Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 10, 2013

The net is that if I see a website business plan today with a projected development cost greater than $200K, I suspect the founder must be including some fancy perks, or they don’t understand the market dynamics of e-commerce today.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Simmer on this: at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, 10 years of ecommerce growth happened in just 90 days. Retailers have proven amazingly resilient in the past year, as they’ve worked through the mass shift to ecommerce and balancing the demands of lockdowns and shifting consumer behavior. Getting the most from ecommerce.

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David Teten

AUGUST 20, 2019

Many are reporting that they’re seeing a more diverse pool of applicants than traditional equity VCs… even though virtually none have a particular focus on women or underrepresented founders. For more background, see Revenue-Based Investing: A new option for founders who care about control.

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View from Seed

JULY 31, 2014

Physical-World Ecommerce. At NextView, we believe that one of the next steps in ecommerce is facilitating goods and services transactions that involve a “real-world” component to the experience. We of course try to look ahead at what’s next in the marketplace, but the founders we work with do a better job than we do at that.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Customer acquisition cost (CAC) is an important metric for any ecommerce business. It’s up to every ecommerce business to find the middle ground between investing too little in customer acquisition and spending beyond your means. Table of contents What is ecommerce customer acquisition cost? Why your most recent customers?

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 11, 2022

The average ecommerce store devotes more than 80% of its marketing budget to customer acquisition. In this article, you’ll learn how ecommerce customer retention boosts long-term revenue and the strategies you can use to keep customers coming back. Table of contents What is ecommerce customer retention (and why does it matter)?

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 5, 2023

The last few months have been an unprecedented time for entrepreneurs and startup founders on the market. While the city is small in comparison to other major European destinations, many successful startup founders have ranked it among the likes of London or Paris.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 5, 2020

by Itamar Gero, founder and CEO of SEOReseller.com . You can even tap into the growing ecommerce market. According to TechRepublic, ecommerce revenue in the US has jumped 37% during the outbreak. The US economy has not been immune to this. In fact, the last few weeks have been particularly devastating for the market.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 27, 2021

Iati is the C o-founder and CEO of Duda – a website development platform used by thousands of agencies around the world to build sites for their customers. In this episode, I talk with founder Itai Sadan about the future of Duda and important web design concepts. Marketing Podcast with Itai Sadan. Questions I Ask Itai Sadan. [0:52]

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 24, 2021

Streaming, gaming, ecommerce increased adoption rapidly, advancing 10 years in the space of a few months. eCommerce grew 5 years in 3 months – graph taken from Benedict Evans deck. I’m excited to back the founders that are building the future in this space. Synthetic Media Landscape by Samsung Next.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 9, 2014

Once you have reviewed that resource and you have your bearings on what it takes to get started, you can start thinking about streamlining and implementing extensions of your business (think accounting and payroll, apps, ecommerce, etc). According to Forrester ecommerce sales will hit $370 billion in the United States by 2017.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 13, 2014

by Milysan Troche, founder of MyHauteCloset.com. With Global eCommerce sales topping $1.25 Launching is just one of the many steps in your eCommerce journey as your business progresses you will revisit the above assessing where to allocate financial resources to facilitate growth and evolve your existing business. trillion it?s

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Often, SaaS company founders are not aware of steps, tools, and checkpoints they should follow while building their product. They did not have all the bells and whistles such as reels, videos, eCommerce integrations, and explore functionality. The largest cost component of establishing a SaaS company is product development costs.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Kathryn Petralia is the President and Co-Founder of Kabbage , an American Express Company. She has spent the past 20 years working with startups and established companies focused on credit, payments, technology and ecommerce.

Small Business 136

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Up and Running

JANUARY 18, 2021

The first thing most eCommerce companies did in February of 2020 was to smash their crystal balls and toss out demand forecasts because the world was shaping up to be like nothing we’ve seen before. eCommerce marketing tends to follow broader sales and social trends, prioritizing ease of access for its innovation.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

by Jackson Cunningham, founder of Tuft and Paw. I’ve been in the ecommerce space for over 10 years. When I first got into ecommerce, I wanted to choose any idea that I felt the odds of success were high. This isn’t revolutionary advice, but for newer entrepreneurs I don’t think the concept fully sinks in.

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View from Seed

JULY 19, 2022

Founder: Stelios Kapandais. 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.” Get to know the founders. RH: Hello founder! Company: nudgem.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 13, 2020

As the co-founder of Entrepreneurs HQ, Liam is a specialist at making it easy for people to create their own virtual summits and online conferences to grow their email list, authority, impact, and revenue. store , a new domain extension for eCommerce and online stores, you will get the domain you want! You are not alone!

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 14, 2014

The net is that if I see a website business plan today with a projected development cost greater than $200K, I suspect the founder must be including some fancy perks, or they don’t understand the market dynamics of website applications today. business ecommerce entrepreneur startup'

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 14, 2021

Paul is an eComm Entrepreneur and co-founder of Archive, an influencer & creator marketing agency for fast-growing consumer brands. Paul is a Stanford graduate and grew up among like-minded entrepreneurs establishing a growth mindset & unique skill set that gives him a competitive advantage on solving modern eCommerce growth issues.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Background: Justin Klemm’s analytics and website uptime startup, Ghost Inspector , wants to revolutionize the way businesses manage their ecommerce funnels. Under that scenario, the same $500,000 is only worth a 10-ish percent stake in the business, and the founder can retain far more control in the entity.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 26, 2020

by Monica Eaton-Cardone, Co-Founder and COO of Chargebacks911. She possesses more than two decades of experience in the eCommerce space as both a merchant and service provider, and is one of the world’s leading experts on payments and consumer disputes. The world is in a state of uncertainty.

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The Equity Kicker

APRIL 8, 2014

This chart is taken from a presentation to DemoLabs by Helen Greiner, founder and CEO of CyPhy works and formerly of iRobot. At Forward Partners we invest in the ecommerce ecoystem and one of the sub-areas is innovative product companies building their brands online. Ecommerce' It’s a capability timeline for drones.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Traditional brands, namely eCommerce/luxury fashion and CPG brands are trying to figure out how to get in the action. Avoiding saying no is a mistake I made as an entrepreneur and one I have seen many other founders make frequently. Saying “no” can be equally important as saying “yes” to a potential partner or client. .

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 26, 2022

“Personal Branding” The term is fingernails on a chalkboard-level cringe for many of the best founders—mostly because it feels most of the people who spend time building their personal brand don’t actually have much there there behind it. Unfortunately, this has real consequences for founders. So how can founders differentiate?

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Brandanew

DECEMBER 21, 2015

ECommerce sales during Christmas tend to see a big surge as customers prefer the quietness of at home shopping compared to the hassles of finding parking and a store full of people. Here are a few useful tips to maximize your eCommerce sales during Christmas and the ongoing holiday season. You’ve got this! Start here.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 29, 2019

by Manish Dudharejia, President and Founder of E2M Solutions Inc. Manish Dudharejia is the President and Founder of E2M Solutions Inc, a San Diego Based Digital Agency that specializes in Website Design & Development and eCommerce SEO.

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The Equity Kicker

DECEMBER 5, 2013

About half our investments are in companies at true startup stage – i.e. founder + idea, nothing built – and half are in slightly more mature companies, up to late seed stage when there are maybe 5-10 people in the company. Appear Here - a market place for short term lets on the High Street that works with ecommerce companies.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 15, 2020

In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Jon Schram, founder of The Purple Guys Stress Free IT for small business. . But with.store , a new domain extension for eCommerce and online stores, you will get the domain you want! What Should You Know About IT in Small Business Today? Marketing Podcast with Jon Schram.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 1, 2020

In the past eight years, I have been designing for eCommerce brands and I’ve learned some handy tricks along the way. You may think of this one as a given, but lots of founders and business owners still don’t know about user recording or heat mapping their website. David, Founder at Firstclasspostcodes. Mobile First?

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The Equity Kicker

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

Subscription ecommerce has become quite a hot business model over the past couple of years, perhaps reaching peak hotness 6-12 months ago. Phil Wilkinson, the founder of Kopi, is an old friend and we were discussing characteristics of good ecommerce subscription businesses over lunch yesterday.

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The Equity Kicker

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

We are holding our second open office hours for solo founders of ecompanies in the commerce ecosystem on 19th Sept. ——————– We will be holding Open Office Hours on September 19th to meet solo-founders of ecommerce companies at the idea stage. Are you a solo founder with an idea?

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 11, 2017

by Chris Low, founder of MyTeamPlan. Similarly, a subscriber to an eCommerce store may find the content of the newsletter relevant only if the products being promoted are carefully curated based on their past purchase history. Chris Low is the founder of MyTeamPlan , a desktop-based project management software.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 1, 2019

A successful entrepreneur, John is the founder of three businesses: The DiJulius Group, an international consulting firm, John Robert’s Spa, a chain of upscale salons in Northeast Ohio, and Believe in Dreams, a nonprofit that helps make dreams come true for deserving children. As a society we’re now relationship disadvantaged.

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The Equity Kicker

APRIL 10, 2013

Jason Goldberg, Founder and CEO at Fab wrote an interesting post earlier this week titled The 3rd wave of e-commerce disruption: emotional commerce. Amazon Ecommerce' I think I would bundle digital in with the first wave as it is still fundamentally about the same products but with more convenience and at lower prices.

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The Equity Kicker

MAY 11, 2016

Andy Dunn, the founder of Bonobos and one of the most thoughtful writers I know on ecommerce, penned a good piece yesterday entitled Digitally Native Vertical Brands. The DNVB [vertically integrated ecommerce company] is usually maniacally focused on customer experience and on customer intimacy. our partner company Spoke ).

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The Equity Kicker

JUNE 26, 2014

My first conversation was with Nick Marsh, co-founder of Makeshift, who excitedly explained that they had brought some much needed clarity to the subject by coming up with three different categories of ‘startup studio’: Entrepreneur led studios that exist to help their entrepreneurs find the next idea.

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