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• Alyce, an AI-based personalised corporate gifting startup, raises $30M - Swag has a long and patchy history in the world of business. For every hip pair of plaid socks, there are five t-shirts you may never wear, an itchy scarf, a notepad your kids might use, and an ugly mug; and most of all, likely thousands of dollars and lots of time invested to make […]
  Topics: swag, built, raises, alyce, round, gifting, corporate, general, apps, techcrunch, service, gift, recipient, aibased, items, startup, personalised, 30m, catalyst.
• Bloomscape’s Justin Mast explains how he built a thriving garden startup in Detroit - Justin Mast has a simple reason for starting his plant retail startup Bloomscape in Detroit. “This is home,” he told me. “This is where I have a really strong network and I knew I’d be able to find a lot of support.” Mast didn’t grow up in Detroit proper, but he’s from Grand Rapids, Michigan’s […]
  Topics: justin, detroit, bloomscapes, garden, industry, techcrunch, know, plants, generations, university, explains, mast, thriving, really, startup, built, bloomscape.
• Boxed: How Chieh Huang built a pureplay online warehouse giant - In six years, US online startup Boxed has emerged from a suburban garage to become a serious competitor to offline warehouse retailers.
  Topics: start, warehouse, giant, huang, actually, chieh, garage, jersey, say, selling, wholesale, built, online, boxed, started, pureplay.
• Building an 80,000+ Person Email List in Under 8 Months - Conor Lewis has a really cool story. He is the Founder of GetTheFort.com, a magnetic pillow fort that he designed, crowdfunded, and brought to market in under a year. What’s really cool about Conor though is that he is entirely self-taught on eCommerce, but still managed to build a huge audience through social channels by […]
  Topics: conor, building, really, groups, person, video, launch, kickstarter, months, email, using, facebook, built, list.
• Composable Commerce Hub Celebrates 1 Year - The Composable Commerce Hub, the first and only open exchange of business solutions powered by an ecosystem of leading digital commerce providers, was launched last November. The Composable Commerce Hub powered the movement to make Composable Commerce accessible to all brands, not just those with large, experienced technology teams, by providing everything commerce teams need to compose, launch, and optimize their commerce experiences with speed and ease. Today, more than 25 technology providers and system integrators have joined this movement including Algolia, Amplience, Bloomreach, Born, Bounteous, Contentful, DigiCommerce, Jetti, Myplanet, TA Digital, ObjectEdge, PayPal, and Stripe. This year we’ve seen the addition of 14 Pre-Composed SolutionsTM. For those unfamiliar with the term, Pre-Composed SolutionsTM are fully business-ready solutions, which combine Elastic Path commerce capabilities, with partner integrations, and key customizations so that brands can launch fast and customize on-demand, without the complexity of stitching together numerous parts. Here are a few highlighted solutions: Pre-Composed SolutionTM for D2C Web: A complete solution that eliminates the risk of headless commerce and enables D2C brand to rapidly launch and optimize highly differentiated digital experiences. This solution is built by Myplanet and pre-integrates Elastic Path Commerce Cloud with Amplience, Algolia, Google Analytics, Dynamic Yield, and Segment. See a demo. Pre-Composed SolutionTM for B2B Commerce: A business-ready solution proving a quick start to rapidly launch complex B2B experiences. This solution, developed in partnership with DigiCommerce, combines core B2B functionality from Elastic Path Commerce Cloud with pre-build digital experiences for B2B buyers and sellers. Watch the demo. Pre-Composed SolutionTM for Subscriptions: A complete subscription management solution for brands who want to create and customize personalized subscription services to their unique product requirements and customer needs. This solution, developed by Pixie Labs, is built on top of Elastic Path Commerce Cloud and is pre-integrated with Stripe, Postmark, and an analytics dashboard built by Pixie Labs. Join us on December 14th at 11:30 AM ET to see a live demo of this solution. Save your seat. Pre-Composed SolutionTM for Rapid D2C: This solution gives brands the flexibility and speed (with a 90-day launch guarantee) to easily launch their unique D2C experiences including emerging channels such as social, chat-bot, voice assistants, digital shopping malls and the Internet of Things (IoT). Also known as CommerceFactory, this solution is built by TA Digital and is pre-integrated with Acquia, Elastic Search, CyberSource or Stripe, Avalara, and Vertex. See a demo.   Need a subscription management solution? Join industry experts live to see first hand how you can easily create unique, personalized subscription services in our upcoming webinar. Register for Webinar Beyond launching Pre-Composed SolutionsTM, customers are experiencing the benefits. A large-scale publisher was able to launch a new subscription service in just 27 days. Teilor, a luxury jewelry brand, brought their personalized, engaging in-store experience online using the Pre-Composed SolutionTM for D2C Commerce built by Myplanet. We look forward to the next year of growth for the Composable Commerce Hub. If you would like to get involved with the Composable Commerce Hub, check out this blog post.
  Topics: launch, elastic, commerce, solution, path, digital, subscription, b2b, hub, celebrates, experiences, composable, built.
• Constructor finds $55M for tech that powers search and discovery for e-commerce businesses - One of the biggest problems in the world of e-commerce is the predicament of shopping cart abandonment: when shoppers aren’t getting to what they want fast enough — whether it’s finding the right item, or paying for it in a quick and easy way — they bounce. That singular problem is driving a wave of […]
  Topics: include, built, techcrunch, powers, tech, businesses, retailers, discovery, finds, product, results, 55m, search, constructor, ecommerce, world.
• Cover collects $16M to insure your gadgets, pets… anything - People procrastinate about buying insurance because it’s such a boring and complicated chore to compare policies. But Cover combines plans from 45 insurance companies into a single marketplace so it’s easy to find the best one for your car, home, rental, business, personal property, pets, jewelry and more. Now Cover is building powerful onboarding tricks […]
  Topics: insurance, best, wanted, startups, way, collects, 16m, cover, insure, million, gadgets, saroya, pets, customers, built.
• DHL builds 500 Packstations at Lidl stores - Deutsche Post DHL Group and Lidl have partnered up to make shopping more convenient. As a result of the partnership, about 500 DHL Packstations will be built at Lidl stores in Germany later this year. DHL and Lidl not only say the “future-oriented cooperation” enables their customers to shop even… Continue reading
  Topics: customers, stores, germany, shop, dhl, builds, packstations, lidl, shopping, built.
• EKM Review: A UK-based Ecommerce Platform With All Features Built In - If you've been looking for an affordable ecommerce platform with all of the needed features packed in, EKM might just be the system you want. In this EKM review, we'll outline how the UK-based development and support team make it rather… Continue reading EKM Review: A UK-based Ecommerce Platform With All Features Built In
  Topics: ekm, receive, website, plan, customers, account, ukbased, products, ecommerce, shops, review, support, platform, features, built.
• Here’s to the Crazy Ones: How These Two Friends Built a Business No One Expected - “When we started doing $1,000 days, I’m sitting around with all these guys at work and I’m just thinking, ‘My life is about to change, and I can’t even tell anybody.’” When Rodney Zachariuk and Kory Szostak started their ecommerce business, nobody knew. Even as the months ticked by and […]
  Topics: money, store, rodney, expected, work, business, friends, built, kory, started, began, product, instagram.
• How 3 Childhood Friends Without Business Experience Built “The Best Brand in Denmark” - In this episode of Shopify Masters, we chat with the founders of the recently named “best brand in Denmark,” Shaping New Tomorrow. The three friends, Christian Aachmann, Kasper Ulrich, and Christoffer Bak were able to disrupt the menswear industry, build multiple physical stores, and scale beyond 8-figures in annual sales.More
  Topics: experience, childhood, pants, menswear, friends, tomorrow, shaping, built, good, scale, denmark, brand, best, business, lot, really, products.
• How A $15 Million Company Was Built On Personal Messages - While most people enjoy a few rounds of golf on the weekend, Tyler Sullivan became obsessed with the game and wanted to achieve the longest drive. Along the way, Tyler got custom clubs and drivers made that ended breaking so he started to make his own. Realizing that others might face the same frustration, Tyler started BombTech Golf and began selling the clubs and divers he made.  Today, BombTech Golf is a $15 million company and Tyler credits personal responses, comments, and emails for his success.    More
  Topics: facebook, really, messages, youre, personal, thats, product, think, built, million, know, email, im, going, company.
• How Brands Like Google, Twitch, and Sephora Built Brand Communities — and How You Can, Too - Over the past few decades, companies, marketing departments, and c-suites have used the term "community" to refer to a smorgasbord of ideas, from wide-ranging organizational investments — such as neighborhood events or charity partnerships — to online forums and even simple email lists.
  Topics: sephora, relationships, google, built, brands, local, members, twitch, community, food, brand, beauty, communities, groups.
• How FreshToHome Co-Founder And CEO Shan Kadavil Built A Proficorn - Fresh To Home recently recently closed US$104 million in Series D funding with Amazon Smbhav Venture Fund as the lead investor.
  Topics: kadavil, ceo, fresh, platform, built, proficorn, uae, shan, sourcing, cofounder, freshtohome, meat, fishers, million, customers.
• How HubSpot Built a World-Class Conversational Marketing Program - Over the last few years, HubSpot's audience has gotten chatty. Chatbots and live chat became some of the most popular ways to reach HubSpot and the humans here. For years, prospects have wanted to ask questions and get direction while navigating the website.
  Topics: coaches, chat, program, sales, worldclass, built, users, prospects, marketing, chatbots, questions, conversational, hubspot, customer.
• How One Instagram Influencer Built Her Brand and Attracted 40K Followers - This article was written in the first person by Rafaella Aguiar, Director of Marketing at Kicksta, following an interview with Erin Marie.
  Topics: brands, hard, tools, influencer, ive, brand, followers, built, attracted, growth, tried, work, following, 40k, instagram, best.
• How Tajinebanane Managed 3X Annual Growth and Built An Empowering Community -   In this episode of Shopify Masters, Marvin Cavaillé of Tajinebanane shares with us the journey of building a brand for breastfeeding moms, with his sister Ali. We learn about growing community before selling a single product, and the marketing approach that led to 3X sales in their first year. Marvine also shares how Tajinebanane plans to incorporate a social impact mandate in its operations.More
  Topics: community, really, empowering, growth, built, business, annual, dont, know, tajinebanane, think, managed, breastfeeding, thing, going, sister, thats, 3x.
• How This Founder Built A 7-Figure Business While Keeping A Full-Time Job - Roc Pilon was just 19 years old when he turned his passion for power lifting and working out into a business. He launched Gymreapers, an equipment and apparel company that makes affordable, stylish products or gym goers and athletes. In this episode of Shopify Masters, Roc shares his methodical approach to building a multimillion dollar business—all while working full time.More
  Topics: business, fulltime, market, 7figure, product, dont, need, brand, job, built, able, products, youre, founder, work, keeping.
• How This Plant Based Ramen Brand Built A Community of Thousands Prior to Launching - Kevin Lee and Kevin Chanthasiriphan grew up enjoying the vast noodle offerings from their Taiwanese and Thai upbringing. Together they launched immi, a ramen brand that paid homage to their favorite foods while using high-quality ingredients that are nutritious and 100% plant based. In this episode of Shopify Masters, the two Kevins share how they built a community of thousands prior to launching, and how they overcame a 6-figure inventory setback.More
  Topics: kchan, immi, prior, know, thousands, thats, product, ramen, built, based, launching, community, plant, lot, actually, different, brand, going.
• How This Serial Entrepreneur Built An Incubator That Powers Multiple 8-Figure DTC Brands - Blazar Capital is an incubator and venture capital firm specializing in direct-to-consumer brands. With 8-figure businesses in a multitude of industries, Blazar Capital's brands span everything from home goods to fashion to cosmetics. CEO Christian Arnstedt launched the business in 2017 by building brands from scratch. Now as an investor on Denmark's Shark Tank (Løvens Hule), he’s helping other founders reach their potential. In this episode of Shopify Masters, we sit down with Christian in his Copenhagen office to hear his learnings from building direct-to-consumer brands, what he looks for when investing, and how he navigates failures.More
  Topics: 8figure, brand, thats, able, built, incubator, dtc, brands, different, entrepreneur, think, blazar, serial, work, things, team, multiple, powers.
• How This Teenage Entrepreneur Built a Booming Art Business From His Bedroom - Unlike me, who spent most of my teenage years playing The Sims and sleeping until 3pm on weekends, many high schoolers today use their spare time very differently. These teens are hungry to make their mark on the world, and are dedicating their out of school hours to building their own […]
  Topics: products, successful, matiss, youre, art, bedroom, store, business, wall, artsy, entrepreneur, booming, product, teenage, built, hes.
• How Two Insect-loving Entrepreneurs Built a Business on Bugs - Neil Whippey and Shami Radia, the founders of Eat Grub, are on a mission to “change the way the West eats”. With their successful eCommerce business, this London-based duo is promoting insects as a sustainable and nutritious source of food – one delicious snack at a time. Hatching a Plan A few years ago, Shami […]
  Topics: bugs, wordpress, eat, insectloving, neil, website, business, wanted, built, shami, online, nutrition, entrepreneurs, woocommerce, grub.
• How We Built the Strategy for Our New Flagship Podcast - You didn't think we'd launch a podcast network without a new HubSpot show, did you?
  Topics: team, built, producer, companies, format, podcasts, strategy, segment, audience, podcast, business, hosts, flagship.
• How a 7-Figure Swimwear Brand was Built on a Secondhand Sewing Machine - Roxelle Cho was an active expecting mom who surfed during her pregnancy. As her body was changing, she was inspired to make her own swimwear that had a better fit. Using a second-hand sewing machine, Roxelle launched Fused Hawaii and built the swimwear brand into a seven-figure business. In this episode of Shopify Masters, Roxelle Cho shares her personal journey of overcoming hurdles, finetuning Facebook ads, and creating a sense of community for her customers.More
  Topics: group, things, secondhand, facebook, built, 7figure, im, dont, machine, brand, thats, community, business, lot, sewing, swimwear, feel.
• How this Kazakhstan internet giant built success on ideas from Russia and China - The advantage of entering an emerging market is that the market still has a lot of empty space to fill, and as a startup you can be the first player. Kazakhstan might not be the first country that comes to mind when you think of overseas expansion. However, it is the world's largest landlocked country, and shares borders with Russia and China, which are important consumer markets as well as technology hubs.
  Topics: market, million, ideas, internet, russia, built, success, app, chocofamily, rakmet, china, service, users, giant, kazakhstan, started.
• How to Create a Writing Style Guide Built for the Web [Free Guide] - Businesses pump out content at a staggering rate these days — and as that volume increases, more inconsistencies are bound to creep in. Whether due to lack of clarity about the style in which you'd like to write or disjointed communication across the multitude of content creators in your organization, failure to decide upon and document accepted editorial guidelines is a recipe for inconsistent messaging.
  Topics: free, content, vs, tone, create, writers, rules, guide, writing, include, style, web, built, editorial.
• India’s richest man built a telecom operator everyone wants a piece of - As investors’ appetites sour in the midst of a pandemic, a three-and-a-half-year-old Indian firm has secured $10.3 billion in a month from Facebook and four U.S.-headquartered private equity firms. The major deals for Reliance Jio Platforms have sparked a sudden interest among analysts, executives and readers at a time when many are skeptical of similar […]
  Topics: wants, billion, operator, telecom, richest, indias, built, startups, jio, investors, secured, techcrunch, indian, secondlargest, platforms, man, weeks, piece, valuations.
• Kroger launches its first Ocado-powered ‘shed’, a massive, robot-filled fulfillment center in Ohio - After inking a deal to work together almost three years ago, U.S. supermarket chain Kroger and U.K. online grocer Ocado today took the wraps off the first major product of that deal. Kroger has launched a new Ocado-powered customer fulfillment center in Monroe, Ohio, outside of Cincinnati, a gigantic warehouse covering 375,000 square feet and […]
  Topics: built, krogers, robotfilled, launches, fulfillment, ocadopowered, today, ohio, ocado, shed, partnership, delivery, grocery, massive, kroger, center, company, online, techcrunch.
• Make it Big Podcast: Cyber Week 2021 Trends and Insights from a Record Holiday Season - Welcome to The Make it Big Podcast, a bi-weekly audio series about all things ecommerce by BigCommerce. In this episode, join…
  Topics: cyber, built, ecommerce, shoppers, really, season, trends, record, podcast, insights, think, going, merchants, things, big, week, holiday.
• Not every creator economy startup is built for creators - The inherent tension within the creator economy lies between the promise of financial freedom and the realization this freedom comes at a cost.
  Topics: startups, creator, techcrunch, startup, tools, platform, economy, mcloughlin, built, need, creators, platforms, youtube.
• Novo, the SMB neobank, nabs $90M at a $700M valuation - Novo, the startup building a new kind of banking service from the ground up for small and medium businesses, has closed a significant round of funding to take the next step in growing its platform. It has raised $90 million, a Series B round that values the Miami-based startup at $700 million, funding that it […]
  Topics: 90m, techcrunch, growth, novo, company, 700m, nabs, neobank, small, series, businesses, round, smb, valuation, products, built, rangel.
• Overdraft: How One Founder Built a Braiding Business—From Her Living Room - Now more than ever, we look to stories of resiliency to inspire us. In this series, successful business owners share their deeply personal financial struggles and lessons learned on their way back to black. (Melony’s story was originally published in October, 2019.)More
  Topics: im, work, room, able, really, husband, day, founder, businessfrom, overdraft, living, built, didnt, hair, braiding, small, money.
• She Built a Toy Brand to Fill a Market Gap—and Teach a Generation to Love Their Hair - When a seven-year-old Yelitsa Jean-Charles opened her present—a Black Barbie doll—on Christmas morning in 2001, she burst into tears. Little did she know this experience would be the catalyst for an idea that would fill a gap in the toy market and forever change the trajectory of her life. More
  Topics: healthy, idea, roots, toy, generation, gapand, gap, love, built, dolls, product, research, brand, hair, problem, market, teach, yelitsa.
• The 8-Figure Business Built on Vinyl Records and Subscriptions - Matt Fiedler co-founded Vinyl Me, Please, a subscription-based vinyl-membership business, to give people the tangible connection to music they craved. After the first five years of bootstrapping, the business brought in over $11 million in revenue, and signed up more than 30,000 subscribers.More
  Topics: subscriptions, 8figure, experience, approach, way, matt, built, music, record, vinyl, brand, vc, records, business.
• The Co-Founder of Orchard Mile Shares How She Handles Investor Rejection, Manages Startup Hype and Deals With Doubt - Jennie Baik opens up about what she's built and the lessons she's learned along the way.
  Topics: personally, built, brands, startup, shes, hype, ive, investor, women, shares, rejection, think, things, handles, manages, mile, doubt, orchard.
• The Surround Sound Series: How We Built a Bespoke SERP Tracker and Measured the Results of Our New Content Program (Part 3 of 3) - This post is a part of Made @ HubSpot, an internal thought leadership series through which we extract lessons from experiments conducted by our very own HubSpotters.
  Topics: hubspot, measured, content, results, tracker, tools, data, visibility, series, sound, built, keyword, program, search, surround, serp.
• This Founder Built a $1 Billion Brand ... By Giving Away $5 Gift Cards - By getting scrappy, Grove Collaborative's Stuart Landesberg learned big lessons.
  Topics: learned, gift, founder, cards, products, thought, customer, company, giving, grove, away, landesberg, didnt, brand, built, investors, billion, starbucks.
• UK’s Paysend raises $125M at a $700M+ valuation to expand its all-in-one payments platform - With more people than ever before going online to pay for things and pay each other, startups that are building the infrastructure that enables these actions continue to get a lot of attention. In the latest development, Paysend, a fintech that has built a mobile-based payments platform — which currently offers international money transfers, global […]
  Topics: techcrunch, paysend, 700m, services, today, raises, uks, platform, companies, allinone, built, business, million, valuation, company, expand, payments, money.
• Where Are They Now? Meet the First Independent Businesses that Built with Shopify - Say hello to seven of the first Shopify stores. We spoke with each founder and took a shared walk down memory lane—all the way back to day one. During our conversations, we revisited the key milestones in their businesses and the lessons they learned along the way.More
  Topics: independent, built, mike, meet, businesses, making, art, shopify, online, 3d, verve, business, toffee, coffee.
• Why a startup with $10M in annual revenue took 18 months to get VC funding - Back in 2006, Joseph Heller went to China where he spent the next decade learning about the manufacturing business. Based on that experience he eventually built a startup called The Studio. The idea was to help connect people with a small business idea to manufacturers in China in a fully digital way. By 2016 he […]
  Topics: idea, china, heller, small, company, took, built, months, manufacturing, annual, million, vc, funding, business, 10m, startup, techcrunch, revenue.
• ‘I Am Capable of Doing This’: How One Entrepreneur Built a Brand, Community, and Her Confidence - When it comes to starting her online store, entrepreneur Courtney White admits she probably started things the wrong way round, until she learned about the importance of building a brand around your business. As well as working a full-time job and being a parent (to both children and dogs), Courtney […]
  Topics: things, customer, brand, store, really, build, community, confidence, courtneys, built, entrepreneur, dandy, customers, finer, courtney.