YoungUpstarts

JUNE 3, 2015

by Eliot Burdett, co-founder and CEO of Peak Sales Recruiting. A new report from Forrester Research called “Death of a B2B Salesman,” predicts that one million U.S. B2B salespeople will lose their jobs to self-service e-commerce by 2020. I’ve seen first-hand the growth in the B2B sales industry.

B2B 100

B2B Technology Cofounder Technical Cofounder 100

View from Seed

JULY 31, 2014

We’ve been remarkably consistent on this dimension as well: five of the recent 13 investments were B2C, five were B2B, and three you could categorize as B2B2C. The internet continues the disintermediation of content creation. BUSINESS-FOCUSED (B2B). Network Effect B2B. Empowering Content Creators.

Seed Stage 272

Seed Stage B2C Technical Review Disintermediation 272

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

Everybody thought the real substance was going to come from B2B eCommerce players that would deliver “real value&# by disintermediating supply chains … blah, blah, blah. We were it in Europe: B2B. I sat next to Irwin Jacobs (founder of Qualcomm) on a bus ride. They always need something new.

South Africa 310

South Africa Europe Disintermediation Poland 310

Agile VC

JUNE 12, 2012

Both are building on top of the existing credit card infrastructure because as Swipely Founder/CEO Angus Davis points out, millions of people are walking around with a mobile payment device in their pocket… it’s called a credit card. They picked online, because signing up online B2B partnerships is quick, easy and capital light.

Mobile 250

Mobile Disintermediation SMS Government 250