Years-long decline before final shutdown · Fatal mistake: Built Colombian SME ERP as Siigo — already dominant — expanded its cloud offering with the same features at lower cost
Evaluating only B2BCOL’s profile at its peak — without knowing the outcome — the model ranked Competition as the #1 likely cause. That’s exactly how it died.
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Documented cause
B2BCOL built a modern cloud ERP for Colombian small and medium businesses, raising $3.5M and acquiring 420 clients. Siigo — Colombia's dominant accounting software with 150,000 business clients — launched its own cloud-native product in 2020 with equivalent features and a migration path for existing clients. B2BCOL could not match Siigo's distribution network of 3,000 accountant partners who recommended software to SME clients. Churn accelerated as accountants steered their SME clients toward the platform they already knew.
Lesson
“ERP startups in Colombia must decide whether they are competing with Siigo or integrating with it — the accountant distribution network is Siigo's most powerful moat and cannot be replicated.”
Failure anatomy
Collapse type
Slow Death
🐌 LOW
Hype cycle
None
Moat type
Technology
Fatal mistake
Built Colombian SME ERP as Siigo — already dominant — expanded its cloud offering with the same features at lower cost