Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 27, 2011
Internet scale. The first company represents a normal software company that sells its products directly (either via sales staff or directly off of the internet). Many eCommerce companies are in fact, middle men. In many Internet startups 80% of the operating costs will be people. Gross margins can range from 15-40%.
Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 17, 2013
And if you accept that premise then you have to accept that the future of the Internet will be dominated by video. So content distribution in the future looks more like an eCommerce business than a traditional media one. Think of the Internet, short-formate equivalent of Discovery, NatGeo, E! Much of it already is. Not so fast.
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Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 26, 2016
In an eCommerce or Internet Services business it is often the marketing costs (if purchased online) and in an enterprise software company it is often marketing plus enterprise sales reps. In eCommerce it’s easy to measure the first time purchase value (AOV, average order value) but that doesn’t tell you the “life time” value.
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APRIL 16, 2011
“The Internet saved my life. The Internet really re-connected Joanne with her former working self. Certainly if you look at eCommerce & social media – women are the ones using these products. I didn’t think about who was going to put food in the refrigerator.&#. The women are out there.
Both Sides of the Table
AUGUST 28, 2009
As the economy soured and people grew wary of buying Internet software (we were SaaS as early as 1999 – our buyers were certainly “early adopters&# ) and life grew more difficult. Reporters were no longer interested in talking about B2B eCommerce. I acknowledge it was a mistake. We were hot. Until we weren’t.
Both Sides of the Table
AUGUST 21, 2011
In the Internet era somehow as an industry we’ve subscribed to the folklore that every interaction is best computerized. The first investment I ever made as a VC, RingRevenue , was an easy one for me because it combined three key areas for me: it combined telephony / Internet, performance-based marketing & a perfect team construct.
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 28, 2018
Perhaps the first big pioneer of this was Apple who started opening stores in 2001 , just when it appeared that the Internet was going to implode and when they went physical the industry trade magazines and press openly mocked them.
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