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

So many companies suck at managing their booths. 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. If you go to trade shows make sure to read this post.

South Africa 310

South Africa Europe Disintermediation Poland 310

Agile VC

JUNE 12, 2012

In fact my first job as an early employee of PayPal was as Product Manager responsible for our mobile products (WAP-enabled cell phones and our legacy Palm Pilot IR port product) and the first international version of PayPal. They picked online, because signing up online B2B partnerships is quick, easy and capital light. Enough said.

Mobile 250

Mobile Disintermediation SMS Government 250