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Feb 22nd, 2012 by admin
You scratch my back and I'll scratch yours. Taking "Superangel" Ron Conway as an example, Fortune provides interesting insights into the cronyism in Silicon Valley ("Ron Conway is a Silicon Valley startup's best friend"): Continue Reading »
Feb 21st, 2012 by admin
In the recent Pinterest discussion, there are many who are distracted by its surface. As usual, live.hackr digs a little deeper and has published one of the best analyses so far: "Pinterest has been launched almost 2 years ago, so it has not fallen from the sky. However, it remained more or less undiscovered for about 1.5 years, has established itself in the 'creative' industry not just as an insider's tip. Continue Reading »
Feb 17th, 2012 by admin
Etsy CEO Chad Dickerson has revealed a few behind the scenes peeks into the company culture of Etsy (The Etsy Way): "Pretty much everything we write about above is open source (even the culture) so the motivated reader will find links to tips and actual software along the way to actually set things up on his/her own. Continue Reading »
Feb 17th, 2012 by admin
update which rewards the best performing Ads (Or the highest spending client whichever comes first to your mind) by converting their Site-Links into Ads. Sort of like multiple Ads within an Ad, if I Continue Reading »
Feb 16th, 2012 by admin
Investment AB Kinnevik has published its yearly Samwer Report for Rocket Internet and the growing number of Samwer involvements (PDF). Also see the corresponding presentation (PDF) with a world map: Continue Reading »
Feb 14th, 2012 by admin
Apart from the topic "Creative Commerce / Customization 500" (see also our former post about printing service providers), "Gender Innovation / E-Commerce for women" will be a key aspect of the upcoming Exceed Conference, for which a record number of women (particpants as well as speakers) has registered already. Continue Reading »
Feb 13th, 2012 by admin
In 2011, for the first time, Vente-Prive has made more than 1 billion in turnover, thus only slightly missing its planned results. The French market leader has closed 2011 with a gross turnover of 1.073 billion Euro and a growth of 11%: Continue Reading »
Feb 11th, 2012 by admin
In 2011 and for the first time, Etsy has broken the half billion dollar threshold for merchant revenues. The $538 million of revenues are a 71% increase from the 2010 figure of $314 million. In December alone, the volume of turnover on Etsy went to $70 million from $41 million (+70%) compared to the same period the year before: Continue Reading »
Feb 6th, 2012 by admin
Does Rakuten Germany (formerly Tradoria) have a chance to beat out Amazon.de within 5 years? Rakutens global CEO Hiroshi Mikitani likes to speak of the synergies between its international subsidiaries. In Germany we will soon see one of the first examples: Buy.com, the American online retailer acquired by Rakuten in 2010, will this month give a boost to Rakuten Germanys product sprectrum (German link): Continue Reading »
Yuri Milner's investment fund DST has invested only in Zalando, however not, as could be expected, in Rocket Internet, according to the Focus. Accordingly, the Samwer's were still on the search for a possibility to get a billion financing round by big sovereign wealth funds: Continue Reading »