Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 27, 2016

More than 75 marketplace founders and investors attended the event – coming from as far as South Africa and Nova Scotia. Last Thursday, we hosted a private marketplace-themed event in San Francisco, The Holy Grail of the Marketplace: The Virtuous Cycle.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

Around this time B2C eCommerce had been dominating the media but the wheels were starting to come off. We had scrambled to get a product to market, built our first website, rapidly hired a technology team, raised our seed round of capital ($1.5 million … yes that was seed in 1999!) This is only the first chapter in my story.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 16, 2017

Aids.gov used Facebook Live to stream their International Aids Conference in South Africa. As Instagram takes off with wider audiences, a proven opportunity is there (for B2C and B2B brands alike). Show your audience (attendees or otherwise) what happens behind the scenes. It may even give you the insight to pivot altogether.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 16, 2019

In Africa – and South Africa in particular – you can seek online tenders and have the jobs sent straight to your inbox. Forming a bond with your consumer is a huge part of landing return business –whether you sell B2B or B2C. 4 – Seek Online Tenders.

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Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

The core performance of the current website look like this… While we are applying it to a B2B case, it could just as easily be applied to a B2C / Ecommerce scenarios. China, South Africa, Egypt. Or at least think a lot harder about not investing the little amount of money to take big action. How many tourists?

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