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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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
Readers, since my last post a lot of things have happened. It clearly is the last 6 months of the year as news keeps breaking, Amazon launches new product after new product, Alibaba is still to IPO etc. Over the last 2 weeks, 2 companies have been on my mind: Rocket Internet and Wayfair. Both […]
We are a few days away from the beginning of October, which is the start of the festive season for ecommerce businesses. All the planning should have been done as systems will be tested as customers make their early festive purchases. The coming week also contains the annual Shop.org conference which will be in Seattle […]
Rocket Internet pruning their investments, LivingSocial to pull out of the Middle East and become.com redesigns. The e-commerce stories for the past week is dominated by Rocket Internet. The German clone factory raised additional capital for its European fashion company Zalando. They added J.P. Morgan Asset Management and Quadrant Capital Advisors as its newest backers […]
Rocket Internet raises more money for fashion, Amazon goes social and eBay is becoming a disruptor. We have passed the middle of the month and the year is almost in the history books. I guess, we are pretty close to cut off dates for shipping for the festive season. I have been thinking about 2013 […]
Fab wants to become like IKEA, Rocket Internet helps the Brazil ecosystem, eBay offers more logistical opportunities for retailers and are considering investing into Snapdeal The first calendar week of 2013 is in the record books. In South Africa, I reckon we will see more online shops re-opening and starting to process orders that was […]
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 […]
It is the beginning of 2015. I believe that 2014 contained some clues to the new year and the future of ecommerce. There were some stories that made us all go wow – (The Alibaba IPO) and also some interesting developments across the globe. Global ecommerce is a topic that interests me and it is […]
A few thoughts on Rocket Internet in Africa, Jabaar is looking for investment, Amazon scares everyone with their “stealth project” that has been going for 6 years and Flipkart goes into fashion. The past week has been interesting one for ecommerce. I think facebook might just have opened pandora’s box with regards to commerce. The […]
Yesterday, Forrester analyst Zia Daniell Wigder wrote a very interesting and thought provoking post on Early-Stage eCommerce Markets. I agree with Zia on her 4 main points for an early stage ecommerce market: Purchase decisions are made largely based on price Online purchases are dominated by consumers in tier one cities. Cash on delivery rules. […]
Business models, another Rocket Internet business get funding,Russia’s postal service to invest in better logistics and ecommerce in Africa. The week contained a whole lot of emails to customers to buy last minute items on their favorite ecommerce retailer websites. I have a few thoughts on this: One, sending me emails every day leads to […]
Modnique Launches into Four More Countries, Amazon hikes the price of Prime in Europe, The eBay Turnaround that Never Had to Be, Zalora to IPO?, Amazon rejected in Czech Republic, Snapdeal to be a the most interesting IPO in Indian ecommerce?, The phases of commerce and much more It has been an interesting week in […]
The Samwers launches a new fund, Price Comparison gets hot in South East Asia, Walmart gives us a glimpse into the future and more. Is Rocket Internet going to be around in 5 years time? That is the question I have had on my mind for the last few weeks. Internet businesses is a funny […]
JP Morgan invests in a Rocket, LivingSocial confirms exit of MENA, Turkish ecommerce delights and Kindle launches in India. It is Q3 and it is obvious that global ecommerce companies are gearing for the end of 2012. Heck, the M&A activity is hot and happening. As an observer of ecommerce activity it is becoming ever […]
The past week has been an interesting one. If I ever win the lottery I have one event that I would like to do. Create an event in which 3 speakers of my choice come and speak to me and a select of individuals. Preferably the event should be held in US to ensure that […]
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 feels like yesterday, that the change to Google Product Search was announced. Yet, the story continues to make it into my RSS reading (it will most probably continue). I have been deliberately not speaking about in depth as I want to properly write about it. Anyway, this week was dominated by eCommerce in the […]
Trouble at The Iconic, Square enters the marketplace space, Amazon wants be a digital art dealer and Fab raising money Fab.com has been in my thoughts the last 2 weeks. Are they growing too fast? Do they play the PR game and what is their future? Those 3 questions have been circling in my thoughts […]