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B2B Marketplaces Revisited

Version One Ventures

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. As such, successful B2B marketplaces will do the following well: Aggregate suppliers and provide price transparency.

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Can You Trust Any vc's Under 40?

Steve Blank

A serious study here: [link] concluded that younger people being more creative is a highly predictable at the aggregate level. They built airplanes out of palm trees thinking if they did manna would come in airplanes again. Same idea – too young and naive to know it can’t be done.

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Lessons Learned: Sharding for startups

Startup Lessons Learned

For example, Friendster was famously vertically partitioned at one time in its growth curve. Im talking about the actual data-fetching operation. This information is normally maintained by your operations team. In the end, they fall into three broad categories: Vertcal partitioning. Key-based partitioning. to store it.

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5 Content Marketing Strategies for Niche B2B Industries

ConversionXL

It’s been the industry’s go-to resource for 15 years, covering every imaginable nuance of call-center operations in a staggering level of detail. Create content to answer hundreds of these questions, and, in aggregate, you can reach a huge audience of relevant prospects. Conclusion.

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Tracking Multiple Domains: Setup & Reporting for Dozens of Sites

ConversionXL

What about corporation-wide reporting for different brands, verticals, portals, or even companies within a multinational concern, all of which operate in different countries? Aggregate them and consider how those needs transfer to your web analysis tool: What do you want to analyze? What are your business requirements?

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

David Teten

In venture capital in particular, early-stage companies are often operating in frontier industries, where the rules are unpredictable and conventional analytic frameworks may be misleading. Foundry Group is using their portfolio company Monday to aggregate portfolio companies’ job postings on their own jobs page.

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Spectacles and $SNAP’s $20B Valuation

Austin Startup

Had Facebook not purchased Instagram, Facebook’s aggregate numbers likely would have dipped as millennials have largely abandoned Facebook for Instagram and Snapchat. The smartphone is for everyone, we don’t have to think the iPhone is about a certain demographic, or country or vertical market: it’s for everyone.