ConversionXL

MARCH 20, 2019

Choosing the right account-based marketing software can be a messy process. Some ABM software is an add-on to an existing tool. Some companies sell relevant software but not explicitly for ABM. Software can help with each: Identify the right accounts and targets within them. Measure how they respond. Image source ).

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View from Seed

JANUARY 27, 2021

We invest nationally across Consumer and B2B software, while most of our investments are based in NYC, SF/Bay Area, and Boston. We are proud seed investors of over 100 portfolio companies over the last decade, including TripleLift, Grove Collaborative, Skillz, Attentive, Whoop, Dia&Co, MealPal, Parsec, and Code Climate. .

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ConversionXL

MAY 27, 2022

However, due to B2B market saturation, customer acquisition costs are rising ; this digital marketing strategy of giving a little and getting a lot no longer works. Attribution software will tell you if your website visitors come to you through direct traffic or organic. an ebook); Then you blast them with sales messaging (e.g.,

Demand 124

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 28, 2009

We went through the euphoria of massive exposure at the time of our launch due to an article that ran in the Financial Times. Our software wasn’t fully baked. We had one of the largest US software companies talk about buying us. Reporters were no longer interested in talking about B2B eCommerce. We were hot.

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Agile VC

MAY 13, 2013

While our portfolio at NextView is roughly equally weighted to consumer facing and B2B companies, it seems that for consumer companies in particular being first mover confers little benefit and the drawbacks probably outweigh whatever weak advantage might exist. This usually takes a lot of time, money, and energy.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 13, 2024

The Power of Verified Reviews: Why Agencies Thrive with Clutch written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing The Duct Tape Marketing Podcast with John Jantsch In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast, I interviewed Katie Hollar, the marketing lead at Clutch , a leading global marketplace for business service providers.

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Technical Review Software Review B2B Demand 90

VC Cafe

MARCH 16, 2025

Gartner predicted in 2024 that traditional search engine volume could drop 25% by 2026 due to users favoring AI chatbots and virtual agents. NFX argues that in 2025, the consumer window has finally reopened due to advances in AI. Commoditisation of AI Features: this is frankly also a challenge for B2B startups.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 1, 2024

New enterprise resource planning software (ERPs) – new startups that build software that helps businesses run. AI to build enterprise software – In the future, every enterprise could have their own custom ERP, CRM or HRIS that is continually updating itself as the company itself is changing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 24, 2022

Leaders and investors need to know if you have and are tapping into your key sources of relevant data, including web analytics, sales management data, and customer relationship management (CRM) software. I assure you of the need to really listen to customer feedback, both proactively in market studies, as well as after-the-sale reviews.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

This required convincing software vendors to move their applications to our unique machine architecture. I had hired the VP of marketing from a potential software partner who was responsible to get all this 3 rd party software on our computer. His real job – the action – was to get the software moved onto our machine.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Talk to any B2B marketer about attribution and they’ll either roll their eyes or rant about how it’s important but hard to get right—long lead cycles, multiple contacts from a single organization, etc. The critical touchpoints in B2B are the transition stages in the customer journey: First Touch. Position Based.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 29, 2019

Finally, review the apps they have built. Fortunately, there are now a wealth of customer review sites for services based businesses, many of which are verified. A B2B research, ratings and reviews platform located in Washington, DC, they provide in-depth client reviews, data-driven content and vetted market leaders.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

It affects even B2B companies because ultimately most must sell to companies who sell to consumers and if they suffer they cut back on suppliers. I wonder, though, how much of that is emerging market and how much of the industrialized nation growth is due to stimulus money, which in turn either dries up or forced inflation?

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Software By Rob

OCTOBER 14, 2010

And after talking about this subject at length, I found myself again evangelizing it last week at the Business of Software conference. And these days with how easy it is to build an application, your code isn’t worth much, either. Ideas (and in many cases the code itself) are not worth as much as we think.

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Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

This preference isn’t necessarily due to market size, but rather the structure of the market: are there only a few dozen customers that might buy your product or are there thousands, or even tens of thousands of potential customers? How do we differentiate between B2B start-ups that sell to many vs. sell to a few? Final thoughts.

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Fractional CTO Software Review Viral Sales Cycle 154

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 15, 2019

Usually, small business owners don’t think beyond their quarterly or annual plans and they forget their long-term goals due to everyday hurdles. IBM, the king of the computing world did not build its hardware and software from scratch, but assembled hardware components and shipped in pre-loaded PCs with Microsoft Windows.

Small Business 196

Small Business Software Review Technical Review Viral 196

YoungUpstarts

JULY 1, 2016

If you need a tech solution that will assist with multiple human resources tasks — including payroll and benefits, recruiting, hiring, reviewing employee performance, training, and monitoring time and attendance — then you probably need a specific HR software such as a PEO, or professional employment organization.

Technical Review 140

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 8, 2023

In contrast, it left several e-trends: augmented reality, zero coding, the marketplace boom, and product subscriptions are just a few of them. So let’s reveal the e-commerce trends of 2022 and predict the trends for 2023, or, as we may say, crack the Da Vinci code. People love reviews, and everyone reads them before making a purchase.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 25, 2015

I have written about the deceiving nature of early successes before – in particular in the SaaS or B2B world leading to a phenomenon called “shelfware.” Or app companies that went viral due to spammy friend requests to download in an app store only to have a community backlash and subsequent crash.

Product 150

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View from Seed

MAY 24, 2021

You will spend the rest of your time working alongside the partners throughout the investment process – analyzing investment opportunities, assisting in market research and diligence, and post-investment portfolio support. We invest nationally across Consumer and B2B, while most of our investments are based in NYC, SF/Bay Area, and Boston.

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Technical Review Software Review Seed Stage Cofounder 120

Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 18, 2012

“Traction is the new IP ” sums up perfectly how the technology space has evolved over the past decade due to the nature of the web. In today’s web landscape, word of mouth drives adoption and can lead to “winner takes all” (or almost all) in both B2C and B2B markets.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 1, 2015

Pioneered by co-founders of HubSpot Brian Halligan and Dharmesh Shah, inbound marketing is a leading Business-to-Business (B2B) digital marketing strategy. Examples of such content (primarily B2B focused) include: Blog articles – the mainstay of content and inbound marketers. Managing Inbound Marketing.

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View from Seed

APRIL 27, 2020

We believe that with focus and diligence, companies can be evaluated and rapport with founders can be built in an efficient time frame. We are more convinced than ever that the combination of software and entrepreneurial creativity is driving unprecedented change in the everyday lives of everyday people.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Review Your Accounting Tools. Excel, for example, is infeasible for companies of a certain size due to the effort and time needed to manually edit the spreadsheet. This time would be better spent reviewing financial data and gleaning insights to inform your strategic decisions. “I Choose Your Ideal Accounting Resource.

Software Review 147

Software Review Cash Position Finance Startup 147

The Startup Lawyer

JANUARY 10, 2011

Web, mobile, software, SaaS, tech enabled services, or any other kind of highly scalable tech. B2B focus (i.e. Tech Wildcatters is a startup accelerator that offers up to $25,000 and 12 weeks of hands on mentorship. Here’s what they look for in a startup: -2 or more founders (there’s way too much work for just one person).

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Technical Review Software Review Dallas B2B 69

Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 17, 2023

How To Scale Your B2B Marketing Strategy written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing Marketing Podcast with Louis Gudema In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Louis Gudema. Louis is a fractional CMO for B2B companies, and mentors startups at MIT. Like this show? And I, that's really my expertise.

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B2B Marketing B2C ChatGPT 97

ConversionXL

JANUARY 21, 2019

You spot a negative review on your Facebook page. Poor customer service : A report by Forrester revealed that 23% of B2B CMOs view improving customer experience as a top-three objective. This was a couple of software engineers who put this in for whatever reason [.] You should receive the code shortly.

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Software Review Social Media Demand Advertising 125

ConversionXL

MARCH 6, 2019

LinkedIn ads offer the benefits of video content and the granular targeting of a B2B-centric platform. The growth of B2B video marketing. But LinkedIn owns the lucrative B2B audience. As AJ Wilcox notes in his course on LinkedIn ads , 72% of the Fortune 1000 are B2B companies. digital ad spend went to video.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 30, 2014

If your shopping cart software fails to deliver, you could be losing sales. Does your cart display items, order status and extras like reviews, product ratings, images and discount offers? Consumers increasingly expect greater levels of personalization and a streamlined check-out experience. There’s no time like the present.

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Software Review B2B Technical Review Security 165

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 5, 2018

The demand for the best taxi dispatch software for business in increasing each day. It can be anything from B2B, B2C, C2C. This app helps you to instantly find a doctor near your location, read the consulting reviews, book the appointment at any time. It is easy to customize so that you can begin in within five days.

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Mobile B2C Technical Review Software Review 157

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

It’s true that we also fund more mundane stuff like B2B software aimed at productivity improvements but we want some big bets in every fund where we feel we can contribute to “making our own little dent in the universe” as the saying goes – by backing ambitious entrepreneurs with that same goal.

Technical Review 150

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Guy Nirpaz

AUGUST 24, 2011

B2B SaaS companies increasingly rely on inside sales teams to drive growth. However, in many cases, due to volume and geography it takes a while before you can actually contact a prospect. Are they using the software regularly during trial? Inside sales representatives (ISR) and sales management teams juggle with large volum.

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B2B Sales Software Review Conversion 78

YoungUpstarts

JULY 25, 2016

Clutch , a B2B research firm, recently surveyed 304 SMBs who use cloud-based, online backup solutions to determine how businesses use the technology and what they think about it. In the past two years, 63 percent of small and medium businesses (SMBs) began using an online or cloud-based backup service. Louis based IT company.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Shattering The Mold: Unleashing the Creator Economy in B2B Marketing written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing The Duct Tape Marketing Podcast with Christie Horsman In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interviewed Christie Horsman, who brings a decade of expertise in both B2B and B2C marketing within the SaaS arena.

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B2B Marketing B2C Community 92

YoungUpstarts

JULY 26, 2017

In 2017, with 5X times faster growth than traditional software market, SaaS finds itself outrunning traditional software product delivery. Cloud software model will account for 1 dollar for every $4.59 spent on traditional software by 2019. A mammoth decline in traditional software can be seen in the coming future.

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Web Software Review Software Technical Review 127

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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ConversionXL

APRIL 1, 2019

Say you work at a SaaS company selling AI software. It can also come up in face-to-face meetings—sales pitches, conferences talks, account reviews, etc. For marketers in B2B sales, the challenge increases. I’m a new user to their product, but they don’t assume I have prior knowledge about their software. Image source).

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Technical Review Marketing Software Review Audience 133