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B2B Marketplaces Revisited

Version One Ventures

Yet today, the world of B2B marketplaces still lags far behind its B2C counterpart. As are a handful of vertical marketplaces that have emerged over the past few years (e.g. But overall, we’ve yet to see the large-scale success of B2B marketplaces across the full spectrum of verticals. Alibaba is an exception.

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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 B2C side, with advancements in real-time conversational AI, businesses can now deliver seamless, interactive voice experiences that feel increasingly natural and personalised. Vertical Applications Taking Off.

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Raising Money Using Customer Development

Steve Blank

Would you modify any of this if you had a B2B product instead of a B2C product, where every potential customer is also a potential competitor? Get revenue and cycle through as few iterations of Customer Validation as fast as possible — and then get some angel funding so we can hit the scale button. [.] Progress is the same.

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How Personalized Marketing Can Increase Your eCommerce Sales

ConversionXL

It’s too bad, because the open & click rates across nearly every vertical are also significantly higher. For B2C eCommerce businesses, the user usually comes with some purchase intent, so it doesn’t always make sense to use such tactics to capture emails. Yet surprisingly, 70% of brands do not personalize. image source.

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How to Find a Market? Use Jobs-To-Be-Done as the Front End of Customer Discovery

Steve Blank

Anthony Ulwick and Ted Thayer of Strategyn have a set of unique and valuable insights: Rather than defining markets as existing, adjacent or new markets – or by verticals, technology, demographics, et al. Others define markets around verticals, e.g. the financial services market or the healthcare market.

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Customer Data Platforms: The Next Big Shift in SaaS Marketing Stacks?

ConversionXL

After that, the adoption of the cloud as a more scalable and cost-effective approach allowed small/medium business to build CRMs around very specific market needs and establish dominance in new vertical segments. Is it a B2B or B2C email?” , “What is the company where this contact is working at?”

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Scaling is Hard, Case Study: TripAdvisor

Seeing Both Sides

In founding TripAdvisor, Kaufer wanted to take his hard core engineering skills and apply them to vertical search in travel. Fortunately, on the side, the company had built up TripAdvisor.com as a demo site to show the prospective clients what a vertical search engine could do. Big Data meets travel…in 2000.