid of B2B/B2C.

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