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B2B Marketplaces Revisited

Version One Ventures

Twenty years ago – in the midst of the Web 1.0 Yet today, the world of B2B marketplaces still lags far behind its B2C counterpart. boom – expectations were high for B2B (product) marketplaces. Alibaba is an exception.

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B2B Ecommerce Sites: What Works for B2B Buyers?

ConversionXL

But if your B2B ecommerce site differs on any of those elements—high prices, large quantities, or a need to serve B2C and B2B buyers—things change. What works with the average B2C consumer won’t always work with B2B ecommerce buyers. That makes some B2C marketing tactics less useful. So what changes? And what works best?

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A Behind-the-Scenes Look at Our Recent Seed-Stage VC Investments

View from Seed

As my partner Rob Go has written , our goal is to invest half in consumer web and mobile and half in business-focused ventures. We’ve been remarkably consistent on this dimension as well: five of the recent 13 investments were B2C, five were B2B, and three you could categorize as B2B2C. Physical-World Ecommerce.

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How Important Is Mobile Readiness For Hotels?

YoungUpstarts

Hotels are often B2C and therefore it is essential that we are communicating to customers in the best way. More than 58% of web visitors and more than 51% of page views are generated from mobile devices. The use of smartphones has grown, and nearly everyone uses a mobile phone to gain access to the internet.

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The high road to building an enterprise SaaS company

The Next Web

However, we argue that in the long run, B2B companies can be more capital efficient than B2C companies, achieving maximum traction at minimal investment. This story continues at The Next Web. And more importantly, B2B companies. Design & Dev Entrepreneur Analysis and Opinion'

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B2C and B2B Content Marketing Tips – Is Your Copy Just Sitting There?

Rembrandt Communications

You have tons of Web pages, Infographics, videos, company news, articles… the list goes on. The post B2C and B2B Content Marketing Tips – Is Your Copy Just Sitting There? You write weekly blogs to share your insight and post regularly on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Pinterest, and more. That’s great. But […].

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Why This Startup Teaches Everyone to Code + a Framework to Find a CTO

View from Seed

In the 10th edition of Traction, we hear the story of Vin Vacanti , co-founder/CEO of Yipit.com (daily deals aggregator) and YipitData (analyzes web data for institutional investors). Why Vin decided to pivot the business (read: launch a second startup) and what he learned going from B2C to B2B.

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