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Stitch Fix: Reinventing Retail Through Personalization

abovethecrowd.com

Early this year Amie Fineberg, who has been my amazing assistant for over 10 years, mentioned that she and several other employees at Benchmark had fallen in love with a new ecommerce service, and that I might want to check it out. Fundamentally, we share the common concern that many of the new “Ecommerce 2.0”

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10+ Trends: Recap of 2011 and What’s Next…

thebarefootvc

eCommerce/Social Commerce: New models continue to evolve as ecommerce rebounded this past year. Kiva co-founder Jessica Jackley’s latest venture Profounder is one platform that could power these transactions. Universities are also creating more interdisciplinary programs in order to encourage this collaboration.

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15 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

We built some early ecommerce sites around 1999 and back office order processing systems using visual basic for applications (VBA). And those that were successful at it by driving sales will earn for their efforts. My co-founders and I started eVestment for two primary reasons. . #8 – Almost By Mistake.

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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #16: The importance of reference checking

Austin Startup

When I started Coremetrics in 1999, Accel Partners wanted to invest in our Series A alongside Highland Capital Partners. he was an incredible friend and eCommerce and Wall Street visionary). But I learned later that I wasn’t as thorough as Scott Cook, the co-founder and initial CEO (now Chairman) of Intuit. and dangerous.

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28 Entrepreneurs Discuss Why they Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

In January of 1999, I co-founded a marketing agency with a former boss. I was a professional dancer, choreographer, dance teacher and studio co-owner when I became disabled due to disastrous back surgery followed by a car accident making the situation worse. Thanks to Mike Samson, crowdSPRING. #3 3 – I was Fired Twice.

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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #14: Selling to the “Cool Kids”

Austin Startup

I discuss category creation with one of the co-authors of Play Bigger , Christopher Lochhead, in episode #232 of Legends and Losers if you would like to really delve into that (it is a very important topic). I’ve also, of course, been spending a lot of time talking about this with our rapidly growing sales team at data.world.

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How to build a culture code that sticks

Austin Startup

By Kevin Sproles, founder and CEO of Austin’s Volusion “The best companies are deliberate about culture. The co-founder of Hubspot hit it on the head with this quote. I founded Volusion in 1999 out of my childhood bedroom, and stayed on as CEO until 2011, when I left for a few years to focus on my family.