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The B2C SaaS Landscape and the Bundle Wars

VC Cafe

The tech industry is obsessed with the consumer subscription model, or B2C SaaS. In fact, 90% of the top grossing apps are subscription based across all categories: education, fitness, dating, music, wellness, personal finance, etc. The post The B2C SaaS Landscape and the Bundle Wars appeared first on VC Cafe.

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The False Dichotomy of B2C and B2B

Venture Chronicles

Ray Wang wrote a summary of CRM Evolution that I found particularly interesting, and one point in particular resonated with me because it aligns to something I have been talking about at Get Satisfaction for a while now… B2B and B2C distinctions are dead. B2C and B2B is dead. It doesn’t make sense.

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Traction is the new IP

Version One Ventures

In today’s web landscape, word of mouth drives adoption and can lead to “winner takes all” (or almost all) in both B2C and B2B markets. Category leaders do very well, while the #2, 3, 4… players struggle to attract customers and financing.

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Guide to Create an Uber for Courier App

ReadWriteStart

Business to Consumer (B2C) – It is the most common type of business model. The developer team includes business analysts, finance managers, marketing specialists, mobile app developers, QA testers, technical support staff, and UI/UX designers. . Various business models in an on-demand courier delivery app.

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Why Do Consumer IPOs and B2B IPOs Get Treated Differently?

View from Seed

Zoom is a B2B company Pinterest and Lyft are obviously B2C companies. In finance there’s a concept called an embedded option… in short, beyond the baseline value of a bond or other security you also ascribe an additional bucket of value to something triggered by future events.

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Founder Interview – Ola Sars of Music-Tech Leader, Soundtrack Your Brand

The Startup Magazine

The move toward an independent company unlocked a laser focus on the B2B customer, enabling us to develop our product and our go-to-market strategy without compromising the balance with the Spotify B2C product, hence setting the company up for its own success story independently from Spotify. In short, the sequencing works like this.

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Best and Worst Practices (Plus FAQs) for Layoffs

OnlyOnce

Financing will take longer than expected to come through, receivables will dry up, and so on. In a B2C organization, you’re likely either going to do something public like a short, empathetic blog post, or nothing at all. Cut more employees than you think you need to in order to reduce the risk of a second round of layoffs.

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