Hearpreneur

MARCH 15, 2019

Henrik and I co-founded Fisker Inc. in 2016, as an advanced e-mobility and automotive technology company with the mission to develop world-class, emotionally-compelling vehicles featuring the most forward-thinking automotive technologies in existence. 12- Solve a problem in international B2B payments.

Entrepreneur 115

Entrepreneur Technical Review Software Review Atlanta 115

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 9, 2012

From Lean Startup Machine , Lean LA and San Diego Tech Founders , to countless speeches and workshops, I have seen the impact that their leadership has had first hand. Maybe you’ll be hunting on a reef with a spear gun for 20lb groupers (B2B sales at a conference)? Or perhaps you need to chum (freemium) the waters a bit?

Entrepreneur 167

Entrepreneur Lean Southern California San Diego 167

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Flugauto Co-Founders (left to right): Frank Noppel , CEO, Gerrit Becker , CCO, and Alexander Xydas , COO. The Forrest Four-Cast: February 27, 2020 A B2B tech company, Flugauto is developing a world-class UAV platform for aerial delivery of industrial cargo for the energy industry. Electrification of mobility and transportation.

San Francisco 65

San Francisco Cofounder Georgia B2B 65

ConversionXL

MARCH 28, 2014

If you’re a B2B software company you’ll be happy to know a Forbes study titled “Video in the C-Suite” revealed that 59% of C-Suite executives would prefer to watch video over reading text if both are presented on a page. Why Should We Use An Explainer Video? Quite simply, because they work. image source.

Video 122

Video Software Review Cofounder Metrics 122

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.”. Mobile marketplaces.

Vertical 153

Vertical B2B B2C Venture Capital 153

ConversionXL

JUNE 8, 2017

The website, the mobile application, the advertising, the support, the different screens and features of the product… everything could be personalized. The user experience for mobile, tablet and desktop users are often vastly different and will require specific treatments. Image Source. Or Firefox? Makes a lot of sense. Google Adwords?

Programming 97

Programming Revenue Analytics Software Review 97

YoungUpstarts

JULY 3, 2014

by Jay Eum, co-founder and Managing Director of TransLink Capital. But, in today’s global market, the booming economy, massive population, mobile adoption and growing middle make Asia an attractive—and fully attainable—prospect for virtually any young upstart. Jay Eum is a co-founder and Managing Director of TransLink Capital.

Asia 191

Asia Japan Marketing Cofounder 191

Agile VC

MAY 21, 2012

On the B2B SaaS side or enabling services (e.g. Included are some of the large companies above like Google and Microsoft but also active on the B2B/enabling side have been acquirers like Salesforce.com (Radian6, Heroku notably) and Apple (Quattro Wireless, Siri). Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC.

Acquisition 162

Acquisition Silicon Valley B2B Seed Stage 162

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 27, 2015

by Scott Petty, co-founder of Signal Peak Ventures. But recent innovations in SaaS-driven business models have come of age on the backs of B2B solutions, and providers are finally learning how to cater to the underserved VSB market. Scaled-down enterprise solutions miss the mark in terms of price, features and functionality.

Utah 100

Utah Cofounder Small Business B2B 100

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

by Shahid Mansuri, co-founder of Peerbits. In the case of B2B business, the ideal way is to come up with a robust symbiotic gamification model for business progression. Shahid Mansuri co-founded Peerbits , one of the leading mobile app development companies, in 2011.

Retention 100

Retention Cofounder B2B Framework 100

ConversionXL

APRIL 4, 2017

Of course, at the start it is anything but scalable – it tends to be the founders cold calling and pitching. For certain businesses, though – usually B2B with a high enough price tag and lifetime value – sales is a must. Some resources for sales: Close.io Hacking Sales. Predictable Revenue. The Challenger Sale.

Channel 118

Channel Marketing Viral SEO 118

Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

That ROI has actually increased since 2015 according to Campaign Monitor, and it’s particularly true for B2B companies. But the time it takes to put together an engaging, mobile-optimized email campaign makes it difficult to pull off for many small businesses. He’s a co-founder of the Local University conference series.

Email 47

Email Technical Review Marketing SEO 47

Jeff Hilimire

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

One of my co-founders at Dragon Army , David Cummings, wrote an interesting post this week about the business of mobile gaming being a hits business. The mobile gaming space is a different beast altogether. Entrepreneurship Games Mobile Start-ups' And its a free game to download!

B2B 50

B2B Mobile Cofounder Software 50

Brandanew

AUGUST 27, 2015

For a B2B brand things may function differently compared to say an online travel shop. They also moved to a mobile-only existence as they realized 80% of their orders came online. Brandanew co-founder, Upasna says, Zappos is known for its exceptional customer service.

B2C 100

B2C B2B Cofounder Social Media 100

ConversionXL

MAY 27, 2022

B2B demand generation focuses on ROI. Elevate your founder and employee personal brand. Take SparkToro founder Rand Fishkin. Since co-founding Moz in 2004, Rand has continually put himself out there as a public face. Research from ON24 shows that 95% of B2B marketers now use webinars for lead generation.

Demand 115

Demand Affiliate Audience Leadership 115

Agile VC

MAY 16, 2012

2) Vast Human Capital Outside Our Walls - Rob, David, and I all try to draw on our experience as founders, operators, and investors in software & internet companies both in looking at new startups and forming investment themes. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. Read More ».

Seed Stage 124

Seed Stage Silicon Valley B2B Syndicate 124

Reid Hoffman

APRIL 17, 2019

Mobile money is transforming financial services in the frontier markets with over 850M registered accounts. That’s the simple, powerful vision that Segovia CEO Michael Faye and his co-founder Paul Niehaus pitched me in 2015, and the reason I was excited to lead their Series A round with a personal impact investment from my foundation.

Africa 28

Africa B2B Cofounder Global 28

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].

Social Media 109

Social Media Small Business North America Design 109

Agile VC

JUNE 12, 2012

Mobile Payments: The Trillion Dollar Industry That’s Never Happened. Mobile payments are the trillion dollar industry that everybody’s been waiting for but has never materialized. But nearly everyone has wrongly placed emphasis on the mobile technology part and not on the payments aspect. June 12, 2012.

Mobile 250

Mobile Disintermediation SMS Government 250

Seeing Both Sides

APRIL 1, 2013

Are you more of a B2C type or a B2B type? Your co-workers in one start-up become your co-founders in another. Below is a sample chart that I put together answering the question for someone interested in either e-commerce, mobile or SaaS companies in SF/SV, NYC or Boston. Here's the advice I give: . Pick a Domain.

Boston 52

Boston B2C Salary Cofounder 52

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

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 28, 2015

This makes even more sense given Facebook’s dominance in mobile; as this year, more people searched for local businesses and services on mobile as compared to on a PC. Asia is one of the most mobile-first regions in the world. billion mobile phone users), with that number growing to almost 1.5

Asia 100

Asia Las Vegas Marketing Technical Review 100

www.foliomag.com

JULY 31, 2012

B2B: Business Media. Defining Mobile Opportunities and Strategies. Defining Mobile Opportunities and Strategies. PaidContent.org Founder Launches Travel Media and Data Company. B2B Publishing. Mix of B2B and Consumer Pubilshing. Mobile Content. Mobile Marketing. Featured Jobs. Newest Jobs.

Social Media 40

Social Media Rhode Island Media South Dakota 40

The Next Web

AUGUST 19, 2013

He is the co-­founder and CEO of Quote Roller and PandaDoc. However, figuring out the way your startup should make money could be challenging, especially for us left­-brained founders. It just so happened that I became the CEO of a B2B tech startup. Direct sales are common with B2B startups.

Belarus 137

Belarus Viral Channel Startup 137

ConversionXL

MARCH 24, 2016

For example, you may find that visitors who download a certain PDF (say on mobile optimization) eventually fill out a lead gen form at three times the rate as those that don’t. As Ben Yoskovitz , co-author of Lean Analytics , wrote : Ben Yoskovitz : “Finding a correlation between two metrics is a good thing. image source ).

Metrics 48

Metrics Conversion Analytics Retention 48

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

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. . Innovation in search, social, broadband, and mobile & cloud hasn’t come to an end. Improvement is linear and incremental.

Seed Stage 273

Seed Stage Portfolio Cofounder B2B 273

Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Ben is the Chief Executive Olarker (CEO) and co-founder of Olark Live Chat. In this episode, CEO and co-founder of Olark, Ben Congleton, talks about the building of Olark and how they’ve differentiated themself in such a competitive industry. He's the chief executive o Larker and co-founder of O LA Live Chat.

SMS 90

SMS Technical Review Channel Cofounder 90

Occam's Razor

MARCH 10, 2015

Then desktop and laptop got further fragmented to mobile behavior (via mobile phones, tablets and laptops). Then mobile behavior on mobile devices got further fragmented into m.sites and mobile apps. I wonder how many people use both our mobile and desktop sites? Across mobile and desktop.

Analytics 60

Analytics Technical Review Software Review Web 60

ConversionXL

JUNE 2, 2022

Fullfunnel co-founder Andrei Zinkevich says, “ABM is not that complicated, and it’s also oversimplified.”. If leads-based B2B marketing is fishing with a net, ABM is using a harpoon. In 2020, smart home and building automation platform iRidium mobile wanted to land bigger clients and announce new products. Conclusion.

Marketing 105

Marketing Campaign Artificial Inteligence Sales Cycle 105

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. They recently launched its service on the iOS and Android mobile platforms, believing – correctly – that consumers will embrace mobile billing.

Green 248

Green Singapore B2C Aggregator 248

ConversionXL

JUNE 24, 2014

MailChimp, the B2B subscriber email management service, recorded a 66% drop in failed logins after introducing social login. Once absolute market leaders, they have been outperformed by competitors who saw where the mobile market was heading and understood that customer expectations were changing. Impressive, but given only 3.4%

Social Network 130

Social Network Viral Social Media B2C 130

VC Cafe

MARCH 31, 2021

In the previous episode, we’ve heard from experienced CMO Hila Shitrit Nissim , and today VC Cafe features Ran Avrahami *, Chief Marketing Officer at Appsflyer, a leading SaaS mobile marketing analytics and attribution platform. When I started at AppsFlyer I didn’t google ‘how to build a B2B marketing plan’. Too) early adopter.

Marketing 179

Marketing Early Stage Seed Stage 179

mashable.com

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Top Topics Twitter YouTube Facebook iPhone Google Video Google Buzz Social media Mobile 2.0 It’s a pure-and-simple way of making design decisions that rely on real data rather than divergent and emotional opinions from co-founders and designers; after all, you can’t argue with facts. 6 Why Google Is Suing the U.S.

Developer 73

Developer Software Review PHP Social Media 73

abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

In 1999, Jack Ma created Alibaba , a Chinese-based B2B marketplace for connecting small and medium enterprise with potential export opportunities. Popular categories include web developers, mobile developers, designers, writers, and accountants. In the 12 months ended June 30, 2018, the Upwork platform enabled $1.56

Internet 88

Internet Matching Vertical Hosting 88

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

B2B Branding and Marketing Consultant Adrienne Barnes. Reflecting on the state of insurance Daniel Schreiber, co-founder and CEO shared: At the end of the day, when you’re demanding money from an insurance company, every dollar they can avoid paying you drops to their bottom line. Simple, uncluttered, hardly noticeable.

Marketing 153

Marketing Cofounder Differentiation Business Model 153