David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

Since 2017 we’ve managed $3 million in revenue-based financing, which helps cash-strapped technology companies grow. Investment Criteria: B2B SaaS or tech-enabled services with proven, recurring contracts. Unlike many RBI investors, a full 50% of our investment activity is in non-tech businesses.

Revenue 60

Revenue Technical Review Software Review Equity 60

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 14, 2017

Fast forward to 2017 and a lack of diversity in the workplace remains an issue. In fact, the Harvard Business Review surveyed 1,800 professionals nationwide and found that a sales team with a member who shares a client’s ethnicity is 152% likelier than another team member to understand that client. Access to More A-players.

Revenue 124

Revenue Sales Cofounder Technical Cofounder 124

ConversionXL

MARCH 20, 2019

While it doesn’t publish prices publicly, an interview with the Demandbase CEO in 2017 claimed that the average revenue per customer per month was $20,000. Given the number of people involved in B2B decisions, account-wide coverage has value in addition to one-to-one targeting. That’s only one segment of the B2B market.

Software Review 117

Software Review Software Marketing IP 117

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

VCs tout themselves as frontier technology investors, but most are using the same infrastructure tools they have used for the past 20+ years: Excel and recent college grads searching Google. According to Knowledge.VC , under 5% of US VCs have a full-time team member focused on technology. . But we’re doing it slowly.

Private Equity 60

Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Technical Review 60

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Try to plan a 30-minute session in the morning and another in the afternoon or evening to review emails, respond to requests from staff, and update to-do lists and your calendar. While you may be scheduled back-to-back while traveling, having a little bit of time blocked off each day to check in will help reduce that overwhelming feeling.

San Diego 170

San Diego Product Technical Review B2B 170

View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

It occurred to me that although we mentioned our new thematic approach when we raised our last fund in 2017, we haven’t really shared a broader manifesto about how we are approaching the early stage market. When we started the firm, we were also more narrowly focused geographically due to our smaller team and network.

North America 120

North America Seed Stage Early Stage Lead Investor 120

ConversionXL

JUNE 16, 2020

The choices for how to spend your time or dollars fall into two buckets: Site improvements, such as new content, on-page optimizations, and fixing technical SEO errors. For example, a worthwhile program investment is training your editorial team on URL creation because preventing technical errors takes less time than fixing them.

SEO 121

SEO Technical Review Software Review XML 121

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

Having helped world-class companies recruit B2B sales executives for decades, here are have 4 ways to build a strong virtual bench: 1. Leverage Cutting-Edge Technology. This took place in 68 counties in 15 languages with 250,000 applicants from July 2016 to June 2017. Aggressively Target Passive Job Seekers.

Artificial Inteligence 113

Artificial Inteligence B2B Reputation Hiring 113

YoungUpstarts

JULY 26, 2017

In 2017, with 5X times faster growth than traditional software market, SaaS finds itself outrunning traditional software product delivery. You are selling a software, which is constantly changing and evolving, to a specific audience, the B2B companies. Softwares keep upgrading with technological innovations. Re-targeting.

Web 127

Web Software Review Software Technical Review 127

Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 13, 2017

Initially, it was estimated that TV would be on top until 2017 but surprisingly social channels overtook the tv numbers very early this year. They’ll click the call to action to populate a form prefilled with their personal information, which can be reviewed and edited. Advertising on Twitter. We’d love to hear from you.

Social Media 70

Social Media Media Marketing Lead Generation 70

Occam's Razor

MAY 2, 2017

All I have access to is just a cursory review of their digital existence. You can still put together a quick dashboard that will allow Jim and Bob to do a quick review of the data and make smarter decisions about how to invest their limited budget on digital upgrades. B2B / Enterprise Sales: Salesforce.

Metrics 143

Metrics Acquisition eCommerce Analytics 143

ConversionXL

MAY 1, 2019

A 2017 letter to the editor in The Guardian included the signatures of dozens of psychologists. That’s true even among B2B customers who are supposedly more rational than their B2C counterparts. Similarly, for B2B sellers, most consideration takes place away from your site, in meeting rooms with decision-makers you’ll never meet.

Marketing 124

Marketing Sales Cycle Retention Differentiation 124

ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

In 2018, after two short years and $3 million raised in startup funds, recruitment AI company Ansaro shut down due to bad market fit. This is particularly true for complex verticals such as B2B SaaS products, where product marketing’s ability to pinpoint users with the most need and educate them on product features and benefits proves useful.

Marketing 110

Marketing Product Audience Equity 110

Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

In September 2017, I spent 2 weeks in Austin, Texas to understand what makes this vibrant startup ecosystem tick. Partly as a result of the relatively low tax burden, the overall cost level is an order of magnitude lower than in the coastal tech hubs. Paying 0% in state income tax in Texas versus up to ~10% in California or ~6.5%

Early Stage 48

Early Stage Austin Silicon Valley Texas 48

Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

It occurred to me that although we mentioned our new thematic approach when we raised our last fund in 2017, we haven’t really shared a broader manifesto about how we are approaching the early stage market. When we started the firm, we were also more narrowly focused geographically due to our smaller team and network.

North America 36

North America Seed Stage Early Stage Lead Investor 36

Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

They use different technologies of course, and different distribution mechanisms. It does not matter if you are a B2B or B2C or A2K, you will always see this. It focuses on complete mobile customer experience management, with elements of the platform supporting developers, marketers and your tech/operations folks.

Analytics 143

Analytics Metrics Mobile DC 143

ConversionXL

APRIL 12, 2017

Last week, 400+ data-driven marketers from 20+ countries around the world met up in the outskirts of San Antonio, Texas for CXL Live 2017. Nicole Mintiens (@Nicole_Mintiens) April 5, 2017. Sara McGuire (@sara_mcguire) April 5, 2017. Michael Aagaard (@ContentVerve) April 5, 2017. Joe Martin (@hijoemartin) April 7, 2017.

San Antonio 86

San Antonio Metrics B2B Analytics 86

Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Most employees work diligently to deliver against set expectations. In this case this was technically a micro-outcome in this case (conversion is offline). This is real, from last week: " Our 2017 goal is to reduce the cost of your display campaigns by 20%. " You’ll be surprised how small that number is. Cost Per Lead.

Metrics 60

Metrics Analytics Acquisition Naming 60

Hearpreneur

JUNE 4, 2021

9- Providing Legitimate B2B Customer Data in the Era of Mistrust. That's when I was struck by the idea: Why not provide a legit B2B customer database that is neither dodgy and nor a bad fit for a business? Thus, I started my B2B customer data-mining firm. My interests were in technology, and my dreams were in California.

Entrepreneur 139

Entrepreneur B2B Database Technical Review 139

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 19, 2018

This means constantly looking for improvements to our automation technology, using that automation more, and diligently pursuing excellence for each client’s dream website. In the UK, we want to build on and beat the levels of growth we saw in 2017. Thanks to Shawn Moore, Solodev ! #2- 2- Two goals.

Detroit 97

Detroit Entrepreneur Technical Review Revenue 97

ConversionXL

JULY 10, 2019

That simplifies content creation and link building compared to, say, trying to promote niche B2B software. According to a 2017 study , research is the most efficient type of content for earning backlinks. Word count Backlinks Referring domains Date of publication 483 3,100 815 (39% of all RDs) 2017. Example 1. “ Example 2. “

Marketing 125

Marketing Acquisition Software Review Aggregator 125

Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 8, 2017

Here’s the global maxima question: How many Surface tablets have been sold due to this near-blanket coverage in NFL games via precious undivided attention? Perhaps some kind of B2B sales. The NFL is slated to make $14 billion in 2017, they can surely afford to give $110 mil a year to Microsoft. Let me illuminate this gap.

Global 123

Global Metrics Artificial Inteligence Oakland 123

Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 15, 2017

The differences between B2C and B2B within the same brands were staggering! My entire staff had been laid off due to an acquisition by an aggressive v.c. After our initial shock ended, we decided that we were doing some of the best marketing in the technology channel and wanted to take it to other companies like ours.

Entrepreneur 115

Entrepreneur Czech Republic Retention B2C 115