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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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Startup Benchmarks

VC Cafe

In this post I’ll focus on benchmarking resources for seed and series A in the following three categories: SaaS B2C / Consumer apps Deep tech. The main B2C benchmarks have to do with traction: growth in user acquisition, user retention/churn, monetisation, as well as the effectiveness of consumer marketing + virality.

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Pricing determines your business

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

This is often B2C because the value is in quantity of customers, and there’s 100x more consumers than businesses. $1/mo 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 simple enough to be self-service). . $1/mo

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Traction is the new IP

Version One Ventures

In today’s web landscape, word of mouth drives adoption and can lead to “winner takes all” (or almost all) in both B2C and B2B markets. Barriers to entry are no longer created by patents or by tech differentiation alone, but by superior traction in the marketplace.

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Ecommerce Trendwatching: How To Find, Follow, and Set Trends

ReadWriteStart

TikTok and Influencers One viral video on TikTok can reach 1.5 In 2023, personalization will remain a critical aspect of e-commerce trends, whether you are B2B or B2C. In 2023, customers will have high expectations, and the availability of customer support robots will only improve their shopping experience.

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Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller

SoCal CTO

It was also beneficial because I got some good experience with both B2B and B2C business models. You mention social / viral aspects at both Google Photos and United Online. I was in charge of all product management and marketing for the first year-and-a-half, that was a great learning experience with a very talented team of folks.

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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?