Reid Hoffman

AUGUST 17, 2021

But the key is to ensure your product has a strong differentiator, which is exactly how Ramaswamy and his Neeva co-founders positioned the search engine company when it launched last year. Additionally, as Greylock general partner Reid Hoffman points out, competition from the big companies isn’t necessarily a bad thing. “If

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Reid Hoffman

AUGUST 17, 2021

But the key is to ensure your product has a strong differentiator, which is exactly how Ramaswamy and his Neeva co-founders positioned the search engine company when it launched last year. Additionally, as Greylock general partner Reid Hoffman points out, competition from the big companies isn’t necessarily a bad thing. “If

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OnlyOnce

APRIL 12, 2023

Experienced CFO and operator (and one of my former board members) Jeff Epstein joined me for an extended episode about the ins and outs of career transitions and the surprises that come with them, from role changes to new industries to vastly different organizational structures. “You You just learn more.” Either you have them, or you don’t.

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Up and Running

MAY 11, 2021

That could be why roughly 83 percent of B2B companies currently use email newsletters for marketing. Tailor your sending frequency to your audience and your content marketing operation. Not all newsletters are equally successful, however. So here’s a primer on the essential elements of newsletter creation that lead to results.

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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. Swing is now at over 1,200 school partners and has filled over 115,000 teacher absence days. RigUp is a leading labor marketplace focused on the oilfield services industry.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 3, 2016

I built and grew a business with the key differentiator being speed. Our projects will begin to have a financial or operational impact within the first 90 days. They came back with several rounds of ideas and my partner and I went back and forth on ones we liked and did not like. So, I provide B2B services to B2Bs.

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

While the technology for canning labels is not novel as it stands alone, our biggest accomplishment to date has been our ability to pair custom design and printing with local craft beverages and expert post-canning label operations to develop a novel supply chain and business model in the highly-regulated beer industry.

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ConversionXL

MAY 27, 2022

The average B2B buyer has 27 brand interactions before deciding. Only around 10–15% of B2B leads turn into paying customers, and it’s because tactics optimizing for the early stages of the funnel only cater to early-stage goals. Closely partner with other marketing team members and the sales organization.”.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 10, 2021

You could be a victim of identity theft: Most of the businesses that sell Instagram followers or engagement are fly-by-night operations. Whatever makes your brand stand out and differentiate , use that on Instagram, too. One B2B brand that does this well is social media scheduling platform Later. billion dollars. Conclusion.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

It’s not about following a checklist from a blog post, that’s not how great people operate. Doesn’t matter if it’s B2B or B2C, ecommerce or SaaS, we’re deadling with (irrational, emotional) human beings. We take a website, and make it sell better. That’s the essence, right? But how do you do it?

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 21, 2014

According to the SBA, 52% of all small businesses are home-based and of the 28 million small businesses in the US, 22 million of those are operated by people who consider themselves self-employed (they have no employees and no additional payroll). For B2B companies: Branding Business. You can do it even if you start from home.

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Growthink Blog

JUNE 14, 2017

Well, first do a quick status check on the perceived value and differentiation of your offerings via running the “what would happen if I doubled my prices?" For companies that sell B2B, learning from Grainger is easy - just talk to customers not as faceless representatives but rather as living, breathing, and feeling human beings.

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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 13, 2021

The Greylock general partner and the host of The 20 Minute VC pick back up from a December 2020 episode of the popular podcast , during which Hoffman discusses his wide-ranging career and key lessons learned. If you’re a regular listener, you’ll know that Greylock general partner Reid Hoffman joined me on my show in November.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

With BrowerStack you fire up different configurations of operating system, display size and browser variation. Clicky has a few features that differentiate (all real time analytics, heat maps), but I don’t think it’s worth switching from GA. Instead of running simple split tests, Myna operates using bandit algorithms.

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Ben's Blog

AUGUST 17, 2020

Imagine there is a hot, bottoms-up $60M revenue B2B software company raising at a $4B valuation. This growth could be a function of product differentiation, go-to-market operations, sheer market size, new geographies, and expansion into adjacent categories. That’s a whopping 67x revenue.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2011

i-nigma was successfully deployed by hundreds of enterprises, among them operators, advertisers, integrators and solution providers. 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. Craze Productions.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 23, 2017

Every business can find ways to optimize every [00:18:33] marketing, but every part of their operation so that you can find ways to wow customers through that optimization. Bryan: That’s it and it sets expectations for B2C and B2B right and [00:23:11] at this point as well. [00:23:13]

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