crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

A Discussion with Jon Bischke of Entelo: On Successfully Switching from B2C to B2B (SaaS) | saastr – crowdspring.co/1tKArlK. Mega menu design trends in ecommerce: 2011 vs. 2014 | Econsultancy – crowdspring.co/1plL1t0. Why Responsive Web Design Helps People Buy Your Product | Inc – crowdspring.co/1psW8QW.

Social Media 92

Social Media Small Business Design Media 92

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

Event Registration Online for Austin Tech Happy Hour – March 2011 powered by Eventbrite. We provide unique ideation processes to help companies create and enhance mobile, appliance, e-commerce, b2b and integrated consumer experiences. Check us out on Plancast and Facebook. When: March 10th, 6pm – 8pm at Molotov Lounge.

Austin 63

Austin Chad Incubator Texas 63

Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

Even B2B companies need a point-of-contact to provide solutions. In 2011, I was working as a Web Project Manager for the Yellow Pages (now hibu). Restaurants have waiters and cashiers. Boutiques have shop assistants. Software companies have project managers, sales people, and sometimes whole customer service departments.

Customer 113

Customer Design Web B2B 113

abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

In 1999, Jack Ma created Alibaba , a Chinese-based B2B marketplace for connecting small and medium enterprise with potential export opportunities. In November 2011, David Rosenblatt took over as CEO and has been scaling the company ever since. Poshmark was founded by Manish Chandra in 2011.

Internet 88

Internet Matching Vertical Hosting 88

Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

She was a visionary who was undeterred and in 2011 she sold to AOL for more than $300 million. After working essentially as a leading consultant with a publishing services company helping publishers go digital, I purchased my own niche, declining b2b directory company- and turned it around.

Entrepreneur 90

Entrepreneur Bankruptcy Bootstrapping B2B 90

Hearpreneur

MARCH 15, 2019

In 2011, I began learning about hair restoration and started North Atlanta Hair Restoration in 2012. 12- Solve a problem in international B2B payments. During this time, more decisions were being made by the insurance companies and more procedures that I had the expertise to perform were being denied. Photo Credit: Sandeep Todi.

Entrepreneur 117

Entrepreneur Technical Review Software Review Atlanta 117

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 17, 2011

SIMPLE, EFFECTIVE AND AFFORDABLE SMALL BUSINESS MARKETING Home About Consulting Products Programs Workshops Blog Resources Contact Subscribe by RSS Subscribe to Duct Tape Marketing by Email Small Business Week 2011 Our winners! The Referral Engine – Teaching Your Business to Market Itself – by John Jantsch. All rights reserved.

Small Business 48

Small Business Social Media Engineer Matching 48

ConversionXL

JANUARY 29, 2014

Now consider that in Google’s Zero Moment Of Truth report, they found that the average buyer in 2011 used 10.4 Something to consider with video testimonials (if you’re in B2B) is the customer’s position within their company. sources of information before buying. Can you guess which sources shoppers found most influential?

Software Review 126

Software Review Stock Video Advertising 126

online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

In early 2011 an acquisition by a Fortune 500 company fell apart. based companies initially funded by venture capital between 2006 and 2011, 84% now are closely held and operating independently, 11% were acquired or made initial public offerings of stock and 4% went out of business, according to Dow Jones VentureSource. . Software. -

Venture Capital 107

Venture Capital Software Review Rhode Island North Dakota 107

VC Cafe

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Below are the headlines for December 2011 (mid month update!). As of April 2011, the site claimed more than 20 million visitors a month, up sharply from the 1.5 For the Invest in Israel archive, click here. MICROSOFT ACQUIRED ISRAELI START UP VIDEOSURF . million it was claiming in 2009. LEADING US COOPERATIVE CHS BUYS ISRAEL’S SOLBAR.

Israel 99

Israel Nebraska Silicon Valley Miami 99

Agile VC

MAY 10, 2012

More broadly, the business Farmeron is building is an example of an overall wave of an “Internet of Things” There are now more internet connected devices and sensors than people accessing the internet, as Cisco highlighted in 2011. © 2011 GenuineVC - All rights reserved. Previous Entries.

Silicon Valley 223

Silicon Valley Cofounder Seed Stage Syndication 223

techcrunch.com

MARCH 8, 2012

My experience: I exited my last company, an award-winning B2B telecoms operator, and knew that I wanted to build a SaaS product. 2011 Holiday. Your guide for the best gadget gifts of 2011. If you still don’t know what product/market fit is, and why it matters, please read up on it. Austin, Texas. Disrupt NY 2012. New York City.

Technical Cofounder 49

Technical Cofounder Cofounder San Antonio Europe 49

The Next Web

DECEMBER 8, 2018

Since I left my job in November 2011, I have personally sold around $3 million of business to date (without an enterprise sales background). It was a calculated risk — I had a family to support but did not pursue investors or venture capital.

New York City 118

New York City B2B Incubator New York 118

VC Cafe

AUGUST 18, 2011

The International Broadcast Convention (IBC) 2011 is the leading global tradeshow for broadcasting media and entertainment industry, covering the latest developments in broadcasting, mobile TV, IPTV, digital signage and forward looking R&D.

Mobile 113

Mobile Media IP Distribution 113

Cracking the Code

JANUARY 28, 2008

Eloqua is bringing this revolution to the B2B marketers by providing on-demand applications and best-practice expertise for B2B marketers to execute, automate and measure effective marketing programs that drive revenue. ► 2011. (2). Online marketing changed it. sales and marketing. (10). Small and medium businesses. (2).

Software Review 48

Software Review Technical Review Los Angeles Europe 48

Rob Go

OCTOBER 14, 2012

9 that are B2B. We’ve been pleased to back both first time founders straight out of school (such as IS2, RentJuice, and ThredUp out of B-school and Plastiq that was founded by two Harvard undergraduates from the class of 2011) as well as experienced entrepreneurial executives and repeat founders much further along in their careers.

New Hampshire 50

New Hampshire Croatia Omaha Institutional Investors 50

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 23, 2011

It’s the smart brands that are harnessing this power to drive engagement withtheir business in both the B2C and B2B spaces. Young Upstarts is a Social Media World Forum (SMWF) Asia and Apps World Asia 2011 media partner. Time and again we see the damage that can be done by lack, or simple mismanagement of brands’presence.

Social Media 160

Social Media Asia Demand Global 160

VC Cafe

OCTOBER 28, 2021

The consumerisation of enterprise was a big investment trend in 2011-2012. Employees got used to working with the best tools and expect them to be available Good UI/UX for B2B software is now table stakes Anyone can purchase the product with a credit card Freemium model used to onboard new users Mobile, remote access is key.

B2B 167

B2B Sales Cycle Software Mobile 167

VC Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2011

For the third consecutive year , VC Cafe puts the spotlight on the Israeli companies exhibiting in the MWC 2011 event. Interested to meet any of these companies face to face at the WMC 2011? Below are the 56 Israeli companies who will exhibit at the 2011 Mobile World Congress: 3G Vision. Traffix systems. Tjat Systems.

Mobile 103

Mobile Securities and Exchange Commission Flash IP 103

Agile VC

MAY 21, 2012

On the B2B SaaS side or enabling services (e.g. Included are some of the large companies above like Google and Microsoft but also active on the B2B/enabling side have been acquirers like Salesforce.com (Radian6, Heroku notably) and Apple (Quattro Wireless, Siri). © 2011 GenuineVC - All rights reserved. Previous Entries.

Acquisition 162

Acquisition Silicon Valley B2B Seed Stage 162

David Teten

JANUARY 3, 2013

The Shirt was named Oprah’s “Must Have Fashion Item” of 2011, and is distributed through Bloomingdale’s, boutiques, and www.the-shirt.com. - Smallknot is a TechStars NYC 2012 community crowdfunding platform for small businesses.

Angel Investor 114

Angel Investor SMS B2C New York 114

View from Seed

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

2009-2011: Retrenchment. Roughly 18-24 months ago, people started to revisit the question of unit economics… what is the underlying profitability of a B2C transaction or a B2B SaaS contract once all the appropriate costs are factored in. We’re only a few months past Sequoia’s famous “R.I.P. 2017-2018: Rediscovery of Unit Economics.

IPO 202

IPO Early Stage Cofounder B2C 202

conversionxl.com

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Only 30 days after it’s launch on June 9th 2011, Fab had 300,000 registered members & over 10,000 members making a purchase, resulting in 1.3 million in sales and selling an average of 1,000 items per day. The Premature Death Of Private Event Based Social Networks. 6 Comments. April Dunford. Sep 06, 2013 @ 12:24:13. Great post!

Customer Development 60

Customer Development Conversion Developer Customer 60

Guy Nirpaz

OCTOBER 20, 2011

I wrote about that previously in my blog 4 Tips to Increase B2B Sales for example. Some B2B sales leaders have split their team into hunters and farmers, with the latter focused on customer success. On October 17, 2011 Alcove9 appoints Rudy Reyes, Vice President of Customer Success. On August 2, 2011 Zenprise Inc.

Customer 76

Customer B2B Revenue Sales 76

Agile VC

MAY 16, 2012

Back in 2010 we were observing more and more new B2B startups emulating the product and customer acquisition strategies of existing consumer web companies which my partners & I have long been familiar with. © 2011 GenuineVC - All rights reserved. My partner @ LeeHower looks back: [link] 5 days ago Search. Previous Entries.

Seed Stage 124

Seed Stage Silicon Valley B2B Syndication 124

Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

What's really interesting is now what we're seeing, even with Zen Media, with clients with different, we have a lot of data too that we analyze and look at, which is wonderful, B2B, a lot of tech, even B2C clients. So dark social, the concept is basically this. And by the way, this term was coined in 2014, so it's not new.

Engineer 90

Engineer SEO ChatGPT Channel 90

Agile VC

AUGUST 12, 2011

August 12, 2011. But unfortunately there’s no magic formula… not getting X million users if you’re a consumer facing startup, or Y customers if you’re B2B SaaS startup, or Z revenue, or whatever. © 2011 GenuineVC - All rights reserved. How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC. Previous Entries.

Seed Stage 113

Seed Stage Silicon Valley B2B Acquisition 113

nikcub.appspot.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Partnerships - B2B business development work can commence before you have a product. Google+. | © 2011 Nik Cubrilovic | Login. Is there a similar product that already exists that perhaps you can partner with? (ie. instead of doing a GroupOn clone in South Korea, how about contacting GroupOn and asking if you can franchise?

Cofounder 40

Cofounder Web Founder South Korea 40

ConversionXL

MARCH 25, 2020

A B2B website that educates potential buyers isn’t a personal “weblog.” The CXL blog started in 2011 and, currently, includes about 700 articles. The traditional blog format—regular, sequential publishing of diary-style entries—no longer makes sense for most businesses. To be honest, it never did. It doesn’t age the same way.

Analytics 68

Analytics Metrics Technical Review Search 68

searchengineland.com

MAY 30, 2012

B2B Search Marketing. Google Disapproved 134M Ads And Disabled More Than 800K AdWords Accounts In 2011. PRO Guides. Search Week Newsletter. Search Month Newsletter. News & Features. SearchCap Daily Newsletter. All Columns. All Things SEO. Enterprise SEM. Enterprise SEO. In House Search Marketing. Keywords & Content.

SEO 54

SEO SEM Social Media Search 54

Agile VC

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

We held our initial close in March 2011 and then wrapped up the final commitments towards the end of 2011. Just under half our portfolio is B2B in nature, slightly more than half is consumer-facing in some way. © 2011 GenuineVC - All rights reserved. As many of you know, NextView is a seed-stage VC fund.

LP 100

LP Seed Stage Silicon Valley Limited Partner 100

Agile VC

MARCH 30, 2012

There are countless B2B companies pursuing big data opportunities as well, and at NextView we think this is an incredibly exciting area of innovation. © 2011 GenuineVC - All rights reserved. Our tools were once large and caused local change, now they fit in our pockets and cause. Previous Entries. Avatars by Sterling Adventures.

Business Model 113

Business Model Silicon Valley Advertising B2B 113

Agile VC

MARCH 8, 2012

The secondary wave of VC-backed IPOs has also come to fruition… both consumer facing (Yelp, Demand Media, Pandora, Carbonite, HomeAway, Angie’s List, et al) and B2B (Jive Software, Brightcove, Imperva, Responsys, etc). © 2011 GenuineVC - All rights reserved. I see several dynamics at work in today’s IPO markets.

IPO 100

IPO Silicon Valley Revenue Seed Stage 100

Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

This is a clear example where business-to-business (B2B) marketers need to learn from their business-to-consumer (B2C) counterparts. Yet many B2B companies don’t have a clue. ► 2011. (2). sales and marketing. (10). Small and medium businesses. (2). software. (10). Venture Capital. (3). Blog Archive. ► 2012. (1).

Software Review 48

Software Review North America Europe Metrics 48

Occam's Razor

JANUARY 20, 2010

We will cover measuring success of SEO efforts on one web page, how to do search engine optimization for b2b websites, how to rank for highly saturated industries / categories / keywords, and which competitive intelligence tools do I use for search program optimization (and targeting display ads using search data!). Well don't give up.

Analytics 90

Analytics Search SEO Metrics 90

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

In the case of B2B business, the ideal way is to come up with a robust symbiotic gamification model for business progression. Shahid Mansuri co-founded Peerbits , one of the leading mobile app development companies, in 2011. The ideal way is to determine the areas you intend to improve.

Retention 100

Retention Cofounder B2B Framework 100

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

According to Marketing Sherpa’s 2011 B2B Marketing Benchmark Report, 78% of respondents said that generating high quality leads was their top priority for 2011. We have solid momentum coming out of 2010 and the ReachForce Team is very excited about our prospects in 2011 and beyond.”.

B2B 54

B2B Acquisition Retention Finance 54