View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

What’s looking likely is that instead of physical stores and ecommerce being distinct, separate channels, we will see increasingly tight integration between the digital and physical experience of a brand or retailer — and new forms of retail experiences altogether.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

So content distribution in the future looks more like an eCommerce business than a traditional media one. You must find ways to get some distribution through other online partners like Hulu or package up shows for distribution on Roku or Xbox. Video production & distribution is becoming much more programatic. MSN & AOL.

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 15, 2018

Ecommerce is growing rapidly. To that end, here are seven ecommerce trends retailers should know about. Ecommerce Trend Influences. Mobile Ecommerce Is Only Getting Bigger. This is especially true of individuals from older generations, who are still in the process of adjusting to modern ecommerce trends.

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The Equity Kicker

MAY 23, 2014

Andy Dunn from Bonobos wrote yesterday about the dominance of Amazon in what he calls ecommerce 1.0 Andy Dunn from Bonobos wrote yesterday about the dominance of Amazon in what he calls ecommerce 1.0 Proprietary experience - e.g. companies that offer amazing discovery experiences like RenttheRunway , Shoedazzle and Birchbox.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Lots of new box companies have trouble ironing out the kinks in their process: their customer can’t easily unsubscribe, their boxes just aren’t exciting or well-curated, and more. The SAM for our example might be men with curly hair because you curate products specific to that style. Any of these can lead to failure. Future plans.

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The Equity Kicker

AUGUST 24, 2016

The cue for this post was Harry Stebbing’s 20MinuteVC interview with David Pakman , the partner at Venrock who led the Series A and Series B rounds at Dollar Shave Club and recently had his faith justified with a $1bn exit to Unilever. There are plenty of eCommerce companies where these characteristics are risks and realities.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 14, 2022

Bob is the Founder and Chairman of the Board of Acceleration Partners, a global partner marketing agency. In this episode, I talk with the Founder and Chairman of Acceleration Partners, Bob Glazer, about why diversifying your marketing strategy with other channels — like partnerships — is the way of the future.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 28, 2012

Kind of like a law firm (or VC firm) with four partners but shortened to just two, people dropped off his second two words. BUT … I’ve talked to a number of eCommerce sites that also report much higher conversion rates than standard web. I loved the idea of “mobile first” but something always bothered me.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

My partner Greg Bettinelli gave me the idea for the title of this post because he ran a breakout session at the Upfront Summit titled “How to Out Amazon, Amazon.” Curation There are really multiple forms of “curation” that I think can build sustainable differentiation in products vs. the retailer that is selling them.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 9, 2016

Curate and customize your shop’s product catalog. Twitter has teamed up with a number of eCommerce partners to make it all possible (and seamless). But eCommerce? Is social commerce about to dwarf traditional eCommerce? Is it encouraging social interaction during the traditional eCommerce flow?

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 29, 2022

2:59] Where strategic partners can fit into this idea. [3:25] The fourth episode in the series: How To Build A Strategic Partner Network. Maybe I'd bring in some of my strategic partners. If you listen to last the, the last show on, on referrals, I talked extensively about strategic partners. It's called drip.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 1, 2023

His vision is to create a logistics company that curates trust from its employees to the shippers and carriers they partner with. Sokolovsky also operated an on-demand food delivery startup based in Berkeley, before entering eCommerce logistics. As CRO, Lester is responsible for sales, client success and marketing at WARP.

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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. has partnered with the National Health Service in the UK to deliver personalised health assistance via an app. Better search.

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thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 16, 2011

eCommerce/Social Commerce: New models continue to evolve as ecommerce rebounded this past year. Given the growth of information online, it is not a surprise that consumers are now looking for more personalized, curated shopping experiences on the Web, and leveraging their social networks and other trusted sources to find products.

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The Equity Kicker

DECEMBER 22, 2014

The best examples are, perhaps, Thread and Stylect which help men discover new clothes and women discover new shoes respectively, but many of our partner companies are in the business of helping consumers discover and buy new products and services. Ecommerce Startup general interest' Getting all this right is tough.

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The Equity Kicker

OCTOBER 1, 2013

As I’ve written before, our investment strategy here at Forward Investment Partners is to focus on innovative online retail businesses. According to pandodaily , as well as being focused we are also contrarian: Silicon Valley has run away from the ecommerce category. Proprietary product or uniquely curated experiences.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

asymmetry, real-time, curated RSS / link-sharing]. billion in annual subscription revenues not including advertising or eCommerce). This allowed followers to be able to “curate&# their newsfeed with people that they found interesting. What I want to answer with this post (long though it may be) is: Why did Web 2.0

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David Teten

JANUARY 11, 2020

They’re taking a $1m check from me, or giving $5m to me as a limited partner. Other coinvestors: Limited partners, other VCs who are coinvestors, private equity funds which are potential growth-stage investors, etc. Jourdan Urbach, Managing Partner of Brandt & Co. We market to four populations: High-potential founders.

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The Equity Kicker

JULY 13, 2016

Benedict Evans recently published a post noting that there’s no Facebook of ecommerce. In this scenario the shop has generated the (foot) traffic and created a sale through curation and/or recommendation. All we have is Amazon, which is amazing, but only when we know what we want.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 10, 2021

how many follows you want to gain in a month or quarter) Post consistently (or have curated a plan to) with a detailed content calendar. And in turn, engage with their platform on highly competitive ecommerce shopping days. Curate content for each stage of the marketing funnel. billion dollars. Conclusion.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 5, 2018

The draw of ecommerce has complicated things for traditional retailers. Penney has led the way among department stores by partnering with Bombfell (a curated apparel box service) to create personalized boxes for big and tall male customers. Big names getting onboard.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Let’s start with a short definition: [the creator economy] is defined as the class of businesses built by over 50 million independent content creators, curators, and community builders including social media influencers, bloggers, and videographers, plus the software and finance tools designed to help them with growth and monetization.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 21, 2015

Partner with Like-Minded Businesses. If you have little value to exchange in terms of your own customers, offer partners a promotional price for their customers to garner their support. By creating a sense of exclusivity–this curated community of consumers will feel privileged and honored to be affiliated with your brand.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

a part of an exciting team, building web applications such as social networking, ecommerce, games, sports, contact management, CMS and more.Re. Auto-Tune the News" Curates: Our Fav. Contact Us Submit News Contact Us Write for Us Spark of Genius Series Mashable | The Social Media Guide Business Mashable on Facebook Join Us!

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Each month, a subscriber receives a carefully curated package of products, without knowing what brands, nor which combination of items will arrive. When I was doing the research for Subbly, I was inspired by the way they used to curate amazing products into themed boxes each month. Product curation and searching for products.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

Need more info before you pick your eCommerce platform? Should You Sell on Etsy, or Build Your Own eCommerce Site? 6 Tips for a Killer eCommerce Site. Now comes the really fun part: It’s time to dive into image curation. For more on curating your aesthetic image, check out: Defining a Brand Aesthetic.

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Hunter Walker

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

Bookstores are a generally challenged retail sector as ecommerce and ebooks have resulted in many local shops closing their doors. Just last year alone, we partnered with kate spade, Club Monaco and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Strand Bookstore in NYC is one of the largest independent bookstores in the US.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

a part of an exciting team, building web applications such as social networking, ecommerce, games, sports, contact management, CMS and more.Re. Auto-Tune the News" Curates: Our Fav. Contact Us Submit News Contact Us Write for Us Spark of Genius Series Mashable | The Social Media Guide Dev & Design Mashable on Facebook Join Us!

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Up and Running

MARCH 29, 2016

See Also: A Curated List of Our 20 Favorite Marketing Tools. We love buying fun, branded, creative material—whether for opening day, for marketing to our partners and affiliates, or for our own internal team.”. Vistaprint. They have great products and low prices and make the process so easy,” says Deborah Sweeney from MyCorporation. “We

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Check it out at semrush.com/partner/ducttapemarketing. Ron Tite: So one of the things that REI did was they closed their store and all eCommerce channels on Black Friday. They’ve increased other partners. What I love about that is, what I call in the book the Howdy Partner, right? And it has grown. Ron Tite: No, no.

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 11, 2018

While I can imagine new, disruptive ways we can change the shipping industry for the better, I lack the skills to code and develop web and mobile apps that businesses – specifically eCommerce retail – are hungry for. I interact with passionate people – the art collectors and experts (curators, archivists, dealers, artists).

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