VC Cafe

JANUARY 24, 2021

Streaming, gaming, ecommerce increased adoption rapidly, advancing 10 years in the space of a few months. Companies like iHeartMedia, SiriusXM, and Spotify are investing in and leading the evolution of audio, focused on music streaming (on-demand and lean-back modalities), podcasting and content production.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 5, 2017

But what makes Millennials so special when it comes to ecommerce strategy? Millennials shop online more than Gen X’ers and certainly more than Baby Boomers, making them an obvious target market for ecommerce platforms. They want an uncluttered ecommerce platform and to be able to make a quick purchase on their smartphones.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

With one of the many new tools , and a dose of sweat equity, you can create a website for almost nothing -- and you are on your way to success with ecommerce, your latest invention or personal services. According to Investopedia , over 90 percent of successful businesses currently start this way. Marty Zwilling

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 14, 2018

More users than ever are leaning on their mobile devices for research before engaging a brand. Cooper focuses on comprehensive technical audits for large eCommerce brands, analyzing backlink profiles, and nerding out to marketing podcasts. Build a Fast, Mobile-Friendly Website. You’ll be knocking down walls and expanding in no time.

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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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View from Seed

JULY 19, 2022

Stelios has a compelling vision for nudgem that allows ecommerce merchants to gather data across the entire user journey and unify those data points to build enriched customer profiles for robust personalization.” ” – Melody Koh. Get to know the business. RH: How is your company planning to solve this problem? .

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 9, 2012

TLDR: Brant Cooper and Patrick Vlaskovits , authors of The Entrepreneur's Guide to Customer Development are back with a new book called The Lean Entrepreneur. Since then, Brant and Patrick have been tireless advocates for the whole Lean Startup movement. Illustrations by FAKEGRIMLOCK. You can pre-order it starting today.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 18, 2020

With one of the many new tools , and a dose of sweat equity, you can create a website for almost nothing -- and you are on your way to success with ecommerce, your latest invention or personal services. According to Investopedia , over 90 percent of successful businesses currently start this way. Marty Zwilling.

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ConversionXL

MAY 6, 2021

If you’re a lean startup just starting, there’s much less inertia to overcome. That’s not the case with WordPress, so you can create a beautiful ecommerce site and know that the blog is an integral part of the development process. While WordPress does offer support, leaning on the community is often your best bet.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Marketing departments of the future will get very lean and depend upon quick-strike teams that can be assembled for specific initiatives and campaigns. When you pair GoDaddy Pro with qualified WordPress and eCommerce hosting plans, the benefits are even greater by including access to all premium features at no additional cost.

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Up and Running

MAY 3, 2021

Due to this relative lack of speed on SEO’s part, it can be difficult to make the case for it, but leaning on data can help. With the rise of eCommerce during the course of the pandemic, these habits will likely remain long after the world returns to any semblance of normality.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

In my daily work with ecommerce brands, I see two types of companies: The first type focuses on acquisition and conversion. As Alistair Croll and Benjamin Yoskovitz detail in their book, Lean Analytics, cohort analysis has special relevance for the customer lifecycle, enabling marketers. The second relies on retention. Conclusion.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

It’s always fun debating companies with Dana because she’s always so knowledgeable on deals – particularly those in the digital media, ad-tech and eCommerce spaces. Another topic we debated early in the program was “lean startup” vs. “ fat startup ” where we both took the obvious hedge and said “it depends.”

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 7, 2011

Lean Marketing: Don’t Believe Your Own Press Releases – [link]. Usability Best Practices For eCommerce Websites – [link]. Usability Best Practices For eCommerce Websites – [link]. Usability Best Practices For eCommerce Websites – [link]. Product design at GitHub [link].

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 23, 2020

9- Focusing on lean operations. As an online business owner, There are a lot of things that I want to do with my eCommerce website that I plan to implement next year. As we’re an ecommerce selling alcoholic goods, we’re trying to pivot into the world of subscription-based services. Photo Credit: Alexandra Zamolo.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 1, 2023

Lean” doesn’t come to mind when you think of a business that needs trucks, warehouses, cross-docks, and thousands of employees to run efficiently. Hire versatile players and lean into your team The SVB collapse reminded us that staffing matters. Working creatively Our company sits at the center of the logistics and freight industry.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 24, 2020

You’ve likely noticed a few of them as you’ve transitioned your team to working remotely or explored launching an eCommerce platform. Making lean decisions , testing minimum viable products (MVP), actively seeking feedback, and being willing to make continuous adjustments in pursuit of optimization. Marketplaces Like Upwork.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

Greg immediately hit the ground running with a few themes that he had developed while the CMO at HauteLook, a successful eCommerce business that sold to Nordstrom for $270 million. He immediately started meeting with every eCommerce business and has a few themes on where he thinks innovation at the brand level will come.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 9, 2021

Lean In To What Makes You, You. Let’s assume you’re sitting on an ecommerce startup. But before we can work out how best to position an ecommerce startup’s brand for the covid era, we need to take a look at what has changed. The lesson to retain about positioning your brand in the Covid Era? It feels disorienting. Intriguing.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Etsy is a popular eCommerce platform for everything handmade, from custom jewelry to baby clothes. This is an eCommerce business, it won’t make you money if it’s sloppily created or neglected after launch. See Also Should You Use Etsy or Build Your Own eCommerce site? If so, you’ve come to the right place.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 17, 2013

Whether that means chasing down a technical co-founder, learning to code, or even building that “Lean MVP” – the conventional wisdom is that without tech abilities you’re nothing more than a dude (or dudette) with a Powerpoint. A growing number of startups, however, are quietly disproving this assumption.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 8, 2012

My junk email is an account I use specifically to sign up for random websites, to conduct ecommerce, and to avoid the mailing lists that my accounts inevitably (and magically) appear on. Related posts: Lean Marketing Tips: Hyperlocal Marketing Channels. Lean Marketing tips: not-for-profit edition. Photo: bby.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

However if you imagine a young child with a large magnifying glass — who leans over fragile flower to study it more closely, only to accidentally concentrate the suns rays and cause the flower to burn — sometimes when we try and “study” something — the actions we take to understand it get in the way.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 1, 2020

Bootstrapping inculcates the entrepreneurial discipline and financial responsibility to run a lean business. ? For example, if I have an ecommerce venture in my portfolio, investing in a logistic startup or a payment gateway startup would make a lot of sense as they can be integrated. Crowdfunding.

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 14, 2011

This focus on customers is one of a number of things that Amazon does that is consistant with lean startup principals. To have one company be a major player in or have obvious designs on eCommerce, cloud, music & entertainment, hardware, advertising, e-mail and discount local deals is really impressive in its ambition.

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Up and Running

APRIL 16, 2020

eCommerce Consulting Company. Help small businesses go online, add eCommerce, and add the right customer service tools to streamline their businesses. Every eCommerce seller is looking to maximize their sales right now. You will need to have a strong online presence and offer relevant services and pricing. .

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

JANUARY 6, 2011

Although the industry is in much better shape than the dark days of 2008 and 2009, many CEOs have fully embraced the continue to internalize the lean startup principles that came out of those years. I asked the CEO’s of the companies that I work with, ”What are your company related new years resolutions?”

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 14, 2014

Considering that nearly 2 million Americans fall victim to online scams a year, and many scam sites lean heavily on low priced stock photography… the odds are not in your favor. Blog eCommerce Resources Lead Generation SaaS Resources' ” This applies to both positive & negative experiences.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 18, 2013

My advice for you, with the web being so oversaturated (and consumers being over stimulated), is to think like you are Google’s famous ultra-lean homepage: if you only had to pick a handful of things, what the priority? More critically, what’s extra fluff that’s getting in the way of what is important?

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 1, 2015

But focus to date has been on the low-hanging fruit such as social or ecommerce data, so there’s still opportunity where data is harder to acquire and/or to label. Large corporations have access to huge datasets and can acquire more (pace IBM’s recent acquisition of The Weather Channel data assets for $1.5bn ).

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 10, 2013

How a 1-Page Business Model Will – and Won’t–Help Your Lean Startup | by Kevin Dewalt – [link]. Tips for Designing a Fabulous Ecommerce Website | Dezine Robotics – [link]. It’s difficult to fake corporate culture | Business Insider – [link]. 10 Myths about Startups – [link].

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Up and Running

APRIL 9, 2018

Whether you start your business after years of retail or sales experience, or you’re building a new area of expertise, ecommerce can be an exciting venture that doesn’t require a retail location. Here’s a free, downloadable template to help you get started with Lean Planning. Have a business plan. Don’t let planning be intimidating.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 3, 2015

I’ve laid out a few of the various types of online businesses that you might be interested in starting, both those based around existing platforms like Etsy and eBay, and self-hosted eCommerce sites. The best part about a direct eCommerce site is the level of control you have over your store.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 15, 2019

This strategy works really well for companies that lean on technology to complete their work, such as a digital marketing agency. If you’re a retail shop, think about opening an eCommerce store to sell your goods rather than having to pay for a shop manager, retail space, etc. Option 1: Go remote. 2) Office supply costs.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 15, 2011

Our new Stanford Lean LaunchPad class was an experiment in a new model of teaching startup entrepreneurship. Abhishek Bhattacharyya ( MSEE, Jun 2011) creator of WT-Ecommerce, an open source engine, Ex-NEC engineer. Filed under: Business Model versus Business Plan , Customer Development , Lean LaunchPad , Teaching. Stay tuned.

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The Equity Kicker

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

However, there are two really significant differences: The YC Playbook is written for all startups whilst The Path Forward is written for ecommerce and marketplace startups. You could think of The Path Forward as an evolving library of articles written by experts in different aspects of starting ecommerce and marketplace companies.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 13, 2018

And as you become a later stage company in fund raising you’ll likely have several follow up decks to discuss things like: Unit economics LTV / CAC analyses Cohort analyses Retention rates (SaaS) or repurchase rates (eCommerce) etc.

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