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B2B Marketplaces Revisited

Version One Ventures

Yet today, the world of B2B marketplaces still lags far behind its B2C counterpart. New B2B suppliers have to contend with a considerable amount of risk-aversion among purchasing managers and company employees – it’s always easy to go with the safe bet, rather than risk the repercussions of issues with a new supplier.

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Meet the 32 Israeli Centaurs that reached $100M in ARR

VC Cafe

Scaling to $100 Million from Bessemer Venture Partners. I’m excited for the talent that will spin out of those companies to create the next generation of B2C stars coming out of Israel. Here’s the benchmarks Bessemer uses to measure this growth. Meet the Israeli Centaurs.

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A Behind-the-Scenes Look at Our Recent Seed-Stage VC Investments

View from Seed

Two weeks ago, my partners and I here at NextView Ventures announced our second fund. As my partner Rob Go has written , our goal is to invest half in consumer web and mobile and half in business-focused ventures. A few themes which have emerged from our 13 most recent investments: CONSUMER (B2C). Physical-World Ecommerce.

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The longest shortest 2 years

Austin Startup

Since then, we’ve served 500+ unique customers, worked with 10+ space partners, pivoted our business model from B2C to B2B, signed on advisers, and have raised money from outside investors. Your partner matters To all those solo-founders out there?—?kudos Our biggest example of this was our pivot from B2C to B2B.

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Rustic Canyon Speaks out on GaiKai Exit, Changing Nature of VC, LA Tech & More

Both Sides of the Table

Nate Redmond is the managing partner of Rustic Canyon Partners – he’s probably one of the youngest managing partners of a major fund you’ll meet. And no wonder, lately he and his partners are on a tear, investing out of their $200+ million VC fund. Hope you’re enjoying the show.

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Pricing determines your business

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Even outliers like WhatsApp (sold for $19b with 55 employees) and Instagram (sold for $1b with 13 employees) raised lots of venture funds. This is often B2C because the value is in quantity of customers, and there’s 100x more consumers than businesses. $1/mo simple enough to be self-service).

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How to Radically Stand Out with Brand Marketing

ConversionXL

Focus on creating a culture that makes your employees proud to be stewards of your brand. Harnessing employee advocacy helps to build up the authority and awareness of your brand , while also building your employees’ personal brands. Help them to do it by your company’s standards by setting up employee advocate guidelines.

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