Cracking the Code

JANUARY 25, 2021

The first time I met Matan, the founder of Melio, he told me that his mission was simple: he wanted to “help small businesses stay in business” by making B2B payments fast, simple and flexible. More than 40% of B2B transactions in the US, which is roughly a $25 trillion market , are still made with paper checks compared to 5-7% for consumers.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 20, 2019

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. Aggregate that data at an account level to know which accounts to target. The aggregation of individual behavior at a company level was the critical innovation.

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Software Review Software Marketing IP 117

View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

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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CTO Hire Framework Cofounder Seed Stage 120

VC Cafe

MARCH 1, 2024

I’ve recently come across several of such lists and I thought it could be useful to aggregate them and share them here. AI to build enterprise software – In the future, every enterprise could have their own custom ERP, CRM or HRIS that is continually updating itself as the company itself is changing.

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Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Software Review Generative AI 176

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

This is done by aggregating data on an enormous scale and leveraging highly advanced Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology to analyze the data and generate actionable insights on their competitors and their eCommerce channel. With these insights, brands can understand the marketplace better, improve their strategy and increase their sales.

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eCommerce Channel Artificial Inteligence Technical Review 127

ConversionXL

APRIL 1, 2019

For marketers in B2B sales, the challenge increases. The choreography of a B2B sale—in which the average buying decision involves more than five people —may require copy or collateral that serves multiple audiences. Live chat : You can aggregate data that you collect on audience interactions with live chat representatives or chatbots.

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Technical Review Marketing Software Review Audience 133

This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

This includes establishing sales objectives and compensation plans for all sales personnel, including salary structures, commission plans, sales contests and bonus plans.

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Part-Time VPE CTO Hire Engineer Sales 92

Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 12, 2024

written by Tosin Jerugba read more at Duct Tape Marketing The Duct Tape Marketing Podcast with John Jantsch In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast, I interviewed Jonathan Gandolf, the founder and CEO of The Juice, a B2B content platform aimed at solving marketers’ biggest pain points in distribution, reach, and audience engagement.

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Marketing B2B Distribution Audience 91

Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

A B2B example might include maintaining a calendar of networking events or business related seminars. Using a little RSS magic and a bookmarking tool like Delicious, you could even automate the aggregation of news and other related content for neighborhoods with very little work.

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Search Software Review Technical Review Engineer 78

ConversionXL

JULY 10, 2019

That simplifies content creation and link building compared to, say, trying to promote niche B2B software. You might assume that most people would link directly to the original research, but this shows that, for the purpose of earning links, aggregating research from multiple sources may be just as effective as doing your own.

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Marketing Acquisition Software Review Aggregator 125

View from Seed

MARCH 24, 2021

So, we decided to aggregate NextView’s “greatest hits.” Why Do Consumer IPOs and B2B IPOs Get Treated Differently? That being said, there are benefits to learning from past reflections — especially as we near national re-opening, and the theoretical “end” of the pandemic. ” (Melody Koh).

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Seed Stage Hiring IPO Analytics 177

SVPG

FEBRUARY 23, 2014

But the idea is to understand how our users and customers (remember there can be many users at a single customer at least in the B2B context) are actually using our products. The data we aggregate (from all sources) can be a gold mine. When most people think of analytics they think of web analytics. That is but one type.

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Analytics Technical Review Aggregator B2B 87

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 16, 2011

That’s also how Anand Singh and Harveen Narulla felt, and that is why they founded GreenBills Pte Ltd, the technology start-up behind e-bill aggregation solution GreenPost. Singh and Narulla believe they have found the answer, and that is: aggregated e-billing. Not to mention, it’s a massive waste of paper.

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Green Singapore B2C Aggregator 248

ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Certain experts have described the situation as a Keynesian supply shock, a negative event that triggers aggregate supply shortages with bigger impacts than the prior reduction in labor supply. The post How to Optimize B2B Deal Management to Cut Costs and Losses in 2021 appeared first on ReadWrite.

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B2B Cost Management Forecast 153

Occam's Razor

AUGUST 12, 2013

" In this case it was a B2B client, long conversion cycle that lasted around 65 days, ignoring the outliers, so I picked 75. You don't have to do attribution analysis for all your conversions in aggregate. Just to be conservative. Look at your own Time Lag report, come up with your own number. You do too. #3.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

Advances in machine learning, specifically natural language processing, have made generating these baseline, aggregate datasets possible, at scale, with high accuracy. Many tools designed for B2B marketing in general are also relevant to investors. 1) Market fund. Most of our companies will need to raise further rounds.

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Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Technical Review 60

Version One Ventures

MAY 28, 2020

As we’ve been spending time on B2B marketplaces and dev tools/platforms, we’ve come to realize that there’s an interesting sub-category that combines elements of both: the API-as-a-marketplace. First, you can aggregate the supply especially in antiquated industries where a lot of infrastructure needs to be built for the API-as-a-marketplace.

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API Aggregator B2B Demand 207

Rob Go

JUNE 7, 2012

Our recent investment in Farmeron is leveraging the rising availability of data being produced in the farming and agricultural sector, and other companies are similarly aggregating and making accessible oceanographic data. But this is happening in massive areas that we never think about. They are far more foundational to what is to come.

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Technical Review SMS Internet B2C 61

SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 22, 2009

Cliff also sparked an idea that along with using in a separate conversations sparked the idea that we should be using Southern California Tech Central as a means of helping to aggregate the conversation. We can use could choose a hashtag (e.g., This would be easy enough to do. I'm not sure if it will add value at this point.

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Agile VC

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Well it’s not clear that media businesses, in aggregate, are inherently more valuable than e-commerce or premium services companies in aggregate [see Note 1 below regarding categorization]. Why are media businesses so valuable? Growth IPOs Are Back. A couple things factor into this.

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IPO Aggregator B2B Internet 194

Austin Startup

JULY 6, 2018

When an accelerator says “our companies have raised an aggregate of $200 million,” they may be neglecting to mention that a huge chunk of that was raised before some of the companies (the top ones) ever “entered” the accelerator. The same goes for a health tech startup entering an accelerator full of consumer or B2B startups.

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Dilution Startup Technical Review Equity 48

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 27, 2011

While the specific tactics you take for each of these will be certainly different depending on the tools you choose to use, I think everyone needs to take steps around the following four strategies: Refine your personal elevator pitch Monitor what's being said about you online Proactively do content marketing Aggregate and curate to reinforce.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Many tools designed for B2B marketing in general are also relevant to investors. I previously posted a detailed presentation with sales technology tools useful for B2B sales. It sounds simple; however, very few asset managers actually do it.” Other firms are using Talent Relationship Management tools, e.g., Thrive. .

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Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

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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Framework Cofounder Seed Stage B2C 120

ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

If the answer is no and you’re a B2B SaaS company, that might be a problem. Smart optimizers don’t waste time with crappy aggregate data. Following these steps, you’ll be able to answer a lot of relevant questions. Are your visitors more active during business hours?

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Analytics eCommerce Software Review Technical Review 70

View from Seed

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Aggregate VC investment in 2009 hits a low of roughly $20B, a figure last seen in 2003 in the wake of the bursting of the dotcom and telecom bubble and 2001 recession. We’re only a few months past Sequoia’s famous “R.I.P. Good Times” presentation (Oct 2008). Image from Sequoia Capital presentation. 2017-2018: Rediscovery of Unit Economics.

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IPO Early Stage Cofounder B2C 202

Version One Ventures

JULY 19, 2018

In that handbook, our goal was to aggregate all the amazing content out there. B2B marketplaces. We’ve been pitched the promise that “we’re going to replace the broker” by B2B marketplace builders many times. This reminded me that it has been awhile since we’ve touched upon this topic on our blog.

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Disintermediation B2B Differentiation Aggregator 110

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 2, 2014

The Uberflip platform starts with aggregating all the content you create and curate. Here’s some food for thought to end off with: we’ve been looking at our relationship with customers as B2B or B2C (and that latest one, H2H or Human to Human ?).

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Marketing Curation B2C Audience 162

SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

We do a lot of B2B and also have an "Early Stage Branding" practice for technology startups. Oh, and I forget to mention in my introduction about B2B. I need to get you into both the Southern California Tech Central and the B2B Marketing Zone. landing pages, etc. Foreign Service. I'll connect offline on both of those.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 8, 2016

As Avinash Kaushik famously wrote, “All data in aggregate is crap.” If the answer is no and you’re a B2B SaaS company, that might be a problem. Smart optimizers don’t waste time with crappy aggregate data. ” [Tweet It!]. Setting Up Your Google Analytics. Tweet It!].

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Analytics eCommerce Software Review Technical Review 48

The Next Web

DECEMBER 8, 2013

By the end, 99 percent of the B2B marketplaces had cratered and only B2C eBay was left standing and thriving. The prevailing consensus at the time was that B2B marketplaces were too hard (e.g. Start with aggregating scarce and in-demand inventory. Investment stopped, and entrepreneurs focused on other categories.

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B2C B2B Demand Vertical 136

Scalable Startup

JANUARY 12, 2015

Online review management systems are an established part of the web for both consumer and B2B. For B2B, online reviews and testimonials and becoming a requirement in healthcare, automotive, government and other industries. . > > Company Summary: Saas Product launched, several Fortune 1000 customers, currently growing.

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Management Los Angeles Angel Investor B2B 20

Transformify

MARCH 9, 2017

B2B Content curation and B2B content aggregation are very powerful, and if used properly, can tremendously boost the outreach and secure new leads. A number of industry leaders are relying on B2B content curation to drive traffic to their web pages, educate their users and generate new leads.

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Curation B2B Aggregator Lead Generation 40

VC Cafe

APRIL 21, 2022

trillion times in aggregate ( source ). Like Meta, Snap has a booming developer community who uses Snap Lens Studioo to build AR social filters: Over 250,000 developers have published a total of 2.5 million lenses, which have been viewed over 3.5 Snap Spectacles. Magic Leap. Magic Leap has been through a pivot.

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Mobile Global Aggregator Bootstrapping 198

mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

b2b CRM – A Web-based CRM that manages contacts, activities, and your sales pipeline, and integrates with Outlook and Word. Database, File Storage & Information Management Pixily – An online service that lets you aggregate, organize, find and share your documents.

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Software Review Social Media Social Network Software 78

Venture Chronicles

APRIL 20, 2014

A successful organization that fed impressive growth, reaching growth and revenue records year over year, the marketing organization relied on a proven B2B outbound marketing model that precisely measured lead capture rates. Marketing Uncategorized B2B inbound marketing Ping Identity'

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 7, 2015

Sector: B2B On-Demand. B2B on-demand is the perfect combination between two of our existing portfolio strengths: The fact that half of our investments are business-focused startups, and our expertise with consumer on-demand services like Paintzen , TaskRabbit , and Scratch. davidbeisel | LinkedIn. Authenticity to NextView.

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