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Growth Story: How learning app Blinkist became one of Europe’s fastest growing startups

The Next Web

This week the CEO and co-founder of Blinkist, Holger Seim, shares valuable insights into growing a subscription-based B2C service. Now, they’re one of the fastest growing startups of Europe, so we asked all about their… This story continues at The Next Web.

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[Review] The Rise Of The New East

YoungUpstarts

They should also consider launching online B2C or B2B platforms incorporating mobile and social-commerce. The old paradigm of manufacturing in China and selling in Europe and US is no longer entirely true. A “China + 1″ Strategy. Coping with Resource Shortages. Consider water – the source of life.

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Startup Benchmarks

VC Cafe

In this post I’ll focus on benchmarking resources for seed and series A in the following three categories: SaaS B2C / Consumer apps Deep tech. The main B2C benchmarks have to do with traction: growth in user acquisition, user retention/churn, monetisation, as well as the effectiveness of consumer marketing + virality.

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Shiroube.com Finds Local Guides For Travelers

YoungUpstarts

“(There’s a) huge individual tourism market in Europe; (on the other hand) Japan has cheap costs and technology in engineering,&# he explains. Sato says the company plans to build a B2C marketplace on the current C2C model that helps local businesses, such as transport, hospitality, translation or food services.

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What is The Best Way to Explain Your Startup?

Both Sides of the Table

Between the US & Europe alone the video sector is worth around $500 billion. I don’t think it’s just a B2C marketing tool. Anybody who reads the blog regularly will know that I’m long video. I’ve made 5 investments in the sector and I hope to make 5 more. Western countries watch > 5 hours of TV per day.

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Don’t drink your own Kool-Aid (surviving TC50)

Both Sides of the Table

Around this time B2C eCommerce had been dominating the media but the wheels were starting to come off. We were it in Europe: B2B. We then had a piece in Time Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, Europe, we ran front cover of Tornado Insider (the top VC magazine in Europe at the time). They always need something new.

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Never Mind the Valley: Here's Paris

ReadWriteStart

LeWeb , Europe's largest (and the world's second largest) Internet conference is held in Paris every December. PriceMinister, a site for C2C/B2C sales of new and used goods (at a fixed price) is the top e-commerce platform in France (recently surpassing eBay.fr and Amazon.fr). It has infiltrated the U.K.,

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