Version One Ventures

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Check out other posts detailing Andrew Chen’s (Uber) fireside chat on growth strategies and Anthony Marino’s (ThredUp) talk on managed marketplaces. When we talk about marketplaces, we’re usually referring to B2C companies – eBay, Uber, Etsy, etc. The key factors in a B2C marketplace are typically availability and price.

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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). What will happen is that some LPs will need to scale back the number of VC managers they have on their roster. Burn through your cash quickly at your peril.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Overall acquisition costs for both B2C and B2B have gone up by 50% in the past five years. With a strategy in place to boost repeat purchases, occasional spikes in CACs will be more manageable. Where loyal customers come from is important for social media management , ad placement, partnerships, affiliate links , media features, etc.

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Austin Startup

JULY 12, 2010

One day soon I hope that everyday people will be able to manage their data the way they would their health or their wealth. You don’t want to end up beholden to a third party for fundamental insights into your business, and you don’t want that same third party governing your interactions with your own users. And as a user, speak up!

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

Messages must also be differentiated between Business to Consumer (B2C) and Business to Business (B2B) customers: B2C messages are driven by offers that communicate a sense of well-being, convenience, security, productivity/increased significance, exclusivity, continuity, positive social sharing or possibility.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

It doesn’t matter if your company is B2B or B2C, as Y Combinator puts it, you need to build stuff people want, and obsess about making it as user friendly, friction free and smooth as possible. 2021 gave us plenty of examples for bad governance in both startups and venture capital. English translation below.

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Venture Chronicles

JANUARY 5, 2014

The result of this is that device management becomes all important or a non-starter because how many employees are going to allow their company to control their personal smartphone or tablet over a wireless carrier’s network? 2) The NSA screws the tech industry. 3) Big data takes a breather.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 21, 2018

The UK government has some excellent initiatives to draw Aussie businesses to the UK, and a big impetus is to create jobs there. It was the same in London, except I managed to fit about double (the workload) into those same hours! This was a tip I picked up from some great Aussie ex-pats we met in London.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 26, 2019

If you’re a founder/product manager/business owner, I encourage you to find that out! swing for the fences category-building B2C software capital?—?wasn’t We have the consumer market, but not investor market for what I’m selling : B2C software.) and the outcomes. “If wasn’t readily available in Austin. (We

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 14, 2020

So our websites are really content management systems but they’ve got to work like one. I was working on B2C and B2B. And I think that it’s echoed in the same cycle that you tend to see between government and corporations for example, right? We need the government to actually be able to step in and balance that out.”

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View from Seed

JUNE 22, 2016

So all of us have seen both “horizontal” functions — things like mapping, scheduling, and some of the visual processing — and also “vertical” plays, like managing golf courses and other large amounts of real estate, use cases for insurance companies, for news and entertainment, and so on.

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Up and Running

MAY 8, 2015

Managing expectations can definitely be a balancing act. Managing expectations is an aspect of business that is often overlooked while establishing client relationships. The last step in managing and ultimately fulfilling client expectations is by far the easiest, but it’s also one of the most crucial. Let’s take a look.

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Designmantic Blog

MARCH 6, 2018

She had over 15 years doing product management and corporate management before she became an entrepreneur. If there is one person who is able to provide creative solutions to complicated problems for governments, corporations and NFOs, it is definitely Holly Ransom. Holly Ransom. Website: emergent.global. Katherine Keller.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

Management. How well a failed entrepreneur has managed his company, and how well he worked with his previous investors, makes a difference in his ability to persuade U.S. Distribution and use of this material are governed by our Subscriber Agreement and by copyright law. Consumer Services (B2C). Manage Email Preferences.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 9, 2013

They’ll likely need to a dose of anxiety to remind them the problem they’re trying to solve is very real, but also need signs of relief and reassurance that the problem is manageable and worth fixing. A report by the Corporate Executive Board has found that more people express emotional connections with B2B brands than with B2C.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

To learn more about the CAC ratio and CLTV, you can read Philippe Botteri’s white paper “CAC Ratio - One Number to Manage your SaaS S&M Spend” also available at www.bvp.com/saas. Together, CMRR, Cashflow, Churn, CAC, and CLTV make up the “5 C’s of SaaS Finance. Philippe Botteri.

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Agile VC

MAY 7, 2014

But there’s a ton of interesting bits on everything from growth rates to corporate governance, so I will still do a deep analysis though will serialize this into a couple posts. I’ll first start with a brief background on the genesis of Alibaba and a top level sizing of the company and its underlying businesses. ==.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 27, 2022

It looks forward to a world where users and creators govern the Internet and the economics flow more fairly to the creators directly via the platforms. Metaverse – it has both B2B and B2C applications. How to manage platform risk (Source: Startup Illustrated ). Decentralised tech, centralised ownership?

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2011

Its i-nigma solution comprises of a mobile multi-barcode reader application and an integrated platform for managing barcode services. This allows customers to create, manage and track processes that include tagging of physical objects using barcodes. 4G/LTE and WiMax networks and provide full cell awareness. Amos Spacecom.

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