retailers

6 statements across 4 episodes · 2 bullish · 1 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Jan 8, 2016 by Ivan Mazour · across every show →

Everything said about retailers, oldest first

Jan 8, 2016
Insight
Mazour: Retailers want actionable engagement tools, not raw data
“Retailers didn't want data, they wanted actions that drove engagement and revenue”
Ivan Mazour Jan 8, 2016 ▶ 13:08 20 VC FF 029: VC vs Angel Funding & The Future of E-Commerce with Ivan Mazour, Founder @ Ometria
Jul 17, 2017 positive
Insight
Overhauling backend infrastructure is the biggest challenge for large-scale retailers
“In fact, would argue that the need to overhaul infrastructure at the retailers at scale is one of their biggest challenges. And from a business perspective, it's a big opportunity to be part of servicing some element of that back end of their business.”
Kirsten Green Jul 17, 2017 ▶ 10:50 20VC: VC of The Year: Forerunner's Kirsten Green on 2 $Bn+ Exits in 1 Year, Why We Are In The Very Early Innings For Commerce & How Brand Has Fundamentally Changed Over The Last Decade
Sep 30, 2019
Assertion Supported
Feld: Record holiday retail orders vanished overnight in 2008 crisis
“There's a whole bunch of companies that have already forgotten that in 2008 Christmas literally didn't happen. And it didn't happen because of the global downturn, recession, whatever, financial crisis. And the interesting thing was, I think like two months be…”
Brad Feld Sep 30, 2019 ▶ 15:16 20VC: Brad Feld on Why Market Size At Early Stage Is Not Helpful, His Biggest Learnings From The Boom & Bust of The Dot Com and How The Best VCs Work For Their CEOs
Feb 18, 2022 bullish
Assertion Supported
Rhodes: Faire launched with free returns and net 60 terms
“And so we realized in that moment, that was the core problem that we had to solve. And that's how we ended up launching fair with free returns, net 60 payment terms, basically like try before you buy.”
Max Rhodes Feb 18, 2022 ▶ 7:42 20VC: Faire's Max Rhodes on Three Steps To Hire the Best Candidates, Why Every Company Should Have a Strategy Doc and How To Do It & The Art of Referencing; How to Get the Most Out of Every Reference
Feb 18, 2022 negative
Assertion Partly supported
Rhodes: Etsy and Bonagora failed at wholesale by ignoring retailer demand
“Moving that online, people had tried it. Like Etsy tried this. There was this other website called Bonagora a while back that tried it. Everyone who tried it Would get a bunch of brands signed up, but then they couldn't get the retailers to order.”
Max Rhodes Feb 18, 2022 ▶ 7:22 20VC: Faire's Max Rhodes on Three Steps To Hire the Best Candidates, Why Every Company Should Have a Strategy Doc and How To Do It & The Art of Referencing; How to Get the Most Out of Every Reference
Feb 18, 2022
Insight
Rhodes: Unsold inventory risk is the primary barrier for retail buyers
“The trade show solved like a really fundamental problem for retailers, which is when they are placing an order for a product, they need to know that it's going to sell. If it doesn't sell, they could go out of business. And so there's all this anxiety that's w…”
Max Rhodes Feb 18, 2022 ▶ 7:03 20VC: Faire's Max Rhodes on Three Steps To Hire the Best Candidates, Why Every Company Should Have a Strategy Doc and How To Do It & The Art of Referencing; How to Get the Most Out of Every Reference
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