Agile VC

OCTOBER 27, 2011

I’m not the first person to describe this trend, and my prior background has been primarily as a consumer web guy more than in B2B companies. But in the next 5 years the web and mobile app stores will increasingly be a force in selling and customer acquisition for busines software. Author howerl. Filed under Uncategorized.

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Where to Play

AUGUST 18, 2020

In 2000, they included tentage into their portfolio and since then they have established themself as a premium brand in marriage event management. The time to revenue is much longer due to the seasonal and B2B nature of this opportunity. Based upon these competencies, the following 3 opportunities were defined.

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Pakistan Sales Cycle Marketing Technical Review 62

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

It affects even B2B companies because ultimately most must sell to companies who sell to consumers and if they suffer they cut back on suppliers. Check out this interesting piece on PEHub talking about how Stanford is discreetly looking to sell it’s asset portfolio ! It is also a result of pent-up demand.

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Technical Review Stock Hawaii Early Stage 269

Agile VC

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

Most consumer web/mobile companies focus on user growth and usage early in the company’s lifecycle before shifting to monetization. But B2B startups need to take a different tack. We invest in internet enabled companies at NextView and our portfolio is roughly equally split between consumer and B2B businesses.

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Version One Ventures

JULY 19, 2018

mobile) and/or new or differentiated supply. B2B marketplaces. We’ve been pitched the promise that “we’re going to replace the broker” by B2B marketplace builders many times. However, B2B transactions are generally complex, requiring many steps and communication between buyer and seller to complete. Services marketplaces.

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Disintermediation B2B Differentiation Aggregator 110

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 19, 2018

With many B2B companies, they are more reliant on the owner’s personality and ability to shine, but if you want your business to grow, it’s the company that needs to have a brand that people identify with. 14- Break even and become fully mobile-first. A website perfectly optimised for mobile use and conversions is key.

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Detroit Entrepreneur Technical Review Revenue 88

Austin Startup

APRIL 17, 2017

Internship Title: Marketing Intern Compensation: Unpaid Description: As the Marketing Intern at Thrillbox, you’ll be helping run all internal marketing campaigns for 30,000 users in 115 countries of their mobile app 360 video player. To Apply: Email jobs@Thrillbox.com and reference the Capital Factory intern program.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

IdN Motion Gallery on Pratt Portfolios crowdspring.co/1OaQlOL. Logo for B2B buying group crowdspring.co/1UxyZgU. What mobile ad blocking looks like in the real world crowdspring.co/1ijixEW. The Push Pin Pantheon – Print Magazine crowdspring.co/1iji3ii. A Smart New Tool to Demystify the Design Process crowdspring.co/1JzZ4Xt.

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Small Business Design Syria Social Media 48

VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

So I took a short poll of some of our portfolio CEOs at Remagine Ventur es and got some insightful quotes I’d like to share with you: Everything we build is a hypothesis until the users are using the feature (hands-on) and we have a tangible way to measure its impact. Get in the habit of testing, and always keep a control group.

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Version One Ventures

JANUARY 4, 2017

While we’re ready to look ahead and embrace 2017, here’s a quick recap of the major activity across our portfolio last quarter. Portfolio companies in the news. Growing your B2B marketplace. We hope everyone had a restful holiday! We’re looking forward to continuing this momentum into the new year. Catch up on our blog.

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Seattle Portfolio Seed Stage Canada 130

This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

We realized that there were certain open positions in our portfolio we wanted to call extra attention to. Monetate Mobile adds mobile-native navigation, search, GPS store location, cart access and more, to any site, overnight. A week or so ago, we launched the Key Hire Wire at First Round.

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Version One Ventures

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Some of our particular themes and areas of interest include (* indicates a Version One portfolio company): . Some B2B companies: CarbonChain , Plan A , SINAI Technologies , Watershed ; consumer startups: Aerial , Wren ; and negative emission platforms: Pachama , Patch * (read our investment announcement here ).

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Artificial Inteligence B2B Finance Portfolio 88

BeyondVC

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

To date our messaging has been clear, but we also could not ignore the fact that companies like Plain Vanilla Games took off quickly and became known as the fastest growing mobile game in history. While this sounds simple, there is a ton of work that goes into helping our portfolio companies get to a successful Series A.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 3, 2014

But, in today’s global market, the booming economy, massive population, mobile adoption and growing middle make Asia an attractive—and fully attainable—prospect for virtually any young upstart. For Asian companies, it’s less of a B2B deal and more of a partnership between individuals. In Asia, “face time” is much more important.

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Asia Japan Marketing Cofounder 191

Hippoland

JUNE 19, 2016

For example, say you approach a pharma investor about your new mobile app. 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.

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B2B Angel Investor Portfolio Vertical 48

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

However, in private markets, there is more room to optimize across all 11 steps of the investing process: firm management , marketing, fundraising , origination , manage relationships, due diligence, negotiation, monitoring, portfolio acceleration , reporting, and. Point Nine Capital uses Qwilr to create modern, mobile-native collateral.

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Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

Agile VC

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

Our portfolio has grown to 15 companies today, the bulk of which is on the US East Coast and roughly half the companies have already progressed from the seed stage to completing Series A rounds. Just under half our portfolio is B2B in nature, slightly more than half is consumer-facing in some way. Read More ».

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Agile VC

MAY 16, 2012

And we invest in US-based startups, primarily on the US east coast though we’ll consider other parts of country on a selective basis (roughly 15-20% of our portfolio is in the SF Bay area). We also invest only in software & internet enabled businesses. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010.

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The Equity Kicker

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

Our portfolio company Conversocial has done a fantastic job recently raising their profile on a limited budget. Coverage in the quality press can be featured in sales and marketing materials and does a lot for the credibility of B2B companies.

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Leadership Marketing PR Social Media 117

VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Sorry for the humbrag, but I’m proud to see Minute Media , our Remagine Ventures portfolio company (and our only later stage investment) on this prestigious list. The 32 Israeli private companies that reached $100M in ARR. Israeli startups raised a record of $26.6

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Software Review B2C Open Source 109

VC Cafe

JANUARY 22, 2021

Amazon Corporate Development – Notable acquisitions include Whole Foods ($13.7B), smart doorbell system Ring ($1.2B, 2018) and autonomous mobility technology Zoox ($1.2bn). AI startups in the Alexa Fund portfolio. Amazon AppStore – The Amazon Appstore (mobile/tablet) for Android and Fire OS operated by Amazon.com.

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Technical Review Startup Venture Capital Incubator 174

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 25, 2018

It starts with having the right data in the system,” noted Kamil Rextin, who wrote about B2B attribution. For B2B marketers, demand generation tactics—no matter how well targeted—fail if they focus exclusively on how a product or service benefits the prospect alone. Data types are important. Strategies are based on bad data.

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Demand Vertical Campaign Channel 132

Kodorra

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Almost every B2B business extends a credit term to their clients. When I wanted to venture into the mobile app development business, we didn’t have any apps to show on our portfolio. I’m referring to your vendors and suppliers. The common term we use in business is “back to back” – I pay you only when I get paid.

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Rob Go

DECEMBER 10, 2012

In our own portfolio, we’ve made a few investments here. B2B and especially SMB SaaS: We see B2B and especially SMB software to be a large and attractive category. In addition to mobile phones, we are seeing a proliferation of other devices that capture, process, and transmit data and can be accessed in real-time.

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B2B Internet Vertical Early Stage 62

Seeing Both Sides

APRIL 1, 2013

Are you more of a B2C type or a B2B type? Below is a sample chart that I put together answering the question for someone interested in either e-commerce, mobile or SaaS companies in SF/SV, NYC or Boston. In order to narrow things down, I recommend following a simple, four-step heuristic. Here's the advice I give: . Pick a Domain.

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Boston B2C Salary Cofounder 52

Transformify

JUNE 20, 2020

Product portfolio. Wirecard has an impressive product portfolio that has been attracting big merchants having more complex needs including payment acceptance, acquiring, M-POS, prepaid cards, fraud & risk solutions, etc. POS, Omnichannel and Mobile solutions and SMB payments are also included in the pack.

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Germany eCommerce Global Operations 99

View from Seed

AUGUST 2, 2017

For example, in computing platforms, the mainframe was superseded by the minicomputer, which was eclipsed by the PC, which was subsumed by client-server platforms, which in many ways has been replaced by cloud and mobile computing. Innovation in search, social, broadband, and mobile & cloud hasn’t come to an end.

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Seed Stage Portfolio Cofounder B2B 273

Occam's Razor

JULY 22, 2013

For example, they don't account for a smart company's ability to form relationships at scale via mobile, social platforms with past, current, and, most importantly, future customers. One of their three key areas of innovation and focus is Mobile. But Walgreens does have a mobile app. Everything you might expect.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 24, 2022

A look at the overall exits for both enterprise (B2B) and consumer (B2C) companies from 1995-2022 shows that both categories can produce power law returns, but they vary substantially: The top five enterprise companies with the largest exits account for $188B in value creation, or 12% of the $1,609B generated in the enterprise category since 1995.

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Occam's Razor

JUNE 11, 2014

From B2C to B2B. Rock joy-inducing mobile experiences. Forget mobile first, it's a mobile only world! Create joy-inducing mobile experiences. Forget mobile first, it's a mobile only world! We spend 24 minutes a day on non-voice use of mobile devices. From bras to dresses.

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Design Software Review Technical Review Mobile 150

crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 19, 2013

Mobile traction is getting harder, not easier. Find More Customers for Your B2B SaaS Product with These 5 Distribution Hacks – [link]. Global PPC Spending Up 23%, Mobile PPC Jumped 132% YOY In Q2 [Covario Report] – [link]. Responsive Freelance Portfolio Designs | Web Design Mash – [link]. ” [link].

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 94

View from Seed

OCTOBER 7, 2015

Sector: B2B On-Demand. However, the same revolution which is empowered by smartphone adoption will also be extended to business users as well, particularly those workers who are already mobile themselves. We’ve already made two investments in this area: Scratch in the consumer space and one unannounced company in the B2B space.

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Search B2B Artificial Inteligence Semantic 120

View from Seed

OCTOBER 7, 2015

Sector: B2B On-Demand. However, the same revolution which is empowered by smartphone adoption will also be extended to business users as well, particularly those workers who are already mobile themselves. We’ve already made two investments in this area: Scratch in the consumer space and one unannounced company in the B2B space.

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Search B2B Artificial Inteligence Semantic 120

VC Cafe

AUGUST 3, 2023

While Israeli startups successes are well known in the B2B space (cybersecurity, enterprise tech, devops…), B2C startups are unsung heroes… The landscape of B2C tech in Israel is blossoming, despite several challenges. founded in 2020, the company raised $43M to date) Spiritt – text to mobile app.

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B2C Generative AI Artificial Inteligence 148

Occam's Razor

APRIL 21, 2014

They have still not embraced the strategy for optimizing for marketing portfolios and still obsess about optimizing silos (they learned this from their TV, Print etc. Recently the single biggest reason for a spike in Direct traffic is the massive increase in use of mobile applications by all of us. strategies). Josh Thomas.

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Analytics Marketing Campaign Metrics 131

Occam's Razor

AUGUST 12, 2013

MCA-AMS covers the challenge of attributing accurate impact of our marketing and advertising efforts across multiple devices (desktop, laptop, mobile, TV). The outcome in either scenario is a restructuring of the organization that is exquisitely geared towards taking advantage of portfolio optimization. From a Venn -diagram.

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Channel Analytics Campaign Conversion 161

Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

Behavior covers everything that happens after the person lands on our mobile or desktop site. Or people who follow you on social media or subscribe to your YouTube channel or sign-up to volunteer for your non-profit or download your utility marketing mobile app etc. Acquisition is everything we do to attract traffic. 5: Rent or Own?

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Analytics Marketing Social Media Technical Review 154