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B2B Marketplaces Revisited

Version One Ventures

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. Increase trust and social proof.

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How To Negotiate with Vendors, Partners And Employees

YoungUpstarts

Even so, it’s difficult (and perhaps impossible) to operate a small business or startup and not negotiate agreements with employees, vendors, customers, and others. You’re probably most comfortable with your own employees and team – and you probably already know that how they perform is influenced by their perception.

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A New Era For Entrepreneurs And Startups Has Begun

Startup Professionals Musings

Thus a record number of entrepreneurs (and employees) are getting rich. in 2013, with aggregate proceeds of over $38 billion. A year from now that’s projected to go as high as 100. Initial Public Offerings (IPO) are back as an exit strategy. According to a report just out, a record 156 operating companies went public in the U.S.

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AI Startups Need Data, and the Government Needs Help

ReadWriteStart

These large and reasonably priced aggregated datasets can be useful for startups looking to transform legacy institutions or disrupt established industries. Data owners have the responsibility to aggregate and anonymize their findings, although that still doesn’t mean everything is completely secure. Mexican birth records.

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China Startups – The Gold Rush and Fire Extinguishers (Part 5 of 5)

Steve Blank

And they were increasing at an aggregate 33 million IOS and Android activations per month. Turnover of employees in capital in Beijing is very high. Employees work here for a few months and are suddenly gone. (They also probably haven’t seen a phone that isn’t mobile.)

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Chewy S-1: Category Leadership + Conveyor Belt Into Consumers’ Homes

View from Seed

Chewy helpfully provides some cohort data on both aggregate $ revenue, active customer spend, and LTV/CAC basis. spent by new customers in 2015, that same group (in aggregate) bought $1.65 This is separate from the dynamics of any underlying cohort itself (more on that below). 2) Impressive cohort growth & stability.

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The Crucial Questions Every Project Manager Needs To Ask – And The KPIs To Answer Them

YoungUpstarts

A report that can be filtered and aggregated by data points like team, portfolio, or customer, also acts as a KPI that allows teams to identify which projects need attention, which are profiting, and which are facing losses.