Version One Ventures

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

This makes it laboriously difficult to identify rising stars and make comparisons within a specific vertical. At Version One, we have 6 investment themes (and more to come – stay tuned): Vertically integrated commerce. Vertical SaaS. Mobile marketplaces. B2B marketplaces. Online education.

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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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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. Electrification of mobility and transportation. Blockchain.

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Hippoland

JUNE 19, 2016

1) The investor doesn’t / no longer invests in your vertical / space. 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.

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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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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. Think about places like Github , Behance , GrabCAD , and others. Ubiquitous computing.

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aweissman.com

JUNE 14, 2016

Stemming from a combination of user desires (driven by the mobile transformation of the last 10 years) and software and device capabilities, the reordering can be seen acutely in some conflicts that are now occurring. This user-centric approach to medicine is also occurring in more b2b oriented services too.

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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!) Not having a fast, functional, incredible mobile-friendly website. billion mobile phones. There are 6.9 billion of them actively use 4.3

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Marketing Flash Analytics Web 126

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.

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Internet Matching Vertical Hosting 88

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. Point Nine Capital uses Qwilr to create modern, mobile-native collateral. the Untouched Vertical. Private Equity Software and Services Directory.

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Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

View from Seed

AUGUST 2, 2017

Others take bets on certain verticals or business models, such as marketplaces, SaaS, or enterprise technology. 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.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 2, 2022

If leads-based B2B marketing is fishing with a net, ABM is using a harpoon. In 2020, smart home and building automation platform iRidium mobile wanted to land bigger clients and announce new products. Snowflake decides which channels to use according to industry verticals and where their buyers are likely to be. Conclusion.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 2, 2022

How GumGum uses personalized content to close enterprise B2B companies. In this case, John Legere , then-CEO of T-Mobile : Legere is an active Twitter user and outspoken Batman-enthusiast, something GumGum could use to their advantage. How Workfront leveraged ZoomInfo’s B2B database to grow sales pipeline 90% YoY.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 14, 2020

For example, we were writing about mobile marketing for about 10 years before it actually became something that kind of thing. 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. I was working on small businesses, medium businesses, big businesses.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 8, 2013

By the end, 99 percent of the B2B marketplaces had cratered and only B2C eBay was left standing and thriving. The prevailing consensus at the time was that B2B marketplaces were too hard (e.g. Many of the current mobile focused marketplaces do an incredible job in time shifting demand or supply so that they can artificially be matched.

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B2C B2B Demand Vertical 136

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.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 22, 2015

Let’s say you run a B2B site, and drive your visitors toward a quote request page. B2B and B2C. It doesn’t matter which vertical you’re in, you can use it to find great insights to lead to better test hypotheses. Some things and places matter much more than others. SaaS, ecommerce, lead gen, affiliate models.

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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.

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marketingland.com

JULY 11, 2012

Further, with a media query we’re likely focusing on a single breakpoint around 480-500px, which results in two layout states — large/desktop screen (1024+px wide) and small/mobile screen (480-px wide). Existing 300px elements are set to block level (via display: block) on mobile, causing them to stack to become single column.

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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. Today in Mobile. Mobile Lists. Top Stories.

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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? Simple editing. Reply Jarek , on February 27, 2011 at 11:51 pm said: What about CRM?

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