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

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B2C founders are surely no strangers to the adage ‘Consumer is hard’ – it’s not just the scarcity of funding that is challenging: consumer taste is fickle and competition includes most of the tech giants. But change seems to be brewing in the B2C space, powered by the fast advancements in AI and generative AI.

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The Booming Voice AI Landscape: A VC Perspective

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It’s particularly interesting to think about voice AI in terms of the tech stack needed to build the voice engines, but note that the application layer (for both B2B and B2C apps) sits on top of the tech stack doesn’t require to build the full infrastructure.

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Consult with Ease: Personalize Your Customer Stragtegy Using AI

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So what are the big ways that AI is really impacting the approach to personalization? And it's not just generative ai, it's a whole range (03:50): Of capabilities that are coming together. Let me give you an example and just show how AI plays a role in all of this. David Edelman (03:46): Yeah, sure.

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How to Navigate the New Era of SEO: Strategies for Understanding Consumer Search Behavior

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AI is part of that story. Marketers are just starting to use AI and wrap their heads around how it can be useful for what we're doing for SEO, and then Google is implementing ai, so generative AI on the search results pages, and that can be scary depending on exactly how Google implements it going forward.

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The State of Consumer Tech in Israel in 2023

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While Israeli startups successes are well known in the B2B space (cybersecurity, enterprise tech, devops…), B2C startups are unsung heroes… The landscape of B2C tech in Israel is blossoming, despite several challenges. Israeli B2C – Let’s start with the high level picture. Much has changed since then.

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Kindling Early B2C Growth: Getting to 1,000 Users

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.” Rahul Vohra, founder of Superhuman Getting your first 1,000 users is an important early milestone for any B2C startup. What are the most effective strategies for early B2C growth? This post is about how to get to your first 1,000 users, and how to get to know your users better, in particular for B2C startups.

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2023-2024 B2B SaaS Benchmarks

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I also recommend checking out my post on conversion, retention and churn benchmarks for various business models (B2C subscription, marketplaces, etc). Metric Unremarkable Good Excellent Outlier ARR <$500k $500k-$1.5m $1.5m-$2.5m >$2.5m ARR growth rates decreased significantly in 2023 and growth stage companies were most impacted.

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