SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

My first job out of school was at one of the early bioinformatics companies in Silicon Valley, working as the head of technical services. It was also beneficial because I got some good experience with both B2B and B2C business models. to work on an entertainment-related technology project and have stayed ever since.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 10, 2012

Some of the most creative technology coming out of Silicon Valley is designed to do exactly that. While its B2B social media team was attracting large audiences in its market, it failed to engage them because it lacked credible, regularly refreshed content. You have to make it easy for them to do so.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 15, 2017

A good example is the marketing technology sector. If you bill for your technology services on a percentage of ad spend, you are guaranteed to look like an agency that deserves a revenue multiple of 1–2X. But, it is likely the major differentiator between a win and a loss whether you are selling B2B or B2C.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2012

In Silicon Valley, Hardware Is Hot Again | Businessweek – [link]. Inside the IPO pipeline: It’s all B2B, all of the time | GeekWire – [link]. Peter Thiel on The Future of Legal Technology – [link]. Technology will replace 80% of what doctors do | Fortune Tech – [link].

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

The goal of growth hacking as marketing is rapid growth, using strategies and tactics that leverage (and even exploit) technology, platforms, and behavior to reach an end goal. Recommendations from family and friends are the most trusted source of information , and B2B companies that use them experience higher than average conversion rates.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 15, 2019

in 2016, as an advanced e-mobility and automotive technology company with the mission to develop world-class, emotionally-compelling vehicles featuring the most forward-thinking automotive technologies in existence. to eliminate siloed, centralized EMR systems through my technology. Henrik and I co-founded Fisker Inc.

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

Since 2017 we’ve managed $3 million in revenue-based financing, which helps cash-strapped technology companies grow. Investment Criteria: B2B SaaS or tech-enabled services with proven, recurring contracts. We developed Scaleworks venture finance loans to fill a need we saw for our own B2B SaaS companies. Bigfoot Capital.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

Considering how businesses have been dealing with B2B payment since — well, the beginning of modern society — you’d expect a much better solution to have emerged a long ago. The gig economy’s payment problems dwarfed those of any regular organization’s B2B payment woes. We’ve made a problem.

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Hippoland

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

B2B, for example, hasn’t even even really started as a category yet. This really resembles the era when in Silicon Valley we had Yahoo, EBay, and Craigslist. But for B2B, for example, decision makers for older businesses can’t be found easily online. more on this below). And that sales cycle can be long.

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Hippoland

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

B2B, for example, hasn’t even even really started as a category yet. This really resembles the era when in Silicon Valley we had Yahoo, EBay, and Craigslist. But for B2B, for example, decision makers for older businesses can’t be found easily online. more on this below). And that sales cycle can be long.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Would you modify any of this if you had a B2B product instead of a B2C product, where every potential customer is also a potential competitor? Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. Knowing this venture firms have come up with a canonical checklist of what they would like to see. Progress is the same.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

We must get established EDI companies and new SAAS B2B platform operators to adopt our EDI API, with all of its amazing advantages. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. It seems like a mountain, and yes, it is easy to almost substitute the process of lead gen and followup for closing. Order Here. Now In Print!

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 22, 2010

Look at some of the uber-successful icons of Silicon Valley / Technology: Larry Ellison, Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Larry/Sergey, Eric Schmidt, Andy Groves, John Doerr. Anyone around then knows that B2B stood for “back-to-banking&# and B2C stood for “back-to-consulting.&# I took people’s money.

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

JULY 26, 2010

People whom I met: Director at Silicon Valley Bank. Marketing person at a stealth B2C/B2B payment company. Tags: Business Social Networking Technology. If the location is cool, then yes otherwise I’ll pass next time. Founder of Appfeeds. Founder of a medical management software system. Director at Woodside Capital.

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Venture Chronicles

JANUARY 5, 2014

In retrospect, it is evident we are in the midst of a profound technological shift that is rather predictably right on the traditional 10 year tech cycle, depending on when you start your calendar. The two big curves that have matured are obvious, social technology and mobile. 5) A lot of technology stuff moves into the stack.

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Ben's Blog

MAY 15, 2020

People saying, “This is what’s happening to B2B SaaS or this is what’s happening to this category.” Brian : I know it’s like an old Silicon Valley message, talk to your customers, but honestly this is one of those times where you need to be talking to at least a couple customers a couple times a day.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 19, 2013

Find More Customers for Your B2B SaaS Product with These 5 Distribution Hacks – [link]. Billions have been spent trying to replicate Silicon Valley, with little to show for it. | MIT Technology Review – [link]. Mobile traction is getting harder, not easier. Here’s why – [link].

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Hippoland

AUGUST 20, 2017

But my perspective, as a high school student growing up in the Silicon Valley at the time, was different. We still used the same web technologies (more optimized but still the same) and the same way of thinking (i.e. And these mobile sites are based on the same web technologies people have been using forever.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

TechCrunch Europe ran an article in November of last year that European startups need to work as hard as those in Silicon Valley and I echoed the sentiment in my post about the need for entrepreneurs to be maniacal about their businesses if one wants to work in the hyper competitive tech world. I thought that, too.

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Mucker Lab

MAY 1, 2013

Three generations into the birth of information technology, we are at the global inflection point – while it might not seem like it today, a hundred years from now it would be obvious and self-evident. There is, in fact, an entire technology category that fits this thesis perfectly – etail or commonly referred to as e-commerce.

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conversionxl.com

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Steve Blank, a serial entrepreneur in Silicon Valley, developed a methodology for creating businesses that runs in parallel with the traditional product development process. The Concierge stage is about delivering the product promised in The Pitch, to a few customers with as little technology as possible. 6 Comments.

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Reid Hoffman

AUGUST 17, 2021

Now, that’s sometimes a little facile, because like in the innovators’ dilemma, it’s the, “Well, I actually have a new technology for doing hard drives, and it’s a totally different kind of thing.” Because it’s like, “Well, if this is true, then it’s just something very different.”

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Reid Hoffman

AUGUST 17, 2021

Now, that’s sometimes a little facile, because like in the innovators’ dilemma, it’s the, “Well, I actually have a new technology for doing hard drives, and it’s a totally different kind of thing.” Because it’s like, “Well, if this is true, then it’s just something very different.”

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Agile VC

JUNE 12, 2012

It’s not for a lack of technological effort from both startups and huge companies in all of mobile payments’ incarnations – SMS, mobile web, native apps, NFC, etc. But nearly everyone has wrongly placed emphasis on the mobile technology part and not on the payments aspect. Chris Chaten. Any thoughts on Isis?

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Steve Blank

JULY 27, 2015

Venk Shukla , president TiE Silicon Valley and general partner, Monta Vista Capital. 3D technology in theaters and at home. — In the next segment, I spoke with Venk Shukla about his journey from bureaucrat in India to Silicon Valley entrepreneur. Steve Weinstein , CEO of MovieLabs.

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David Teten

MARCH 18, 2021

“Tech” means B2B Saas/Fintech or Consumer apps. Data from OpenVC shows that VCs typically focus on 2 technology classes. Out of 125 funds in the database, 33 state they invest in 1 type of technology (e.g. software”); 43 invest in 2 types of technology (e.g., Deep tech follows as a distant second with 57%.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Microsoft bought visual identification video search engine Videosurf , which developed a technology that locates video clips on the Internet. Its technology scans video clips quickly, implements a thorough search of their content, including faces and events, and tags the various clips. ISRAELI MODELITY WINS TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION AWARD.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

The web and technology bubble has a lot in common with the rest of the business world in that there are essentially two disparate groups — the haves and the have nots. The group seeks out technologies that are complementary to the company’s core operations, including applications, software and infrastructure startups.

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Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Rising tide When I was in Silicon Valley, I spent most of my time investing in SaaS companies. The first is the B2B global platform play, such as Algolia, the search-as-a-service API Nicolas Dessaigne and Julien Lemoine have built out of Paris. and 85% of the $900M that went into European SaaS companies in 2015 alone.

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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? Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Every startup faces multiple choices and decisions when it comes to technology. Startups for startups – the top B2B tools used by Startups – Includes the list of top 50 startup vendors in 2012 by Vendorstack , a reviews and Q&A platform on enterprise vendors for startups and mid-market companies. Preloaders.net.

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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 13, 2021

One might be autonomous vehicles, which is clearly a transformative technology. And the way that Entrepreneur First is finding founders, bringing them together, matching them together, and having that sponsor B2B business ideas. As far as investments that we’ve made at Greylock, I’ve sponsored or Aurora, Nuro, Nauto. What do you think?

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