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Best of Bootstrapping: Discussing E-commerce Startup Trends with Daniel Gulati, Forecast Fund
If you haven’t already, please study our free Bootstrapping course and the Investor Introductions page. Excellent discussion with Daniel Gulati, Founding Partner at Forecast Fund, on the e-commerce startup trends and what can and cannot be venture financed at this stage, and why. When we spoke in 2017, he was Managing Director at Comcast Ventures. You can listen to
Thought Leaders in E-Commerce: Daniel Gulati, Comcast Ventures (Part 6)
Sramana Mitra: You may have read my article on this subject especially in the context of fashion. I did the first e-commerce in fashion with exactly this premise – that it needs to be a personalized store. You have to use technology in the backend, and it’s a very expensive technology to build. Daniel Gulati:
Thought Leaders in E-Commerce: Daniel Gulati, Comcast Ventures (Part 5)
Sramana Mitra: The part of retail that I find interesting is the niche. Let’s take fashion. I don’t wear big designers as much anymore. I also shop a lot when we’re traveling in esoteric designers that don’t have big footprints. These kinds of things are not accessible. If there’s a small retailer that assembles and
Thought Leaders in E-Commerce: Daniel Gulati, Comcast Ventures (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: I’ve thought about this quite a lot. My observation is that you have to have private-labeled brands to compete with Amazon at this point. In whatever category that you’re working in, you need a product that you can differentiate with. You can’t really differentiate on the basis of other people’s products that easily
Thought Leaders in E-Commerce: Daniel Gulati, Comcast Ventures (Part 3)
Daniel Gulati: What’s changed with Amazon is, historically, you used to be able to red-line categories as Amazon-proof. Amazon is an intent-based environment and doesn’t really do well on discovery. They’re not going to get fashion, the inspiration, and emotional connection of buying a $300 dress online. On the grocery front, Amazon doesn’t have a
Thought Leaders in E-Commerce: Daniel Gulati, Comcast Ventures (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: Is there a counterpart of yours on the enterprise side who also deals with seed stage investments in the B2B businesses? Daniel Gulati: There are two relevant streams there. We have a sister fund that we are an LP in. They lead the best B2B investments on the East Coast. One of my
Thought Leaders in E-Commerce: Daniel Gulati, Comcast Ventures (Part 1)
Excellent discussion on the e-commerce startup trends and what can and cannot be venture financed at this stage, and why. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself as well as Comcast Ventures. Daniel Gulati: I’m currently a Principal of Comcast Ventures based here in San Francisco. I focus 100% of my time
