Shopify Raises $15 Million To Keep eBay At Bay
Shopify, the online storefront platform, has raised $15 million, All Things D reports. Bessemer Venture Partners, FirstMark Capital, Felicis Ventures and Georgian Partners all invested. The company...
View ArticleHow A Booming Tech Startup Can Avoid Site Outages And Service Disruptions
Plenty of tech startups rely on third-party platforms to get off the ground. But how do you scale up operations once the company is running full force? To get an idea, we spoke with fashion startup...
View ArticleWhy Foursquare, Buzzfeed, And Shopify All Use Google Snippets To Manage...
There’s one internal communication tool, little known outside of tech circles, that’s been the management engine behind many of tech’s biggest successes. Known as Google Snippets (having started as an...
View ArticleA New Partnership Shows Why Pinterest Is So Important For Retailers
Pinterest is gearing up for a big rest of the year thanks to a newly announced partnership with the e-commerce platform Shopify.Shopify has automatically enabled Pinterest's Rich Pins for all 100,000+...
View ArticleSocial Networks Are Driving More Online Sales And Influencing Offline Purchases
There’s been a lot of hype surrounding social commerce — the idea that posts and ads on sites like Facebook and Pinterest would generate lots of immediate sales on e-commerce sites.Today only a...
View ArticleFacebook Is Emerging As A Huge Engine For Driving E-Commerce Traffic, And...
Facebook, the social giant, is the social commerce leader by a number of metrics. Facebook doesn't just generate more online and offline retail sales than other social sites and apps. It also beats its...
View ArticleSocial Commerce Is About More Than Driving Up Immediate Conversions
Social commerce conversion rates are undeniably low. Sites like Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest trail email and search in terms of the number of visitors who click on a post and make a purchase.But...
View ArticleTHE SOCIAL-COMMERCE REPORT: Social Networks Are Driving More Online Sales And...
There’s been a lot of hype surrounding social commerce — the idea that posts and ads on sites like Facebook and Pinterest would generate lots of immediate sales on e-commerce sites.Today only a...
View ArticleHere's what happened in payments this week
This story originally appeared in this week's PAYMENTS WEEKENDER, a weekly collection of our favorite payments news by BI Intelligence, a premium research servce from Business Insider. Click here to...
View ArticleShopify's CFO provides 'adult supervision' for the growing e-commerce company
CFO Insider is a daily newsletter from Business Insider that delivers the top news and commentary for chief financial officers and other finance experts.Growth-savvy CFO is well-placed at streaking...
View ArticleHow the CEO of this $2.5 billion tech company hires without asking many...
A lot of tech companies like to throw oddball questions during job interviews, but Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke follows a much easier approach.He simply asks about the job applicant's life story."Our hiring...
View ArticleShopify launches chatbot on Facebook Messenger (SHOP)
This story was delivered to BI Intelligence "E-Commerce Briefing" subscribers. To learn more and subscribe, please click here.Social sales and marketing virtual assistant developer Kit CRM has launched...
View ArticleShopify has become the go-to platform for emerging e-tailers (SHOP)
This story was delivered to BI Intelligence "E-Commerce Briefing" subscribers. To learn more and subscribe, please click here.E-commerce platform provider Shopify beat analyst estimates during Q2 2016,...
View ArticleShopify has added a direct purchase feature to Facebook Messenger (FB, SHOP)
This story was delivered to BI Intelligence "E-Commerce Briefing" subscribers. To learn more and subscribe, please click here.E-commerce platform provider Shopify has added the capability to make...
View ArticleThese entrepreneurs are leading 8 of the fastest-growing new retailers in the...
Shopify announced eight winners of its inaugural "Build a Bigger Business" contest.UK-based Gymshark took the top spot, with £41 million in annual sales and 215% YOY growth.Winners will have group and...
View ArticleTony Robbins has done the same thing after every speech, meeting, or event...
Since the time he was a protégé of motivational speaker Jim Rohn in the late 1970s, Tony Robbins has been performing a learning exercise that has allowed him to become one of the world's foremost...
View ArticleTony Robbins gives every entrepreneur the same two pieces of advice
While all of Tony Robbins' one-on-one coaching sessions are personalized, they're drawn from more than 30 years of experience in coaching — and for his business clients, what he's learned from running...
View ArticleThe entrepreneurs leading 8 of the fastest-growing new retailers in the world...
The winners of Shopify's Build a Bigger Business competition are eight of the fastest growing online retailers in the world.They received a week of mentorship from coaches like Tony Robbins and Tim...
View ArticleShort seller Andrew Left says he's found a 'business dirtier than Herbalife'
Andrew Left is back at it again.The Citron Research founder tweeted on Wednesday that the Canadian e-commerce company Shopify was a "business dirtier than Herbalife."He also posted a seven-minute...
View ArticleSuccess is only 20% skill, says Tony Robbins — here's what makes up the rest
It's during a time of sudden and rapid success that startup founders can lose everything.The winners of Shopify's Build a Bigger Business competition, the founders of eight online retailers that are...
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