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B2B Marketplaces Revisited

Version One Ventures

Yet today, the world of B2B marketplaces still lags far behind its B2C counterpart. As such, successful B2B marketplaces will do the following well: Aggregate suppliers and provide price transparency. A marketplace needs to bring product catalogs from multiple suppliers and aggregate them in one convenient spot for customers.

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Never Mind the Valley: Here's Paris

ReadWriteStart

If you're capable of seeing past the old stones of Paris and the picturesque rural villages, you'll realize that France is every bit as technologically advanced as any other Western country - more so in some areas. It's now been about three years since I joined the fray as an entrepreneur and tech blogger. Want to start up in France?

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

When I met my now-wife, I realized that any technology that can find me a spouse is a killer app. I’d argue that the same type of technologies that have revolutionized dating can revolutionize our industry. . I walk through below how progressive investors are using technology and analytics throughout all of their operations.

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25 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

These 6 KRIs are The CHICAGO MetricsR and are the result of an aggregation algorithm based on any number of tactical metrics. We were trying to pick a name that would indicate what it is we do since we are a B2C company. We are a review platform for VoIP services. Thanks to Kaelum Ross, What in Tech ! #23-

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How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood

David Teten

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.

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Four Building Blocks for the New “Second Industrial Revolution”

Rob Go

There is a dark cloud over the internet sector due to the weak performance of the Facebook IPO. The interesting thing is that while many entrepreneurs, tech executives, and investors are short-term nervous about the fate of internet-enabled startups, most are incredibly long-term bullish. UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING. NATURAL COMPUTING.

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7 Incredible Web Design, Branding, Digital Marketing Experiences

Occam's Razor

There is a lot any business — B2C, B2B, A2Z — can learn from Songza. Songza demonstrates great use of technology, but not in an in your face look at how smart we are way. the reviews. Read their invitation to get you to write a review. Then some reviews (they float by). The suggestions engine they have.

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