VC Cafe

OCTOBER 31, 2022

The pressure to protect portfolio startups seen as potential fund returners will be profound. portfolio values on paper that will likely be marked down and not be returned. That means that investors are contractually demanding to get 2-5x their investment, before other share classes get paid.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 20, 2020

Many Startups Lack Demand In both funding startups and servicing them, I have seen almost every idea under the sun. One feature that is prevalent among many failing (or soon-to-be-failing) startups is an overall lack of demand. Without demand, startups falter and ultimately fail. Find blue ocean opportunities.

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Sweat Equity Non-Compete Startup Azure 78

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

However, in private markets, there is more room to optimize across all 11 steps of the investing process: firm management , marketing, fundraising , origination , manage relationships, due diligence, negotiation, monitoring, portfolio acceleration , reporting, and. It sounds simple; however, very few asset managers actually do it.”

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Version One Ventures

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Here are some of the most memorable highlights for us in 2015: New portfolio companies. This year, we welcomed five new companies to the Version One portfolio: Headout : an on-demand marketplace for tours, activities and experiences. Portfolio Summary and Investment Focus. and two more unnamed.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

I’ve written on the expert network industry a fair amount in the past: see How to Earn More Consulting Revenue from Expert Networks and How Executives Can Work with Private Equity and Venture Capital Portfolio Companies. We’re not mainly for B2B companies or later stage companies or anything like that. It started in healthcare.

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New York Technical Review Networking Advisory Board 114

Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 14, 2022

So yeah, I, there there's some confusion around these terms, partner, marketing partnership, marketing affiliate market, and you have influencer and B2B. So I just consider affiliate marketing, part of this greater ecosystem of partnership marketing now, which includes influencer and B2B and aspects of business development.

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Marketing Affiliate Channel Software Review 99

mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Nuospace – On demand collaboration software that provides online document management, allows you to edit pages in your browser, and offers tools to engage your colleagues. RightNow – RightNow is an on-demand customer relationship management program that integrates sales, service, marketing, feedback and voice functions.

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Software Review Social Media Social Network Software 78

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 19, 2018

Additionally, as we continue to grow into new markets, our SEO strategies are evolving in 2018 to accommodate for new demographics and under-served geographic locations, however this new scaling will certainly demand significant upgrades to the proprietary software technologies we lean on. 7- Giving back to the community. 13- Stronger brand.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

I’ve primarily seen quantitative analytic techniques used in origination , filtering , and in portfolio company recruiting , but technology can be used throughout the nine steps of the private company investing process: The 9 Steps of the Private Company Investing Process. 8) Accelerate portfolio company value. 1) Market fund.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 2, 2017

Managed marketplaces , robotics , and on -demand delivery networks are changing how we experience the simple pleasure of eating a meal. There are countless B2B startups that are enabling this digital transformation and how consumers experience the Everyday Economy. Other companies are rethinking our concept of home and lodging.

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Where to Play

AUGUST 18, 2020

In 2000, they included tentage into their portfolio and since then they have established themself as a premium brand in marriage event management. Recently, the epicenter of marriage organization in Pakistani culture is shifting towards marriage halls and marquee and the demand for traditional catering and tentage business has been falling.

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Pakistan Sales Cycle Marketing Technical Review 62

Seeing Both Sides

JULY 11, 2013

Across our portfolio and in my own entrepreneurial experience, I have seen three main sales models work successfully in scaling B2B sales: 1) Enterprise; 2) Telephone; and 3) Developer-driven. How do I build a repeatable, scalable sales process that is like an industrial machine - not a crafts project? 3) Developer Driven Sales.

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Version One Ventures

APRIL 5, 2017

Q1 was a busy time for our firm and portfolio companies, and here’s a brief recap of some of the various news clippings, fundraising announcements, and other happenings across the V1 community. The V1 portfolio was well represented in Techvibes’ recent Canadian Startup Awards. Portfolio companies in the news.

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Version One Ventures

MAY 28, 2020

As we’ve been spending time on B2B marketplaces and dev tools/platforms, we’ve come to realize that there’s an interesting sub-category that combines elements of both: the API-as-a-marketplace. For example, you need to build integrations for the supply side and make it accessible in one API call by the demand side.

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Genuine VC

MARCH 24, 2014

In the past four years since we’ve been investing together at NextView, 70%+ of those companies in our portfolio which have made attempts at raising full-fledged multi-million dollar Series A after their Seed round have been able to successfully do so (with another additional cohort raising new capital subsequent to seed but not bona fide Series A).

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Version One Ventures

MAY 17, 2022

Inflection is the only marketing automation solution purpose built for B2B product-led companies. In years past, the B2B customer experience and buying process were owned by sales. Some of today’s most successful B2B companies are product-led. If you wanted to buy new software, you talked with a salesperson.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 17, 2017

Candidates will learn our culture and how to go through steps of sales cycle with Lead Generation, B2B and B2C sales and account management. The Clubhouse is Now On-Demand | Partake. Internship Title: B2B Marketing Intern Compensation: Unpaid Description: The B2B Marketing Intern will help AUTHORS.me

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Austin Startup

MAY 29, 2019

When we consider investing in SaaS startups at Hurt Family Investments (34 SaaS startups and counting in our portfolio ), we always look for natural network effects. I think any SaaS startup would be wise to identify if their B2B market has a natural network effect to tap into. It is one of the key ingredients we look for.

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Version One Ventures

JULY 19, 2018

For example, Wish has given shoppers direct access to Chinese sellers; LetGo and OfferUp have connected local buyers and sellers with a visually appealing mobile-first experience; and our portfolio company Headout has taken the supply of offline attractions, activities and events online as well as mobile for travellers to book on-demand.

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 7, 2015

Sector: B2B On-Demand. To date, nearly all of the startups riding the mega-trend adoption of on-demand services have been geared towards the consumer. We’ve already made two investments in this area: Scratch in the consumer space and one unannounced company in the B2B space. davidbeisel | LinkedIn.

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 7, 2015

Sector: B2B On-Demand. To date, nearly all of the startups riding the mega-trend adoption of on-demand services have been geared towards the consumer. We’ve already made two investments in this area: Scratch in the consumer space and one unannounced company in the B2B space. davidbeisel | LinkedIn.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 26, 2019

Danny Haber is the founder of oWOW, a B2B and B2C concern which is directly involved in building modular units for resale to property developers, and as new housing for consumers. The housing crisis has resulted from an inability to meet this demand, leading to higher rental prices across the board.

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View from Seed

JULY 9, 2015

This particular company, as a B2B SaaS business, would definitely benefit from driving traffic to convert into subscribers or leads on their email list. Across the NextView portfolio and in discussing this topic more broadly, we’ve found that funding announcements are rarely good customer acquisition channels.

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entrepreMusings

AUGUST 4, 2012

Following is a post called Demand Creation 101 that I wrote for the blog at my company, Bulldog Solutions: The following was authored by Aruni S. Aruni joined Bulldog in June 2012 with a background in technology entrepreneurship, B2B sales, consulting, and operations. Gunasegaram, Account Director. Thanks SiriusDecisions!

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Version One Ventures

AUGUST 25, 2015

With help from the Marketplaces Facebook Group , we have curated a list of recommended B2B tools by marketplace founders. However, a marketplace is unique in that it deals with distributed supply (and demand) and there aren’t many marketplace-specific tools out there yet to help with this.

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Hunter Walker

APRIL 10, 2017

I try not to shill for Homebrew portfolio companies too relentless on this blog (for that you have my Twitter account ), but I just really love UpCounsel’s new “15 Minute Legal Consultation” product, so wanted to talk a but about it.

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B2B Portfolio Demand Naming 67

Version One Ventures

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

If you haven’t already, check out previous posts detailing Andrew Chen’s (Uber) fireside chat on growth strategies , Anthony Marino’s (ThredUp) talk on managed marketplaces , and B2B marketplace dynamics from Shippo’s Mikhail Ledvich. The first challenge for any marketplace is to solve the initial chicken and egg problem of supply and demand.

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San Francisco Vertical Equity Cofounder 60

Ben's Blog

JUNE 6, 2024

A strong multiproduct strategy is a cornerstone of a credible growth story for any scaling B2B company. We follow a decision tree when counseling portfolio companies on ascertaining new customers’ willingness to pay.

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Product Metrics Generative AI Software 67

David Teten

APRIL 1, 2011

Prior to AxialMarket, Peter held positions in private equity at SFW Capital Partners and was part of the founding team at Gerson Lehrman Group, where he helped build the firm’s dominant global marketplace for on-demand business expertise. a leading-edge research and development lab in the Millennium Technology Ventures portfolio.

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Private Equity Merger IPO Equity 68

Occam's Razor

JUNE 6, 2011

In our field specifically, good Web Analysts will continue to be in high demand, for any conceivable time period. You have a publicly available portfolio of your work, no matter how small or basic. For profit, non-profit, universities, Fortune 10,000, Forbes 10, B2B, B2C, A2Z etc., Time to find a job. Look in the obvious places.

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Analytics Web Salary Non-Compete 126

Hippoland

AUGUST 8, 2018

2) B2B startups have high margins. Many serial entrepreneurs tend to gravitate towards building B2B startups. I can’t tell you how many founders I know whose first company was a consumer company and then built only B2B companies after that. B2B companies can have great unit economics. Sales cycles matter though.

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Hippoland

AUGUST 8, 2018

2) B2B startups have high margins. Many serial entrepreneurs tend to gravitate towards building B2B startups. I can’t tell you how many founders I know whose first company was a consumer company and then built only B2B companies after that. B2B companies can have great unit economics. Sales cycles matter though.

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Founder Sales Cycle Affiliate Retention 48

Steve Blank

APRIL 1, 2020

B2B – cloud services, online meetings, virtual workforce management, collaboration tools. With more work from home happening, all of these services will see increased demand from companies. They may have seen new ideas from other companies in their portfolio so be open to additional suggestions.

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South Korea Salary Business Model China 334

Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 19, 2025

How to Outrank Big Competitors in Search written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing The Duct Tape Marketing Podcast with Sam Dunning In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interviewed Sam Dunning, founder of Breaking B2B, an SEO firm specializing in SEO for revenuenot vanity metrics. So Sam, welcome to the show.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 19, 2013

Find More Customers for Your B2B SaaS Product with These 5 Distribution Hacks – [link]. Yelp launches Yelp Platform to enter world of on-demand delivery – [link]. Responsive Freelance Portfolio Designs | Web Design Mash – [link]. Your startup’s advantage is tempo | by Chris Yeh – [link].

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 94

Cracking the Code

JANUARY 28, 2008

Eloqua is bringing this revolution to the B2B marketers by providing on-demand applications and best-practice expertise for B2B marketers to execute, automate and measure effective marketing programs that drive revenue. Cornerstone on Demand is a fast growing Learning and Talent management company based in Los Angeles.

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Software Review Technical Review Los Angeles Europe 48

Occam's Razor

MARCH 23, 2010

Email campaign ideas, content improvement, behavior targeting, testing product prices , hiring a supposedly awesome consultant, using offline calls to action, measuring impact of television on the web, opening a twitter account of a B2B business, doing… Anything you can think of I can do it. Usually for free. Usually at least a test.

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Analytics Web Metrics Channel 119