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Ecommerce Trendwatching: How To Find, Follow, and Set Trends

ReadWriteStart

Keeping up with trends is the reality show of the e-commerce world, which is constantly developing, gaining a significant market share, and driving online sales. In contrast, it left several e-trends: augmented reality, zero coding, the marketplace boom, and product subscriptions are just a few of them. Only in 2021, 72.9%

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Startup Benchmarks

VC Cafe

When you start with an honest and diligent effort to determine the truth of your situation, the right decisions often become self-evident.” — Jim Collins , author of Good to Great. In this post I’ll focus on benchmarking resources for seed and series A in the following three categories: SaaS B2C / Consumer apps Deep tech.

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Meet the 32 Israeli Centaurs that reached $100M in ARR

VC Cafe

I’m excited for the talent that will spin out of those companies to create the next generation of B2C stars coming out of Israel. Sorry for the humbrag, but I’m proud to see Minute Media , our Remagine Ventures portfolio company (and our only later stage investment) on this prestigious list.

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What Data From 62,000 Payment Forms Says About Boosting Online Sales

YoungUpstarts

In April 2017, we reviewed 62,000 random form submissions from 97 different industries to see how form length, device choice, and prices affected conversion rates. We found several patterns that could help improve your e-commerce strategy and boost sales. Something in the payment form or checkout process might be hindering sales.

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

However, in private markets, there is more room to optimize across all 11 steps of the investing process: firm management , marketing, fundraising , origination , manage relationships, due diligence, negotiation, monitoring, portfolio acceleration , reporting, and. They read reviews of the products of target investments.

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How to Solve the Biggest Shipping and Fulfillment Challenges of 2019

Up and Running

By 2021, global B2C ecommerce sales are expected to surpass $4.5 If you don’t, your competitors are lining up to scoop up those sales. Aside from direct to consumer online sales, shipping and fulfillment challenges can also have an impact on online retails who also sell their products through larger retailers. In the U.S.,

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The False Dichotomy of B2C and B2B

Venture Chronicles

Ray Wang wrote a summary of CRM Evolution that I found particularly interesting, and one point in particular resonated with me because it aligns to something I have been talking about at Get Satisfaction for a while now… B2B and B2C distinctions are dead. B2C and B2B is dead. It doesn’t make sense.

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