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6 Reasons Why Technology Won’t Kill B2B Salespeople

YoungUpstarts

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. Fears over technology stealing sales jobs is nothing new, it happened following the advent of both the phone and Internet. Marketing Disintermediation.

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A Behind-the-Scenes Look at Our Recent Seed-Stage VC Investments

View from Seed

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. Ecommerce has transcended merely shipping a box to your home — it’s about leveraging mobile plus the internet to create an elegant purchasing experience previously unavailable.

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4 Well-Known Companies to Emulate

Growthink Blog

Warby Parker is an online store for prescription sunglasses and eyeglasses that since their founding in 2010 has taken the Lenscrafter “eye doctor in a mall” concept and fully “Internet-ized” it. Trailing twelve month revenues for the company is over $100 million and the company was valued at over $1.2 billion in its last round of funding.