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How One Startup Combines Boston’s B2B Sense with the Valley’s Social Media Style

View from Seed

These companies are all over the map: B2B, B2C, SaaS, ecommerce, healthcare, SMB-focused, enterprise-focused, etc. Most people shy away from answering or deflect when their boss acts, “Why can’t we create a video like Dollar Shave Club and go viral?” How do you create an infinite loop?

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Startup CTO Speaking

SoCal CTO

Many of the factors are not obvious and include building mystery to drive margin, why boring B2B companies often win but are challenging in other ways, how bootstrapping wins, integrating metrics from the start and many other similar lessons. What is our viral spread coefficient? What does it cost to acquire a new customer?

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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? These acts can often be start of a viral growth curve in the enterprise. Enterprise products that present a high-value daily utility for the people involved can have a high virality potential. Sell to few”: Traditional enterprise sales.

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Pricing determines your business

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Marketing and sales spend is nil, so there has to be a reason it spreads by word of mouth, ideally virally as a natural result of using the product itself. $10/mo Also this is almost exclusively B2B unless it’s something “luxury.” simple enough to be self-service). Think: GoDaddy).

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What did they do before you came along?

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Pet owners who like the cards will look on the back to see how to order some of their own, and suddenly you have a viral marketing campaign that cost you lots of initial legwork calling vets but not a lot of money. Working the pain in B2B.

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How To Scale Your B2B Marketing Strategy

Duct Tape Marketing

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. And I, that's really my expertise.

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Don’t Sleep on Consumer Tech: AI is Changing Everything

VC Cafe

Commoditisation of AI Features: this is frankly also a challenge for B2B startups. At Remagine Ventures , about half of our investments are in B2C startups and even when we invest in B2B it’s largely in consumer areas like gaming, commerce, search, creator economy etc. What will it take for founders to win in consumer?