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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 are a handful of vertical marketplaces that have emerged over the past few years (e.g. But overall, we’ve yet to see the large-scale success of B2B marketplaces across the full spectrum of verticals. Alibaba is an exception.

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

David Teten

Advances in machine learning, specifically natural language processing, have made generating these baseline, aggregate datasets possible, at scale, with high accuracy. The majority of funds are using the popular B2C websites and services for basic due diligence, e.g., Linkedin, Twitter, HackerNews. 6) Negotiate deal.

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8 strategic hacks for building marketplace liquidity

The Next Web

By the end, 99 percent of the B2B marketplaces had cratered and only B2C eBay was left standing and thriving. it’s really a software business, not liquidity driven) and that B2C marketplaces could not be built under the giant momentum of eBay’s “ network effect. Start with aggregating scarce and in-demand inventory.

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

David Teten

The majority of funds are using the popular B2C websites and services for basic due diligence, e.g., Linkedin, Twitter, HackerNews. Foundry Group is using their portfolio company Monday to aggregate portfolio companies’ job postings on their own jobs page; Point Nine Capital uses Recruitee for the same purpose. the Untouched Vertical.

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Say Hello to My New AI Marketer: How Gen AI-Based Software Is Advancing Marketing and Sales

Ben's Blog

As video and 3D animations, for example, have been exciting newer verticals, lacking incumbents, these verticals, along with others, are where we also expect to see a number of new companies forming. The companies created in this stage will likely start from a vertical, like video or email, and evolve over time.

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How to Come Up with More Winning Tests Using Data

ConversionXL

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. A click map is a visual representation, aggregated data of where people click. It’s proven to work across industries and business models. SaaS, ecommerce, lead gen, affiliate models.

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Startup Shootaround: Inside a VC Team Meeting on the Drones Hype

View from Seed

The most prolific type of drone company right now are these consultancy-type businesses that range all the way from two guys who are ex-fighter pilots who love to fly drones and get commissioned to do various things with them up to a large-scale aggregation of drone service providers. So in that case, you’re not actually buying the drone.