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Alibaba has it, JD.com has it, and Amazon has one. Shopping festivals are a trend that has accelerated as commerce seeks to energize global economies. A shopping festival offers consumers a dash of retail therapy while brands can grow sales and engagement. A few weeks ago, Coresight Research, Shopkick, and Fashwire announced the 10.10 Shopping […]
Yesterday, was a significant day in the history of Alibaba. Jack Ma announced to the world that he will be succeeded by Jonathan Lu Xaoxi. Does the new heir apparent seem to be a new unknown? I tend to think so but Lu is Ma’s choice and that speaks volumes. Lu, is like Ma one […]
It is clear to me now that in hindsight the partnership between Farfetch and JD.com is beneficial to both parties for different reasons. As Farfetch is on the road to go public they will face increasing skepticism about their growth versus Yoox-Net-A-Porter. JD.com is increasingly to position itself as the premium destination for luxury brands […]
Alibaba’s IPO was one of the headline stories of 2014. The Chinese ecommerce business raised record amounts of cash that will allow them to pay shareholders back for showing faith in them. Alibaba is also in a position unlike any of their global competitors to aggressively acquire companies that will put them in good stead […]
Naspers, Rakuten, GSI Ecommerce and flash sale ecommerce get some headlines… The past week can be summarized into one thought “Just how global is ecommerce?” Truth is that the man on the street has little idea nor is it important for him. His primary mission is to buy that product that he wants. Sometimes, I […]
Walmart is the biggest retailer in the world and arguable the most controversial. Labor disputes and being in the news not for financial results seems to happen fairly often. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., (NYSE: WMT) serves customers and members more than 200 million times per week at more than 9,600 retail units under 69 different banners […]
Backed by science, not marketing. Decide.com Decide.com – make a note of that name. 12 months ago I found the Seattle startup after doing research on ecommerce recommendation engines (This was prior to Hunch being acquired by eBay, whom I thought was onto something). Recommendation services for ecommerce products are high on the agenda for […]
Earlier today I read Thomas Baldwin’s post on Rocket Internet preparing to go public and I must say it is at the moment a rumor. What is the ramifications if they do go public? Preface The last 18 months – I have been reading and observing a German accelerator going through the gears and starting […]
Social noun: social; plural noun: socials 1. an informal social gathering, especially one organized by the members of a particular club or group. The last few months has provided me with a question that I have been thinking about – “Is ecommerce a social event?”. As an ecommerce executive when planning is done for new […]
Amazon.com is well known for creating custom software for their platform due to scale. Millions of products, transactions and real time pricing and data that is used by Amazon internally ensured that off the shelf software would be totally inadequate. I for one, can only imagine that petabytes of data is consumed in Seattle. Generally, […]
Fab.com has been on my mind the last few weeks as I wanted to have an indepth look at the company after I wrote about the refocus in May 2013. I don’t know whether I got bitten by all the hype but the fab.com story is beginning to feel like never ending story. At the […]
Over the last 18 months, I have been reading, researching and talking to ecommerce investors about China. Why? I am fascinated by the market as Chinese ecommerce is both unique and a look to the future. China is unique GDP growth Economically China in my mind is bordering on a miracle. 6% growth consistently over […]
E-commerce in emerging markets is one of the keys to commerce maturation that will be seen globally in the next 10 years. The fastest growing ecommerce markets are not saturated like what is seen in the UK, US or South Korea. Thus investors such as Naspers, Tiger Global Management and Rakuten are competing against one […]
Shopify has a competitor that has a little mention in e-commerce conversations. It’s not Facebook, PayPal (could be), or Amazon, but it is a company methodically creating an end-to-end commerce business. Tobi Lutke, I suspect either is following this business or is completely unaware of this company. Square will make Tobi have sleepless nights. As […]
I had the opportunity to meet Sina Afra while I was in Turkey. Afra is the Co-founder and CEO of Markafoni a flash sales commerce business that was acquired by Naspers in July 2011. Markafoni is after Ventee-Privee the number 2 flash sales business in Europe. Sina Afra, is one of the few CEOs of […]
According to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), China’s economy is the only country with a positive GDP in 2020. Economic growth in 2020 is rare as economies are under pressure due to job losses, market contraction, and secondary effects from COVID-19. If you work in commerce, we assume that disposable income is available in all […]
When I see the words eBay in my mind the first thought that comes to mind is the marketplace concept in which users can list their second hand goods in either a “buy-now” or auction environment. It was the element that placed eBay on the map and subsequently provided a launch pad for them to […]
When I think of e-commerce, there are essentially two parts to it. The first is the lovely and beautiful UX of product pages and shopping carts that buyers use to purchase items from online retailers. The second is the tremendous amount of systems behind this UX that ensure the buyers actually receive the products they […]
About a year ago, I found a company based on West Coast that had strong connections with Comparison Shopping Engines (CSE). I researched and read everything I could about Wize Commerce and was left confused. I have been keeping an eye on the Comparison Shopping environment in the US as Google continues to circle around […]
Bezos named Fortune Businessperson of the year, Taobao break records, Kinnevik invests more into Rocket Internet and Rakuten is active in South East Asia We are days away from Black Friday and about a month away from Christmas. The reason why I mention these events are that every ecommerce business is now in lock down […]