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B2B Marketplaces Revisited

Version One Ventures

boom – expectations were high for B2B (product) marketplaces. Yet today, the world of B2B marketplaces still lags far behind its B2C counterpart. By reducing the friction for North American companies to find suppliers in China, they’ve been the most successful B2B marketplace to date. Alibaba is an exception.

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Common B2B Challenges and How To Solve Them

ConversionXL

From long sales cycles to trying to stand out from the sea of sameness, B2B companies face an uphill battle from the start. While thousands of B2B organizations struggle, plenty are able to develop long-term success. Common B2B marketing challenges. So what does it take? Let’s dive in.

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How to Find and Close Angel Investors from a Standing Start

View from Seed

The foundation of your process is an exhaustive list of all the people both in your network and outside it that might have an interest in what you’re building. The more verticalized your startup’s offering, especially if the venture is B2B, the more opportunity there is to identify industry insiders who will care about your company.

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Requests for Startups in 2024

VC Cafe

Smart Contracts – Powering the internet-native financial system, smart contract networks could generate fees of $450bn in 2030. Digital Wallets – Digital wallets could grow select vertical software platforms’ revenues to $27-$50bn in 2030. Verticalized Video Understanding – machine interpreted video.

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Why Every Business Needs To Become A Platform, And How To Do It

YoungUpstarts

Social networks such as Facebook and Twitter? Salesforce does the same thing in the B2B world. There are elements of vertical integration and franchising , classic business strategies for achieving operational efficiency and scale. Leveraging network effects. What’s the hottest trend in business right now?

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How to Craft (Or Pivot) Your Agency Value Proposition

ConversionXL

Today, Grizzle is a full-service content marketing and SEO agency that provides B2B and SaaS companies end-to-end services. If your network has expressed an interest in additional services, pivoting is a no-brainer. Most B2B buyers know this. Choose to expand vertically or horizontally. When clients ask, “Do you do X?,”

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Why Partnerships Are The Future Of Marketing

Duct Tape Marketing

More About Duct Tape Marketing Consultant Network: Learn more here. John Jantsch (00:01): This episode of the duct tape marketing podcast is brought to you by the salesman podcast, hosted by Will Barron and brought to you by the HubSpot podcast network. And there's a whole host of ones in the B2B space. Like this show?