YoungUpstarts

MAY 29, 2011

Founders that learn are more successful. They also over-invest in solo founders and founding teams without technical cofounders despite indicators that show that these teams have a much lower probability of success. Solo founders take 3.6x Most successful founders are driven by impact rather than experience or money.

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View from Seed

JULY 24, 2015

The invite-only event was attended by 300 of the area’s best tech leaders, founders, product managers, designers, developers, investors, engineers, salesmen and women, and more, all of whom are hard at work in consumer tech. Here’s Mike’s comment: Boston’s B2C problem is one of values.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 14, 2021

The Startup Magazine continues our Founder Interview series with entrepreneur Richard Lavina, Co-Founder and CEO of accounting services platform, Taxfyle. Richard Lavina, CPA, Co-Founder and CEO of Taxfyle. TSM: What is the most important thing you tell other startup founders?

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ConversionXL

APRIL 28, 2021

My co-founder and I consider his sister to be a trusted confidant. To give you some context, my co-founder and I operate a website called Solitaired , which ties classic card games to brain training. Gamification isn’t the domain of B2C or gaming sites alone. Could this be true across the board? Here’s how we’ve done it.

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Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2011

The email continued, &# The problem I’m working on is that many founders are either making uninformed decisions or inefficiently learning the new skills they need. The solution I’m exploring is a just in time learning methodology that accelerates founders’ learning curve by aggregating relevant content, peers and mentors.&#.

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OnlyOnce

DECEMBER 8, 2021

I just did a podcast recording the other day for someone who asked me the biggest mistakes founders make and what to do about them. I divided my response into “early stage” and “later stage” founders. Here’s a summary of what I said about early stage founders.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

by Marc Pitart, founder and CEO of onlineresume.us. Our business model back then was very complex, and it included a B2C as well as a B2B business model, that wasn’t being implemented yet. Otherwise, you are going to be searching for a place to stay at the same time that your fellow founders are, so there will be less offers.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

Johnson, co-founder and CEO of TeamSupport.com. It is unlike the B2C (business-to-consumer) industry many of us interact with on a daily basis – be it through grocery shopping or buying a gift for a friend – and there are several unique distinctions between the two industries. The B2B industry does not move as quickly as B2C.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 27, 2019

Bob Fabbio was the founder and CEO of eRelevance and he was the man in the arena here?—?and For all of us Austin fans, I’m talking about Cotter Cunningham, the founder and CEO of RetailMeNot. Who says Austin can’t do B2C now ? But I digress?—?this and I bet he’ll be back. This wasn’t his first rodeo, as we say in Texas.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2013

Why Founders Can’t Afford to Have Any Weak Links | by Mark Suster – crowdspring.co/18L78oE. Why Founders Can’t Afford to Have Any Weak Links | by Mark Suster – crowdspring.co/18L78oE. “Emotional connections are much more “intense” for business-to-business clients compared with B2C.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

As startup founders ask themselves this question, some of the answers might be specific to their product: i.e. we should improve our onboarding, change our freemium model, etc. Or Briga, Co-founder and CEO of Novos.gg. Anat Shperling, founder and CEO of Toya , a Roblox gaming studio. David Stiff, Co-founder and CEO of Vault AI.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 18, 2012

Hence, a Singaporean founder will find it easier to execute in the 3rd key market that is the MENASSEA region (Middle East, North Africa and South/Southeast Asia). In this case, I urge founders to start in the US first (i.e. Consumer Facing B2C. As a startup in Asia, the top 2 markets to start from are China , and India.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 13, 2023

1- Our business model is a mix of B2B & B2C Photo Credit: Jordan Adair The business model for my e-commerce wholesale clothing venture revolves around a combination of B2B (Business-to-Business) and B2C (Business-to-Consumer) channels. It's about preserving control, sharing the journey, and reaping the rewards together.

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 4, 2017

In this very special episode of Traction, we sit down as a team and discuss the new mission of the firm and talk through B2C and B2B examples of the Everyday Economy. Plus, we share some news about the future of the show.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

As we established in my post ‘ In Q4 2022 founders face tough choices ‘, we are currently going through a rough patch for many startup founders. For example, take into account these ‘scorecards’ for series B startups in both consumer (B2C) and Enterprise Saas (B2B). Especially on the growth stages.

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VC Cafe

MAY 4, 2021

Capuccino – an audio social network launched in July 2020 by French founders. I want to echo the words of Aryeh Bourkouff (founder and CEO of Liontree) in his annual letter: Despite being one of the oldest forms of media, audio assets and the greater opportunity remain undervalued. We’d love to hear from you !

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Hearpreneur

JULY 13, 2022

Digital transactions are now moving beyond B2C transactions & venturing into B2B, P2P, cross-border remittances, & more. If you are looking for an industry to invest in, as a founder, one fast-growing industry to consider is the cybersecurity industry. Besides the digital boom cannot be sustained without the fintech industry.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

At a startup, this can be as simple as defining why the founder started the company in the first place. CXL’s founder, Peep Laja, has a specific “reason why” his company Wynter exists. Your founders and the leadership team represent your brand offline, so why not do the same thing online? Twitter followers.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 31, 2021

For example, here’s how we’d describe a segment of the app development agency’s audience: Existing Startup Founder: Sometimes, founders will already have an MVP or prototype. Agency founders and marketers race for sales appointments before establishing a relationship. How content fits into outreach and business development.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2020

B2C Companies We talked about how some companies saw an immediate decline in purchasing (for example if you’re in travel or hospitality). Biggest Advice I Give to Portfolio Founders? Paying close attention to the psychology of founders. That’s a decision every founder gets to make. We actually encourage it. In short: No.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

The past year was a wild ride for startups and founders, giving a whole new meaning to the ”rollercoaster” aspect of being an entrepreneur. Patrick Collison , self-made billionaire founder of Stripe. Bill Gates , founder of Microsoft. Choosing a co-founder, and hiring the early employees is key to building a successful company.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

From there, I became the first non-founder employee at an e-commerce startup called BITSource, which was the first electronic software distributor delivering electronic volume software licenses to corporations. It was also beneficial because I got some good experience with both B2B and B2C business models. It sounds interesting.

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The Next Web

APRIL 26, 2017

This week the CEO and co-founder of Blinkist, Holger Seim, shares valuable insights into growing a subscription-based B2C service. Growth Story is a new four-question format we’re doing about startups finding and influencing a defining metric that helped really grow their company.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Paul Graham, founder of YCombinator notes that to get those first customers, you have to do things that don’t scale: “The most common unscalable thing founders have to do at the start is to recruit users manually. This applies of course to both B2B and B2C. Nearly all startups have to.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 17, 2017

Candidates will learn our culture and how to go through steps of sales cycle with Lead Generation, B2B and B2C sales and account management. Internship Title: Marketing Intern Compensation: Paid Description: This role works closely with the founders to uncover and explore new online and offline marketing possibilities for the company.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

Traction is a biweekly podcast where founders share the creative or unusual things they did during the seed stage to make early progress. Founders from LinkedIn , DraftKings , General Assembly , The Muse , Behance , InsightSquared , and more have appeared on the show. Subscribe on iTunes , SoundCloud , or Stitcher.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

And it was really the founder, our founder David, and he, it was really about, there has to be this better way, right? If you're moving out of brick and mortar into online, more and more businesses, whether you're B2B or you're b2c, are realizing that digital is a primary channel or at least equal. Karrie Sanderson (02:55): It?

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The Next Web

JULY 17, 2014

David Arnoux is Head of Growth and co-founder of Twoodo, helping teams organize using simple #hashtags. Many B2C growth hacks can be creatively tweaked to be valuable as B2B growth hacks. This post originally appeared on the Twoodo blog. It is data-driven and dovetails quite a bit with online marketing.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

In addition to the B2C market, companies in Austin are also in a formidable position to service business customers. Another notable Austin-bred phenomenon is the Alamo Drafthouse — is cinema chain founded in 1997 that is famous for its food and drink service as well as maintaining proper cinema etiquette.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 25, 2020

Capital Factory’s Saturday Startup Spotlight series features intimate chats with some of the latest founders taking hold of the startup ecosystem today. We’re returning this week with the co-founders of Swayy : Rajya Atluri and Clio Harralson. Rajya: I think it’s definitely hard being a student founder.

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View from Seed

MARCH 3, 2015

NVV: Lots of marketers are under pressure to come in and generate demand right away, whether because sales is asking for leads or founders are demanding PR or user growth. Even identifying as a demand-gen marketer or branding or B2B or B2C leaves a lot of decisions still on the table to actually execute. Where do you start?

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 13, 2023

I have been a mentor and coach of tens of start-up founders in the past few years through my membership in the BetaBlox-panel. It is normal for a starting business (whether in B2B or B2C) to attribute early growth to referrals. Entrepreneurs will often not focus enough on sales.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 11, 2018

Through all of those posts, we’ve received one common question from founders: Are all Everyday Economy startups consumer-facing? BookBub ), hybrid B2C/B2B2C models (e.g. For us, the designation between B2B and B2C is immaterial as long as the startup is reimagining how people live in our Everyday Economy. . Alignable ).

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 29, 2023

When it comes to launching a startup, most founders think they should reside in the United States, Silicon Valley, in particular, to have a successful business. The startups in Southeast Asia were traditionally focused on offering services to individuals and followed a B2C scheme.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 17, 2017

by Shivankit Arora, founder of MarketingMasala.com. For a B2C business, create a press release kit that can be distributed. For B2C your metrics are: Signups. Shivankit Arora is a growth hacker and the founder of a startup marketing agency, MarketingMasala.com. Kick-starting a business is a thrilling experience.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

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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VC Cafe

APRIL 28, 2021

Creators are also increasingly becoming angel investors in B2C startups, similar to celebrity investments which are also on the rise, leveraging their profile to help their portfolio stand out. If you’re a founder in the creator economy with a fresh take on these issues, we’d love to hear from you!

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