A Crowded Space

OCTOBER 2, 2018

3) Niche Managed Marketplaces – Within many verticals, there are opportunities to significantly improve customer experience. Ebay has been around forever, and GOAT comes along out of nowhere and destroys Ebay’s sneaker vertical – a surprisingly large segment of GMV. Let’s take a look at GOAT.

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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 8, 2023

You could also accomplish this by poking around on Twitter for posts where people have asked “Who are the top B2B SaaS pre-seed founds?” 3) Reverse engineering Crunchbase. Grab a free trial and start sourcing names by doing searches of similarly staged companies in the same basic verticals that have recently raised.

ChatGPT 78

ChatGPT Database Salary Naming 78

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

My colleagues Sebastian Soler , Steven Greenberg and I recently launched a new online community, PEVCTech.com , exclusively for PE/VC investors; engineers who work at PE/VC funds; and other technologists who specialize in working on this problem. Many tools designed for B2B marketing in general are also relevant to investors.

Private Equity 60

Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Technical Review 60

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

The Forrest Four-Cast: February 27, 2020 A B2B tech company, Flugauto is developing a world-class UAV platform for aerial delivery of industrial cargo for the energy industry. B2B customers simply book on their platform and sit back until the goods are delivered. What the Flugauto system looks like.

San Francisco 65

San Francisco Cofounder Georgia B2B 65

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Content creation, the engine of inbound marketing, creates the draw (i.e. It starts with having the right data in the system,” noted Kamil Rextin, who wrote about B2B attribution. For MST Solutions, Bogdanovich has focused on executing well on one vertical per quarter, then expanding to other verticals.

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Hippoland

AUGUST 8, 2018

As a result, second time founders very often shy away from ad-based consumer ideas, but when they do, they think about what viral mechanisms you can implement *first* and engineer the product around that mechanism. 2) B2B startups have high margins. Many serial entrepreneurs tend to gravitate towards building B2B startups.

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Founder Sales Cycle Affiliate Retention 48

Hippoland

AUGUST 8, 2018

As a result, second time founders very often shy away from ad-based consumer ideas, but when they do, they think about what viral mechanisms you can implement *first* and engineer the product around that mechanism. 2) B2B startups have high margins. Many serial entrepreneurs tend to gravitate towards building B2B startups.

Founder 48

Founder Sales Cycle Affiliate Retention 48

Hippoland

JUNE 19, 2016

1) The investor doesn’t / no longer invests in your vertical / space. Similarly, within software, there are lots of nuances between say mobile apps and B2B software. Or even within B2B, say adtech and HR SaaS. E.g. Glitch was a game that pivoted into a B2B communication software platform called Slack.

B2B 48

B2B Angel Investor Portfolio Vertical 48

Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 14, 2022

So yeah, I, there there's some confusion around these terms, partner, marketing partnership, marketing affiliate market, and you have influencer and B2B. So I just consider affiliate marketing, part of this greater ecosystem of partnership marketing now, which includes influencer and B2B and aspects of business development.

Marketing 90

Marketing Affiliate Channel Software Review 90

Rob Go

DECEMBER 10, 2012

B2B and especially SMB SaaS: We see B2B and especially SMB software to be a large and attractive category. And some verticals like farming and agriculture have just been ignored or overlooked by internet entrepreneurs until quite recently. Bonus: Convergence of physical and digital.

B2B 62

B2B Internet Vertical Early Stage 62

ConversionXL

AUGUST 2, 2017

In today’s environment, if B2B organizations are going to make it, they need to grow. presence in new markets and verticals. 3 Factors That Affect B2B Partnerships. In a nutshell, there are 3 forces that influence B2B partnerships today: 1. In a nutshell, there are 3 forces that influence B2B partnerships today: 1.

Channel 84

Channel Partner Programming B2B 84

ConversionXL

AUGUST 2, 2017

In today’s environment, if B2B organizations are going to make it, they need to grow. presence in new markets and verticals. 3 Factors That Affect B2B Partnerships. In a nutshell, there are 3 forces that influence B2B partnerships today: 1. In a nutshell, there are 3 forces that influence B2B partnerships today: 1.

Channel 77

Channel Partner Programming B2B 77

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Lean Methodology consists of three tools designed for entrepreneurs building new ventures: The Business Model Canvas – to write down all the hypotheses about a new business; Customer Development – a process for testing those hypotheses outside the building; Agile Engineering – to rapidly build minimal viable products to test product/market fit.

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Customer Marketing Lean Vertical 420

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. In many cases, a deeper focus on a particular category or vertical allows these marketplaces to distinguish themselves from broader marketplaces like eBay. based teachers.

Internet 88

Internet Matching Vertical Hosting 88

Occam's Razor

APRIL 25, 2011

That means I get to spend loads and loads of time across many industry verticals, see many many campaigns, translate many many foreign websites (thanks Google Chrome for auto-translate!) Sophisticated Search Engine Optimization is mandatory in our world of Bing / Yandex / Baidu / Google. Life is a lot more complex (and sexy!).

Marketing 126

Marketing Flash Analytics Web 126

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Many tools designed for B2B marketing in general are also relevant to investors. I previously posted a detailed presentation with sales technology tools useful for B2B sales. ff Venture Capital hired two full-time engineers to build out Totem. the Untouched Vertical. Fincura specializes in serving lenders.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 14, 2020

I was never part of a vertical group within an industry except for a short amount of time in my career. I was working on B2C and B2B. And so the biggest profit engine I think is for you to stop holding yourself back. Otherwise I was working on pitches for all sorts of different things.

Curation 39

Curation Video Viral Government 39

ConversionXL

APRIL 4, 2014

Some of these tools include: Personalized product recommendation engines. It’s too bad, because the open & click rates across nearly every vertical are also significantly higher. Email remarketing. Behavioral targeting. Marketing automation. image source. Yet surprisingly, 70% of brands do not personalize. image source.

eCommerce 112

eCommerce Sales Marketing Software Review 112

Rob Go

JULY 11, 2013

Here are a couple examples from our portfolio: Vertical Communities: One of the exciting attributes of GrabCAD in the early days was its rapidly growing, engaged community of mechanical engineers. As a vertical community, the business of GrabCAD was never going to look like that of a social network or social media company.

Distribution 66

Distribution Vertical Viral B2B 66

ConversionXL

APRIL 10, 2019

With account-based content , you’re usually cutting out search engines and proactively reaching out to prospects. Or, at the very least, narrowly targeted verticals.). This is also where LinkedIn is an ABM powerhouse for enterprise-level B2B marketers. is all personalized for singular brands. (Or,

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PPC Campaign Marketing Sales Cycle 131

ConversionXL

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Many B2B companies run into the same problem, particularly those that are: Complex, with products that require deep expertise to understand and use. Most niche industries have some form of representation on these channels, like: This subreddit for commercial audio-visual engineers.

B2B 133

B2B Marketing SEO Search 133

Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Europe is underrepresented in vertical SaaS solutions – 17% of the companies vs. 23% in the US. Vertical solutions are typically a sign of a more mature ecosystem. In Europe, a range of vertical SaaS companies is beginning to emerge, and it's likely to catch-up in the future.

Europe 48

Europe Artificial Inteligence Vertical 48

VC Cafe

JUNE 22, 2010

ForNova provides a B2B turnkey solution to enable building aggregation solutions for classifieds eCommerce, travel and many other specific content verticals. The platform supports multiple verticals such as real estate, cars, travel, hotels, flights, jobs, events, products, eCommerce and more.

Media 145

Media Social Network Flash 145

marketingland.com

JULY 11, 2012

Blocks 5-8 have been designed to read easily in a horizontal or vertical format, so the reading order transitions as naturally as the layout. Learn a lot from reading Marketing Land and Search Engine Land? Whitepapers: The B2B Marketers Roadmap to SEO Success. Search Engine News, SEO & PPC Info. Recent Comments.

Email 49

Email Mobile SEO Search 49

mashable.com

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Generally speaking, a name is more valuable to a B2C (marketing-driven) company than a B2B (sales-driven) counterpart, so allocate your efforts accordingly. Our startup creates custom vertical search and decision making engines for people or businesses with structured data.

Naming 84

Naming Startup Social Media RSS 84

steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

I know that in B2B world you are dead in the water without CRM tool… We are using our own stuff – [link] Reply Josh , on February 28, 2011 at 12:12 am said: Thank you for all the great links, how can i get an invite to quora? Reply Jarek , on February 27, 2011 at 11:51 pm said: What about CRM?

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Software Review Startup Silicon Valley Analytics 110