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Selling to the enterprise: “Sell to few” vs. “sell to many”?

Version One Ventures

How do we differentiate between B2B start-ups that sell to many vs. sell to a few? These acts can often be start of a viral growth curve in the enterprise. Enterprise products that present a high-value daily utility for the people involved can have a high virality potential. Sell to few”: Traditional enterprise sales.

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The only 2 ways to build a $100 million business

Version One Ventures

Your business has a high viral co-efficient (or perhaps even a network effect) that lets you amass users cheaply without worrying too much about the monetization per user or spending money on paid acquisition. High LTV can usually be found in transactional or subscription businesses.

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7 High-Performing Ecommerce Marketing Strategies for 2022

ConversionXL

Perform a competitive analysis to determine how you’ll differentiate. To stand out, learn what competitors are doing so you can effectively differentiate. Choose value propositions based on differentiation. Every improvement that you make to retention also improves all of these other things — virality, LTV, payback period.

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On differentiation

Hippoland

One of the biggest components of this is differentiating your product / your company from others. Differentiation is very difficult — there are so many entrepreneurs who are doing something similar to you and also so many alternatives that achieve the same results as your product / solution. This, in itself, may be a small number.

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What Jonah @Peretti, CEO of BuzzFeed, Sees in the Future of Digital Media

Both Sides of the Table

But I knew I had to look for investments in “software meets X (often known as Vertical Software solutions)” rather than necessarily horizontal enterprise software applications. I asked Jonah in my interview how he became this viral guru. An obvious vector for me would be software for the media industry.

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Episode 3: Smart Bear Live!

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

How to differentiate yourself in a crowded market (and when perhaps you shouldn’t try). Do you feel like the more users you have it helps accelerate, is there some kind of, maybe not necessarily viral, but that people just tell their friends at all. How to move from a free to a paid product without losing all your users.

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Measuring Market Penetration with Brand Tracking (+ Metrics & Examples)

ConversionXL

You work tirelessly to understand your customer, market, and competition so you can differentiate. This partnership would leverage both audiences and the rapidly growing awareness of the vertical. Brand tracking is how you measure if those efforts are paying off. Brand consideration. Think of brand tracking like stock investment.

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