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27 Entrepreneurs Share Tips on Building an Ecommerce Business

Hearpreneur

While platforms like Instagram offer a great starting point, the key to differentiation lies in the age-old strategy of Search Engine Optimization (SEO). 5- Calculate stock reorder levels Photo Credit: Dani Mechlowitz When building an e-commerce business, it's essential to keep track of your inventory to avoid sell-out periods. #5-

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Working Capital vs. Cash Flow: The Differences and How to Better Manage Them

Up and Running

It’s clear that understanding the financial health of your company will help you make more informed decisions, and that includes differentiating between working capital and cash flow. . Both of these are paramount to the running of a business, and while they might seem to have some overlap, they look at two distinct metrics.

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Eight Reasons Why Your Subscription Model Customers May Be Jumping Ship

YoungUpstarts

Just ask Blue Apron, which has found itself in the news recently for its poor stock market performance and its widely criticized acquisition-focused growth strategy — not to mention CEO Brad Dickerson’s unwillingness to release its retention numbers. The customer is having technical difficulties, like a poor streaming experience.

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Should Startups Focus on Profitability or Not?

Both Sides of the Table

Exec Summary: Most companies (98+%) in the world (even tech startups) should be very profit focused. If you spent the 3 years perfecting some hugely differentiated technology IP that may also be different. I always remind this to journalists who ask me about public stocks. Revenue is Not Revenue is Not Revenue.

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Developing a Social Media Marketing Strategy that Builds Loyalty and Awareness

ConversionXL

Combining these goals and objectives will give you meaningful metrics to track. Objective Goal Metrics Grow the business Increase awareness and perceived value Followers, fans, shares, retweets, etc. Improve retention Improve consumer perception Sentiment, testimonials, reviews, customer support and service response time, etc.

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Stitch Fix: Reinventing Retail Through Personalization

abovethecrowd.com

Despite Benchmark’s strong association with ecommerce during the late 1990’s due to the success of companies like eBay, we have not been particularly active in ecommerce in the past several years. For starters, the business metrics are quite compelling. To be candid, I entered my first meeting with the company with some skepticism.

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Spectacles and $SNAP’s $20B Valuation

Austin Startup

In order to achieve 20x growth, Snap needs grow both of those metrics 4–5x. And to top it all off, Snap isn’t offering voting rights to public market investors, which should discount the stock price further. Many tech pundits think the market opportunity in AR could be even larger than that. Let’s look at each figure.