e-commerce

16 statements across 15 episodes · 4 bullish · 2 bearish · 15 people on the record · first statement Feb 2, 2016 by Frank Meehan · across every show →

Everything said about e-commerce, oldest first

Feb 2, 2016 neutral
Insight
Asia's tech market favors recycled 2000s e-commerce and marketplace models
“There's not that much SaaS in Asia. It's much more marketplace in e-commerce. It's almost, Dust off a business plan from 2002 thousand. Bring it back. And run it in Asia and it's running really well.”
Frank Meehan Feb 2, 2016 ▶ 11:48 He Sits on Spotify Board
Jun 14, 2016 positive
Insight
Wickham: Merchandise offers more control for niche media than digital ads
“And that really worked well. And it was something that we understood and felt like we had a lot more control over than Battling the extremely competitive and complex world of digital advertising. So we really gravitated towards merchandise and e-commerce and m…”
Madison Wickham Jun 14, 2016 ▶ 5:41 Frat Guy Takes 2K a Month Side Project to 10Mil a Year Media Company, EP 286: Madison Wickham
Oct 6, 2016 negative
Insight
Behrens-Wu: Shipping costs eat 15% to 30% of e-commerce product costs
“So it's anything between 15 to 30% depending on the size of your e-commerce store.”
Laura Behrens-Wu Oct 6, 2016 ▶ 5:09 EP 439: $9m Raised, GoShippo Helps Little Guy Drop Ship 1,000,000+ Packages Per Month Already with CEO Laura Behrens Wu
Aug 13, 2017 neutral
Insight
PandaDoc targets high-value deals as e-commerce consumes cheap transactions
“The cheap products and services are being taken over by e-commerce, by two-sided marketplaces. And where we focus is is, is basically deals that have a substantial value. Deals that require some kind of paperwork.”
Mikita Mikado Aug 13, 2017 ▶ 2:39 750: How to 3x Customer Revenue, Be More Than Just Document Signing
Nov 22, 2017 positive
Opinion
Czech Republic is the World's Most Competitive E-Commerce Market
“And actually you might not know, Czech Republic is the most competitive e-commerce market in the world by far. So they have 36,000 e-shops, over 36,000 e-shops for ten million people.”
Peter Irikovsky Nov 22, 2017 ▶ 6:47 851: SaaS: How Exponea CEO Plans to Raise $7m on $50m Valuation This Month
Dec 26, 2017 negative
Insight
Blachman: Raising $1B limits e-commerce exits exclusively to IPOs
“The options available for you as a company in e-commerce is really just one, and that's to go public at some point. There aren't a lot of acquirers out there that can, they can you know, create, create success.”
Andrew Blachman Dec 26, 2017 ▶ 11:56 885 Auction Marketplace will Sell $500m This Year, Takes 25% As Revenue
Jul 31, 2019
Insight
Powered-By Chat Widgets Drive More Viral Growth in B2B SaaS
“Like for example, if you're an e-commerce company, like we end up getting less customers that way. If we were, if you're a B to B SaaS company, you'd see more. I imagine that both drift and intercom have seen like similar growth sort of based on where they're …”
Ben Congleton Jul 31, 2019 ▶ 8:29 1467 Olark Founded 2007, $14.4M+ in ARR, So Why Did New Live Chat Players Get All The Love?
Jan 4, 2020 neutral
Insight
Strong e-commerce businesses achieve EBITDA margins between 30% and 40%
“Good e-commerce margins are in the 30 to 40 range.”
Jake Kring Jan 4, 2020 ▶ 10:08 1624 Why This Founder is Totally Happy Running 2 Businesses At Once
Jun 26, 2020 neutral
Insight
Gerrie: E-commerce shoppers now routinely buy six items and return four
“Customer expectation has changed over the last few years from what was normal to maybe return a couple of items. Now it's normal to buy five or six items and return three or four.”
Al Gerrie Jun 26, 2020 ▶ 10:10 ZigZag Hits $5m Revenue Helping Brands Like Gap Manage Returns
Jul 3, 2020
Insight
Marks: Low-volume e-commerce customers are often the hardest to support
“There's an inversion where the less volume you have, the harder customer you are. There, there's something about I don't want to get too diminutive about it, but there's something where small customers are sometimes small for a reason. And it's because they're…”
James Marks Jul 3, 2020 ▶ 8:32 Why Whiplash Exited With $1.3m Raised, 16% Margin Profile in Order Fullfillment SPace
Sep 3, 2020
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Kellogg: About 35% of Madwire's customer accounts are in e-commerce
“About 35% of our accounts are e-commerce.”
JB Kellogg Sep 3, 2020 ▶ 2:37 Madwire Hits 20k Customers, $120m Revenue, and Profitable Serving SMB's. IPO next?
Oct 1, 2020 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Hutchison: Flippa receives roughly 4,500 new asset listings monthly
“We see around four and a half thousand listings a month on the platform across the collection of digital assets, and those digital assets are SaaS businesses, as if you, as you've alluded to so well, Nathan, and I know your community is very passionate about, …”
Blake Hutchison Oct 1, 2020 ▶ 7:32 Flippa Gave Me $1.1m Valuation Based off $600m in Deal History Over 10 Years
Nov 2, 2020
Insight
E-Commerce Chat Spans Pre-Sale and Post-Sale Unlike Other Sectors
“For e-commerce, customer conversations happen pre-sales and post-sales, right? Whereas for a lot of other businesses, potentially chat and support is most of a, like a post-sale nurturing type of relationship.”
Lou Wang Nov 2, 2020 ▶ 3:42 Reamaze Breaks $3m ARR Helping ECommerce Brands with HelpDesk Tool
Nov 2, 2020
Disclosure
60% to 70% of Reamaze's Customers Are in E-Commerce
“About 60 to 70% of our customer base is going to be in the e-commerce space.”
Lou Wang Nov 2, 2020 ▶ 3:22 Reamaze Breaks $3m ARR Helping ECommerce Brands with HelpDesk Tool
Nov 11, 2020 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Wingo: Digitization of consumer services will outpace e-commerce's timeline
“And I think it's going to happen faster because it's taken a long time for e-commerce to get to where it is because we had to get digital payments and the phones and all this stuff, broadband, all this jazz, all that's in place now.”
Scott Wingo Nov 11, 2020 ▶ 2:55 GetSpiffy Hits $20m Run Rate Cleaning 30,000 Cars Per Month, Oil Changes and More Next!
Aug 14, 2021 positive
Insight
Lenski: Profitable e-commerce products must be discovered supplier-first
“If you want to find a good product to sell in e-commerce, you need to find it supplier first, right? One that's not yet being sold on Amazon, one that's yet not being dropshipped”
Jacob Lenski Aug 14, 2021 ▶ 11:36 20 Year Old Sells $15k Lanyards, Now Ecomm Research Tool
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