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B2B Marketplaces Revisited

Version One Ventures

boom – expectations were high for B2B (product) marketplaces. Yet today, the world of B2B marketplaces still lags far behind its B2C counterpart. By reducing the friction for North American companies to find suppliers in China, they’ve been the most successful B2B marketplace to date. Alibaba is an exception.

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Common B2B Challenges and How To Solve Them

ConversionXL

From long sales cycles to trying to stand out from the sea of sameness, B2B companies face an uphill battle from the start. While thousands of B2B organizations struggle, plenty are able to develop long-term success. Common B2B marketing challenges. So what does it take? Let’s dive in.

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Why Every Business Needs To Become A Platform, And How To Do It

YoungUpstarts

Salesforce does the same thing in the B2B world. There are elements of vertical integration and franchising , classic business strategies for achieving operational efficiency and scale. To stay competitive, businesses have to learn to leverage the power of platforms. That starts with platform thinking. What is platform thinking?

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Who are the Major Revenue-Based Investing VCs?

David Teten

In 2019 we partnered with several revenue-based lending providers, effectively creating a marketplace. “. Investment Criteria: B2B SaaS or tech-enabled services with proven, recurring contracts. The following information is based on companies funded by us and/or our capital partners: The average most recent monthly revenue is $331,229.

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How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood

David Teten

PEVCTech is partnering with Blue Future Partners to run the first large-scale survey of VCs’ technology stack. Johann Kratzer of Blue Future Partners , a fund of funds, observed, “The majority of the hundreds of funds we’ve diligenced rely predominantly on their relationships to source deals. Greylock Partners.

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SXSW Pitch Finalist: Flugauto

Austin Startup

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. They have an end-to-end solution, from operating and monitoring the fleet of UAVs to the on-the-ground operations and delivering to the final destination.

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Target market advisory boards

Austin Startup

This post is written with B2B startups in mind, but should be generally applicable. I tend to think of this group as distinct from the business advisors with whom you may discuss operational strategy, but all the better if there is an overlap in capabilities. In other cases, they may come from your channel partners or elsewhere.