YoungUpstarts

JUNE 3, 2015

A new report from Forrester Research called “Death of a B2B Salesman,” predicts that one million U.S. B2B salespeople will lose their jobs to self-service e-commerce by 2020. Fears over technology stealing sales jobs is nothing new, it happened following the advent of both the phone and Internet. Marketing Disintermediation.

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B2B Technology Cofounder Technical Cofounder 100

View from Seed

JULY 31, 2014

We’ve been remarkably consistent on this dimension as well: five of the recent 13 investments were B2C, five were B2B, and three you could categorize as B2B2C. Ecommerce has transcended merely shipping a box to your home — it’s about leveraging mobile plus the internet to create an elegant purchasing experience previously unavailable.

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Seed Stage B2C Technical Review Disintermediation 272

Growthink Blog

JUNE 14, 2017

Warby Parker is an online store for prescription sunglasses and eyeglasses that since their founding in 2010 has taken the Lenscrafter “eye doctor in a mall” concept and fully “Internet-ized” it. Trailing twelve month revenues for the company is over $100 million and the company was valued at over $1.2 billion in its last round of funding.

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Disintermediation Business Model B2B Revenue 59