thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 16, 2011

eCommerce/Social Commerce: New models continue to evolve as ecommerce rebounded this past year. As the world “stabilized” into a new reality post 2008 crash, there was a realization that there has to be a better way of doing business, that we collectively can no longer sacrifice everything in pursuit of profit.

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Hunter Walker

MAY 16, 2018

Over the last eleven years, I’ve spent the entirety of my time in roles that have allowed me to execute on my beliefs, theories, and hypotheses re: consumer psychology, digital media, and D2C eCommerce. My first startup was founded in 2008 and sold in 2010. It was an early eCommerce / media play in the action sports space.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Now, anyone can create apps and websites, design chatbots, automate processes, open ecommerce stores, and lots more — all without typing out a single line of code. For example, brick-and-mortar stores can use a no-code ecommerce tool to take their business online. Then there are no-code tools for organizing information.

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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. It will be a lot easier for us to make improvements to our product when we have data-driven discussions and decisions.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

Boy, there has been a lot of innovation in the eCommerce space in the past few years with GroupOn, HauteLook, Gilt Groupe and others. Marketing and lead automation software for businesses; claim to have largest market share in sector since March 2008. You can read in Jeremy Liew’s own words why he invested in the deal.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

In 2008, Seth Godin published a list of things that “every good marketer knows” Among that list was: “Anticipated, personal, and relevant advertising always does better than unsolicited junk.” Despite popular belief, transactional emails are not exclusively relevant to eCommerce companies. Tweet It!].

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ConversionXL

MARCH 16, 2014

Back in 2008, researcher Harald Weinreich & Jakob Nielson published a study that measured 45,237 page views from 25 different users, and found that – of the people being analyzed – most people would scroll about halfway down the page for longer content and only spent enough time on the page to read less than 20% of the text.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 18, 2010

W ith the explosion of ecommerce, open source ecommerce solutions such as Varien’s Magento, are gaining the attention of startups and established industry players. According to TechCrunch , it may very well be Paypal, who has been collaborating with Magento on product development since 2008.

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Up and Running

JUNE 29, 2016

Nastygal has had huge success as an ecommerce site. Grow your ecommerce with a fantastic website. Sophia Amoruso, founder of clothing brand Nastygal and author of #GirlBoss, started her ecommerce store on eBay. A strong, responsive website is paramount when it comes to bringing in more money for your clothing business.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 24, 2016

In the years 2008-10 it seems most of my high school and college friends discovered Facebook and wanted to say hello. I realized that with Facebook I could just publish them into the stream and my family would see them. So throughout 2006/07 when I had really young kids Facebook was truly a social network for sharing family moments.

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The Equity Kicker

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

My reading of the tea leaves is that there is a good chance that the financial instability that has dogged us since 2008 is in its final phases. Innovation in the installation period is in the core technologies (e.g.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 16, 2019

Its product quality, sales and share price tanked — the share price in 2008 hit $3, as compared to $250 today. The company embarked on a massive digital transformation program, starting with eCommerce and digital marketing. And then in the middle 2000’s Domino’s began a sharp decline.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 23, 2010

Every TechStars class seems to have one and Occipital wins the bootstrapper of TechStars Boulder 2008 award. Occipital’s founders – Jeff and Vikas – are the epitome of bootstrap entrepreneurs.

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Version One Ventures

JANUARY 18, 2016

If you’re building a software/social/ecommerce startup, then at one point or another, you have been advised to start in a niche market and expand into the masses. So, we ended up selling the company to Amazon in 2008. The main reason is that Amazon was already too strong a player in the general book category.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2010

eCommerce is hot again! Online advertising platform for local businesses; ReachLocal reported over $203 million in revenue for 2009, compared to around $146 million in 2008. million loss in 2008. million, compared to a $7 million net loss in 2008. the funding and market coverage. million, compared to a $4.47

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

I built the eCommerce engine myself and self-funded the business. 2008 Harvard Business Review. And, ultimately, I wasn’t that passionate about it. Passion is so important, especially at the beginning. The fourth was BodyMatrix, an online sports nutrition store. If you are a VC, what do you think about this?

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

MAY 5, 2020

Occurrences such as the global financial crisis of 2008 and COVID-19 outbreak both fall into this category. There is a much greater demand from buyers in industries that are growing such as Ecommerce, business services and consulting than there are in industries that are declining or moving overseas such as manufacturing and lodging.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 6, 2018

Perhaps your site’s ecommerce performance isn’t up to expectations, or you’re not getting as many conversions you’d like. In 2008, famed digital trends and internet analyst Mary Meeker predicted that mobile web traffic would overtake desktop traffic by 2014. Your site isn’t responsive or mobile-friendly.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 29, 2017

Prior to 2008, Chris was the lead international kidnapping negotiator for the Federal Bureau of Investigation, as well as the FBI’s hostage negotiation representative for the National Security Council’s Hostage Working Group.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

In March of 2008, Perry Chen contacted me to ask for my help with fundraising--not the kind of crowd fundraising that he specializes in--but venture capital. It's like the most amazing ecommerce store, where if someone can think of something amazing, you can buy it. I don't think it had even launched publically at the time.

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ctotodevelopers.blogspot.com

JULY 11, 2012

What if we all went ECommerce Only? ► 2008. (21). Why CIOs need to put Enterprise 2.0 high on their. ► August. (2). On Top of the Business World. ► July. (3). The Next Tech Battle: Chrome OS vs. Office Web App. ► June. (4). ► May. (1). ► April. (3). ► March. (2). ► February. (4).

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Hearpreneur

MAY 15, 2016

Since then, we moved our storefront to Amazon and our own eCommerce website. Since I’ve been researching home jobs and working from home since 2008, I chose to start a blog to share information about the ever-growing number of companies that hire a home-based workforce. The Bagtique was born.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 26, 2013

I can remember when creating a web site for eCommerce could easily require a million dollar investment. Almost 20% of young women now aspire to run their own business today as entrepreneurs (15% in 2008), according to a recent poll by The Telegraph. No wonder 90% of the successful startups still bootstrap.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 4, 2023

To have 99 ideas for each client's design contest was the inspiration for the name 99designs, which we chose when we first opened for business in 2008. We wanted to paint a vivid mental picture of what our company does for eCommerce, which is our target audience. Photo Credit: Rene Delgado. Thanks to Karden Rabin, CFS School ! #28-

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ConversionXL

APRIL 27, 2019

Indeed, a CMO Council study from 2008 found that: Over 50% of global marketers report that they have fair, little, or no knowledge of the customer demographic, behavioral, psychographic and transactional data. A B2C ecommerce company may have just a few clearly defined phases; a B2B SaaS company selling to the Fortune 100 may have more.

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Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 14, 2014

If you've read my first book Web Analytics: An Hour A Day, you know that I've advocated this strategy since 2008! There are four reasons, again from Web Analytics: An Hour A Day, from 2008 (!): Clean measures of conversion rates require a clean and standard implementation of the ecommerce tags. See Page 269. :).

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

That question is to unique to each eCommerce store but if you rely on SEO traffic you are surely not going to remove reviews.”. The example he gave was that the search term “snow tires” has evolved into, “what are the best snow tires for a 2008 Ford F150?”. Though, in this case I want to say that it’s a matter of execution.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

A CMO Council study conducted from 2007 to 2008, “Business Gain From How You Retain,” found that: “Over 50% of global marketers report that they have fair, little, or no knowledge of the customer demographic, behavioral, psychographic and transactional data.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Klaviyo is a platform that helps growth-focused eCommerce brands drive more sales with super-targeted, highly relevant email, Facebook and Instagram marketing. Transcript of Spotting Inflection Points in Your Industry written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Back to Podcast. Transcript.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Look at the 2008-11 banking crisis, a disturbing example of how a national crisis can sabotage entrepreneurship. In 2008, for the first time, the number of business starts fell below the number of business closures. Today’s COVID crisis is far larger and deeper than the 2008 crisis. We as a country cannot afford to fail them.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 7, 2013

Aaron was an Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year winner in 2008, was listed to Inc Magazine’s 30 under 30 list 2010, and was named as a Top 10 Most Influential CEO in 2010 (behind Zuckerberg, Andrew Mason, and Matt Mullenweg). In his free time Aaron is an avid wakeboarder and outdoor adventurer. If You Liked This Post. :

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Remember the economic crisis of 2008? But if we give a closer look at the 2008 crisis. It is expected that by the end of the year, the brick and mortar stores will face a fall of 60%, while the eCommerce industry will notice a hike of 20%. by Tuhin Bhatt, co-founder of Intelivita. The era that gave us some great startups.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 31, 2021

Airbnb struggled to attract investors when it first began in 2008, requiring founders Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia to manufacture bespoke cereal boxes to earn money. He then went on to build an eCommerce giant from his apartment. According to Statista, the company generated more than $863.1 million in the United States in 2020.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 21, 2015

ImageScape.com) case study from 2007-2008…. A few years ago, Blivakker.no, a leading beauty eCommerce store in Norway, ran a test to discover the impact of removing form fields. If you’re not an eCommerce site, you likely don’t have the need for a form this long… or a progress bar. Tweet It!]. What Other Data Is Out There?

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Austin Startup

MARCH 31, 2019

We were really impressed with Keith Benjamin in particular and he was joining our Board of Directors (unfortunately Keith passed away in a tragic accident in 2008 as I wrote about in this Bazaarvoice blog post ; I think about him often?—?he he was an incredible friend and eCommerce and Wall Street visionary).

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ConversionXL

MARCH 10, 2021

When Windows Server 2008 R2 was launched, Microsoft built off the momentum with the release of Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) 2.0. Other popular eCommerce brands like Zappos , 3Wishes , and Aliexpress with hundreds of thousands of customers globally manage employee and customer onboarding easily with an AD.

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David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

He is an active angel with many successful angel investments including: Rent.com, (purchased by Ebay in 2005 for $415 million), Golfnow.com (purchased by Comcast in June 2008), and Lifelock (lead investors include Bessemer Venture Partners and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers). He also worked in the ecommerce division at General Electric.

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