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Ecommerce Trendwatching: How To Find, Follow, and Set Trends

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TikTok and Influencers One viral video on TikTok can reach 1.5 million people and generate monthly revenue. A vivid example of a trendsetting market could be China, as it is known for its phenomenal success in the e-commerce industry. Initially, we started watching the trend with live commerce.

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

In an over-funding environment companies are encouraged to eschew revenues in a land grab to acquire eyeballs, clicks, page views or whatever other vanity metrics give VCs the false comfort that they’re sitting on a gold mine. The opportunity to transact at the point of purchase increases the sheer number of revenue opportunities.

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Crisis versus Opportunity: 6 Ways to Bootstrap a Startup in a Post-COVID-19 World While Navigating the New Normal

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It is generally accepted that the novel coronavirus, COVID-19 , was first seen in Wuhan, China, during the last days of 2019. There has never been a viral outbreak of such magnitude before. It means relying on your own savings and revenue to operate and expand.”. Year-on-year growth metrics in unique site traffic is 7.8

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Cracking The Code: Why I disagree with Tony Zingale on the future.

Cracking the Code

however, public SaaS companies like Concur, Saba, Taleo, LivePerson and Ultimate are growing 50-100% per year and trading at an average 5x trailing revenue multiples (I excluded salesforce leading the pack with 9x!) whereas traditional software companies of this size have a growth rate of less than 10% and revenue multiples of 2-2.5x.

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CXL Live 2018 Recap: Top 5 Lessons from Each Speaker

ConversionXL

mobile is ~50% of revenue, shorter form works better. Example: wechat in China. Flip your funnel – only 5% of revenue comes from optimisation but 92% of revenue from retention. Work hard to define meaningful product metrics – enabler of team success. Dropbox: first achieved growth through virality.

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Out of the Crisis #1: Sam Altman on resetting the clock cycle of biotech, investing in a cure and more

Startup Lessons Learned

Then I remember seeing back when they were only maybe like a thousand worldwide cases outside of China, the shape of that graph, and I sort of realized at some point when it just looked like this perfect exponential, that it was beyond what was going to be contained. There's a good enough vaccine to get the virality rate below one.

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Identify The Known Unknowns: Leverage Analytics Custom Alerts

Occam's Razor

From: " Oh my God I did not know that metric had crashed for that segment!! So you set out to do this as a hobby, but you know you are right, and while you don't want to spend looking at every twitter visit, you want to be alerted when twitter revenue shoots up! Choose the metric you want to focus on. Now the KEY PART!

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