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"The best time to start your business is ... now!" says Michelle Ntalami, Founder, Marini Naturals
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They say that when a woman gets a new hairstyle it means that there is something big going on in her life.
Topics: hair, business, decided, big, afro, haircare, michelle, best, marini, founder, start, naturals, ntalami. -
1 Million Email Subscribers ‘Fricking Hard,’ Says TheHustle.co Founder
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I asked Sam Parr, the founder of The Hustle, an email newsletter with curated business and technology news, how he has grown his list to over 1 million subscribers. "It's fricking hard," he told me.
Topics: email, hustle, going, list, founder, business, million, way, hard, trends, im, subscribers, thehustleco, fricking. -
101 Entrepreneur Quotes from the Most Successful Business Owners
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Whether you’re looking for insight, advice, or just an understanding of how successful business owners confront challenges—here are our favorite quotes from the world’s most successful entrepreneurs. More
Topics: dont, quotes, think, founder, way, work, owners, success, entrepreneur, ceo, business, successful, great. -
23 Twitter Feeds for Ecommerce Merchants to Follow
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Here is a list of Twitter feeds for online merchants to follow. Most feeds are from individuals although a few are from application platforms. The feeds are separated into ecommerce, marketing, and design categories.
Topics: twitter, ecommerce, follow, content, merchants, digital, tweets, founder, design, podcast, marketing, feeds, blog, email. -
2PM Founder: Successful Entrepreneurs Are Polymaths
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Having founded and sold multiple ecommerce companies, Web Smith believes broad economic trends determine entrepreneurial success as much as tactical execution. Successful entrepreneurs, Smith asserts, must be polymaths to understand opportunities.
Topics: amazon, ecommerce, smith, companies, thats, rogue, company, im, founder, 2pm, successful, entrepreneurs, yes, polymaths. -
3PL Founder: ‘I’m in the Exceptions Management Business’
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Jay Sauceda launched his ecommerce fulfillment company, Sauceda Industries, in 2013 in Austin, Texas. He says packing and shipping products is easy. What's difficult, he stated, is managing unforeseen events.
"The shipping business is, essentially, the exceptions management business," he told me.
Topics: clients, 3pl, shipping, launched, sauceda, founder, management, orders, exceptions, business, ship, im, company, day, fulfillment, warehouse. -
59 Female Marketing and Growth Experts You Should be Following
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Last week, one of my colleagues stumbled across a list of marketing influencers and shared it in our team's Slack channel. It didn't take long for someone to comment that barely one-fourth of the experts featured in the article were women.
Topics: following, speaker, social, founder, author, digital, experts, female, growth, media, marketing, director, vp. -
7 Reasons Scale-Ups Earn Investments, According to HubSpot's Founder
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Every successful company starts with a single idea.
Topics: growth, company, according, culture, scaleup, investments, earn, scaleups, process, youre, look, organization, founder, hubspots, reasons, customer, scaling. -
8 Inspiring Quotes from INBOUND 2018 Speakers
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No matter what you do for a living, you need a daily dose of inspiration to stay motivated and keep pushing towards your goals.
Topics: speakers, inbound, live, list, quotes, founder, inspiring, plus, today, inspiration. -
Alibaba buys Ele.me for US$9.5 billion
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Alibaba has bought the Chinese food delivery business Ele.me for US$9.5 billion.
Topics: eleme, billion, retail, chinas, alibabas, ceo, us95, delivery, alibaba, food, buys, founder, zhang. -
Alibaba founder Jack Ma reflects on 20 years at tech giant as he prepares to step aside
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Alibaba founder Jack Ma has made his final appearance as executive chairman, as CEO Daniel Zhang takes the helm of the company.
Topics: aside, alibaba, tech, giant, reflects, zhang, help, jack, world, vision, company, prepares, step, ma, ecommerce, business, alibabas, founder. -
Amazon founder, Jeff Bezos, and author wife of 25 years, MacKenzie, to divorce
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Jeff and MacKenzie Bezos are to divorce after 25 years of marriage. The Amazon founder and his award-winning novelist wife announced the news in a joint post on social media, writing they had made the decision to divorce after a trial separation and now intend to “continue our shared lives as friends.” pic.twitter.com/Gb10BDb0x0 — Jeff […]
Topics: worth, writing, mackenzie, founder, bezos, jeff, amazon, wife, author, divorce, yearshe. -
An inclusive new DTC beauty platform secures $3 million in funding — and a supercharged offline strategy
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Earlier this week, Thirteen Lune, a direct-to-consumer beauty platform that was launched last year in LA with $1 million in seed funding from Diddy, Gwyneth Paltrow and Beautycounter founder Gregg Renfrew, announced $3 million in additional seed funding. We might not normally pause on this kind of development, especially in a market where dozens of […]
Topics: supercharged, platform, funding, techcrunch, inclusive, offline, million, beauty, hair, skin, brands, jcpenney, strategy, lune, products, brand, dtc, founder, secures, thirteen. -
Announcing Our 2020 Make it Big Ecommerce Conference
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We’re back — and bigger than ever. Join us on October 6-8, 2020 for our third annual Make it Big…
Topics: jaclyn, strategies, conference, founder, global, big, fuel, business, growth, customer, keynote, director, ceo, ecommerce. -
BOOM! Founder: Spend 30% of Revenue on Ads
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Ezra Firestone launched his first ecommerce business in 2007. It sold wigs. He's owned multiple brands since. BOOM!, which sells cosmetics, he co-founded in 2010. He focuses on key management metrics, such as spending 30-percent of ecommerce revenue on advertising.
Topics: spend, ads, boom, customer, days, ecommerce, virtual, grow, million, return, revenue, founder. -
Baked By Melissa Founder Shares The Journey to Sweet Success
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Baked by Melissa founder, Melissa Ben-Ishay, shared her inspirational brand journey at Imagine 2018
Topics: shares, baked, caterer, product, founder, cupcakes, offered, opportunity, brands, success, melissa, business, brother, sweet, journey. -
Beagles and Basketball: Inside the Mind of a 12-Year-Old Founder
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With the support of his family, 12-year-old Jahkil Jackson runs Project I Am—an organization that provides the necessities of life to homeless communities in his native Chicago and beyond. Oh, and no big deal: he also runs an apparel business, speaks at events across the country, and tap dances on the side. More
Topics: running, im, speaking, line, project, basketball, day, mind, 12yearold, thats, business, founder, help, really, beagles, inside. -
Beardbrand Founder on Moving Away from Amazon
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In an ecommerce world that is seemingly dominated by Amazon, Eric Bandholz has just moved his company’s products away from that marketplace. The company, Beardbrand, is now focused on selling ...
Topics: moving, revenue, beardbrand, wholesale, amazon, youtube, way, away, selling, products, person, founder, channel. -
Bonobos founder Andy Dunn to leave Walmart in 2020
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Andy Dunn, the founder of menswear site Bonobos which sold to Walmart in 2017 for $310 million, is now parting ways with the retail giant. The executive, who joined Walmart as SVP of digital consumer brands at the time of the acquisition, officially announced his departure in a LinkedIn post titled “A Love Letter to […]
Topics: million, leave, walmarts, bonobos, retail, company, techcrunch, andy, walmart, working, online, brands, founder, departure, dunn. -
Books and Big Dreams: Inside the Mind of a 19-Year-Old Founder
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Simone Hufana admits she’s pretty bad at time management. But give her a break—she’s only 19. She’s currently taking the semester off college to dive full-time into her business, Color Herstory. Simone created her brand out of a desire to see more representation of women of color in the world. Her coloring books introduce young girls to the amazing women that inspired her to love herself.More
Topics: business, really, dreams, books, right, kind, book, mind, work, women, big, 19yearold, doing, color, inside, founder, im. -
Builder.io aims to make developers happy with its no-code approach to digital storefronts
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Builder.io provides a drag-and-drop visual editor and headless content management system so that marketers can update websites without developer support.
Topics: nocode, digital, create, founder, aims, pages, headless, commerce, techcrunch, growth, developers, sewell, happy, approach, storefronts, company, product, builderio, funding. -
Building an Ecommerce Business, Part 4: Copywriting Matters
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Good copy sells. Spicing up your copy will give your online store a personality to stand above competitors. In this fourth installment in my series of conversations about building an ecommerce business, I visited with Neville Medhora, founder of Kopywriting Kourse
Topics: product, email, ecommerce, appsumo, sold, matters, business, founder, company, good, rave, content, building, descriptions, copywriting. -
Building an Ecommerce Business, Part 9: YouTube Tactics
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This is episode nine in my series on building an ecommerce business from the ground up. For this interview, I spoke with Sven Raphael Schneider, founder of two businesses related to men's fashion: Gentleman's Gazette (an online magazine) and Fort Belvedere (clothing and accessories). We discussed his company's origins and the strategies he has used to attract millions of views on its YouTube channel.
Topics: channel, mens, tactics, founder, business, ecommerce, watch, businesses, views, building, youtube, videos. -
Cartoons and Coding: Inside the Mind of an 11-Year-Old Founder
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Only two months into middle school, Brianna J. is already a seasoned entrepreneur. This 11-year-old started her online kids’ apparel store, Brianna’s Closet, in 2017. When she’s not do-gooding or building her store, she’s working hard on her math homework and taking coding classes. But don’t worry: she still has lots of time for kid stuff, like binging her favorite cartoons.More
Topics: 11yearold, kids, school, im, store, founder, shes, young, really, started, cartoons, inside, mind, business, sister, coding. -
Chewy founder Ryan Cohen on its fast-approaching IPO: ‘It’s like seeing my baby graduate’
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Ask any venture capitalist about the most important ingredient to success in startups, and they’ll tell you it’s founders who can persuade not only investors to part with their capital but, more importantly, who can convince people to leave what are often more stable jobs in order to help build their companies. Ryan Cohen certainly […]
Topics: werent, founder, company, im, ipo, fastapproaching, cohen, think, business, ryan, lot, seeing, chewy, baby, going, pet, petsmart, techcrunch, graduate. -
Community and Competition: Inside the Mind of a 19-Year-Old Founder
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In high school, Mateo Galvez was a self-professed troublemaker. Then, at 16 years old, something changed. He “woke up,” he says, and started his motivational apparel business, LOTTA WORLDWIDE. Through hard work and the help of his supportive family, Mateo, now 19, is about to celebrate three years in business. More
Topics: really, way, business, competition, im, understand, lot, inside, mind, founder, 19yearold, work, community, lotta, mateo, think. -
CopySmiths Founder on Content Marketing by the Numbers
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Kat McKinnon's agency, CopySmiths, produces hundreds of blog posts per month for, mainly, ecommerce clients. She's developed a formula of sorts for getting those posts ranked in Google's search results. "You need between 1,000 and 1,500 words for a blog article," she told me. "Definitely not 600. Avoid 800, unless you're literally just answering a short question."
Topics: write, clients, keyword, article, need, include, collar, marketing, copysmiths, numbers, words, google, content, founder, martingale. -
Daily Crunch: HBO Max is pulling 36 shows this week — Here’s the list
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Hello, friends, and welcome to Daily Crunch, bringing you the most important startup, tech and venture capital news in a single package.
Topics: bryant, pulling, heres, crunch, shows, week, google, company, techcrunch, interest, max, startup, inflation, daily, fired, founder, hbo, customers, list. -
Developing a Nigerian computer giant: Leo Stan Ekeh, Founder & CEO, Zinox Group (Video)
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Zinox Group in Nigeria is a computing firm that assembles and distributes computers and software across Africa.
Topics: stan, suit, zinox, video, trying, ekeh, videos, group, nigerian, founder, technology, developing, african, giant, computers, leo, firm. -
Drupal Commerce Founder on Collaborative Code, Software Freedom, More
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The viability of open-source ecommerce platforms may seem limited given the rise of SaaS providers such as Shopify and many others. Not so, says Ryan Szrama. He's the founder of Drupal Commerce. He wrote the code in 2005 as an addition to the open-source Drupal content management system.
Topics: opensource, code, companies, freedom, development, project, founder, ecommerce, work, content, software, collaborative, drupal, commerce. -
Ecommerce Entrepreneurship Grows as Unemployment Rises
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The looming recession has sparked a boom in digital business.
Topics: store, ecommerce, start, sales, founder, youre, online, customers, data, products, grows, unemployment, entrepreneurship, rises. -
Elements Brands Founder on Moving from Doer to Manager
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The required skills to launch a business are typically much different from managing it for the long term. Bill D'Alessandro has done both. He launched a single ecommerce business in 2010 and then transformed the company into an operator of multiple online brands. He has evolved from performing most every task to focusing on a few.
Topics: manager, brands, ad, ecommerce, page, elements, business, youre, lot, founder, doer, entrepreneurs, moving, buy, good. -
Exploring Black Health, Wellness and Entrepreneurship with Muniq Founder and CEO Marc Washington
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Black History Month is a dedicated time to remember, reflect and honor African-American history and achievements. At BigCommerce, we’re honored…
Topics: business, history, washington, black, really, community, marc, qa, bigcommerce, brand, founder, look, muniq, health, ceo. -
Extra Crunch roundup: Inside DoorDash’s IPO, first-person founder stories, the latest in fintech VC and more
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One of my favorite series of Monty Python sketches is built around the concept of surprise: Chapman: I didn’t expect a kind of Spanish Inquisition. [JARRING CHORD] [Three cardinals burst in] Cardinal Ximénez: NOBODY expects the Spanish Inquisition! I was reminded of this today when I needed to reschedule a few stories so we could cover DoorDash’s S-1 […]
Topics: recent, ipo, left, founders, roundup, firstperson, doordashs, edtech, fintech, inside, covid19, techcrunch, latest, extra, founder, vc. -
Gas Station Coffee Spurs Golden Ratio Founder
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Solving a personal hardship may be the most common motivator for starting a business. Clark Nowlin's hardship was acidity in coffee. It wrecked his stomach. Golden Ratio Coffee is Nowlin's answer. It's a producer of low-acid coffee.
Topics: gas, tea, youre, brand, founder, money, station, coffee, business, thats, spurs, golden, investors, ratio. -
Gig workers need health & benefits — Catch is their safety net
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One of the hottest Y Combinator startups just raised a big seed round to clean up the mess created by Uber, Postmates and the gig economy. Catch sells health insurance, retirement savings plans and tax withholding directly to freelancers, contractors, or anyone uncovered. By building and curating simplified benefits services, Catch can offer a safety […]
Topics: net, health, gig, benefits, retirement, tyrrell, ventures, users, workers, work, safety, need, insurance, catch, founder. -
Greenbelly Founder Leaves Accounting, Thrives with Backpacking Meals
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Chris Cage founded Greenbelly, a maker of high-nutrition meal bars for backpackers, after having left his accounting job and traveling the world. That was in 2014. Fast forward to 2021, and the business is thriving.
Topics: product, backpacking, moms, meals, leaves, accounting, thrives, months, thats, founder, business, kitchen, greenbelly, came, hiking, started, food. -
Happiness, not Profit, Drives Grasshopper Founder
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Having sold Grasshopper, the virtual phone service, for $175 million in 2015, David Hauser assessed his priorities. Grasshopper was his third launch and exit, following ReturnPath (email services) and Chargify (subscription management).
Topics: companies, drives, profit, founder, things, sold, million, company, spent, grasshopper, ive, lot, happiness, im. -
How Boxraw’s Founder 3x Sales and Overcame A Broken 7-Figure Partnership Deal
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Ben Amanna was endlessly bullied as a kid. At the age of 12, Ben turned to boxing as a safe haven. He became immersed in the world of boxing—from starting a boxing club and winning national championships to promoting live matches and exploring the business side of boxing. Ben’s expertise in the space allowed him to identify a gap in the athletic clothing market: sportswear for the boxing lifestyle. A serial entrepreneur, Ben left behind a lucrative business to launch BOXRAW, an apparel brand dedicated to boxing. In this episode of Shopify Masters, Ben shares how his company bounced back from a failed partnership deal and how he built a community of boxing enthusiasts using social media.More
Topics: brand, going, trying, days, broken, lot, partnership, 7figure, boxraw, started, deal, boxing, really, business, overcame, founder, 3x, sales, boxraws. -
How This Founder Built A 7-Figure Business While Keeping A Full-Time Job
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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 Founder Scaled A Fitness Business to Over $20 Million in 2 Years
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Will Torrez was operating businesses within the travel and hospitality industry when COVID-19 hit. As the impacts of the pandemic forced him to shut down his businesses, Will noticed the lack of access to gyms and decided to pivot. He created Zeno Gym by designing an all-in-one workout bench. In less than two years, Will has scaled the business to over $20 million in sales. On this episode of Shopify Masters, Will shares his tactics for building high conversion landing pages and an efficient supply chain.More
Topics: team, million, founder, going, lot, bench, gym, youre, zeno, fitness, thats, benches, business, scaled, product. -
How to Take Smart Risks: 4 Tips From a Clean Hair Care Founder
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Founder Nancy Twine left her career on Wall Street to start Briogeo, a clean hair care company. In this episode, Nancy shares how she managed the risk of starting a company, scored a partnership with Sephora, and secured an acquisition of her brand.More
Topics: briogeo, care, tips, clean, nancy, start, hair, going, founder, risks, company, shopify, nights, smart. -
Hyve Founder: Bacteria Is Helpful for Home Cleaning
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Shreya Patel is a biologist and healthcare administrator who seeks to change how folks clean their homes. Products that kill bacteria do more harm than good, she says. And that's why she launched Hyve, a direct-to-consumer seller of household cleaning goods.
Topics: hyve, beneficial, kill, helpful, product, water, cleaning, ive, thats, founder, cleaners, products, harmful, bacteria. -
Inside Calendar.com: Exploring the Power of Magento with Founder John Rampton
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How a move from Yahoo Stores helped build a $100 Million company
Topics: customers, ecommerce, platform, inside, founder, john, power, exploring, rampton, able, work, ability, technology, magento, business, calendarcom, experience. -
Instagram founder launches gift card site for quarantined restaurants
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Coronavirus quarantines are hurting local businesses, but Instagram co-founder Mike Krieger wants to help them keep revenue rolling in. Krieger and his wife Kaitlyn this week launched SaveOurFaves, a directory of Bay Area restaurants selling gift certificates to offset lost income amidst “shelter in place” orders across the region. Users can search for restaurants or […]
Topics: gift, local, help, sf, launches, site, founder, kriegers, restaurant, restaurants, mike, techcrunch, quarantined, card, instagram, businesses. -
Konga Founder Sim Shagaya's uLesson edtech startup raises $3.1M
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Nigerian founder Sim Shagaya is back with a new startup — uLesson — that has raised a $3.1 million seed round led by TLcom Capital.
Topics: nigeria, shagayas, venture, startup, raises, konga, sim, founder, edtech, shagaya, ulesson, african, 31m. -
Leadership Advice from 8 Black-Owned Business Leaders
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Welcome to Breaking the Blueprint— a blog series that dives into the unique business challenges and opportunities of underrepresented business owners and entrepreneurs. Learn how they’ve grown or scaled their businesses, explored entrepreneurial ventures within their companies, or created side hustles, and how their stories can inspire and inform your own success.
Topics: advice, building, leadership, black, founder, leaders, business, lead, blackowned, team, questions, big, skills. -
Lessons from Bankruptcy Drive Ecom Agency Founder
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Josh Durham knows the downside of entrepreneurship. He founded an ecommerce company in 2015 and quickly grew revenue. Then it went out of business. Fast forward to 2021, and Durham has bounced back. He launched a successful marketing agency, Aligned Growth Management, that builds on his own early-day lessons.
Topics: lot, agency, bankruptcy, drive, lessons, ecom, business, weighted, marketing, ecommerce, founder, yes, market, product, ad, million. -
LiveRecover Founder Sells Company, Buys OrderBump
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Dennis Hegstad co-founded LiveRecover, an SMS app, in 2018. He sold the company in 2021. "I became bored," he said. So he purchased OrderBump, a Shopify app for product upsells.
Topics: buys, plus, customer, founder, upsell, liverecover, youre, company, upsells, shopify, app, sells, know, orderbump. -
Magento Masters Attending Adobe Summit 2019 as Commerce Influencers
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Follow along to get insider access and perspectives on the event
Topics: linkedin, software, adobe, influencers, community, wagento, ecommerce, events, magento, summit, attending, masters, experience, commerce, founder. -
Manual Texts Recover 21 Percent of Abandoned Carts, Says LiveRecover Founder
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Dennis Hegstad believes the best way to recover abandoned carts is via text messages. But his messages are not automated or bot-driven. Hegstad's company, LiveRecover, sends one-to-one texts from a real person to folks who have left an ecommerce checkout without completing a purchase.
Topics: number, recover, live, messages, manual, abandoned, customer, send, phone, sms, text, liverecover, texts, carts, recovery, founder. -
Moz Founder Rand Fishkin on New Book, New Company
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Rand Fishkin founded Moz in 2001 as a blog, calling it SEOmoz. It became an industry beacon. He left Moz earlier this year. His new book is a transparent view of running that company. I spoke with Fishkin last week about the book, leaving Moz, and his new venture, SparkToro
Topics: lot, trying, book, money, moz, rand, company, startup, founder, capital, venture, world, fishkin, theyre. -
Natalist founder Halle Tecco wants to get you pregnant
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Halle Tecco is no stranger to conception struggles. The Rock Health founder and former CEO has been public about her journey on social media, including two rounds of IVF, eventually leading to a healthy baby boy. Now, she wants to help others make babies, too. To get there, Tecco has joined a class of new […]
Topics: founder, rock, products, various, pregnancy, natalists, techcrunch, fertility, wants, pregnant, tecco, halle, natalist, women. -
Native Deodorant Founder on Scaling to $100 Million in 2 Years
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Despite reaching a whopping $100 million in revenue in just two years, Moiz Ali, the founder of Native deodorant, says the initial version was less than stellar. "We had a pretty mediocre product," Ali told me. "We understood that people were looking for [aluminum-free deodorant] and were willing to pay a higher price point for it."
Topics: business, deodorant, willing, native, thats, million, sold, company, scaling, founder, went, product. -
Needing Deodorant, Curie Founder Made Her Own
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In 2018 Sarah Moret, an accountant and athlete, couldn't find a suitable aluminum-free deodorant. So she made her own. Fast forward to 2022 and that deodorant business is now Curie, a thriving direct-to-consumer seller.
Topics: shark, products, founder, business, customers, started, site, think, body, needing, deodorant, tank, curie. -
Ollies and Ocean Life: Inside the Mind of a 14-Year-Old Founder
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Carson started his business, Locker Board, to make money to pay for surf lessons—and to avoid doing chores. The now 14-year-old has a busy schedule between sports, running his business, and tuning out the haters. Here, he shares his thoughts on keeping oceans clean and seizing every moment.More
Topics: 14yearold, school, ocean, mind, ollies, tank, im, locker, doing, shark, life, founder, business, started, pretty, surf, inside. -
Overdraft: How One Founder Built a Braiding Business—From Her Living Room
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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. -
Overdraft: How One Founder Is Changing Lives—Including Her Own—Through a $500 Start-up
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For years, Jenn Harper battled addiction and was once on the brink of losing everything. Then, she rebuilt her life, focusing her energy on creating Cheekbone Beauty—a sustainable brand that gives back to her Indigenous community. Here, Jenn explains how she overcame alcoholism, generational trauma, and the challenges of starting her business with just $500.More
Topics: really, funding, changing, beauty, ive, going, im, change, overdraft, cheekbone, indigenous, livesincluding, founder, alcoholism. -
Overdraft: KOTN’s Founder Talks Hard Times and Soft Shirts
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Benjamin Sehl still isn’t sure if he’s “made it.” But after years of building KOTN from his in-laws’ basement and spinning it into a powerhouse online social impact brand with two retail stores, he’ll cautiously admit that he feels successful. Here, he talks about running out of money (more than once), securing funding (then losing it), and that time The Weeknd’s fan base nearly shut down KOTN’s pop-up.More
Topics: think, soft, pretty, ended, really, didnt, founder, overdraft, times, shirts, night, hard, talks, life, mackenzie, going, kotns, money. -
Overdraft: When Divorce Forced This Founder to Redefine the Meaning of Success
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Vivek Jain was living his dream, married and working as a venture capitalist in Bermuda. Then: divorce. At 34, Vivek found himself living with his parents and starting over. Today, he measures success differently—not by his bank balance. But to get there, he had to learn the hard way.More
Topics: forced, redefine, founder, way, im, kids, divorce, parents, things, life, overdraft, didnt, going, success, money, living. -
Pakistan’s Airlift raises $85 million for its quick commerce startup, eyes international expansion
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A one-year-old startup that is attempting to build the railroads for e-commerce in Pakistan has just secured a mega round of funding in a major boost to the South Asia nation’s nascent startup ecosystem. Airlift operates a quick commerce service in eight cities, including Lahore, Karachi and Islamabad in Pakistan. Users can order groceries, fresh […]
Topics: round, airlift, techcrunch, pakistans, founder, raises, usman, quick, international, commerce, executive, startup, chief, pakistan, million, eyes, expansion. -
Pax Labs CEO Bharat Vasan and serial founder Keith McCarty are coming to Disrupt SF
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The legalization of cannabis and hemp for medicinal and recreational use in states across the U.S. and in Canada has opened up a huge vein of green, green cash for startups. Two entrepreneurs tantalized early on by the smell of dank profits are Pax Labs CEO Bharat Vasan and Eaze and Wayv founder Keith McCarty. […]
Topics: eaze, mccarty, know, sf, disrupt, techcrunch, vasan, labs, founder, million, keith, cannabis, pax, wayv, serial. -
Pecans and Politics: Inside the Mind of a 12-Year-Old Founder
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Charlie Kobdish is a kid of many talents—Monopoly, basketball, making jokes—but he’s most proud of his knack for business. This 12-year-old CEO runs a candied pecan company, Charlie’s Treats. One day, Charlie plans to be a politician, but for now he’s just focusing on being a seventh grader. Here, he shares with us his thoughts on everything from superheroes to sports to seasonal spices. More
Topics: shes, politics, charlies, stuff, mind, pecans, pretty, founder, really, lot, good, inside, 12yearold, kind, im, business. -
Personal-care Founder: No More Petrochemicals
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I've interviewed entrepreneurs for this podcast who developed organic consumer-care goods. But none did it before Eric Malka. He and his wife, Myriam, devised shaving oils from their kitchen in 1996 and then launched The Art of Shaving. Their new company, Ingredients, focuses on wellness and sustainability.
Topics: products, stores, ingredients, petrochemicals, shaving, im, art, founder, sold, personalcare, world, retail. -
Q&A with David Anderson, LionDesk Founder and CEO
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Cloud-based business applications offer brilliant, flexible, and affordable solutions for small and medium-sized businesses. They have their own structure, business model, benefits, and challenges, including contact management.
We asked David Anderson, LionDesk Founder and CEO, about the impact of these platforms on the growth of SMBs and the importance of keeping different tools aligned. This is what he told us.
Topics: david, anderson, qa, person, contact, solutions, ceo, business, tools, lead, system, wins, liondesk, small, founder. -
Quality and Craft Drive Chisos Boots Founder
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The idea for Chisos boots started with back pain. Will Roman, the founder, owner, and lifetime cowboy-boot buyer, injured his back in a motorcycle accident. Wearing boots became painful. He launched Chisos.com, a custom, handcrafted bootmaker, in 2019. Quality and craft drive Roman and his outlook on life.
Topics: leather, drive, started, handmade, wanted, boots, founder, craft, im, boot, texas, youre, quality, chisos. -
Reading List: Al Keck, Founder of Infinity Nation
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“Reading List” is our occasional series where we ask ecommerce professionals to name some of their favorite books and blogs. For this installment, we corresponded with Al Keck, founder and ...
Topics: revolutionized, nation, book, business, keck, money, favorite, team, founder, retail, infinity, ecommerce, successful, al, reading, things, list. -
Reading List: Mohammed Ali, Founder of Primaseller
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“Reading List” is an occasional series where we ask ecommerce professionals to name some of their favorite books and blogs and tell us why they read them. For this installment, we corresponded with Mohammed Ali, founder and C.E.O. of Primaseller, a software-as-a-service, multichannel inventory management system based in Walnut, Calif
Topics: product, value, building, advice, mohammed, ali, primaseller, reading, favorite, read, startup, thiel, peter, founder, book, list. -
Refurbishing the Rust Belt: Founder Stories from Detroit
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Detroit has undeniably prevailed through the most catastrophic blows to its economy. Once, hundreds of thousands of people worked in the city’s auto industry until the largest car manufacturer closed and kicked off a decades-long decline. But though automakers left the rust belt in their dust, the manufacturing heart of the city beat on, and instead of cars, that workforce is using its skills to make everything from denim and bikes to jewelry and coffee. More
Topics: city, rust, skills, company, detroit, manufacturing, detroits, refurbishing, rebel, inspiration, women, amy, business, founder, belt. -
STEM and Stargate Atlantis: Inside the Mind of a 11-Year-Old Founder
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Meet Sophia Fairweather. She’s a big sister, book lover, and one pretty bright kid. At 5, she approached her dad about starting her own business (just like him). Because of her experiences, the now 11-year-old is dedicating her free time—between school and swimming—to speaking about entrepreneurship. This is her story, in her words.More
Topics: interested, girls, stem, math, kind, founder, really, mind, atlantis, school, science, stargate, im, shes, inside, pretty, 11yearold. -
Social Studies and Stationery: Inside the Mind of a 10-Year-Old Founder
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Between jazz, acro, and musical theater, Kamaria Warren is learning to be a boss too. In this homework assignment, the 10-year-old brains behind Brown Girls Stationery shares her big dreams—and her advice for other kids chasing their own.More
Topics: house, studies, founder, 10yearold, products, girls, lot, mom, social, mind, brown, kids, business, inside, really, stationery, helps. -
Solo Brands Founder, Now Wealthy, Reflects
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Having sold Solo Stove, a company he co-launched in 2010, Spencer Jan reflects on finding meaning amid financial freedom, among other topics.
Topics: equity, sold, brands, didnt, private, company, reflects, founder, solo, wealthy, im, launched, stove, business. -
Suds to Stardom: How the Founder of Royalty Soaps Went Viral on YouTube
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Katie Carson has completely transformed her business, Royalty Soaps, thanks to YouTube. Read her best advice for how to get started on YouTube with your own business.More
Topics: stardom, posting, katie, shes, business, videos, video, founder, royalty, viral, suds, youtube, soaps, content, started, went, soap. -
Supply.co Founder: Day of Reckoning Is Coming for DTC Brands
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Patrick Coddou launched Supply.co with his wife, Jennifer, in 2015. The company, which sells razors and shaving supplies, is bootstrapped — no outside investors. He has little patience with the concept of lifetime customer value or paying more to acquire a customer than he can recoup on the initial purchase.
Topics: value, thats, founder, business, lot, brands, reckoning, customers, run, lifetime, coming, customer, dtc, day, dont, supplyco, profitable. -
TechCrunch+ roundup: Growth budgets, hiring tips, zero-party data Twitter Space
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Are you curious about marketing with zero-party data? Join a Twitter Space with with Ben Parr, president and co-founder of Octane AI, tomorrow at 3 p.m. PST/6 p.m. EST.
Topics: twitter, budgets, wilhelm, results, growth, zeroparty, hiring, marketing, startup, founder, partner, space, techcrunch, data, startups, tips, roundup, alex. -
The 100 Best Inspirational Business Quotes for Entrepreneurs
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Starting a business is tough. And not just practically, or financially — emotionally, too. Which is why these top 100 inspirational business quotes are so valuable. Each of these business quotes is a bite-sized morsel of wisdom, capable of injecting that much-needed hit of inspiration, encouragement, and motivation. So, when […]
Topics: ceo, best, quotes, founder, inspirational, success, youre, entrepreneurs, failure, click, work, dont, business, cofounder. -
The Art of Reinvention: How One Founder Found Her Purpose in the Middle of a Pandemic
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Like many small business owners around the world, Moorea Seal is scrambling to answer the question “What now?” For her, collective grief is compounded by personal loss. But she’s been here before. Many of Moorea’s successes have been born out of tragedy, and now she’s pivoting her business, in the midst of a pandemic, to help others.More
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The Founder’s Zodiac: What Type of Entrepreneur Are You?
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After studying some of the 1 million business owners who use Shopify, we discovered some patterns. Founder types fit into five groups: the growth-minded Mountaineer, the plucky Trailblazer, the always-be-prepared Cartographer, the risk-taking Firestarter, and the steady Outsider. Which one are you? Take our quiz to find out.More
Topics: series, founder, founders, whats, business, type, youre, entrepreneur, zodiac, youve, raises, hand, sign. -
This Founder Built a $1 Billion Brand ... By Giving Away $5 Gift Cards
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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. -
This Founder Launched an Ecommerce Company After a Frustrating College Experience. Now, Its Shipping Times Rival Amazon Prime's — and It's Dominating This Key Area Jeff Bezos Never Did.
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When Alex Zhou moved from China to the U.S. to attend Kansas State University in 2007, he couldn't find his favorite foods from home — and it inspired him to start online Asian marketplace Yami.
Topics: products, yamis, founder, zhou, yami, strategy, amazon, sustains, space, growth, asian, customer, ecommerce, customers. -
This Young Founder Built a Multimillion Dollar Business by Rejecting the Silicon Valley Ethos and Being True to Herself
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Laura Behrens Wu came to the U.S. as an outsider, and admits she's still trying to find her way.
Topics: youre, true, behrens, dollar, company, valley, silicon, multimillion, rejecting, ethos, investors, going, business, able, founder, problem, didnt, young, really, wu. -
Tinder founder funds sex tips app Lover
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Want to spice up the bedroom without paying for pills or awkward visits to a sex therapist? A new app called Lover lets you take a sexual personality quiz, explore carnal knowledge tutorials and discretely figure out which turn-ons you share with your partner. Built by board-certified sexual medicine clinical psychologist Dr. Britney Blair, Lover […]
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Turn Off Your Phone, Says Agency Founder
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Most entrepreneurs in 2020 are uber connected: phone, text, email, Slack — you name it. But to Arri Bagah, the founder of Conversmart, an ecommerce agency, always-on connections means non-stop interruptions. "It's a matter of taking control of my time — trying to be less reactive and more active," he told me. "Receiving all of those notifications prompts you to react.
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Upscribe, raising $4M, wants to drive subscription-first DTC brand growth
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Merchants use Upscribe’s technology to drive subscriber growth, reduce churn and enable personalized subscription experiences, like skipping shipments and swapping out products.
Topics: subscription, products, techcrunch, growth, scale, customer, subscriptionfirst, upscribe, dtc, subscriptions, brand, 4m, founder, wants, brands, drive, siva, upscribes, merchants, raising. -
Verified Expert Growth Marketing Agency: Ampush
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Customers have described Ampush as the “McKinsey of growth marketing,” and in many ways, it’s apt. Ampush has a relentlessly quantitative, full-funnel approach to growth marketing, and they’ve built proprietary software to back it up. Co-founder and CEO Jesse Pujji explains why Ampush exclusively works with direct to consumer companies, and why they went from serving […]
Topics: really, facebook, expert, ampush, techcrunch, growth, founders, agency, business, understand, marketing, verified, founder, companies. -
Verified Expert Growth Marketing Agency: Growth Pilots
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Growth Pilots is one of the more exclusive performance marketing agencies in San Francisco, but they know how to help high-growth startups excel at paid marketing. CEO and founder Soso Sazesh credits his personal experiences as an entrepreneur along with his team’s deep understanding of high-growth company needs and challenges as to what sets Growth […]
Topics: growth, pilots, work, techcrunch, founder, team, uc, startup, theyre, marketing, agency, verified, expert, berkeley. -
Verified Expert Growth Marketing Agency: Right Side Up
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Right Side Up is not your typical growth marketing agency. As a former entrepreneur and in-house growth marketer for startups like Eventbrite, founder Tyler Elliston says he created RSU as a way to help his former self. RSU recruits a collective of expert growth marketers and partners them with various companies, but unlike a traditional […]
Topics: companies, founder, marketing, work, agency, marketers, tyler, customer, startup, growth, expert, verified, techcrunch, right. -
Verified Expert Growth Marketing Agency: TrueUp
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It was the perfect storm when CEO and Founder Liam Reynolds finally decided to start TrueUp, a data-driven growth marketing agency/consultancy based in London. After decades of working for large creative advertising agencies, Liam quit his job right around the beginning of Silicon Valley’s growth hacking trend and plunged headfirst into running growth for early-stage […]
Topics: look, growth, founder, agency, right, liam, achieved, trueup, techcrunch, weve, marketing, need, expert, data, verified. -
Verified Expert Growth Marketing Agency: We Are Off The Record
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Unlike most agencies, We Are Off The Record’s (WAOTR) mission is to advise and train in-house growth teams to scale their business. CEO and founder Bas Prass prides his team’s “train and transfer method” because it has allowed them to work with tech startups and giant corporations from all around the world. WAOTR is based […]
Topics: agency, verified, teams, understand, marketing, waotr, expert, websites, techcrunch, train, approach, founder, business, growth, work, record. -
Why This Founder Took Two Years to Launch
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Mel Wells was inspired by her roommate's desire for a 1920s styled swimsuit to start Beefcake Swimwear. Mel took two years to find sustainable fabrics and an ethical American manufacturer before launching. In this episode of Shopify Masters, you'll hear from Mel on why it's important to grow at your own pace. More
Topics: founder, right, youre, really, thats, going, launch, think, doing, yeah, business, im, took. -
Zola founder and CEO Shan-Lyn Ma is coming to Disrupt SF
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Many, many startups have tried to work their way into the U.S.’s $76 billion wedding market. But Zola is one of the few that’s truly carved a path in this massive industry. That’s why we’re so thrilled to have Shan-Lyn Ma, CEO of Zola, join us at Disrupt SF in October. After graduating with an […]
Topics: shanlyn, founder, coming, ceo, zolas, senior, platform, ma, techcrunch, wedding, million, disrupt, product, sf, couples, zola. -
eCommerceFuel Founder on Work-Life Balance, Priorities
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Andrew Youderian is the founder and CEO of eCommerceFuel, a leading online community of established store owners. He oversees a diverse team and manages a growing business with worldwide members. Surely, one would think, he works long hours with little downtime.
Topics: ecommercefuel, worklife, whats, bike, going, balance, im, fires, work, priorities, business, office, founder, ive, good. -
‘Intrepreneurship’ Has Rewards, Says Company Founder
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Bryan DeLuca has a name for folks who build brands within large corporations. He calls them "intrepreneurs." He should know. Having co-founded and then sold a successful ecommerce business, DeLuca worked for a traditional retailer, creating brands within the company.
Topics: business, cardigan, foot, rewards, sold, intrepreneurship, team, intrepreneur, worked, im, founder, thing, company. -
‘The Operators’: Acceleprise partner Whitney Sales and Docsend CEO Russ Heddleston on how to grow your sales strategies
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Tim Hsia & Neil Devani Contributor Share on Twitter Tim Hsia is the CEO of Media Mobilize and a Venture Partner at Digital Garage. Neil Devani is an angel investor and venture capitalist focused on companies solving hard problems. Welcome to this transcribed edition of The Operators. TechCrunch is beginning to publish podcasts from industry […]
Topics: founder, enterprise, techcrunch, russ, experts, grow, sales, strategies, companies, worked, partner, docsend, company, heddleston, whitney, operators.