mashable.com

OCTOBER 5, 2012

It’s based largely on my personal experience naming several tech products as well as the themes I’ve noticed in great startup names. Generally speaking, a name is more valuable to a B2C (marketing-driven) company than a B2B (sales-driven) counterpart, so allocate your efforts accordingly. Top From Our Partners. 50,295 followers.

Naming 84

Naming Startup Social Media RSS 84

Agile VC

MAY 10, 2012

So it took me a minute to describe to my partners why SaaS for cows is incredibly exciting… Farmeron is a SaaS company focused on the data management challenges facing the agriculture sector. Thanks Andy, we’re excited to partner with and help the company. feedstocks). Author howerl. Filed under Uncategorized.

Silicon Valley 223

Silicon Valley Cofounder Seed Stage Syndicate 223

ConversionXL

MAY 27, 2022

The average B2B buyer has 27 brand interactions before deciding. Demand generation combines marketing tactics, strategies and programs to create awareness and drive interest in your products or services. 70% of buyers are already clued up on a product before they talk to sales, if they talk to sales at all.

Demand 95

Demand Management B2B Campaign 95

View from Seed

JULY 9, 2015

This particular company, as a B2B SaaS business, would definitely benefit from driving traffic to convert into subscribers or leads on their email list. Be sure you have an honest and direct discussion with your lawyers, who should be viewed as true partners who understand these things. More on use cases for delaying in a moment.).

Startup 120

Startup PR Cofounder Stealth 120

Brandanew

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

As B2B partners tend to be detail oriented high quality content is a great way to engage with them. B2B markets almost force you to show your thought leadership in a given market and therefore, it is critical that you share your insights! For instance, Whitepapers or presentations. e) cross-train for growth!

Marketing 100

Marketing B2B Social Media Michigan 100

Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Once you master step one… graduate to the next level, aim for the large possible global audience that is relevant for your products/services/mission. Take your existing help videos from your support site or trainings or the CD you bundle with your product, and put them on YouTube. Just do TV on YouTube! See above example.]. #2.

Analytics 149

Analytics Marketing Audience Channel 149

Agile VC

MAY 16, 2012

IMO Bessemer is perhaps the most emblematic firm of thematic investing… all the investment professionals in the firm from senior partners to more junior staff team up in small groups to construct “ roadmaps ” of the themes in which they intend to pursue investments, which are then articulated more broadly within the firm.

Seed Stage 124

Seed Stage Silicon Valley B2B Syndicate 124

Agile VC

MARCH 30, 2012

The good folks at IA Ventures have a primer slide deck publicly available , as big data is the core element of their investment thesis, and they divide the world into companies that sell data, those that compute & sell data, and data driven products. But for consumer web companies, I think the short answer is not really.

Business Model 113

Business Model Silicon Valley Advertising B2B 113

mashable.com

MAY 5, 2011

Buzz Is Great, But Substance Matters Most In the end, if a startup’s product sucks, it doesn’t matter if it has four users or 4 million when it launches. Start blogging, talk about the problems that you’re facing and how your product is the solution. Now to get the product out to people! Have an account?

Pakistan 94

Pakistan Social Media Startup Stealth 94

View from Seed

JANUARY 28, 2016

On Wednesday, my partner David wrote about how we’ve been using our office space (and network and other resources) to support pre-seed companies. Looking back at our current fund, 75% of our initial investments were made when the company was very much pre-product. At NextView, we pride ourselves as being a “one-product company.”

Cofounder 120

Cofounder Finance Founder Syndicate 120

Agile VC

AUGUST 12, 2011

But unfortunately there’s no magic formula… not getting X million users if you’re a consumer facing startup, or Y customers if you’re B2B SaaS startup, or Z revenue, or whatever. My partner @ LeeHower looks back: [link] 5 days ago Search. What’s Your Favorite Future? Previous Entries.

Seed Stage 113

Seed Stage Silicon Valley B2B Acquisition 113

Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 29, 2013

Of course, websites and newsletters are by their nature intended to sell specific products and services. As an aside, B2B companies, and in particular B2B technology companies, tend to be the most progressive in content marketing for demand generation. So what type of content should the B2B content marketer be producing?

Demand 65

Demand Tampa Marketing B2B 65

This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 13, 2012

When we first syndicated the seed round with other investors, some people didn't get it. Despite the fact that he had over 100 signed customers--something that never happens when you get pitched a service for local merchants that isn't a Groupon clone, people asked about how robust the product was. The answer: it wasn't.

Syndicate 151

Syndicate Syndication Viral B2B 151

Rob Go

JANUARY 7, 2013

This equates to 3-4 investments that are “led” internally by each partner. We have no junior investment staff, we are a partner driven investor that is focused on each and every portfolio company. Stage: Pre Product: 12. Live Product, Pre Revenue: 6 1/2. Type of Product and Business: Consumer vs. B2B.

Portfolio 49

Portfolio Seed Stage Cofounder B2B 49

Agile VC

JUNE 12, 2012

In fact my first job as an early employee of PayPal was as Product Manager responsible for our mobile products (WAP-enabled cell phones and our legacy Palm Pilot IR port product) and the first international version of PayPal. The product seemingly never evolved to what it could have been. link] leehower.

Mobile 250

Mobile Disintermediation SMS Government 250

Rob Go

JANUARY 28, 2016

On Wednesday, my partner David wrote about how we’ve been using our office space (and network and other resources) to support pre-seed companies. Looking back at our current fund, 75% of our initial investments were made when the company was very much pre-product. At NextView, we pride ourselves as being a “one-product company.”

Cofounder 28

Cofounder Finance Founder Syndicate 28