Version One Ventures

MAY 20, 2020

Twenty years ago – in the midst of the Web 1.0 boom – expectations were high for B2B (product) marketplaces. Yet today, the world of B2B marketplaces still lags far behind its B2C counterpart. As are a handful of vertical marketplaces that have emerged over the past few years (e.g. Alibaba is an exception.

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B2B Vertical Aggregator B2C 213

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. Digital Wallets – Digital wallets could grow select vertical software platforms’ revenues to $27-$50bn in 2030. Verticalized Video Understanding – machine interpreted video.

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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 a few providers, the insights can be accessed through a web portal.

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eCommerce Channel Artificial Inteligence Technical Review 127

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

ConversionXL

APRIL 22, 2015

Let’s say you run a B2B site, and drive your visitors toward a quote request page. B2B and B2C. It doesn’t matter which vertical you’re in, you can use it to find great insights to lead to better test hypotheses. Step #3: Web Analytics Analysis. Some things and places matter much more than others.

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Analytics Technical Review Conversion Framework 48

VC Cafe

JUNE 22, 2010

CDI Systems ’ NetIS is the first electronic publishing platform that integrates Digital Rights Management, Web Content Management, information retrieval, SEO and e-commerce tools into a single, seamless platform for the secure delivery and sale of digital content (textual, images, rich media etc’).

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Media Social Network Flash 145