Amazon vs. Walmart: Which One Will Prevail?
- Category: Funding & Deals
- Created: 28 June 2017
In the media hullabaloo following Amazon’s announcement this month that it was buying Whole Foods Market, largely overlooked was the same-day news that Walmart was acquiring menswear e-tailer Bonobos. While Amazon did make a bigger splash with its $13.7 billion foray into organic groceries, Walmart beefed up an e-commerce stable that already includes the acquisitions of digital natives Jet.com, Shoebuy, ModCloth and Moosejaw.
A Few E-Commerce Platforms Crushing It In 2017
- Category: Technology
- Created: 23 June 2017
If you are thinking about launching an e-commerce platform this year for your online business, you'll need to consider these major platforms to help you grow that company. You need to choose a platform that has capitalized on both social commerce and mobile commerce trends.
What Amazon's Acquisition Of Whole Foods Means For Instacart
- Category: Funding & Deals
- Created: 17 June 2017
Amazon’s acquisition of Whole Foods is sending tremors through the entire grocery industry–and raising concerns about the fate of delivery services like Instacart, whose carrot-logo boxes are ubiquitous at the popular food chain.
How Retail Industry can Survive in the Online World
- Category: Trends
- Created: 06 March 2017
Digital storm is taking direct shot at demographics, economics and technology of retail industry. Demographically, millennial have become the largest consumer base because of its expectations and habits which retailers are accommodating slowly and steadily.
A.I. isn’t about to invade your life — it already has
- Category: Industry Updates
- Created: 22 October 2016
Imagine this fairly typical scene of modern life. You are half-heartedly watching a recommended show on Netflix while casually checking sports recaps on your phone when you receive a potential fraud alert from your bank because, while making your routine Amazon purchases, you were tempted to treat yourself to a lavish suggested item. This is hardly the kind of scene that makes for a gripping sci-fi movie. However, in this moment, every aspect of your life is positively bathed in artificial intelligence.
Growing pains are taxing: 5 reasons why high-growth companies stumble with sales tax
- Category: Expert Column
- Created: 21 October 2016
High growth is almost always cause for celebration, especially among company leaders and their investors. But no matter how well a business scales for expansion, some things get ignored. And those little things can quickly become big problems. Like indirect tax compliance. Growing companies face more tax risk (and scrutiny) that any other business.
Digitization: Entrepreneurs Should Either Get On The Bus Or Get Underneath It
- Category: Startup Tips
- Created: 21 October 2016
For banking purposes, you do not have to visit the bank. Do not waste your time and talk time by calling a taxi driver, tap on the screen and the taxi will pick you up from wherever you are. Thanks to digitization, for changing the way we live, move and subsist in the society.
5 Ways to Increase Your Ecommerce Business Sales
- Category: Expert Column
- Created: 29 September 2016
Your ecommerce store is up and running, and you’re getting some sales. Congratulations! But, if you thought you could squeeze every bit of profit out of your business without optimizing your store and using the right strategies to engage customers, you thought wrong.
VC Funding's Gender Gap Is Hurting the Marketplace
- Category: Startup Resources
- Created: 13 September 2016
It's no secret women-led companies have a significantly harder time securing venture-capital funding than their male counterparts. Katherine Hays, cofounder and CEO of ad-tech startup Vivoom, said it perfectly: “Sometimes I believe if I were a 21-year-old male in a hoodie, Vivoom would have been even more appealing to VCs.”
How lemming VCs cause venture recessions
- Category: Startup Resources
- Created: 12 September 2016
The “venture recession” of 2016 is in full swing. Combined with the usual summer slowdown, some are already raising the spectre of 2001 or 2008. Recession or not, what is universal is the bewilderment of many entrepreneurs on how negative VCs have become over the past nine months after almost five years of non-stop cheerleading.