YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

by Kristy Campbell, Chief Operating Officer at Rev1 Ventures. Think of your first B2B web site as one step beyond your elevator pitch. Profiles of founders and advisors add credibility. You’ve validated your market and designed a minimally viable prototype. Advisors agree your startup is on the right track. Just be clear.

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Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

How do we differentiate between B2B start-ups that sell to many vs. sell to a few? Sell to few”: Traditional enterprise sales. Selling into this market requires the traditional enterprise sales approach, comprised of a large ‘boots on the ground’ field sales team that works with key decision makers (e.g. Final thoughts.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Dispense is a B2B software company, focused on transaction software specifically designed for the cannabis industry. In recent years, cannabis has emerged as a legal industry, and thus, companies operating in this new market have often had to find or build new software stacks in order to operate their businesses.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 10, 2018

Few buyers will get excited about a company currently operating at a loss. You’ll find exceptions to this rule, like Snapchat, which was operating at a loss at its IPO, when it experienced high initial trading prices due to its huge popularity and untapped monetization capabilities. Profile Your Customer Base. Wrapping Up.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Dispense is a B2B software company, focused on transaction software specifically designed for the cannabis industry. In recent years, cannabis has emerged as a legal industry, and thus, companies operating in this new market have often had to find or build new software stacks in order to operate their businesses.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 20, 2020

We wish we were the founders, experiencing this testosterone-fueled melodrama of success. It’s one of the main reasons startup founders often shy away from reasonable SEO pricing models, opting instead for the riskier, cheap, outsourced route or the DIY approach —which are both fraught with their own perils.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 28, 2021

My co-founder and I consider his sister to be a trusted confidant. To give you some context, my co-founder and I operate a website called Solitaired , which ties classic card games to brain training. In many cases, customers are more willing to give out their info when rewards are at stake, like discounts or sales.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 29, 2011

Founders that learn are more successful. They also over-invest in solo founders and founding teams without technical cofounders despite indicators that show that these teams have a much lower probability of success. Investors who provide hands-on help have little or no effect on the company’s operational performance.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Dispense is a B2B software company, focused on transaction software specifically designed for the cannabis industry. In recent years, cannabis has emerged as a legal industry, and thus, companies operating in this new market have often had to find or build new software stacks in order to operate their businesses.

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

RBI normally requires founders to pay back their investors with a fixed percentage of revenue until they have finished providing the investor with a fixed return on capital, which they agree upon in advance. For background, see Revenue-Based Investing: A New Option for Founders who Care About Control. Decathlon Capital.

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Seeing Both Sides

JULY 11, 2013

I''ve been thinking a lot lately about scaling sales. . Before this occurs, the sales process is a craft or an art - custom-made by the founder or evangelist sales VP. How do I build a repeatable, scalable sales process that is like an industrial machine - not a crafts project? 1) Enterprise Sales.

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ConversionXL

JULY 21, 2022

Its study of B2B buyers shows an even split in how decision-makers interact with sales reps traditionally, remotely, and self-served digitally: Of the B2B leaders that use omnichannel marketing, 83% say it’s a more successful way to prospect and secure new business than traditional “face-to-face only” selling.

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Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2011

The email continued, &# The problem I’m working on is that many founders are either making uninformed decisions or inefficiently learning the new skills they need. The solution I’m exploring is a just in time learning methodology that accelerates founders’ learning curve by aggregating relevant content, peers and mentors.&#.

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View from Seed

MARCH 24, 2021

Doing Reference Checks on VCs “Try to speak to at least one founder that the investor has worked with in a failed investment. The Seed VC Decision Tree “If the market is attractive and there just isn’t great founder/market fit, we will be open minded as well. This is not always easy to do. ” (Rob Go).

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 8, 2018

by Anand Srinivasan, founder of LeadJoint.com. A sales team is the lifeblood of any B2B organization. To put this in other words, the success of a business depends to a great extent on their sales team. The objective of a startup is to nurture and build a sales team quickly and effectively without a lot of overhead.

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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.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 4, 2021

No more 60 hour weeks at a job where the owners apparently were unable to run a successful operation. 9- Providing Legitimate B2B Customer Data in the Era of Mistrust. That's when I was struck by the idea: Why not provide a legit B2B customer database that is neither dodgy and nor a bad fit for a business? No hassles.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 11, 2011

by Oliver Wilkinson , founder of SSL247 and co-founder of jobiso.fr. In my businesses we’ve seen that often the sales person who sells the most is the best writer: talking the talk is easy, backing it up with an effective, pitch-perfect email is much harder. If you can write good copy, you can sell anything online. Do something.

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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.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 13, 2022

Digital transactions are now moving beyond B2C transactions & venturing into B2B, P2P, cross-border remittances, & more. have taken over traditional computing methods, changing how many industries perform & conduct their day-to-day operations. This satisfaction led to a record $24 billion dollars in sales for 2021.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 1, 2019

It can also come up in face-to-face meetings—sales pitches, conferences talks, account reviews, etc. For marketers in B2B sales, the challenge increases. The choreography of a B2B sale—in which the average buying decision involves more than five people —may require copy or collateral that serves multiple audiences.

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ConversionXL

MAY 27, 2022

Sales intelligence platform Cognism cut their lead generation efforts by 90% in 2021. In this article, you’ll learn how to build a demand generation funnel that fuels the pipeline, shortens the sale cycle, and generates revenue. an ebook); Then you blast them with sales messaging (e.g., email, ads, retargeting, etc.)

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

AUGUST 17, 2014

CEO and co-founder Vincent Yang, a mathematician by training, had built a system while he was at Summit Partners, a private equity firm, to comb the Web looking for investment opportunities. We are looking forward to helping EverString in their quest to disrupt the world of B2B demand generation.' This is BIG DATA!

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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.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 5, 2021

I’ve had the privilege to work with many great entrepreneurs, both in my operating days at the start of my career and over the last decade plus on the VC investing side. In my experience founders usually fall into one of three types: mercenaries, missionaries, and crusaders.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 13, 2023

I have been a mentor and coach of tens of start-up founders in the past few years through my membership in the BetaBlox-panel. Overlooking Operations: The First Missteps 1. Too many entrepreneurs underestimate the importance of introducing standard operating procedures (SOPs). The Marketing Pitfalls: Costly Oversights 4.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

As we established in my post ‘ In Q4 2022 founders face tough choices ‘, we are currently going through a rough patch for many startup founders. Improve sales efficiency (i.e. For example, take into account these ‘scorecards’ for series B startups in both consumer (B2C) and Enterprise Saas (B2B).

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 24, 2017

Transcript of How to Get the Right Mindset for Prospecting and Sales written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. And that’s why I brought Marylou Tyler, founder of Strategic Pipeline and author of “Predictable Prospecting” onto this episode of The Duct Tape Marketing podcast. Back to Podcast. Transcript.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 17, 2017

Internship Title: Business Development Intern Compensation: Paid — $10/hr Description: The Business Development Intern will assist the Sales Team in Prospecting, Outreach and Qualifying leads, and work directly with the Business Development Manager. This position will provide sales, negotiation, CRM and inbound/outbound outreach experience.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 25, 2022

Paul is the founder and CEO of Marketing AI Institute, and the founder of PR 20/20, HubSpot’s first partner agency. 12:25] Who are some companies that you think are using AI really well in their marketing or operations? [13:39] Who's the co-founder and CEO of Google deep mind. Marketing Podcast with Paul Roetzer.

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View from Seed

MARCH 3, 2015

But even with that webinar’s success, we still had a lot of education to do in order to get people to understand what we did and even how we saw marketing in general, which we needed to do to generate demand and sales. But marketing should always be ahead of sales to alleviate pressure. We got 300.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

Our founders realized that investors needed to learn interactively, on-demand, on very specific topics, and in an atmosphere of trust. We’re not mainly for B2B companies or later stage companies or anything like that. Two: the founders – are they curious, do they love to learn, and ask lots of questions?

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Rob Go

JANUARY 12, 2015

You may not be able to control the operational complexity and economics of your business even though there is a lot of demand. It is hard to translate rapid end user adoption with actual business success (eg: monetizing a large audience, or moving from end-user SAAS to enterprise sales). Traction for Consumer, Team for B2B.

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Hippoland

AUGUST 8, 2018

At Hustle Fund, we back both first time founders as well as repeat founders. One thing I’ve noticed is that almost every repeat, previously-successful-founder focuses on the same thing for their respective startups: customer acquisition. 2) B2B startups have high margins. Sales cycles matter though.

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Hippoland

AUGUST 8, 2018

At Hustle Fund, we back both first time founders as well as repeat founders. One thing I’ve noticed is that almost every repeat, previously-successful-founder focuses on the same thing for their respective startups: customer acquisition. 2) B2B startups have high margins. Sales cycles matter though.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 13, 2015

You may not be able to control the operational complexity and economics of your business even though there is a lot of demand. monetizing a large audience or moving from end-user SaaS to enterprise sales). Great companies are often founded by first time founders who don’t seem obviously special.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 16, 2015

Operations should focus relentlessly on the latter.”. Josh Gebhardt, CEO, MetricStory , observes that horizontal spread across and within an organization’s functional siloes is a good metric for B2B products. Sales Pipeline. Conversion to Sales %. The best CEOs run their companies by their metrics. Users/Customers.

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