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Start-ups are all Naked in the Mirror

Both Sides of the Table

I started my first company in 1999 in London at the height of the dot com craze. As the economy soured and people grew wary of buying Internet software (we were SaaS as early as 1999 – our buyers were certainly “early adopters&# ) and life grew more difficult. Reach out to the founders, not the staff. We were hot.

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Stitch Fix: Reinventing Retail Through Personalization

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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 Product Recommendation Techniques to Improve UX and Conversions

ConversionXL

Naturally, the types of products a certain eCommerce site sells and the kind of audience it caters to have an enormous impact on how recommendations should be used and presented in the store, and also on the kind of logics that work best for them. Where Can You Use Recommendations? Main Page Recommendations. Popular Products.

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Bazaarvoice Launches Social Commerce Insights

Austin Startup

I founded Coremetrics in 1999 to bring accountability and insight into the emerging world of eCommerce, and Bazaarvoice was built from the ground up to offer the most robust analytics capabilities available in the social commerce arena,” said Brett Hurt, founder and CEO of Bazaarvoice.

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Learn your Austin ABC’s and become a local super-connector

Austin Startup

the Connectors, Angels, Venture Capitalists, Founders, Professors, Hackers, Press… and the Legends. Find the Connectors , the Angels , the Venture Capitalists , the Founders , the Professors , the Hackers , and the Legends you need to meet and get some hints about the best ways to meet them. Here is your COVID-friendly cheat sheet.

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How Your Customers Actually Read Your Emails

ConversionXL

No matter whether you run a blog, a SaaS business, an eCommerce store or any other company that sends emails you will be able to learn something from the tips below and apply them to your own email marketing strategies! Subject line like it’s 1999! Chris Hexton is a co-founder of email remarketing software Vero.

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

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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.