ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Gavin Braman, Co-Founder @ Drifting Creatives. 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. This consists of dominating your competition, and out-converting by acquiring new customers in a cheaper way that your competitor does.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

Johnson, co-founder and CEO of TeamSupport.com. The B2B (business-to-business) industry can be challenging. So what should entrepreneurs entering the B2B industry know? B2B customers are more valuable and more difficult to replace than B2C. The B2B industry does not move as quickly as B2C.

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B2B B2C Entrepreneur Cofounder 219

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. In many cases, customers are more willing to give out their info when rewards are at stake, like discounts or sales.

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Email Product Marketing Cofounder 151

Argona

JANUARY 15, 2024

Outsourcing such dedicated business growth services to a reputed strategy consulting and startup development firm can truly help organizations to position themselves as a growth-driven and customer-focused business enterprise. Such recognition stands as a support to developing trust and authenticity within the B2B community.

Partner 52

Partner Technical Review Indianapolis B2B 52

YoungUpstarts

MAY 29, 2011

The report was co-authored by Berkeley and Stanford faculty members along with other contributors including Steve Blank , the Sandbox Network and blackbox teams. Founders that learn are more successful. Solo founders take 3.6x Balanced teams with one technical founder and one business founder raise 30% more money , have 2.9x

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Silicon Valley Cofounder Technical Cofounder Startup 230

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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Technical Review Cofounder Venture Capital Deal Flow 78

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. Teams can customize follow-ups based on the engagement level and potentially close faster. Examples: Clearslide , Salespatron (I’m a co-founder) and Brainshark.

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B2B Sales Technical Review Software Review 48

nikcub.appspot.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Finding a Technical Co-Founder. In the recent weeks, I have also had no less than three people email me and ask about finding a technical co-founder, which has also been a very frequent topic on the Hacker News forums. Ask former co-workers. New Web Order. 5th November 2010. #. Ideas alone are not worth a lot.

Cofounder 40

Cofounder Web Founder South Korea 40

View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Depending on the composition of the founding team, you might or might not have near-term holes in certain functions at the exec level – e.g. you’ll most likely need to bring on a CTO/VP of Engineering shortly after the seed round if you don’t have a technical co-founder.

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Part-Time VPE Seed Stage CTO Hire Forecast 195

VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

The past year was a wild ride for startups and founders, giving a whole new meaning to the ”rollercoaster” aspect of being an entrepreneur. Before product-market fit… just care about speed of iteration according to your customer feedback. Patrick Collison , self-made billionaire founder of Stripe. Team, product, market.

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Founder Startup Valuation Pre-Money Valuation 187

techcrunch.com

MARCH 8, 2012

The Trouble With Non-tech Cofounders. This is a guest post by Scott Allison, CEO and founder of Teamly.com. I want to reflect on my experience as a non-technical founder and reassess my original decision – almost two years ago – to stick to what I’m good at, and not waste time learning to code. guest author.

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Mike Michalowicz

AUGUST 24, 2015

He leads a team responsible for the integrated B2B marketing of brands including Swingline, Quartet, AT-A-GLANCE and Mead in the B2B market. Jonathan Domsky (right) is co-founder and president of Kidorable. TSheets – The #1 customer rated time tracking solution! They met and married in China in 1994.

Cofounder 60

Cofounder Product B2B China 60

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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B2C Austin B2B Cofounder 62

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

by Eliot Burdett, co-founder and CEO of Peak Sales Recruiting. Furthermore, prospects will want to speak to founders that have high domain knowledge and the authority to reduce the fear of risk associated with a young company. He co-authored “ Sales Recruiting 2.0: Implement a structured onboarding program.

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Sales Cofounder Sales Cycle Revenue 100

View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Dispense is a B2B software company, focused on transaction software specifically designed for the cannabis industry. Dispense’s software helps large, multi-state cannabis operators manage online and offline ordering by granting these businesses greater control over customer interactions, in addition to streamlining their operations.

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Cofounder B2B Early Stage Software 234

View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Most of these rhyme with what we’ve said in the past, but some have also evolved to fit the changing landscape and our own convictions about what really matters for founders and their investors at the seed stage. Of the last 15 investments we’ve made, we’ve been the lead or co-lead investor over 80% of the time. .

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North America Seed Stage Early Stage Lead Investor 120

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 23, 2019

by Caroline Pegden, co-founder of TempaGoGo. Dedicated to early-stage companies, there were over 15 categories to choose from in the 2018 edition, including, inter alia: B2B Business of the Year, Crowdfunded Business of the Year and Export Business of the Year. How have you used your family heritage to build customer loyalty?

Technical Review 147

Technical Review Startup Balance Sheet Early Stage 147

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 5, 2010

I believe it is the best introduction to Customer Development you can buy. As all of you know, Steve Blank is the progenitor of Customer Development and author of The Four Steps to the Epiphany. 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.

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Customer Development Developer San Francisco Customer 166

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 29, 2017

by Keval Padia , co-founder and CEO at Nimblechapps. Instead of reading what the brands have to say about their products and services, customer reviews and user opinions can nail the thing in the right manner. Reply to each customer queries and reviews in a polite and thankful way. User generated content.

Small Business 212

Small Business Marketing Technical Review Social Media 212

View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Dispense is a B2B software company, focused on transaction software specifically designed for the cannabis industry. Dispense’s software helps large, multi-state cannabis operators manage online and offline ordering by granting these businesses greater control over customer interactions, in addition to streamlining their operations.

Cofounder 202

Cofounder B2B Early Stage Software 202

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

This network isn’t mutually exclusive with building an audience of customers. SparkToro is an audience research platform that helps marketers find their prospective customers’ main sources of influence. Take SparkToro’s Co-founder, Rand Fishkin. This is the basis of an effective differentiation strategy. This isn’t true.

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Reputation Audience Management Social Media 134

View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Dispense is a B2B software company, focused on transaction software specifically designed for the cannabis industry. Dispense’s software helps large, multi-state cannabis operators manage online and offline ordering by granting these businesses greater control over customer interactions, in addition to streamlining their operations.

Cofounder 156

Cofounder B2B Early Stage Software 156

Hearpreneur

JUNE 4, 2021

These are keepsake cards and many of our customers tell us that the recipients frame their cards. 9- Providing Legitimate B2B Customer Data in the Era of Mistrust. That's when I was struck by the idea: Why not provide a legit B2B customer database that is neither dodgy and nor a bad fit for a business?

Entrepreneur 134

Entrepreneur B2B Database Technical Review 134

Hearpreneur

MAY 18, 2022

My co-founder and I started our labor-only moving company as the first movers ourselves. In 2010, I co-founded Community Tax LLC, a tax company dedicated to helping customers nationwide with tax preparation, bookkeeping, and accounting services. Thanks to Lucy Bedewi, Veronica V Sopher ! #4- 4- To leave an impact.

Technical Review 140

Technical Review Entrepreneur Software Review Jordan 140

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 27, 2018

by Joanna Malaczynski, founder of DESi. If you are building an innovative company, you will have to spend a good chunk of your time on customer discovery. Here are three tips for you based on my discussions with entrepreneurs who have come before you: Take Time to Understand the Needs and Expectations of Your Customers.

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Customer Cofounder Demand B2B 153

View from Seed

AUGUST 10, 2021

We first invested in co-founders Ben Forgan & Pat Wilbur in early 2015, when NextView led a $1.3M Hologram has grown to hundreds of employees, thousands of customers, and attracted substantial capital all from its home base in Chicago. pre-seed round for the company (Hologram was fka Konekt).

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Chicago Cofounder Miami B2B 177

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Growth hacking is a practice that aims to acquire as many customers as possible while spending as little money as possible. GrowthHackers founder and former Head of Growth at Dropbox, Sean Ellis , coined the term: “A growth hacker is a person whose true north is growth. The skills and mindsets of world-class growth hackers.

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Retention Marketing Acquisition Channel 113

YoungUpstarts

JULY 1, 2015

Pioneered by co-founders of HubSpot Brian Halligan and Dharmesh Shah, inbound marketing is a leading Business-to-Business (B2B) digital marketing strategy. Inbound marketing earns the attention of customers, makes the company easy to be found, and draws customers to the website by producing interesting content.”.

Software Review 100

Software Review Marketing Social Media B2B 100

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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Technical Cofounder Early Stage Startup Silicon Valley 334

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

This post was co-written by Eric Ries and Sarah Milstein, co-hosts of The Lean Startup Conference. In this workshop, Fraser, Founder/CEO of LUXr and Klein, Director of Product & UX at One Jackson will offer practical techniques for getting and using customer feedback.

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Lean Cofounder Analytics Startup 154

View from Seed

AUGUST 10, 2021

We first invested in co-founders Ben Forgan & Pat Wilbur in early 2015, when NextView led a $1.3M Hologram has grown to hundreds of employees, thousands of customers, and attracted substantial capital all from its home base in Chicago. pre-seed round for the company (Hologram was fka Konekt).

Chicago 156

Chicago Cofounder Miami B2B 156

ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 19, 2019

A startups seeds are sown and sprouted either because the founder(s) have come up with a unique solution with a product (like a software or a physical product) or service. ” When these three elements work in tandem, the output increases, the customer base expands, and the company automatically starts to grow exponentially.

India 131

India Startup Cofounder Software Review 131

David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

RBI normally requires founders to pay back their investors with a fixed percentage of revenue until they have finished providing the investor with a fixed return on capital, which they agree upon in advance. For background, see Revenue-Based Investing: A New Option for Founders who Care About Control. ARR of $500K+. Decathlon Capital.

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Revenue Technical Review Software Review Equity 60

Hunter Walker

MAY 5, 2024

Here he provides actionable advice for founders who are building long-lasting companies but know M&A might be the eventual, and successful, outcome. Sophisticated customers want less risk and using fewer vendors is a way to achieve this. And let’s face it, startups don’t always pick the best vendors.

Cofounder 76

Cofounder Incubator B2B Framework 76

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 22, 2014

In the same year, Singapore did not improve its credit terms with export customers either. A total of 30 per cent of business-to-business (B2B) invoices issued to foreign companies were paid late and 6.5 The reasons why customers pay late are no mystery. per cent were written off as uncollectable. Dispute over the invoice.

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Singapore Asia Management China 191

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

crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

The State of Business To Business (B2B) Content Marketing In North America - [link]. 8 Startup Founders Reveal Their #1 User Acquisition Tactic | Treehouse - [link]. If, Why, and How Founders Should Hire a “Professional” CEO | Reid Hoffman - [link]. Avoid the 50/50 co-founder model – here’s why - [link].

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Social Media Small Business North America Design 109