Building a Million-Dollar E-commerce Business in Fashion

I started one of the Internet’s first fashion e-commerce companies in 1999. It was very expensive to do so at the time. Today, an online fashion business can be launched in an extraordinarily capital-efficient manner.  There are so many effective e-commerce platforms from Amazon, eBay and Etsy to Shopify and BigCommerce that will allow you

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Bootstrapping Using Services and Piggybacking from Australia: StoreConnect CEO Mikel Lindsaar (Part 1)

Mikel has built a services company in Australia and spawned six SaaS products out of it. One of them, StoreConnect, is a terrific Bootstrapping by Piggybacking story on top of Salesforce.com. He has exited four of the apps and expects to grow StoreConnect to $100M+ in revenue. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning

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Bootstrapping an E-Commerce Startup with a Paycheck to Exit: Jay Perkins, Co-founder of Kettlebell Kings (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: What did you do? You said you started a company on the BigCommerce platform? Jay Perkins: I started a business called Kettlebell Kings while I was still employed at BigCommerce. Kettlebells are basically fitness equipment. Along with my co-founders, we would hold meetings for a year and a half leading up to when

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Bootstrapping an E-Commerce Startup with a Paycheck to Exit: Jay Perkins, Co-founder of Kettlebell Kings (Part 1)

There are roll-ups of e-commerce brands going on right now. This case study delves into one such that has exited into a roll-up effort. Jay Perkins currently runs Living.Fit which produces digital workouts, fitness education courses, and fitness equipment. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, and in what

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Thought Leaders in E-Commerce: HugePOD CEO Joe Zhou (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: What about fabric? Joe Zhou: We purchase from big fabric factories and we handle its stocking. Sramana Mitra: Let’s say a designer wants to design something, they have to work within a catalog of fabric? Joe Zhou: We have 40 kinds of fabric. They don’t need to select from the fabric. The fabric

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Thought Leaders in E-Commerce: HugePOD CEO Joe Zhou (Part 1)

Joe talks about a gap in designing, manufacturing, and drop-shipping small run fashion merchandise.Excellent offering from a Chinese company to fill a big gap in SMB e-commerce. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, and in what kind of background?

Thought Leaders in E-Commerce: AfterShip CEO Andrew Chan (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: When you look at the app stores of Shopify and BigCommerce, do you see opportunities for new apps or new services that new entrepreneurs could build? Andrew Chan: Definitely. We’ve extended into after and before shipping. E-commerce merchants these days are using so many different solutions. Many SaaS solutions for e-commerce are not

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Thought Leaders in E-Commerce: AfterShip CEO Andrew Chan (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Which platform was the first one that you started getting traction on? Andrew Chan: Shopify and eBay as well. Sramana Mitra: Just to get a feel for this strategy, what you’re describing is a strategy that we have picked up on from various case studies that we have covered. We call it Bootstrapping

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