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Etsy Raises Another $20 Million and Picks New COO
Veröffentlicht 31 Aug 2010 von Jochen KrischTags: Ecommerce solutions, ecommerce Strategy, social shopping

Etsy has raised $20 million from a new financing round with Index Ventures. Also, Burda and Accel Partners have again participated in the round. According to insiders familiar to the deal, the financing is intended for paying out early business angels (via): + Read more

Viddler, Vimeo, Vzaar: Video Providers Surging to the iPad
Veröffentlicht 21 Aug 2010 von Jochen KrischTags: Ecommerce solutions, ecommerce Strategy, social shopping

Online video provider Vimeo is constantly being used by online retailers (even though it doesn’t seem to be the wish of the makers). Interest in Vimeo may now even increase due to its recent availability on Flash incompatible end devices: + Read more

Groupon Takes Over Darberry.ru, the Next Otto Holding
Veröffentlicht 18 Aug 2010 von Jochen KrischTags: Ecommerce solutions, ecommerce Strategy, social shopping

Groupon expands further internationally by acquisitions and has followed up their Citydeal takeover now with majority investments in the Russian Darberry and Japanese Qpod. So reported the Wall Street Journal. + Read more

Magento Update: Where is Magento Today?
Veröffentlicht 11 Aug 2010 von Jochen KrischTags: Ecommerce solutions, ecommerce Strategy, social shopping

Where is Magento now two years after launching? Roman Zenner, co-author of a new Magento handbook for developers (German language), has written a critique on his English language blog: + Read more

Jeff Bezos On Amazon’s Fashion Strategy
Veröffentlicht 08 Aug 2010 von Jochen KrischTags: Ecommerce solutions, ecommerce Strategy, social shopping

Amazon wants to raise the bar on the online fashion world just as Zappos has done (acquired by Amazon in 2009).Responding to talk show host Charlie Rose’s question on what Amazon is currently working on, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos responded: + Read more

Fashion and Style: The New Polyvore CEO in Interview
Veröffentlicht 06 Aug 2010 von Jochen KrischTags: Ecommerce solutions, ecommerce Strategy, social shopping

Price competition is not always the be-all and end-all, and this goes especially for fashion. As a consequence, the online market for fashion can be roughly divided into two large segments. Beyond the bargain hunters there is more than enough room for novel sales models.One of the leading companies in this segment is Polyvore, who has been one of the most important social shopping players in the US since late 2007. + Read more

Shoes of Prey: Can It Be Fun to Design Shoes?
Veröffentlicht 03 Aug 2010 von Jochen KrischTags: Ecommerce solutions, ecommerce Strategy, social shopping

Named “Best New Online Retailer” and “Most Innovative Online Retailer”, the online shoe retailer Shoes of Prey has done very well at the Online Retail Industry Awards in Australia. + Read more

Swoopo Continues to Downsize: Layoffs and Withdrawal from South Korea
Veröffentlicht 01 Aug 2010 von Jochen KrischTags: Ecommerce solutions, ecommerce Strategy, social shopping

Following the recent shutdown of Dealstreet, penny auction pioneer Swoopo continues to downsize: + Read more

Samwer Report: Kinnevik Holds 12% of Rocket Internet
Veröffentlicht 28 Jul 2010 von Jochen KrischTags: Ecommerce solutions, ecommerce Strategy, social shopping

Since February, the Swedish investment house Kinnevik has been holding 12% of Rocket Internet (Zalando, 7Trends, FP Commerce, etc). The option exists to raise this share to 25%. This is according to the 6 month report (PDF): + Read more

The Markets Benevolent to Online Supermarket Ocado
Veröffentlicht 24 Jul 2010 von Jochen KrischTags: Ecommerce solutions, ecommerce Strategy, social shopping

Lessons learned from the much anticipated IPO of British online supermarket Ocado: If you impose exceedingly optimistic expectations on the market these days, you will still have an excellent chance to hit an above average valuation. + Read more

Global Group Buying: Oliver Jung Building Network of Groupon Clones
Veröffentlicht 21 Jul 2010 von Jochen KrischTags: Ecommerce solutions, ecommerce Strategy, social shopping

E-commerce investor duo Klaus Hommels and Oliver Jung are building in parallel to their private sales club network (“BrandsAlliance”) also a global network of Groupon clones with the support of the Swiss based Global Group Buying AG (PDF): + Read more

Soap.com and the Online Supermarkets of the Future
Veröffentlicht 20 Jul 2010 von Jochen KrischTags: Ecommerce solutions, ecommerce Strategy, social shopping

Next generation online supermarkets are currently taking form in the US, in the style of Amazon, Zappos and the like. + Read more

Supermarkets: Is Ocado Worth More Than 1 Billion British Pounds?
Veröffentlicht 20 Jul 2010 von Jochen KrischTags: Ecommerce solutions, ecommerce Strategy, social shopping

How much is an online supermarket like the British Ocado worth, when they can raise revenues of 427 million pounds (2009) but can barely turn a profit?In the run up to a planned IPO, last week’s proclaimed valuation of over a billion pounds met with a healthy amount of scepticism: + Read more

Garmz: On The Fashion Front with Crowdsourcing and Outsourcing
Veröffentlicht 17 Jul 2010 von Jochen KrischTags: Ecommerce solutions, ecommerce Strategy, social shopping

Garmz, the fashion startup from Vienna, seeks to attract young and undiscovered fashion designers with their complete outsourcing service. The company wants to offload all operative tasks from the designer. Designers can create their masterpieces and Garmz will take over the production and sales for them – at least for the ones which rank well within the community. The pitch: “You design fashion, we do the rest”. + Read more

Daily Grommet and the Feminine Take on Live Shopping
Veröffentlicht 11 Jul 2010 von Jochen KrischTags: Ecommerce solutions, ecommerce Strategy, social shopping

At the first Live Shopping Days conference in the summer of 2008, Exciting Commerce’s Jochen Krisch was able to see a good half a dozen live shopping business concepts which went beyond the all too oft seen focus on competitive pricing. + Read more