VC Cafe

MARCH 27, 2022

Over the past few weeks, we’ve witnessed the launch of ginormous new venture funds focusing on the space. Venture capital firms poured more than $32 billion into digital-asset startups last year and there’s plenty more dry powder out there: Haun Ventures – $1.5 Source: Visual Capitalist.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 26, 2016

While a B2B company can find success with LinkedIn ads, a B2C company’s promotions would be better suited for CPC or CPM ads on Facebook, Twitter and Google. Making your business plan concise not only will help you stay organized, but it will also attract more venture capital investors. How do they interact with social media?

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 14, 2021

You’re going to grow so fast that you’re always going to need to be raising capital. Hiring is a problem because when you become successful, people want your talent. Hiring is a problem because when you become successful, people want your talent. What have been the primary challenges in your scaleup journey? Quality control?

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 16, 2012

Going B2C was daunting and not in our core DNA,” Kaufer remarked. Kaufer originally hired writers to product professional reviews and allowed user reviews on a whim. For example, one of the company’s divisions, FlipKey, is hiring engineers, just like other divisions within the company. Comparing TripAdvisor with Akamai.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

I’m not going to cover in this post the obvious post-show marketing tasks such as following up on all those business cards you grabbed, communicating with all those people who registered at your site and leveraging your new found fame to score venture capital. I’ll talk about all that in a future post. We closed a $16.5

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

No-brainer for B2B companies but also for B2C companies (making special advertising deals for example) Reply steveblank , on June 8, 2011 at 9:05 am said: Martin, Any suggestions? Reply Jarek , on February 27, 2011 at 11:51 pm said: What about CRM? I think actually actively selling your stuff is very important for a startup these days.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Only after reaching $1M in CMRR should you consider hiring European sales and services execs behind customer demand. To understand when the business has started to climb the sales learning curve and is in a position to hire more reps profitably, you have to think in terms of CMRR instead of bookings.

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Eric Friedman

JANUARY 25, 2017

This lesson comes into play because whether you are a B2C company or a B2B enterprise company. Others have deep technical knowledge about building and scaling systems, but have little to no information around hiring and HR policies. Nobody knows what will happen — despite the loudest pontificators.

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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

A quick look around all the B2C startups shows that, although viral growth is often hoped for, in reality it is extremely rare. And this is before you factor in the failure rate (the percentage of sales people hired that don’t become productive). It is not too surprising that VCs are not aggressively pursuing these kinds of businesses.

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