The Startup Magazine

JULY 2, 2019

Instead, they usually turn to B2B businesses that can help them keep their operations running. So, if you’ve been thinking about entering the corporate arena, starting your own B2B business makes a lot of sense. But what B2B business ideas are worth considering in 2019? Here are seven of them you should know about.

B2B 81

B2B Social Media Design Operations 81

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

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

In venture capital in particular, early-stage companies are often operating in frontier industries, where the rules are unpredictable and conventional analytic frameworks may be misleading. Many tools designed for B2B marketing in general are also relevant to investors. 8) Accelerate portfolio company value. 1) Market fund.

Private Equity 60

Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Technical Review 60

View from Seed

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

Recently, we looked at our own portfolio at NextView Ventures to dig a little deeper on how startups actually raise that next round of financing. in our portfolio. 4 Operating Philosophies Affecting Series A Raises. Generate Real Revenue. Another approach to raise Series A is to drive meaningful revenue.

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Syndicate Syndication Seed Stage Startup 333

David Teten

DECEMBER 16, 2015

Operations should focus relentlessly on the latter.”. The most common financial metrics ffVC asks companies to compare vs. budget are: Gross Revenue. Josh Gebhardt, CEO, MetricStory , observes that horizontal spread across and within an organization’s functional siloes is a good metric for B2B products. So how do you do it?

Metrics 60

Metrics Analytics Balance Sheet .Net 60

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 19, 2018

It could be more revenue, hiring clients or launching a new product or service, but every new year is an exciting time because it’s ripe with opportunity. 3- Triple our revenue and grow our base. We have two key goals for 2018: To grow our user base to more than 1 million and triple our revenue. 1- Efficiency.

Detroit 88

Detroit Entrepreneur Technical Review Revenue 88

Reid Hoffman

AUGUST 6, 2020

On the latest episode of Greymatter, Greylock partners Reid Hoffman and Sarah Guo discussed this process in detail, with a special focus on startups operating in fast-growing sectors like productivity tools and cloud SaaS platforms that power the modern working world. Take B2B companies. You can listen to the podcast here.

Technical Review 69

Technical Review Seed Stage Software Review Early Stage 69

Seeing Both Sides

JULY 11, 2013

Across our portfolio and in my own entrepreneurial experience, I have seen three main sales models work successfully in scaling B2B sales: 1) Enterprise; 2) Telephone; and 3) Developer-driven. To that point, a well-run telesales operation will be super metrics-driven. to, finally, $2M in annual quota. 3) Developer Driven Sales.

Sales 50

Sales Technical Review Software Review B2B 50

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

I’ve written on the expert network industry a fair amount in the past: see How to Earn More Consulting Revenue from Expert Networks and How Executives Can Work with Private Equity and Venture Capital Portfolio Companies. We’re not mainly for B2B companies or later stage companies or anything like that.

New York 114

New York Technical Review Networking Advisory Board 114

View from Seed

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Year over year revenue growth rates are measured in multiples not percentages. On paper, VC portfolios perform well. Roughly 18-24 months ago, people started to revisit the question of unit economics… what is the underlying profitability of a B2C transaction or a B2B SaaS contract once all the appropriate costs are factored in.

IPO 202

IPO Early Stage Cofounder B2C 202

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

Hippoland

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

V4: Helping directors of marketing at series B B2B SaaS companies who have previously bought ads in email lists get customers profitably. At a high level, business is simple! :) You bring revenue in and your costs send money out the door. You want your revenue to be higher than your costs. But the execution is hard.

Seed Stage 48

Seed Stage Business Model B2B Email 48

Hippoland

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

V4: Helping directors of marketing at series B B2B SaaS companies who have previously bought ads in email lists get customers profitably. At a high level, business is simple! :) You bring revenue in and your costs send money out the door. You want your revenue to be higher than your costs. But the execution is hard.

Seed Stage 48

Seed Stage Business Model B2B Email 48

Cracking the Code

MARCH 28, 2022

This post is part of Accel’s Secrets to Scaling series, where leaders from across our portfolio share their learnings and advice with the next generation of European and Israeli entrepreneurs building global winners. And then you realised that there was a gap for B2B. I had some experience of this from PayPal.

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B2B Cofounder Small Business 62

Agile VC

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Year over year revenue growth rates are measured in multiples not percentages. On paper, VC portfolios perform well. Roughly 18-24 months ago, people started to revisit the question of unit economics… what is the underlying profitability of a B2C transaction or a B2B SaaS contract once all the appropriate costs are factored in.

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IPO Early Stage Cofounder B2C 100

BeyondVC

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

While this sounds simple, there is a ton of work that goes into helping our portfolio companies get to a successful Series A. Finally, we try to prewire the Series A investment by getting our portfolio companies to meet with the right partners at the right firms early on before they even need money. As they say, the rest is history.

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Seed Stage Agile Viral API 110

Hippoland

AUGUST 8, 2018

Diving in a bit more into some thoughts here: 1b) Ad-based revenue streams generally have terrible unit economics. A typical ad-based revenue stream on a media website is around $5 per 1000 eyeballs ($5m CPM and give or take $1-$20ish CPMs). 2) B2B startups have high margins. B2B companies can have great unit economics.

Founder 48

Founder Sales Cycle Affiliate Retention 48

Hippoland

AUGUST 8, 2018

Diving in a bit more into some thoughts here: 1b) Ad-based revenue streams generally have terrible unit economics. A typical ad-based revenue stream on a media website is around $5 per 1000 eyeballs ($5m CPM and give or take $1-$20ish CPMs). 2) B2B startups have high margins. B2B companies can have great unit economics.

Founder 48

Founder Sales Cycle Affiliate Retention 48

mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Kapor Capital’s expansive portfolio includes Bit.ly Gordon is also operating director of Zynga and director at Amazon, both sFund partners. The group seeks out technologies that are complementary to the company’s core operations, including applications, software and infrastructure startups.

Angel Investor 80

Angel Investor Startup San Francisco Social Media 80

Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Be prepared to cross the desert - SaaS requires R&D and sales expense up front for a multi-year stream of revenue, so it demands enough investment capital to fund 4+ years of runway. Farming is also often overlooked, but can help grow customer accounts and revenues from 30% upwards (if successful). Great list! Philippe Botteri.

Software Review 48

Software Review North America Europe Metrics 48

online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

He also combed the portfolios of VC firms and talked to people at start-ups, he says. If failure is defined as failing to see the projected return on investment—say, a specific revenue growth rate or date to break even on cash flow—then more than 95% of start-ups fail, based on Mr. Ghoshs research. Business Services (B2B).

Venture Capital 107

Venture Capital Software Review Rhode Island North Dakota 107

mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

endeve – Issue invoices, manage clients and check revenues all in one place. b2b CRM – A Web-based CRM that manages contacts, activities, and your sales pipeline, and integrates with Outlook and Word. carbonmade Carbonmade – A free online portfolio showcase. Weefolio – A free online portfolio creator.

Software Review 78

Software Review Social Media Social Network Software 78

Austin Startup

JUNE 4, 2017

Recently I was fortunate enough to have raised a seed funding round from a fantastic group of investors for my pre-product, pre-revenue B2B SaaS startup here in Austin, Texas. I used the S3 Ventures operating model to come up with my number. Mark Cuban leads $1.5 I found a great lead in Mark Cuban.

Austin 54

Austin Institutional Investors Angel Groups Deal Flow 54

VC Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2011

i-nigma was successfully deployed by hundreds of enterprises, among them operators, advertisers, integrators and solution providers. Established location-based services to enable the CSP offer B2B and B2C services based on mobile positioning, tracking & locating, turn-by-turn navigation and mobile local search. Craze Productions.

Mobile 103

Mobile Securities and Exchange Commission Flash IP 103

Occam's Razor

AUGUST 12, 2013

MCA-O2S covers the challenge of attributing the offline impact (revenue/brand value/butts in seats/phone calls/etc) driven by online marketing and advertising. 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.

Channel 161

Channel Analytics Campaign Conversion 161

Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

At a previous employer customer service on the phone was a huge part of the operation. Revenue Per Human. But, you want people to obsess about Revenue and not Cost. If 10xing your revenue requires that you quadruple your costs, what's the problem? Subtle change. Else people do frustratingly short-sighted things.

Metrics 60

Metrics Analytics Acquisition Naming 60

Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

I've used Sunbursts to do the same with keyword portfolios. The core performance of the current website look like this… While we are applying it to a B2B case, it could just as easily be applied to a B2C / Ecommerce scenarios. Worldwide Smartphone Sales by Operating System , in thousands. Pretend you did not read it.

Analytics 143

Analytics Sierra Leone Channel Conversion 143