#SeoTips Merchants often default to China for outsourced manufacturing. Yet competitive suppliers exist worldwide. For Palermo House, a direct-to-consumer provider of luxury furniture, Argentina is a natural source. Marco Ferro is the company’...
Friday, December 8, 2023
Microsoft and OpenAI tie-up faces ‘relevant merger’ scrutiny by UK regulator CMA #Ecommerce
#SeoTips The whirlwind management drama at OpenAI last month concluded with co-founder Sam Altman reinstated within a week of his surprise dismissal — and a much bigger role for Microsoft, which ended up with a seat on the board for the first time ...
India’s top VCs face fresh obstacles as startup investment plummets #Ecommerce
#SeoTips High-flying venture investors in India managing hundreds of millions of dollars are tempering expectations, making early-stage startup bets that in best-case scenarios they hope will return 3 to 5 times invested capital. Several leading In...
Dear SaaStr: We Gave Away Too Much Equity and Now Will be Minority Holders. What Can We Do?
#SmallBusiness A founder gave away too much equity in the early rounds and will become a minority holder in the company before series A. How can this be tackled? Don’t raise venture capital. Venture capital is not a gift. Your VC investors are ...
With its second app, Amo wants to make photo-sharing as simple taking a photo #Ecommerce
#SeoTips Less than three weeks ago, French startup Amo released ID. As I hinted in my article covering this much-anticipated launch, ID was Amo’s first idea. Today, the social consumer startup is releasing its second app called Capture. Once again,...
Backed by Cresta founders, Trove’s AI wants to make surveys fun again #Ecommerce
#SeoTips Surveys have become an integral part of many aspects of our lives, but most of them are tedious, leading to ineffective responses and actions. Dinghan Shen and Yuan Xue, two software engineers working in Silicon Valley, recognized an oppor...
Thursday, December 7, 2023
Hundreds of new stores help push Dollar General sales up 2.4%
#SmallBusiness This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Dollar General’s Q3 net sales rose 2.4% year over year to $9.7 billion, as store comps fell 1.3%. Gross margin contracted slightly to ...
Using Haar Cascade for Object Detection #AI
#A.I. Before the deep learning revolution redefined computer vision, Haar features and Haar cascades were the tools you must not ignore for object detection. Even today, they are very useful object detectors because they are lightweight. In this po...
Apparel retailers dominate prime corridor leasing: report
#SmallBusiness This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Apparel retailers made up nearly half (48%) of overall prime corridor leases in 2023, up from 35% last year, according to a new JLL repor...
Zelda Ventures’ new pre-seed fund backs serial entrepreneurs #Ecommerce
#SeoTips Suzanne Fletcher invested in 10 companies from the new fund, so far, and plans to invest in 40 companies in total. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. via https://www.aiupnow.com Christine Hall, Khareem Sudlow...
Google launches migration tool ahead of Google Podcasts’ 2024 shutdown #Ecommerce
#SeoTips In September, Google announced it would shut down its standalone podcasts app, Google Podcasts, sometime next year. Now that the end of 2023 is nearing, the company is today launching a migration tool that will allow U.S. users to shift th...
Simply Homes nabs $22M, leverages AI to tackle affordable housing crisis #Ecommerce
#SeoTips The United States has long had an affordable housing crisis, but it’s been exacerbated as of late by a surge in mortgage interest rates and low inventory. The problem is especially acute for lower-income families. One Portland, Maine-based...
Your Guide to eTail West 2024 in Palm Springs, CA: Event Tips & Tricks #Ecommerce
#SeoTips What Do I Need To Know About Etail West 2024? Are you in the eCommerce industry? If you’re a retailer, technology partner, or systems implementer looking for a place to showcase your products and network, then mark your calendars! Etail ...
Rhythms launches out of stealth to make successful team habits replicable #Ecommerce
#SeoTips A new company, Rhythms, wants to help organizations improve their productivity by using AI to identify the working patterns of top-performing teams. Rhythms, which integrates with a business’ existing internal apps and platforms, identifie...
How to Hire a CFO: What You Need to Know About Hiring a Chief Financial Officer #Ecommerce
#SeoTips A Chief Financial Officer (CFO) is responsible for a small business’s financial planning, strategy and overall health. They combine financial strategies that align with business goals by analyzing data and forecasting future performance. ...
TikTok’s Artist Account GivesMusic Makers a New Outlet #Ecommerce
#SeoTips TikTok has introduced the Artist Account, which is designed to transform how musicians and small business owners in the music industry interact with their audience and promote their work. The Artist Account: A New Era of Music Discovery Ti...
Doubling Down: Jay Levy Managing Partner at Zelkova Ventures
#SmallBusiness “Doubling Down” is a new series where we hear from top B2B SaaS investors on their most recent activities and takes on the current market. Kicking us off is Jay Levy, Managing Partner at Zelkova Ventures. #1. What’s your most rece...
Google Ads Tactics for 2024 #Ecommerce
#SeoTips Big changes are coming in 2024 to paid search. Chief among those is Google’s deprecation of third-party cookies by Q3. Advertisers will need to rely on their own first-party data. Artificial intelligence will change the way advertiser...
Dear SaaStr: When Should I Expect New Sales Hires to Be On Target?
#SmallBusiness Dear SaaStr: When Should I Expect New Sales Hires to Be On Target? At least by 1.5 sales cycles. And yes, that’s true today, too. You should know well before that if you are managing her or him — you’ll usually know by half a sal...
How Does Social Media Fit Into the Lead Generation “Funnel”? #Ecommerce
#SeoTips Social media must integrate with lead generation efforts. For B2B digital marketers, that’s a foregone conclusion. Social media’s fit with lead generation can be challenging to grasp at first. This is partly because communication processes...