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The Consumerization of Business Software ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

I’m not the first person to describe this trend, and my prior background has been primarily as a consumer web guy more than in B2B companies. 3) UI/UX Matters in B2B - For decades, B2B application developers could skimp on innovating in the presentation layer. RentJuice is doing much the same in real estate software.

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LinkedIn Explores What It Takes To Be an Entrepreneur [INFOGRAPHIC]

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Sign in All Social Media Tech & Gadgets Business & Marketing Video Mobile Dev & Design Media Social Good Startups Classifieds Mashable Infographics Prev Next How Are People Using Twitter? LinkedIn was curious, so the business social network decided to find out. Whom is he or she connected to?

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Why Your Startup's Name Matters

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Generally speaking, a name is more valuable to a B2C (marketing-driven) company than a B2B (sales-driven) counterpart, so allocate your efforts accordingly. of Web Users Meet Singles on Social Networks [STUDY] Want to Highlight Your New Facebook Pictures? Social Media Lists. Social Network Lists. Like Tweet.

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HOW TO: Sign Up Users Even Before You Launch Your Startup

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link] May 5, 2011 10:24:50 Reply 0 Flag this comment Aniekan Okono Follow We put us out too [link] and got some very interested users sign up, since we are a b2b social network and our targets are small and medium scale businesses. We have a beta page for a new social networking site. I think this strategy works.

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

David Teten

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. Relationship Science makes it easier to understand and map social networks into potential limited partners. 1) Market fund.

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

Many tools designed for B2B marketing in general are also relevant to investors. A more efficient approach to fundraising than haphazard networking is to mine the data exhaust from the limited partner universe to identify those LPs most likely to find your fund attractive, and focus all your energy on them.

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YouTube Marketing And Analytics: A Primer For Magnificent Success

Occam's Razor

It is a social network (like Facebook). The unique thing about these efforts is not only that they will be for YouTube primarily (though you can syndicate them all over the place), the differentiator will be that you'll create them with your specific YouTube audience in mind. YouTube is three things all rolled into one.

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