Austin Startup

APRIL 27, 2019

Who says Austin can’t do B2C now ? HomeAway is another one of our five tech IPOs in the last five years. And Josh Kopelman and First Round Capital were among the seed investors in Uber, the blockbuster IPO-to-be of 2019. Fifth, after the incredible success of HomeAway and RetailMeNot, which were B2C roll-ups (i.e.,

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

Not everyone is hoping for an IPO, however, which means that freemium is possible in smaller markets if the conversion rate is higher and the revenue per paid user also rises. That’s different from B2C SaaS products (Murphy uses the example of smartphone games), in which consumers may simultaneously use several.

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View from Seed

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Companies are retrenching, VC firms are going through their own upheavals, and IPOs are non-existent. But overall this is a period where the IPO market remains largely closed to VC-backed startups. And even Facebook has a shambolic first day of trading and trades below its IPO price for over a year. Rowe Price, hedge funds, etc.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 3, 2023

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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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

Less than 1% are currently in IPO registration. Consumer Services (B2C). DJVentureWire : Friday IPOs Fail to Price as Thursdays Rally Doesnt Carry [link]. —Vanessa OConnell contributed to this article. Write to Deborah Gage at deborah.gage@dowjones.com. Copyright 2012 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. .

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Rob Go

JUNE 7, 2012

There is a dark cloud over the internet sector due to the weak performance of the Facebook IPO. When I think of most of the large-scale internet business out there (both B2B and B2C), very few were built for a world where these four forces have come to a meaningful level of fruition. They are far more foundational to what is to come.

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Mucker Lab

APRIL 6, 2023

If you work in B2C or e-commerce, you optimize that Add to Cart flow like crazy because that is your revenue. They were able to grow the product even after their IPO or maybe close to their IPO. They grew so much on this B2C concept, but then a few years ago, they hired a sales team and this year they begin to hire more.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

Around this time B2C eCommerce had been dominating the media but the wheels were starting to come off. There was talk of an IPO in 12 months. We had scrambled to get a product to market, built our first website, rapidly hired a technology team, raised our seed round of capital ($1.5 million … yes that was seed in 1999!)

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Israel was historically known for semiconductors and cybersecurity but it’s now punching above its weight in consumer (B2C), gaming and commerce. Another challenge with keeping this list current is that many of the Israeli unicorns ‘graduate’ by getting acquired or going public via SPACs or traditional IPOs.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 14, 2009

We attempted to use Waterfall and market ourselves as B2C. ► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th. May 14, 2009 5:23 AM David said. It was a disaster.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 24, 2024

A recent report by Forerunner ventures comparing outcomes in consumer (B2C and B2B2C) startups vs. enterprise startups now shed some interesting light on the differences in performance between the two. It analysed 12,000 venture backed companies that raised a series B since 2010 and categorised 7,800 of them as B2C or B2B.

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Agile VC

MAY 7, 2014

I believe this may be the most anticipated tech IPO of all time… some may argue Facebook was a bigger deal, but Alibaba’s offering has been “in process” for a long time and may very well be the largest IPO ever both in terms of size of offering and initial market cap of the company.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 29, 2021

The move toward an independent company unlocked a laser focus on the B2B customer, enabling us to develop our product and our go-to-market strategy without compromising the balance with the Spotify B2C product, hence setting the company up for its own success story independently from Spotify.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 24, 2022

It remains to be seen what the outcomes will be in 2022 as the exit markets are less active and the IPO window is closed, but assuming the merger gets approved, we’ve already seen Activision’s $70 billion acquisition by Microsoft and Twitter’s potential $40 billion takeover by Elon Musk. appeared first on VC Cafe.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Save Asia for post-IPO Single instance, multi-tenant, single datacenter - Have only one version of the code in production. This is a clear example where business-to-business (B2B) marketers need to learn from their business-to-consumer (B2C) counterparts. Save Asia for post-IPO. Philippe Botteri. Bessemer SaaS Law #8.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 29, 2013

Hero mentors” have exited their businesses through a trade sale or IPO, sometimes multiple times; they offer inspiration to your team and coaching on strategy and tactics. B2C) Is there a PRE-SALES promotion activity driving the top of the funnel? As a meta-lesson you will learn how to choose from multiple angles of advice.

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David Teten

APRIL 16, 2012

Head of Engineering: Strong experience with B2C businesses. Among our most successful seed investments that have reached maturity are Cornerstone OnDemand (which raised $137m in a March 2011 IPO, ticker CSOD) and Quigo Technologies (sold to AOL for a reported $340m in 2007).

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Agile VC

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Companies are retrenching, VC firms are going through their own upheavals, and IPOs are non-existent. But overall this is a period where the IPO market remains largely closed to VC-backed startups. And even Facebook has a shambolic first day of trading and trades below its IPO price for over a year. Rowe Price, hedge funds, etc.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 14, 2021

We’re very bullish that we have a product that serves a broad enough need and our solution is novel enough that we could definitely see an IPO as a possibility in our future. Richard: Given our growth trajectory, this past year we grew more than 290%. TSM: What is the most important thing prospective investors should know about your company?

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 23, 2009

– Eric Ries In April of 2009 my partner and I had an idea for a web app, a B2C platform that we are selling as SaaS [software-as-a-service]. – Eric Ries In April of 2009 my partner and I had an idea for a web app, a B2C platform that we are selling as SaaS [software-as-a-service].

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Seeing Both Sides

APRIL 1, 2013

Are you more of a B2C type or a B2B type? If you are more conservative, want a good salary and prefer to pick a "safe" winner, then a highway phase company that is pre-IPO or recently IPO'ed is the right choice. . In order to narrow things down, I recommend following a simple, four-step heuristic. Here's the advice I give: .

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 29, 2017

I heard a former senior officer of a very successful Austin startup (IPO, then sale) say on stage that his company’s competitive advantage was the CEO’s ability to raise money. Attention to buying process is especially meaningful in B2C; it’s a truism that changing buying habits is very difficult.

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Seeing Both Sides

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Contrary to popular myth, big business to consumer (B2C) companies can be created in Boston as four of the nine Reindeers are B2C. The others are all B2B, including a few perennial IPO watch list companies who are believed to be unicorns (i.e.,

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ConversionXL

MAY 24, 2012

It doesn’t matter whether you’re doing B2C or B2B marketing, there’s always an actual human being reading your stuff, so the text has to connect with that person. Morgan Stanley screwed up the Facebook IPO – and many people went “I knew the banks were rotten to the core!” And vice versa.

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Austin Startup

MAY 29, 2019

But now that the SaaS as a superior-business model as compared to enterprise software secret is out of the bag (Workday had a monster IPO and Salesforce.com is the most valuable SaaS business in the world), these replacement SaaS startup opportunities are few and far between. Reed’s law on networks is a good resource to really nail this home.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 7, 2025

Consumer makes a comeback: for a while it seemed like VCs have distanced themselves from B2C startups. This means the returns of IPOs, more tech M&A, increased adoption of crypto and reduced red-tape. We’ll see more robots being shipped to consumers and businesses alike, starting with repetitive manual tasks.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 20, 2025

billion in its upcoming IPO. Stability AI has introduced Stable Virtual Camera, turning 2D images into 3D video. SpatialLM just dropped on Hugging Face – a Large Language Model for Spatial Understanding. CoreWeave is planning to raise $2.7 Meta ‘s Llama models hit 1 billion downloads.

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