Deal Radar 2009: Vindicia

Today’s Deal Radar showcases a very impressive SaaS company that solves an important problem in an already large and growing niche: intangible goods. Vindicia’s on-demand billing and fraud management solution, Vindicia CashBox, aims to transform billing into a strategic advantage for online merchants. The company provides a hosted solution that integrates with other core elements of a

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Forbes Column 2009: The Future Of E-Commerce

Zero-In on The Future of E-Commerce.

Deal Radar 2009: Shipwire

Shipwire offers outsourced warehousing and shipping services for online retailers and small business clients. Businesses use Shipwire for on-demand e-commerce order fulfillment services through a global warehouse network. With warehouses in Los Angeles, Nevada, Chicago, Toronto, Vancouver and the UK, Shipwire allows merchants to reduce shipping costs by locating inventory closer to buyers. This shipping

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Deal Radar 2008: Mercado

Mercado started ten years back and is the first search engine especially for ecommerce. The company provides search, navigation and merchandising solutions that supposedly lead to sales, revenue growth and profitability for their customers. The technology behind Mercado brings the final shopper closer to the seller with every click of their mouse through a series

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Shutterfly’s Strategy: A Conversation with CEO Jeff Housenbold (Part 10)

SM: Zazzle and CafePress are not going after personal memories or families. JH: Not in the same sense. It is personal publishing. They use different backend technology, being heat transfer method versus digital print technology. From a ecommerce standpoint, there area lot of similarities. We advertise online, run a ecommerce company, own our manufacturing and

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Vertical Travel Ad Network CEO Cree Lawson (Part 4)

SM: How big is the market? How do you calculate TAM? What is your business model? CL: We’ve reviewed a great deal of research on how large the market is for online travel advertising and very specifically banner advertising on travel websites. Forrester says that online travel advertising is an $8-billion-a-year industry in 2007, growing

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Mercado Libre: Epilogue

I spent a lot of time locked up in a room with the Mercado Libre team recently, and came away with the following observations: * It is a very strong brand. Random “normal” people I asked about the company were familiar not only with the brand, but also knew what they did. * The competitive

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eCommerce Spending

Comscore reports that eCommerce Spending is going gangbusters this year. eCommerce spending for the first 39 days of the holiday shopping season is up 18% from the same period last year, to $18.79 billion. And by the way, this is by mostly shopping on company time!