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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 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. Extend this list to not just people you know but people who you can reach or where your story would resonate if it’s a cold outreach (more on that below).

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Requests for Startups in 2024

VC Cafe

Digital Wallets – Digital wallets could grow select vertical software platforms’ revenues to $27-$50bn in 2030. Verticalized Video Understanding – machine interpreted video. I also recommend Erik Torenberg’s podcast ‘ Requests for Startups ‘ for in-depth deep dives on various verticals.

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The Booming Voice AI Landscape: A VC Perspective

VC Cafe

But substantial investments are also being deployed into emerging startups, particularly into vertical applications. On the B2B side, Business voice applications have progressed significantly, from rudimentary interactive voice response (IVR) systems in the 1970s to sophisticated conversational AI systems powered by LLMs.

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Selling to the enterprise: “Sell to few” vs. “sell to many”?

Version One Ventures

How do we differentiate between B2B start-ups that sell to many vs. sell to a few? The SaaS model, with its inherent low customer acquisition costs (CAC) and ease of deployment, makes it possible for companies to be successful when focusing on the SMB market, as well as niche verticals. Sell to few”: Traditional enterprise sales.

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Meet the new Cloud Unicorn from Israel: Melio raises $110m to transform B2B payments

Cracking the Code

The first time I met Matan, the founder of Melio, he told me that his mission was simple: he wanted to “help small businesses stay in business” by making B2B payments fast, simple and flexible. More than 40% of B2B transactions in the US, which is roughly a $25 trillion market , are still made with paper checks compared to 5-7% for consumers.

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