e Commerce Companies
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McCloy: Allowing AI crawlers to train on short-lived promotional data is counterproductive
“You can think about the half-life of the information you're presenting and whether or not that's something that really makes sense to give to a training data crawler. So for example, like, you know, if you're an e-commerce company and you're running a seasonal…”
Rajesh Jain: US E-Commerce Gets 20% to 40% Revenue from Email
“Because in the U.S., for e-commerce companies, 20 to 40% revenue is coming from email.”
Puri: Scaled e-commerce companies routinely settle automated ADA lawsuits for $10k-$15k
“You talk to any e-commerce owner who's like, you know, been around for a couple of years or has, you know, does Over ten million in revenue, and they'll all tell you the same thing. Yep. We got hit with it. Pain in the ass. Can't fight it. Just settle 10, 15,0…”
Puri: E-commerce businesses receive no valuation credit for past non-recurring sales
“These e-commerce companies, let's say you know, ad flips, competition flips, whatever, they don't, like, retain that much value, because the sale is already done in the past. You basically get no credit for past, you know, past sales here, because it's not rec…”
Medeiros: E-commerce brands with under 70% gross margins might die
“I think in general though, for e-commerce now, you have to have really fat margins to exist. And to survive. Like anybody with under 70% is gonna, they might die.”
Shahid: E-commerce startups underestimate the difficulty of custom product manufacturing
“And I, you know, I've invested in e-commerce companies and by and large, I think most of them will build a brand and get really good at marketing and forget how hard it is to make great products and not just great products, but products from scratch.”