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5 Keys to Ensuring Credibility, Trust, and Customers

Startup Professionals Musings

All of us are struggling to keep up in this age of technological acceleration, where we learn every day that we can’t trust links in our email, marketing guarantees, or phone requests from people we don’t know. The result is a shift from business-to-consumer (B2C) to a consumer-to-business (C2B) control trend.

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

VC Cafe

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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A Behind-the-Scenes Look at Our Recent Seed-Stage VC Investments

View from Seed

We’ve been remarkably consistent on this dimension as well: five of the recent 13 investments were B2C, five were B2B, and three you could categorize as B2B2C. A few themes which have emerged from our 13 most recent investments: CONSUMER (B2C). Physical-World Ecommerce.

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B2B Marketplaces Revisited

Version One Ventures

Yet today, the world of B2B marketplaces still lags far behind its B2C counterpart. If technology makes the transaction “too easy” to complete, then buyers and sellers might wonder why they are giving a percentage of their transaction away and could take their transaction offline. Alibaba is an exception.

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Tune In, Turn On, Drop Out – The Startup Genome Project

Steve Blank

He set up Blackbox.vc, a seed accelerator for technology startups (and one of the tour stops for entrepreneurs from around the world.) B2C vs. B2B is not a meaningful segmentation of Internet startups anymore because the Internet has changed the rules of business. They tend to lose the battle early on by getting ahead of themselves.

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14 Interesting Findings From The Startup Genome Project

YoungUpstarts

B2C vs. B2B is not a meaningful segmentation of Internet startups anymore because the Internet has changed the rules of business. Startups that haven’t raised money over-estimate their market size by 100x and often misinterpret their market as new. Premature scaling is the most common reason for startups to perform worse.

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[Interview] Kevin Hobbs Of Vancouver’s Vanbex Group

YoungUpstarts

As CEO of Vanbex Group, a professional services and development company specializing in everything blockchain, Kevin’s mission is to further the education and adoption of blockchain, DLT, and Smart Contract technology into everyday real world applications. His colleagues look to him as a leader with extensive knowledge in B2B and B2C.