View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Most of these rhyme with what we’ve said in the past, but some have also evolved to fit the changing landscape and our own convictions about what really matters for founders and their investors at the seed stage. We see innovation becoming more broadly distributed over time, and outlier companies being built in more and more places.

North America 120

North America Seed Stage Early Stage Lead Investor 120

View from Seed

AUGUST 10, 2021

We first invested in co-founders Ben Forgan & Pat Wilbur in early 2015, when NextView led a $1.3M Here in 2021 startups operate in a more distributed fashion earlier in their lifecycle, a trend which preceded COVID but certainly was accelerated by the remote work environment for knowledge workers brought on by the pandemic.

Chicago 177

Chicago Cofounder Miami B2B 177

ConversionXL

MAY 27, 2022

However, due to B2B market saturation, customer acquisition costs are rising ; this digital marketing strategy of giving a little and getting a lot no longer works. Alternatively, founder of contentlift.io Creative agency founder Dan Kelsall has helped many of his clients go viral. email, ads, retargeting, etc.)

Demand 124

Demand B2B Distribution Channel 124

View from Seed

AUGUST 10, 2021

We first invested in co-founders Ben Forgan & Pat Wilbur in early 2015, when NextView led a $1.3M Here in 2021 startups operate in a more distributed fashion earlier in their lifecycle, a trend which preceded COVID but certainly was accelerated by the remote work environment for knowledge workers brought on by the pandemic.

Chicago 156

Chicago Cofounder Miami B2B 156

ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 19, 2019

A startups seeds are sown and sprouted either because the founder(s) have come up with a unique solution with a product (like a software or a physical product) or service. Many times the startups product or service is to provide a more efficient way around recreating and distributing a product or service that is already a business.

India 131

India Startup Cofounder Software Review 131

ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

Studies show that only 5% of B2B buyers are ready to buy. At a startup, this can be as simple as defining why the founder started the company in the first place. CXL’s founder, Peep Laja, has a specific “reason why” his company Wynter exists. There’s only so much you can say about B2B panels in a way that nobody else has.

Marketing 109

Marketing Social Media Non-Compete Audience 109

View from Seed

AUGUST 10, 2021

We first invested in co-founders Ben Forgan & Pat Wilbur in early 2015, when NextView led a $1.3M Here in 2021 startups operate in a more distributed fashion earlier in their lifecycle, a trend which preceded COVID but certainly was accelerated by the remote work environment for knowledge workers brought on by the pandemic.

Chicago 136

Chicago Cofounder Miami B2B 136

Genuine VC

DECEMBER 3, 2014

The benefits have been touted previously : an anchor for attracting and retaining talent in Boston, as well as a breeding ground for the next set of great Boston entrepreneurs and founders. I can’t tell you how many pitch decks from local startups I’ve received over the past decade that barely even touch upon the key subject of distribution.

Boston 279

Boston IPO B2B Cofounder 279

Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

Our intrepid founder, Tomas Gorny, has a classic immigrant entrepreneur story. After working essentially as a leading consultant with a publishing services company helping publishers go digital, I purchased my own niche, declining b2b directory company- and turned it around. Those two pivots ended up being Flickr and Slack.

Entrepreneur 90

Entrepreneur Bankruptcy Bootstrapping B2B 90

David Teten

JANUARY 11, 2020

But for B2B sales, meeting people in person is often mandatory. In the venture capital/private equity business, investors are B2B microinfluencers. We market to four populations: High-potential founders. Distributing content. Harbinger – B2B Sales & marketing. Today, I do this manually.

Social Media 60

Social Media Technical Review Media Private Equity 60

nikcub.appspot.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Finding a Technical Co-Founder. In the recent weeks, I have also had no less than three people email me and ask about finding a technical co-founder, which has also been a very frequent topic on the Hacker News forums. This can often lead to introductions to suitable people, or into networks where you can find a technical co-founder.

Cofounder 40

Cofounder Web Founder South Korea 40

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

GrowthHackers founder and former Head of Growth at Dropbox, Sean Ellis , coined the term: “A growth hacker is a person whose true north is growth. In his course on Growth Mindset (part of CXL’s Growth Marketing Minidegree ), WeTheFuture.org founder John McBride describes three key components of a successful growth marketer: 1.

Retention 113

Retention Marketing Acquisition Channel 113

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

The realm of an entrepreneur is all about change, but in my experience as a mentor to business founders, I hear too much about incremental change, and not enough about revolutionary change. The diversity of ideas, cultures, and motivations is a powerful change agent.

Entrepreneur 258

Entrepreneur Artificial Inteligence Social Media China 258

Rob Go

JANUARY 12, 2015

Your product may have gotten traction due to some distribution hack or novelty factor, both of which may not lead to sustained usage and growth. Great teams fail to build a product and get early distribution successfully all the time. Great companies are often founded by first time founders who don’t seem obviously special.

B2B 28

B2B Early Stage Distribution Software Review 28

View from Seed

JANUARY 13, 2015

Great teams fail to build a product and get early distribution all the time. Great companies are often founded by first time founders who don’t seem obviously special. Traction for Consumer, Team for B2B. Generally speaking, this is because of what it takes to get early distribution in these markets.

Seed Stage 120

Seed Stage B2B Distribution Early Stage 120

YoungUpstarts

MAY 17, 2017

by Shivankit Arora, founder of MarketingMasala.com. Here’s an example of a B2B buyer persona for a customer who is looking for tools that offer marketing automation and assist him in analyzing the social media activities of his business: Get started with a blog. If you are a B2B business, your first choice should be LinkedIn.

Marketing 133

Marketing Social Media B2C B2B 133

Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Most of these rhyme with what we’ve said in the past, but some have also evolved to fit the changing landscape and our own convictions about what really matters for founders and their investors at the seed stage. We see innovation becoming more broadly distributed over time, and outlier companies being built in more and more places.

North America 36

North America Seed Stage Early Stage Lead Investor 36

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

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2020

Topics we covered: B2B Companies You haven’t seen the full extent to how the correction is going to affect you. Biggest Advice I Give to Portfolio Founders? Food production and distribution, group collaboration, remote training or education, sensor technology (tracking people movement, temperatures, etc), certain biotech deals.

Marketing 263

Marketing Valuation Churn Rate Balance Sheet 263

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Paul Graham, founder of YCombinator notes that to get those first customers, you have to do things that don’t scale: “The most common unscalable thing founders have to do at the start is to recruit users manually. This applies of course to both B2B and B2C. Nearly all startups have to.

Venture Capital 142

Venture Capital B2C B2B Distribution 142

Austin Startup

AUGUST 9, 2021

Chargify, the leading billing platform for B2B SaaS, today announced the appointment of Matt Downs as Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) effective immediately. Downs is an accomplished leader who is known for bringing vision, strategy, and an innate ability to see and set growth trends.

Revenue 72

Revenue Georgia Texas Colorado 72

VC Cafe

OCTOBER 31, 2022

It’s a tough time for a lot of startup founders right now. This is not meant to be a negative post, but rather a temperature check of today’s market environment and the levers founders can pull on to survive this period. What is a founder to do? The later the stage, the bigger the impact. Keep your head up!

Founder 173

Founder Technical Review Down Round Liquidation Preference 173

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Successful product launch campaigns have a strong value proposition, multi-channel distribution, supporting content, and other trappings common to every marketing campaign. Nichole Elizabeth DeMeré , a B2B SaaS consultant, lamented that. Hugo Woodhead is the founder of Pilcro , which sells brand management software.

Product 110

Product Campaign Acquisition Social Media 110

Austin Startup

OCTOBER 15, 2017

As a founder cognizant of finding revenue anywhere you can, you are not likely to turn away today’s dollars for a conceptual future enterprise valuation. But, it is likely the major differentiator between a win and a loss whether you are selling B2B or B2C. He forgot a major highlight of the business model, and the damage was done.

Technical Review 48

Technical Review Software Review Nevada Silicon Valley 48

Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Forrester Research estimates that the average B2B CMO invests over 24% of their marketing budget in live events. You will want to gather feedback from your attendees and also distribute your event data to other departments in your organization. Alon Alroy is the Co-Founder and CMO of Bizzabo , the event technology company.

Campaign 73

Campaign Marketing Social Media Software Review 73

Austin Startup

APRIL 17, 2017

Thrillbox Thrillbox is an immersive media analytics platform that provides distribution tools for content generators, advertising agencies, vendors, and networks. Candidates will learn our culture and how to go through steps of sales cycle with Lead Generation, B2B and B2C sales and account management.

Semantic 48

Semantic Social Media Database Artificial Inteligence 48

Version One Ventures

AUGUST 25, 2015

With help from the Marketplaces Facebook Group , we have curated a list of recommended B2B tools by marketplace founders. However, a marketplace is unique in that it deals with distributed supply (and demand) and there aren’t many marketplace-specific tools out there yet to help with this.

Product 60

Product B2B Curation Demand 60

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

The proposal also included proclamations from tech-world celebrities like Steve Jobs, Apple’s founder, that the device might change urban life and could be as significant as the development of the personal computer. Complex products and decisions—rife in the B2B world—encourage us to default to our heuristic judgment.

Customer 108

Customer Differentiation West Virginia Campaign 108

Up and Running

JANUARY 14, 2019

Franchising can be a great way for companies to increase their distribution. Offering franchises allows the founder to reduce some of their own financial risk as they look to expand a business to multiple new locations. Franchising is a great product and service distribution method. But, all franchises are not created equal.

B2B 82

B2B Distribution Search Matching 82

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

The proposal also included proclamations from tech-world celebrities like Steve Jobs, Apple’s founder, that the device might change urban life and could be as significant as the development of the personal computer. Complex products and decisions—rife in the B2B world—encourage us to default to our heuristic judgment.

Customer 101

Customer Differentiation West Virginia Campaign 101

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 10, 2018

by Donald Chan, founder of IMPACT! According to Professor Klaus Schwab, founder and executive chairman of the World Economic Forum, we are heading towards the fourth industrial revolution known as Industry 4.0. Donald Chan is the founder and Business Director at IMPACT! Brand Communications. What Is Industry 4.0?

Agile 100

Agile Analytics Cloud Bankruptcy 100

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 1, 2022

95% of B2B buyers are not ready to buy your product right now. When B2B buyers are considering a purchase, they spend only 17% of their time meeting with potential suppliers. According to Walker: “B2B buyers are discovering, researching, and evaluating products in places companies can’t track.”.

B2B 103

B2B Social Media Channel Audience 103

Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 10, 2018

My company is named MARQETED and is a marketing consulting and services company for small businesses in the B2B sector. My business niche is “entrepreneurs” and “founders”. I combined those 2 things to come up with “FOUNDER FREEDOM ”. Thanks to Rachel Whynot, FOUNDER FREEDOM ! #22- Thanks to Paul Szyarto, Datapella ! #11-

Naming 120

Naming Entrepreneur LLC Macedonia 120

The Next Web

DECEMBER 8, 2012

And certain non-profits’ knack for touching the consumer directly and involving them in the social story behind the cause has, in turn, inspired for-profit founder. As a B2B or B2C business, why not spend time promoting the good work of your clients on social media? What makes them special and effective?

Community 141

Community B2C Social Media B2B 141

Seeing Both Sides

JULY 11, 2013

Before this occurs, the sales process is a craft or an art - custom-made by the founder or evangelist sales VP. Across our portfolio and in my own entrepreneurial experience, I have seen three main sales models work successfully in scaling B2B sales: 1) Enterprise; 2) Telephone; and 3) Developer-driven. I''ll discuss each one below.

Sales 50

Sales Technical Review Software Review B2B 50

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 23, 2024

Earn More in Your Retail Business with Re-Commerce written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing The Duct Tape Marketing Podcast with John Jantsch In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast, I interviewed Patton Gleason, the founder and CEO of Relay Goods. He's the founder of Relay Goods and serves as CEO.

Revenue 62

Revenue Distribution Cofounder Email 62

Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 9, 2018

She is the co-founder of Vengreso , a leading digital sales transformation company. Ninety-four percent of B2B buyers view multiple pieces of content from the vendor they ultimately select. Additionally, 75 percent of B2B buyers conduct research in social channels for products and services. Why is LinkedIn Important?

Conversion 74

Conversion Sales Audience Social Network 74