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Stitch Fix: Reinventing Retail Through Personalization

abovethecrowd.com

The company, which the founder cleverly named “Stitch Fix,” had a remarkably unique offering compared to other women’s fashion experiences. In addition to market concerns, I had the unique experience of working with Dan Nordstrom and the team at Nordstrom.com in August of 1999.

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Why Content Personalization Is Not Web Personalization (and What to Do About It)

ConversionXL

In 1999, David Weinberger, a technologist and co-author of The Cluetrain Manifesto , wrote, “Personalization: the automatic tailoring of sites and messages to the individuals viewing them so that we can feel that somewhere there’s a piece of software that loves us for who we are.” 3% increase in average visit duration.

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52 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

At the same time it seemed that whenever I would have a conversation with a friend, family member, colleague, manager, executive–you name it!–about I have encountered numerous companies with bad customer service, or bad financial management, or unprofessional stuff, you name it. Why the name?

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28 Entrepreneurs Discuss Why they Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

For buyers, it is a place to post a creative project, name their own price, watch the world contribute ideas and choose the one they like best. In January of 1999, I co-founded a marketing agency with a former boss. This was, instead, monthly recurring revenue and a real product. Thanks to Mike Samson, crowdSPRING. #3

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High Returns On A Small Fund Challenge Low Returns On A Big Fund

David Teten

Assuming you have a large amount of capital to invest, the relatively easy decision is to invest in one of the brand-name, multi-billion dollar VCs. Moreover, VC funds on average earn approximately 2/3 of their revenue from fixed fees. That said, how do you avoid suffering the poor median returns the industry is known for?

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

Austin Startup

He has a series of this name and you can see us discussing the topic on YouTube. I programmed since the time I was seven-years old, as I explain in my blog post on why I named this blog?—?Lucky7?—?in They will bring you revenue, delight your clients (the right salespeople care about the ultimate value delivered?—?not

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Top 30 Startup Technology and Product Posts for September 2010

SoCal CTO

want to sidestep the argument about whether or not it's good to be " stealth " or not, and work with the assumption that if you've purchased the domain name, you're going to put up some sort of website. previously explained that it usually requires some equity, but here is some more step by step practical advice. Let's recap.