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27 Entrepreneurs Share Tips on Building an Ecommerce Business

Hearpreneur

The expansion of e-commerce should also bring about seeing returns as a strategic lever, similar to how companies used faster delivery to drive customer experience and revenue. The current returns process has too many touchpoints where shrinkage can happen. Thanks to Christian Piller, Pollen Returns ! #2- Thanks to Ben Pu, Ship Sage ! #18-

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How to Stop Playing “Target Market Roulette”: A new addition to the Lean toolset

Steve Blank

Lean Methodology consists of three tools designed for entrepreneurs building new ventures: The Business Model Canvas – to write down all the hypotheses about a new business; Customer Development – a process for testing those hypotheses outside the building; Agile Engineering – to rapidly build minimal viable products to test product/market fit.

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30 Entrepreneurs Share Their One Prediction for Business in 2022

Hearpreneur

You're likely going to be experiencing revenues in waves, owing to the pandemic booms and dips, and the varying regulations. With more of us working from home and placing more demands on our bandwidths, faster internet with increased capacity for file sharing and uninterrupted Zoom conversations is the natural next step.

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Why Uber is The Revenge of the Founders

Steve Blank

— Unremarked and unheralded, the balance of power between startup CEOs and their investors has radically changed: IPOs/M&A without a profit (or at times revenue) have become the norm. Typically, this caliber of bankers wouldn’t talk to you unless your company had five profitable quarters of increasing revenue.

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Ubiquitous Computing and the Misguided Frenzy About “Mobile”

Agile VC

Gaming is still the largest category, where you see multiple mobile game companies with $100M+ revenue (e.g. Gameloft, Rovio) and a couple $1B+ revenue companies in Asia (GREE, DeNA). Ubiquitous computing is also propelling many premium services, primarily in the entertainment realm. productivity – Evernote).

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CXL Live 2018 Recap: Top 5 Lessons from Each Speaker

ConversionXL

Corporate Agility. Transparency correlates to agility (Does your CEO know how many tests you ran last month?). mobile is ~50% of revenue, shorter form works better. Flip your funnel – only 5% of revenue comes from optimisation but 92% of revenue from retention. Result: -45% revenue per visit.

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Transcript of How Leaders Can Create Inclusive Cultures

Duct Tape Marketing

Jennifer Brown: I have a lot of problem solving energy and sort of bandwidth to dedicate and not just that I want to dedicate it because I feel comfortable and valued and seen. Make room for a new revenue channel. What you really need is agile thinkers, thinkers who don’t have a conventional background for the role.

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