YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 10, 2012

Some of the most creative technology coming out of Silicon Valley is designed to do exactly that. While its B2B social media team was attracting large audiences in its market, it failed to engage them because it lacked credible, regularly refreshed content. You have to make it easy for them to do so.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2014

Silicon Valley Needs to Lose the Arrogance or Risk Destruction | Wired Opinion - crowdspring.co/1g2t41F. 12 Examples of Brilliant B2B Logos (and What Made Them So Great) - crowdspring.co/1fQJCJO. Empower Your Small Business: Facebook ads are a waste of money, content marketing science, more - crowdspring.co/NCHjAW. 1girpFe.

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Version One Ventures

JULY 14, 2014

The big debate among tech circles has always been if it’s possible to build a “Silicon Valley” company outside of the Valley. Is Silicon Valley a physical place or a state of mind ? Starting a company is one thing, but scaling is much tougher outside of Silicon Valley. Related articles.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2012

In Silicon Valley, Hardware Is Hot Again | Businessweek – [link]. Inside the IPO pipeline: It’s all B2B, all of the time | GeekWire – [link]. CEO Brian Chesky Says Airbnb Will Be Filling More Room Nights Than All Hilton Hotels By The End Of 2012 – [link]. Don’t hire them | Pando Daily – [link].

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Version One Ventures

MAY 3, 2023

It’s obviously very large, but most start-up activity is concentrated in a few cities: Bangalore (the “Silicon Valley” of India), Delhi (the 33m strong capital of India), Mumbai (the financial capital) and Chennai.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

It follows up on my posts discussing why early stage startups should — or should not — move to Silicon Valley. In terms of access to capital, Austin is not Silicon Valley or New York — but it is Austin. If you’ve just exited or realised stock options from a Silicon Valley success story, moving out of state is worthwhile.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 15, 2019

12- Solve a problem in international B2B payments. With Remitr I saw that opportunity to solve a problem in international B2B payments that was crying for a technology-enabled solution and decided to plunge into it with my co-founding team. It also made me Silicon Valley’s longest serving CEO. .

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Gust

MAY 17, 2023

Imagine that you are the founder of a Brazilian B2B SaaS startup that has landed a few enterprise clients and has some good traction. Your sights are now set on raising capital in Silicon Valley to scale your business and reach new markets. While your conversations with U.S.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Recommendations from family and friends are the most trusted source of information , and B2B companies that use them experience higher than average conversion rates. One of these colleagues happened to be author and Silicon Valley venture capitalist Guy Kawasaki. Guy became Chief Evangelist of Canva.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

TechCrunch Europe ran an article in November of last year that European startups need to work as hard as those in Silicon Valley and I echoed the sentiment in my post about the need for entrepreneurs to be maniacal about their businesses if one wants to work in the hyper competitive tech world. I thought that, too.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 22, 2010

Look at some of the uber-successful icons of Silicon Valley / Technology: Larry Ellison, Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Larry/Sergey, Eric Schmidt, Andy Groves, John Doerr. Anyone around then knows that B2B stood for “back-to-banking&# and B2C stood for “back-to-consulting.&# I took people’s money.

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SiliconHills

DECEMBER 19, 2020

Both funds are focused on providing seed-stage capital to business to business software as a service companies, known as B2B SaaS companies located outside of Silicon Valley, […]. A year ago, the San Antonio-based venture capital firm raised a $21.5 million fund.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 15, 2017

But, it is likely the major differentiator between a win and a loss whether you are selling B2B or B2C. Not everyone has the big multiple venture gene, except apparently in Silicon Valley where you have to create a unicorn to be in the club that counts. He forgot a major highlight of the business model, and the damage was done.

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Rob Go

OCTOBER 14, 2012

9 that are B2B. The others are mainly in Silicon Valley with some exceptions. In only a handful of cases has there been significant traction prior to our investment. We are split pretty much down the middle on consumer vs. enterprise. We have 9 investments that are consumer. Geography: 18 of the 23 are in Boston or New York.

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techcrunch.com

MARCH 8, 2012

My experience: I exited my last company, an award-winning B2B telecoms operator, and knew that I wanted to build a SaaS product. I wanted to go back to my roots (my first business was ecommerce) and start something scalable that solved some kind of management or collaboration problem for businesses.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 14, 2009

Using examples drawn from his own experiences in the startup hub of Silicon Valley, Eric Ries unravels the myths and misconceptions that guide most startups, and paints a picture of a new way forward for the industry. We changed our model to B2B and adopted Agile around 2002. May 14, 2009 5:23 AM David said. It was a disaster.

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

Investment Criteria: B2B SaaS or tech-enabled services with proven, recurring contracts. We provide revenue-based funding and business acceleration support to service-based small businesses located outside of major capital markets such as Silicon Valley and New York City.”. “We ARR of $500K+. ScaleWorks. “We

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

And for those in the coveted in-crowd, Silicon Valley, San Francisco and the greater tech community become a world of opportunity where you’re only limited by the quality of your idea and the caliber of your friends. The “haves&# possess money, power, influence, or the right friends with those qualities.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 12, 2014

This week marked the annual b2b marketing frenzy known as the Consumer Electronics Show (URL) in Las Vegas. Surrounded by roulette wheels and craps tables, Madison Avenue has chosen to double down on the Silicon Valley model. 155,000 visitors, a record, trundled across an Exhibition Area the size of 37 football fields.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 29, 2013

Because we’ve learned the hard way that $100,000, which is six months of runway in Silicon Valley, is a retirement jackpot in half of Southeast Asia. B2B) Is that sales process implemented in a SALES ORGANIZATION which does not require much founder time? JFDI is a means to an end, not an end in itself. We can’t deal with that.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

Considering how businesses have been dealing with B2B payment since — well, the beginning of modern society — you’d expect a much better solution to have emerged a long ago. The gig economy’s payment problems dwarfed those of any regular organization’s B2B payment woes. We’ve made a problem.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 2, 2019

I saw this movie in Silicon Valley?—?where But I would argue in B2B SaaS (Software as a Service) businesses if you really know the market?—?and The first post was sent to me by Josh McClure, the co-founder and CEO of Real Massive, who I first referenced in my Lucky7 post about Lola Savannah. where I lived for four years?—?play

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 16, 2018

Instead, he would take his evident talent to Silicon Valley. After years of managing an international steel trading company, Levin invented the idea of creating an online, B2B, market for steel. Because of his previous success and deep industrial knowledge, he secured venture capital in a matter of weeks.

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Mucker Lab

MAY 1, 2013

In fact they tend to be B2B rather than B2C companies – while the popular bet these days in B2B for many is in “enterprise software” – maybe the better bet is in betting on these software native challengers. Ironically, they are most likely not the Ivy League or Stanford grads that Silicon Valley VC’s love to back.

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Hippoland

AUGUST 20, 2017

But my perspective, as a high school student growing up in the Silicon Valley at the time, was different. B2B companies are also consolidating. The 90s was impactful for so many reasons. 1) There was just so much opportunity. The 90s was about moving just about every piece of software from isolated desktops to online.

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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 in the San Francisco Bay area is particularly severe, given the boom in Silicon Valley hires since the 2009 recession.

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The Next Web

JUNE 20, 2013

Even when you’re a small fish, it’s just easier to find your way around,” he said in an interview with The Next Web on the sidelines of Silicon Beach Fest. Miller did, however, note that Cornerstone had to adapt to hiring based on potential, rather than experience, because it was hard to find candidates with B2B software experience in LA.

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View from Seed

JULY 28, 2015

Even ignoring Silicon Valley, places like New York and LA seem to have an edge relative to Boston because of its proximity to media outlets and the prevalence of marketers from big and exciting consumer brands or entertainment companies. Even Reebok’s global headquarters is located just outside the city. How Does This Evolve?

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 5, 2011

The company, which was founded in 2006 by four Israelis in Silicon Valley, indexes over 250 million videos from various sites such as YouTube, CNN and Facebook and is used by major websites such as CBS and Warner Brothers.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

We must get established EDI companies and new SAAS B2B platform operators to adopt our EDI API, with all of its amazing advantages. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. It seems like a mountain, and yes, it is easy to almost substitute the process of lead gen and followup for closing. Order Here. Now In Print!

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View from Seed

JANUARY 11, 2023

Our wrap-up day will be hosted in San Francisco and will focus on exposing our geographically diverse teams to the epicenter of venture capital within Silicon Valley. Consumer and SaaS B2B companies located anywhere, but should be focused on redesigning the Everyday Economy within the U.S.

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Ben's Blog

MAY 15, 2020

People saying, “This is what’s happening to B2B SaaS or this is what’s happening to this category.” Brian : I know it’s like an old Silicon Valley message, talk to your customers, but honestly this is one of those times where you need to be talking to at least a couple customers a couple times a day.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Would you modify any of this if you had a B2B product instead of a B2C product, where every potential customer is also a potential competitor? Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. Reply Curtiss Middlebrooks , on November 11, 2009 at 5:23 am Said: Great stuff Steve. Progress is the same. Order Here.

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Reid Hoffman

AUGUST 17, 2021

Obviously one of the things we talk a lot about within Silicon Valley is network effects as a differentiator – and there are a lot of different kinds of network effects and things I call strong and weak and much other things, and not all networks have network effects and all that, so it’s sometimes used very loosely.

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Reid Hoffman

AUGUST 17, 2021

Obviously one of the things we talk a lot about within Silicon Valley is network effects as a differentiator – and there are a lot of different kinds of network effects and things I call strong and weak and much other things, and not all networks have network effects and all that, so it’s sometimes used very loosely.

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

JULY 26, 2010

People whom I met: Director at Silicon Valley Bank. Marketing person at a stealth B2C/B2B payment company. If the location is cool, then yes otherwise I’ll pass next time. Founder of Appfeeds. Founder of a medical management software system. Director at Woodside Capital. Founder of a digital media company.

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Venture Chronicles

JANUARY 5, 2014

An open question that in unanswerable right now is the degree to which the infrastructure, service providers, and various data intermediaries serving b2b and b2c markets treat the government as a hostile actor. 3) Big data takes a breather. 3) Big data takes a breather.

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