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Why B2B Marketplaces Are Red-Hot

Haystack

” After Facebook and Snap, the next crop of startups that have taken off look a bit different — work productivity tools like Slack and Zoom, in particular, that have consumer product sensibilities but the ability to scale to enterprise-scale deployments. Let me state upfront that the idea of B2B marketplaces is not new.

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The NextView Ventures Manifesto

View from Seed

Of the last 15 investments we’ve made, 8 have been pre-product or pre-seed style rounds. Great returns in early stage investing is driven by great deal flow and good picking. It’s where we believe our expertise can be most helpful to a young company, and it’s what we love to do.

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What Angel Investing & Florida Condos Have in Common

Both Sides of the Table

I believe that huge financial, productivity and technical gains come from new innovation rather than derivative thinking. I am avoiding “frenzied&# deals for all of the reasons Roger Ehrenberg talks about in his excellent blog post. I still love B2B application. We’ll re-compare notes then. Why should you care?

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Tale of Two Valleys: LA and the Bay Area from an Investor’s Perspective

Mucker Lab

After stints as a technology investment banker, a dot-com entrepreneur, and a product manager in Silicon Valley, I moved to Los Angeles in 2006. Certainly it is a negative to not have acquired the basic skills of product management. The top tier funds see almost all of the best deals. Ability” vs. “Knowledge”.

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5 Mobile Optimization Tactics for B2B SaaS Sites

ConversionXL

Though the topic of mobile conversion rates of ecommerce websites is often broaches, it’s rare we talk about SaaS or B2B. The Mobile Website Design Problem (B2B Saas Edition). You may not think this applies to SaaS, but your buyers are not always at their desk – especially when they receive word of your product.

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

David Teten

Many tools designed for B2B marketing in general are also relevant to investors. I previously posted a detailed presentation with sales technology tools useful for B2B sales. Sebastian Soler recently launched Knowledge.vc , which uses software and machine learning to enhance deal sourcing and diligence for VC firms.

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5 Mobile Optimization Tactics for B2B SaaS Sites

ConversionXL

Though the topic of mobile conversion rates of ecommerce websites is often broaches, it’s rare we talk about SaaS or B2B. The Mobile Website Design Problem (B2B Saas Edition). You may not think this applies to SaaS, but your buyers are not always at their desk – especially when they receive word of your product.

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