E-commerce sounds simple. Sell stuff online. But anyone who’s actually done it knows the truth. It’s logistics and marketing and customer service and technology and inventory management all happening at once. The founders in this section have built the companies and tools that make it work.
These interviews cover every angle of online commerce. Direct-to-consumer brands. Marketplaces. Shopify apps. Payment solutions. Fulfillment. The conversion optimization rabbit hole that you can fall into and never come out of. And the customer experience side, because in e-commerce, the experience is the brand.
The founders here are candid about what’s hard. Returns. Shipping costs. The Amazon question. Building customer loyalty when switching costs are zero and the next competitor is one search away. These are real problems, and the conversations here offer real perspective on solving them.
You’ll find insights on product-market fit for physical goods, digital marketing for e-commerce, subscription models, international expansion, and the art of turning first-time buyers into repeat customers. Whether you’re launching your first online store or scaling an existing one, these founders have been where you are.
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Meet Katrina Carroll-Foster and Tracey Solomon – Founders of Hoseanna
[highlight] “You won’t figure it out sitting around and thinking – just do.” [/highlight] Jason Kim and Bernie Yoo have been friends for 12 years and have rounded up cattle…
Alexander Levine is most recognized for starting OldVersion.com at 12 years old. OldVersion.com now serves over 1,000,000 unique visitors per month and successfully generates enough revenue for the young entrepreneur…
Naysawn Naderi is a Canadian engineer turned global entrepreneur. Naysawn was picked up by Microsoft scouts during his senior year at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, and spent the next…
[quote style=”boxed”]If you’d like to make money online, skip all the steps and buy or model an existing successful website. Determine how much money each month you’d like to be…
Meet Chris Yates – Entrepreneur and Buyer and Seller of Websites
[quote style=”boxed”]People. I like working with passionate people…making things happen, creating ideas and executing.[/quote] Loren Bendele joined Savings.com in January 2007 as the CEO. Prior to Savings.com Loren ran Teleflora’s…
Jody Sherman co-founded ecomom.com in 2009 out of a desire to help moms with the myriad decisions they face on a daily basis. Sherman felt that helping them sort through…
Richard Anson co-founded Reevoo, a leading crowd commerce aggregator. His vision is to build a global trusted brand that harnesses the power of customer opinion to help consumers make the…
Dan Engel specializes in the marketing and distribution of software products. Prior to being CEO at FastSpring and SaaSy , he was with Google, where he led online consumer acquisition…
Bruce Bower was first introduced to Plastic Jungle in December 2008, joined as President in April 2009, and assumed the CEO position in September 2010. For more than 20 years,…
Ken Johnson was born in Stavanger, Norway and grew up between London, Indonesia, and Texas before attending the University of Vermont where he studied Literature, Sociology, and Philosophy. He took…
Aaron Hall is a natural born entrepreneur with an acute business sense, who has been involved in the creation of numerous successful businesses, including Weddzilla.com, where he currently serves as…
Meet Aaron Hall – Founder of DressRush.com and Weddzilla.com