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• $0 to $1,000 in a Day: How to Build an Ecommerce Business That Could Make You Millions - For our first video in the series $0 to $1,000, ecommerce expert Trevor Chapman chats about the type of site you need, the basics you must have before you launch and how to use email the right way.
  Topics: ecommerce, build, learn, chapman, millions, business, email, need, video, series, day, store, trevor.
• $0 to $1,000 in a Day: The Marketing Method You Must Use to Grab People's Attention - Not all marketing is created equally. In this video for our series $0 to $1,000, ecommerce pro Trevor Chapman shares the difference between query-based and disruptive marketing, along with what products to use to catch consumers' eyes.
  Topics: day, grab, trevor, huge, pro, ecommerce, chapman, products, marketing, attention, video, series, method, learn, peoples.
• 13 of the Best Facebook Live Videos We've Ever Seen - In 2016, Facebook launched its live feature. By 2018, one out of every five videos on the social network was a live broadcast. So far, many brands have gotten on the Facebook Live bandwagon by creating streams to discuss their product, show off knowledge of their industry, or simply entertain and grow Facebook audiences.  With this in mind, carving out a strategy for Facebook Live seems like a no-brainer.
  Topics: questions, live, product, way, series, weve, best, great, video, videos, brand, seen, facebook, viewers.
• 15 Ads That Prove Nostalgia Is a Powerful Marketing Tactic - Nostalgia marketing is the advertising equivalent of comfort food. In a time when most marketing focuses heavily on the future, it transports us back to a simpler place where our current problems don't matter and the hustle and bustle of modernity just melts away. Instead of anticipating the next great thing, nostalgia marketing urges us to focus on the things we already know are great.
  Topics: marketing, ad, tennis, nostalgic, series, ross, commercial, adidas, nostalgia, tactic, agency, campaign, powerful, ads, prove.
• 19 Free Tutorials for Google Analytics - Google Analytics may be the most important application to understand the behavior of your visitors. And whether you’re a beginner or an experienced user, there are many free resources to help. Here is a list of free tutorials for Google Analytics.
  Topics: features, marketing, reports, google, data, explore, free, analytics, tutorials, learn, series.
• 7-month-old Simsim secures $16M for its social commerce in India - Simsim, a social commerce startup in India, said on Friday it has raised $16 million in seven months of its existence as it attempts to replicate the offline retail experience in the digital world with help from influencers. The Gurgaon-based startup said it raised $16 million across seed, Series A and Series B financing rounds […]
  Topics: items, india, social, 16m, able, secures, users, 7monthold, million, techcrunch, startup, series, influencers, simsim, commerce.
• A $44M Series B Drop in the bucket for millennial loyalty - Commerce and marketing are radically changing these days. Consumers are increasingly looking for brands they identify with, while at the same time, the cost of acquiring users is increasing year-over-year for marketers. For brands, that math makes marketing complicated: they want to reach the right customers with the most efficient acquisition channels in order to […]
  Topics: strategic, capital, 44m, fung, york, techcrunch, ways, loyalty, drop, millennial, bucket, consumers, million, b, round, weve, series.
• A 7-step Cart Recovery Program for Luxury Brands (That Actually Works) - Imagine a company selling high-end products that cost thousands of dollars each. A few abandoned ecommerce shopping carts could add up to a small fortune. The recovery series described below has generated as much as $40,000 in a few hours.
  Topics: shopper, email, luxury, brands, works, cart, agent, shopping, customerservice, program, actually, 7step, recovery, series, automation, customer, send.
• Andy Hoar and the Paradigm B2B Combine: Part 2 [video] - Former Forrester Analyst, Andy Hoar, has set out on a new venture with his company Paradigm B2B. Now he's about to disrupt the industry again with the release of his new research report. In this short clip, he discusses the report and the surprises he came across conducting this research.
  Topics: hoar, report, video, upcoming, short, series, researchicymi, andy, combine, surprises, wwwgetelasticcomparadigmb2b, b2b, paradigm, second.
• Bolt adds $75M to its Series C, as the battle to rule online checkout continues - Bolt, a startup that offers online checkout technology to retailers, announced this morning that it has added $75 million to its Series C round, bringing the financing to a total of $125 million. WestCap and General Atlantic led the new tranche, which Bolt CEO Ryan Breslow told TechCrunch was raised at around twice its Series […]
  Topics: online, rule, continues, bolt, company, techcrunch, tech, series, c, million, battle, breslow, payments, adds, checkout.
• Building an Ecommerce Business, Part 6: Finding Employees - Without the right people, a new ecommerce business would almost certainly fail. Refining the hiring process can help find the perfect candidate. This is the sixth episode in my series of conversations on building an ecommerce business
  Topics: series, employees, refining, spoke, ecommerce, sixth, site, building, process, right, hiring, finding, business.
• Building an Ecommerce Business, Part 7: Shipping - A merchant who sells physical products has to figure out how to get those items to customers. For this interview, I spoke with Cody DeArmond, director of sales and account management at ShipStation, the software provider. We discussed how shipping software could help a business to streamline its processes and generally make life easier
  Topics: shipstation, sells, business, ecommerce, series, shipping, building, spoke, seven, software, streamline, scales.
• Checkout.com raises 370 million euros - London fintech company Checkout.com has raised 450 million dollars (370 million euros) in a Series C round. The company is now valuated at over 12 billion euros and is looking to expand its business further abroad. The company, with its headquarters in the United Kingdom, says it’s now the most… Continue reading
  Topics: fintech, euros, raises, checkoutcom, company, million, payments, payment, round, raised, series.
• ClassPass works up $85 million Series D funding - ClassPass today announced the close of an $85 million Series D financing round led by Temasek, the same firm that led the startup’s Series C financing. L Catterton, a private equity firm that has also invested in the likes of Peloton, Equinox, and Pure Barre, also participated in the round. As part of the deal, […]
  Topics: series, million, model, studio, users, company, led, funding, works, d, classpass, lanman, round, fitness.
• Custom framing startup Framebridge picks up $30 million Series C - D.C.-based Framebridge today announced the close of a $30 million Series C financing round led by T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc. with participation from existing investors SWaN & Legend Venture Partners, Revolution Ventures, and NEA. Launched in 2014, Framebridge offers affordable and convenient custom framing via its website and mobile app. The idea for the […]
  Topics: framing, company, startup, process, price, custom, picks, tynan, c, production, website, users, series, framebridge, framed, million.
• D2C underwear brand TomboyX raises $18 million from the Craftory - TomboyX, a direct to consumer, gender-neutral underwear brand, has today announced the close of an $18 million Series B funding round led by the Craftory. With this deal, Craftory becomes TomboyX’s majority shareholder. TomboyX develops gender-neutral, size-inclusive underwear at a relatively affordable price point. The company started when co-founder Fran Dunaway struggled to find herself […]
  Topics: series, techcrunch, funding, brand, round, craftory, raises, started, underwear, million, tomboyxs, tomboyx, genderneutral, d2c.
• Daily Crunch: DoorDash files to go public - DoorDash prepares to go public, Roblox raises $150 million and Reddit’s CEO takes aim at TikTok. Here’s your Daily Crunch for February 27, 2020. 1. DoorDash, the $13B on-demand food delivery startup, says it has confidentially filed for an IPO The company said that its Form S-1 (a draft registration statement) was filed with the […]
  Topics: dahmakan, series, million, tiktok, techcrunch, doordash, files, president, public, daily, crunch, food, delivery, startup, raises.
• Darkstore raises $21 million Series B round - Darkstore, the tech-driven fulfillment solution to enable e-commerce companies to offer same-day delivery, just raised a $21 million Series B round led by EQT Ventures. The deal will bring EQT principal Laura Yao to Darkstore’s board of directors. This Series B round comes less than one year after Darkstore raised a $7.5 million Series A […]
  Topics: team, round, b, series, worked, raises, techcrunch, brands, darkstore, fulfillment, million, yao, raised.
• Deliverr lands $40M Series C to bring two-day shipping to any merchant - Deliverr doesn’t own a warehouse or a delivery truck, but the startup is helping e-commerce companies not named Amazon achieve Amazon-like two-day shipping. The startup does it with intelligent algorithms, and today it announced a $40 million Series C investment. Activant Capital led the round. Other investors in the company include 8VC, GLP and Flexport […]
  Topics: integrate, c, bring, delivery, warehouse, company, series, lands, 40m, krakaris, good, item, merchant, deliverr, truck, system, warehouses, shipping, techcrunch, twoday.
• Do the Right Thing, Even When It's Hard [The Customer Code Series] - Editor's note: This is the final post in a series on the HubSpot Customer Code. I haven’t decided yet if this is the final tenet in The Customer Code or the “platform” that supports the entire Code. But I think it’s the most important of all -- do the right thing, even when it’s hard ... especially when it’s hard.
  Topics: hubspot, right, customers, thing, series, business, customer, code, hard, grow.
• E-commerce infrastructure startup Nacelle closes $18M Series A - Consumer online shopping habits have led to a windfall of revenues for these web storefronts, but COVID-era trends have also breathed new life into the market for developer tools that help e-commerce sites operate more smoothly for shoppers. LA-based Nacelle is one of many e-commerce infrastructure startups to earn attention from investors amid COVID. The […]
  Topics: web, trends, techcrunch, 18m, services, storefronts, websites, startups, ecommerce, infrastructure, sites, nacelle, series, startup, closes, shopping.
• Earn My Attention, Don't Steal It [The Customer Code Series] - Editor's note: This is the second post in an 11-part series on the HubSpot Customer Code. You can subscribe to the full series here. Your time is precious. So is your customer’s. We know this is true, but we still somehow feel okay about stealing another person’s time and attention when we’re in a business context. Wait...stealing? Really? 
  Topics: attention, team, customer, marketing, code, didnt, inbound, series, dont, sales, steal, earn.
• Growth Alone Doesn't Interest Me Anymore - Editor's note: This is the first post in an 11-part series on the HubSpot Customer Code. You can subscribe to the full series here.  The business world is obsessed with growth. We chase it, chart it, and celebrate the moment we’ve captured it  --  even temporarily.
  Topics: customers, interest, grow, anymore, series, decisions, customer, hubspot, code, growing, dont, growth, doesnt.
• How to Add a Secondary Axis to an Excel Chart - Have you ever wanted to create a single chart for two different (yet related) pieces of data? Maybe you wanted to see the raw number of leads you're generating from each channel and what the conversion rate of the channel is. Having those two sets of data on one graph is extremely helpful to picking out patterns and identifying full-funnel trends.
  Topics: axis, secondary, sold, chart, excel, shoes, data, add, click, y, series.
• HubSpot Marketers Reveal Their Favorite Campaigns of 2019 - In 2019, we saw a number of companies create award-winning campaigns that generated ROI, brought in new customers, and expanded their brand awareness.
  Topics: reveal, campaigns, fun, favorite, marketers, ads, times, marketing, campaign, ad, series, popeyes, hubspot, video.
• Hydrant raises $5.7 million Series A to help consumers hydrate faster - Eight glasses of water a day. That’s the old recommendation you and I have heard growing up. And while we all know the importance of hydration to our health, some methods of hydration are more efficient than others. At least, that’s the premise that Hydrant was built on. The company, a wellness brand that launched […]
  Topics: company, hydrate, mix, faster, techcrunch, hydrant, hydration, business, body, consumers, retail, molecules, help, million, right, raises, water, series.
• India’s FreshToHome raises $121 million to grow its meat and vegetable e-commerce platform - FreshToHome, an Indian e-commerce startup that sells fresh vegetables, fish, chicken and other kinds of meat, has raised $121 million in a new financing round as the Bangalore-headquartered firm reports accelerated growth spurred by the coronavirus pandemic. The startup, which offers its service in several major Indian cities, including Delhi, Mumbai, Pune, Bangalore, and Hyderabad, […]
  Topics: round, million, techcrunch, freshtohome, meat, startup, series, raised, platform, vegetable, grow, investment, ecommerce, startups, financing, indias, raises, indian.
• Introducing Resilient Retail: A New Virtual Event Series from Shopify POS - It’s been a year. We’ve all been hit by one crisis after another, and it’s fair to feel pretty burnt out. We need inspiration. We need stories. We need something to help us hold it together in the middle of these interlocking crises. Enter: Resilient Retail. Shopify’s brand new virtual event series is all about connecting retail industry experts and operators to share the tips, tactics, and cutting-edge knowledge they’re using to weather the current storm.More
  Topics: prince, need, shopify, whats, retailers, hit, operator, series, virtual, resilient, pos, event, introducing, sharma, retail, youre.
• Kenyan logistics startup Sendy raises $20M round backed by Toyota - Africa’s logistics startup space has gained another multi-million-dollar round with global backing.
  Topics: logistics, million, series, ondemand, kenyan, backed, 20m, toyota, sendy, raises, round, startup.
• Korean grocery startup Kurly raises $150M - Kurly, a startup that operates a grocery delivery service in Korea, has secured $150 million in a new financing round months after reports claimed that the firm might be acquired soon. Sequoia Capital, Hillhouse Capital and DST Global invested in the Korean startup’s Series E financing round, which according to news outlet Korean Investors, valued […]
  Topics: financing, series, korean, million, kurly, raises, techcrunch, grocery, raised, korea, startup, round, 150m, reports, valued.
• Kurly, a grocery e-commerce startup in Korea, closes upsized $113M Series D round - Kurly, a startup that operates a grocery delivery service in Korea, said today that it has closed an upsized Series D round that reached a total of $113 million. The company announced the round in April when it was $88 million, led by investors that include Sequoia China; however, it has now increased by $25 […]
  Topics: kim, d, coupang, million, produce, grocery, kurly, round, techcrunch, startup, thats, service, market, series, ecommerce, upsized, korea.
• Lidya Raises $6.9 Million in a Series A Round Led by Omidyar Network - Lidya, the digital financial services platform focused on improving access to credit for micro-, small-, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) in Africa, announced in late May that it has raised $6.9 million in a Series A investment round, one of the largest in Nigerian tech history.
  Topics: network, kehinde, series, million, lidya, omidyar, tunde, raises, investment, investors, round, led.
• Lidya Raises $6.9 Million in a Series A Round Led by Omidyar Network - Lidya, the digital financial services platform focused on improving access to credit for micro-, small-, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) in Africa, announced in late May that it has raised $6.9 million in a Series A investment round, one of the largest in Nigerian tech history.
  Topics: investors, tunde, network, investment, led, round, raises, omidyar, kehinde, series, million, lidya.
• Loop Returns picks up $10 million in Series A led by FirstMark Capital - Loop Returns, the startup that helps brands handle returns from online purchases, has today announced the close of a $10 million Series A funding round led by FirstMark Capital. Lerer Hippeau and Ridge Ventures also participated in the round. Loop started when Jonathan Poma, a co-founder and COO and president, was working at an agency […]
  Topics: techcrunch, million, brand, infrastructure, firstmark, poma, shopify, loop, returns, customer, connection, series, morgan, capital, picks, led, brands.
• Mejuri raises $23M Series B to serve women buying jewelry for themselves - New Enterprise Associates, the 42-year-old venture capital firm, has invested in the $23 million Series B round for Mejuri, a startup capturing millennial women’s penchant for affordable and treat yo’ self type of jewelry rather than diamonds and precious stones for special occasions. It’s the latest instance of startups drawing investor interest with their direct-to-customer […]
  Topics: raises, buying, b, jewelry, capital, series, serve, mejuri, women, sakkijha, latest, million, techcrunch, pregnant, model, startup, 23m.
• Modsy confirms layoffs, 10 months after announcing its $37M Series C - Modsy, an e-commerce company that creates 3D renderings of customized rooms, has confirmed to TechCrunch that it laid off a number of staff. In addition, several of its executives, including CEO Shanna Tellerman, will take a 25% pay cut. TechCrunch first heard about the layoffs from a source. The company’s confirmation of cuts comes amid […]
  Topics: confirms, layoffs, modsy, recent, companys, months, furniture, 37m, company, confirmed, series, c, announcing, techcrunch, ecommerce, number.
• Online community theAsianparent raises Series C to add e-commerce and expand into new markets - TheAsianparent, Southeast Asia’s largest online community and content platform for mothers with 23.5 million monthly active users, announced today that it has raised a Series C led by Fosun Group, the Chinese conglomerate. The amount was undisclosed, but a person familiar with the deal says it was between $10 million to $30 million. E-commerce giant […]
  Topics: content, asia, raises, theasianparent, business, million, expand, c, series, mahtani, community, southeast, ecommerce, online, markets, techcrunch.
• Parabola no-code platform raises $8M Series A as it focuses on e-commerce - Many workers today are still stuck doing a bushel of manual tasks, copying and pasting data into spreadsheets, sending out the same emails every morning and generally lacking any kind of automation because they lack coding skills. Parabola wants to change that with a simple drag and drop workflow setup, and today the startup announced […]
  Topics: techcrunch, series, platform, bring, think, company, parabola, 8m, nocode, round, focuses, increase, raises, users, right, yaseen, ecommerce.
• Plus-sized clothing startup Dia&Co gets another $70M from Sequoia, USV - Dia&Co co-founder and CEO Nadia Boujarwah wants to change the retail market for plus-sized women.
  Topics: retail, sequoia, diaco, plussized, 70m, million, led, women, startup, partner, clothing, usv, gets, series.
• Popping the hood on Vroom’s IPO filing - What does a private, car-focused e-commerce company worth $1.5 billion look like?
  Topics: today, series, vrooms, startup, popping, ipo, private, terms, hood, techcrunch, filing, vroom, markets, public, company, unicorn.
• Real estate startup Homie plans to expand to more cities with $23 million in Series B funding - Homie has made an impression among younger, first-time home buyers in the Utah and Arizona markets for cutting out the traditional closing costs, 6% real estate commissions and arduous paperwork associated with traditional home sales. It now plans to explore opening up in three new markets and will begin a Vegas launch in March with […]
  Topics: funding, vegas, commission, startup, work, technology, million, series, traditional, homie, real, plans, company, techcrunch, estate, expand, process.
• Should my organization invest in a microservices architecture? - Microservices have been gaining a lot of interest within the commerce industry; but before you adopt a microservices architecture you should know what they are, the challenges and the implementation.
  Topics: organization, architecture, today, business, systems, rapid, organizations, invest, support, microservices, microservice, series, voice.
• Sick of managing your Airbnb? Vacasa raises $64M to do it for you - Airbnbing can be a ton of work. Between key pickups, tidying, and maintenance emergencies, renting out your place isn’t such a passive revenue source. But Vacasa equips owners with full-service vacation home management, including listings on top rental platforms like Airbnb and HomeAway, as well as local cleaners who come between guests. It now manages […]
  Topics: airbnb, sick, series, weekend, vacation, 64m, owners, equity, vacasa, managing, million, market, raised, raises.
• Southeast Asia fashion startup Zilingo continues its meteoric rise with $54M Series C - Many will rightly say that raising money as a startup in Southeast Asia is no easy thing, but up-and-coming online fashion service Zilingo sure doesn’t seem to have problems on that front. Fresh from raising an $18 million Series B round last September, Zilingo has announced its $54 million Series C to take it to […]
  Topics: services, startup, b2b, southeast, zilingo, series, c, asia, bose, fashion, sales, continues, zilingocom, meteoric, rise.
• Syte, an e-commerce visual search platform, gets $30 million Series C to expand in the US and Asia - Tel Aviv-based visual search and product discovery platform Syte, already used by brands like Farfetch and Fashion Nova, plans to expand in the United States and Asia-Pacific region after its latest funding. The startup announced today it has raised a $30 million Series C, with an additional $10 million in debt. The round was led […]
  Topics: techcrunch, visual, platform, sytes, gets, ecommerce, search, expand, increase, ventures, technology, product, syte, discovery, million, series.
• Takeaways from F8 and Facebook’s next phase - Extra Crunch offers members the opportunity to tune into conference calls led and moderated by the TechCrunch writers you read every day. This week, TechCrunch’s Josh Constine and Frederic Lardinois discuss major announcements that came out of Facebook’s F8 conference and dig into how Facebook is trying to redefine itself for the future. Though touted […]
  Topics: facebook, series, frederic, phase, thats, opportunity, techcrunch, marketplace, facebooks, conference, takeaways, josh, f8.
• Teikametrics raises $10M to optimize Amazon ads - Teikametrics is a Boston-based startup that helps retailers tackle the challenges of advertising on Amazon. Today, the company is announcing that it has raised $10 million in Series A funding. CEO Alasdair McLean-Foreman said third-party sellers represent 60 percent of the transactions on Amazon. But they don’t have any real data science capabilities, so they […]
  Topics: amazon, things, raises, data, sellers, mcleanforeman, represent, dont, optimize, 10m, series, ads, teikametrics, company.
• The Founder’s Zodiac: What Type of Entrepreneur Are You? - 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.
• 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.
• The Surround Sound Series: How We Created A New Content Marketing Program & Improved SERP Visibility Beyond SEO (Part 2 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: surround, visibility, program, created, hubspot, series, marketing, search, keywords, improved, serp, content, products, list, seo, sound.
• TomboyX picks up $4.3 million Series A - For the past ten to fifteen years, a crop of newer brands have found themselves gobbling up marketshare via direct to consumer channels. Some offer a better value proposition on an existing product category, like Warby Parker and Casper, while others offer a reinvention of the category itself, like Outdoor Voices and Glossier. TomboyX, which […]
  Topics: shirts, series, picks, offer, underwear, million, started, website, realized, dunaway, company, funding, tomboyx.
• Treat Me Like a Person, Not a Persona [The Customer Code Series] - Editor's note: This is the third post in an 11-part series on the HubSpot Customer Code. You can subscribe to the full series here. Businesses need customer personas. Personas are a powerful tool to help align vectors. When everyone understands who your customer is, what their problems are, and how your business can help them you find that making decisions about hiring, budgeting, and even specific tactics becomes much easier.
  Topics: series, email, code, customer, persona, users, team, help, user, person, sales, treat, unique.
• Use Your Brand Purpose To Guide Your Customer Experience - This webinar, the first in our new “Accelerator Webinar” series aimed to help marketers understand customer needs and optimize their buying journeys, focuses on the importance of brand purpose. Read more.
  Topics: experience, need, guide, experiences, series, customers, understand, purpose, customer, best, brand.
• Walmart is working with Eko to create interactive content - Walmart and Eko announced a partnership this morning to create a joint venture for interactive content called W*E Interactive Ventures. The best example of the interactivity that Eko enables is probably “That Moment When,” a comedy web series that the startup created last year in partnership with Sony. In a series of short videos, you take […]
  Topics: interactive, create, walmart, content, shows, partner, eko, venture, viewer, series, partnership, working.