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Traction is the new IP

Version One Ventures

“Traction is the new IP ” sums up perfectly how the technology space has evolved over the past decade due to the nature of the web. 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. The same logic holds true for most acquiring companies.

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The high road to building an enterprise SaaS company

The Next Web

B2B companies, often due to the higher barriers to develop a working product, have historically been less popular with early-stage investors – such barriers sometimes involve tough requirements for core IP and deep technology. And more importantly, B2B companies. This story continues at The Next Web.

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Tune In, Turn On, Drop Out – The Startup Genome Project

Steve Blank

Founders overestimate the value of IP before product market fit by 255%. . B2C vs. B2B is not a meaningful segmentation of Internet startups anymore because the Internet has changed the rules of business. Balanced teams with one technical founder and one business founder raise 30% more money, have 2.9x

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14 Interesting Findings From The Startup Genome Project

YoungUpstarts

Founders overestimate the value of IP before product market fit by 255%. B2C vs. B2B is not a meaningful segmentation of Internet startups anymore because the Internet has changed the rules of business. Balanced teams with one technical founder and one business founder raise 30% more money , have 2.9x

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A Quick Primer on B2B Conversion Optimization

ConversionXL

Some of the same underlying principles apply, but because of the inherent differences in buying decisions and sales cycles, pulling B2C optimization practices straight from the book might be a bad idea. When would you ever try to produce less sales in B2C eCommerce? Conversion optimization is a little different if you’re in B2B.

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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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How to Improve Profit by an Average of 11.1%

Austin Startup

That goes for any industry, location or product; from enterprise SaaS in my home town of Austin, to live music ticket sales in Virginia, to B2C services in Seattle. Do you have patents or IP wedges that create defensible moats around your differentiation? How do they compare to your competition?