The Startup Magazine

MARCH 28, 2018

Things get even more difficult for people who are not tech-savvy and often have to depend on third-party web developers and designers as these service usually come with a big price tag. In addition, Weebly offers SEO functionality, email marketing services, blogging capabilities, and eCommerce services. Source: Openvine.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 10, 2013

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! crowdSPRING’s Small Business Spotlight: Red Poppy Floral Design – [link]. 25 Examples of Stylish and Creative Designed Wedding Invitations – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! 35 Creative and Beautiful Business Card Design examples for your Inspiration – [link]. Showcase of 38 Well Designed iPhone Application Websites – [link].

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The Equity Kicker

DECEMBER 5, 2013

You will either be building an ecommerce brand that people will love, or supplying software and services into the ecommerce sector. We think about ecommerce in the widest sense, including innovative product companies that sell direct and businesses building new ways to buy things online.

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ConversionXL

MAY 6, 2021

Ultimately the CMS you choose will impact how quickly you can ship and test products, sales pages and design your site and content. In addition to a wide variety of plugins, WordPress also has thousands of themes to choose from to help you quickly build and design a site to your liking. Image source ). A brief overview of Webflow.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Web design experts suggest that you put your contact details at the top right of your home page. If you’re an ecommerce business, you accept payments online. And they can even be about a company’s history or portfolio of clients. It’s hardly conducive to getting conversions. You Haven’t Bothered With Security Certificates.

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The Equity Kicker

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

It’s been troubling me recently that at first glance the trend towards mobile and the trend within mobile towards apps mitigates against startup ecommerce companies. It’s one of the bests posts I’ve read in a while, largely because I think they may well have mapped out how mobile services will be designed in the future.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 1, 2020

Along with the business plan, you must have a well-designed investor deck, which is a presentation of around 15 to 25 slides summarizing the business plan. Investors usually carry a portfolio of startups. So, it is natural for them to fund companies that are complementary to the startups already in their portfolio.

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David Teten

AUGUST 20, 2019

In addition, their portfolios look far more diverse than VC industry norms. John Borchers, Co-founder and Managing Partner of Decathlon Capital , reports that “37% of our portfolio companies would be considered ‘impact’ qualified companies. I contacted every RBI venture capital investor I could identify, and learned: .

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 17, 2013

Instead of building fancy technology from the outset, they’re hacking together inexpensive online tools such as online forms, drag-and-drop site builders, advanced WordPress plugins, and eCommerce providers. Another example – a marketplace : Tastemaker is a marketplace connecting interior designers with homeowners for small design gigs.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 19, 2022

6- Stepped up eCommerce. Although our in-person services were put on hold, our eCommerce products, including virtual services tripled in revenue. As far my interior designing company, for example, is no longer doing business in the same way. We now design homes for the less affluent. Photo Credit: Ayanna Freeman.

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The Equity Kicker

JUNE 26, 2014

Finally, we are different to early stage funds (and many of them are great early stage funds) because we spend much more money supporting our portfolio. ‘Investor led studio’ or better ‘Ecommerce investment studio’ could be a great way to describe Forward Partners. We definitely don’t do that.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Amazon is the world’s leading ecommerce platform. It’s designed for artists working in a wide range of media—jewelry, clothing, shoes, home décor and accessories, prints, photography, mixed media, artistic wedding décor, glass art, illustrations and drawings, wood artwork, sculptures, and more. Creative Market : For graphic designers.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

We realized that there were certain open positions in our portfolio we wanted to call extra attention to. They began by selling only vintage and expanded to sell vintage-inspired pieces by indie designers, but Modcloth still launches one new true vintage item each day. A week or so ago, we launched the Key Hire Wire at First Round.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 9, 2016

While it’s hard to make universal recommendations, we’d suggest that designers use the cue that works best in its context. Designers should choose cues for scrolling based on the content, the business category and the overall design. Is the site for ecommerce, editorial or news? Luke Wroblewski (@lukew) December 10, 2014.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 17, 2014

Our in-house eCommerce manager would probably shoot me for recommending this, but it truly is another of my favorite extensions. It’s simple, colorful, adaptive and therefore—in today’s flat design, utility driven world—sexy! Branding and design tools for the DIYer. AdBlock extension. Install it here. canva.com.

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David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

Christopher Fralic is a Managing Partner at First Round Capital’s New York office, and has focused on a number of the firm’s investments in Advertising Technology, Social Media, Ecommerce, Gaming, Mobile and more. Christopher Fralic, Managing Partner, First Round Capital. You can reach Mr. Kalghatgi at nikhil@softbank.com and @nikhilkal.

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David Teten

JANUARY 11, 2020

High-potential prospective employees of portfolio companies. Executives of large companies which may acquire or become clients of our portfolio companies. My design inspiration is Craigslist (no joke), because Craigslist has the highest signal to noise ratio of any major website. Tech stack. I host on Hostforweb **. Crunchbase.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 7, 2016

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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View from Seed

AUGUST 30, 2017

Wayfair and Houzz are changing the way consumers find and shop for furnishings, but ecommerce is underpenetrated in this category, and the promise of VR and AR to create a step-function change here is still a little ways away. And as self-driving cars become mainstream and reshape urban planning, will housing design change even more?

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 12, 2013

So I started introducing him to portfolio companies. And we’ve designed the economic incentives so that Greg is aligned with the overall performance of GRP in addition to his investments so I’m excited to get him involved across all of our portfolio companies helping provide fresh perspectives on the important topic of growth.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

That's why people often take the portfolio approach when managing their career. If I wanted to be a product design person, just doing biz dev at a startup isn't going to help me get a product design job in the future, even though I've "proven" that I can work at a startup. Doing Your Own Thing vs Joining Someone Else's.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 13, 2018

Another great strategy is to ask to meet with some of their portfolio companies if you think your tech would be relevant to them as potential customers. That way your VC meeting becomes a sales lead AND the VC can get input from a trusted source (a portfolio company) without having to immediately commit more time.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

The creator economy consists of a new set of tools designed to support content creators from all walks of life (from doctors to hobbyists). For example, HourOne (disclosure: Remagine Ventures portfolio) only requires text to create high quality synthetic video using human characters. The creator economy market map, Singalfire.

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View from Seed

MARCH 5, 2015

the capital intensity of ecommerce, bad exit multiples, etc.). I’ve had multiple conversations with investors that say something like, “I really like this company, the founder reminds me of (insert name) when he/she started (insert successful portfolio company).” Look at successful founders in the portfolio first.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

I will use some examples from Parachute and some other portfolio companies to give you examples from our experiences of watching successful brands grow. better than anybody we had spoke with and she had the marketing chops to know how to communicate this to her market once she designed & built her products.

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View from Seed

MAY 28, 2020

In a similar move, Upserve, a Toast competitor and NextView portfolio company, is offering free online ordering and contactless payment options for restaurants for one year. This enables restaurants to benefit from Toast’s online ordering and payments platform even if they do not use Toast’s POS hardware.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 24, 2018

When we create new platform initiatives, our team tries to think about how we can be the most impactful with our portfolio companies. Today, we’re thrilled to announce a new program that we hope will help our portfolio companies with two of these bullets. Pierre Valade, Co-Founder of Sunrise & Mobile Designer at Microsoft.

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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 29, 2011

Last August, Chantel Waterbury walked into First Round's New York City office and told me all about jewelry, empowering women entrepreneurs in the fashion space, and what it means to design inspiring accessories. This Wednesday night, the chloe + isabel team will be putting together a very special launch event.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 20, 2018

The Internet, ecommerce, innovative technologies, and a ready pool of investors is causing the startup ecosystem to thrive across diverse industries. Being a day trader doesn’t only require that you take some minutes to set up the trades, create stop/limit loss orders, and check on the market periodically to see how your portfolio is faring.

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The Equity Kicker

MAY 22, 2015

In recent years VCs have been rushing to add value by hiring non-investors to help their portfolio companies. Google Ventures: has teams that help portfolio companies with design, engineering, recruiting, marketing and partnerships. Greylock: have a data scientist who helps their portfolio. That’s the activity.

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View from Seed

MAY 12, 2015

Are you a founder of an ecommerce startup? Even if an individual is designated by title as being more senior than another, the individual with a longer tenure always yields more soft influence to get a deal done given his or her deeper relationships, organizational know-how, and established trust with colleagues. It matters.

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Occam's Razor

JUNE 11, 2014

You just get a little nicer talent, you get a different design group (internal or external) and you let your mind be open to new possibilities. Design a glorious purchase experience. If you refuse to have a true mobile-awesome experience, at least suck-less by using responsive design - like this blog. Bits and bytes are cheap.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

a part of an exciting team, building web applications such as social networking, ecommerce, games, sports, contact management, CMS and more.Re. More and more VCs have deals in their portfolios that have long outlasted their investment value, and more and more VCs are seeking to unload these deals, at a loss, as reverse merger vehicles.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! The image above shows an example of what happens when a designer forgets about kerning. More great examples in the Logo Design section below. 18q9ZDp. . 18nbUsb.

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 14, 2011

Last Thursday night, Amazon CTO Werner Vogels joined a small group of technical folks from cloud and commerce related First Round portfolio companies for dinner at Double Crown. It was hard to keep our dinner small as there were very few companies in our portfolio that couldn't benefit from a relationship with the company in some way.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 9, 2019

A high-level stakeholder can overrule research-based decisions, designers can clash with optimizers, and the bevy of simultaneous changes can make it impossible to identify which changes are to blame if a redesign performs worse than its predecessor. Flash) or one whose design is clearly dated. But first, a note on “radical redesigns”.

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