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B2B Marketplaces Revisited

Version One Ventures

Twenty years ago – in the midst of the Web 1.0 boom – expectations were high for B2B (product) marketplaces. Yet today, the world of B2B marketplaces still lags far behind its B2C counterpart. As are a handful of vertical marketplaces that have emerged over the past few years (e.g. 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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Requests for Startups in 2024

VC Cafe

Digital Wallets – Digital wallets could grow select vertical software platforms’ revenues to $27-$50bn in 2030. Verticalized Video Understanding – machine interpreted video. There doesn’t exist a web search API that has access to page content, parsed outlinks from the page, or even edit history.

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Why Consumer Brands Need To Keep An Eye On Their eCommerce Channel

YoungUpstarts

With a few providers, the insights can be accessed through a web portal. Shailendra Nagarajan is Senior Product Marketing Manager at DataWeave , a SaaS company that provides competitive intelligence to retailers and consumer brands by aggregating and analyzing data from the public web.

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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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Revenue = Product Market Fit

Agile VC

Most consumer web/mobile companies focus on user growth and usage early in the company’s lifecycle before shifting to monetization. But B2B startups need to take a different tack. We invest in internet enabled companies at NextView and our portfolio is roughly equally split between consumer and B2B businesses.

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Why Investing in the Everyday Economy Isn’t Just a Consumer Strategy

View from Seed

We dove deep into how this investment thesis extends to major verticals of consumer spending like entertainment , clothing , and home. We think there are two main categories of Everyday Economy B2B startups: enabling layers and pervasive tools. Types of B2B Everyday Economy Companies. Let me explain. 1) Enabling Layers.

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