Thought Leaders in E-Commerce: Rick Wilson, President of Miva Merchant (Part 7)

Sramana Mitra: E-commerce has been a category where a lot of people have bootstrapped businesses to some scale. You talked about your sweet spot being this half a million to million range. A large portion of that is probably bootstrapped businesses right? Rick Wilson: Absolutely, I would say the vast majority. Sramana Mitra: What are

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Thought Leaders in E-Commerce: Rick Wilson, President of Miva Merchant (Part 6)

Rick Wilson: The trend we see there is that they want to go direct. They want to build a community around their product. I think Kickstarter has really brought that down even from the million dollar plus range to the zero dollar plus range where you can do a product video, get a personality out

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Thought Leaders in E-Commerce: Rick Wilson, President of Miva Merchant (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: If you were to tell us what you’re seeing in your customer base, what are some of the big trends that you’re seeing right now? Rick Wilson: There are some broad industry trends that are fairly ubiquitous. Most online stores today are becoming multi-channel. They’re going to be selling through their own store,

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Thought Leaders in E-Commerce: Rick Wilson, President of Miva Merchant (Part 4)

Rick Wilson: On one hand, you have this free-wheeling, open source world where as long as someone knows what they’re doing, they can literally do anything. On the other hand, you have what I call apple-ification where all of the hard choices have been made for you. There’s some brilliance to that for sure. The

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Thought Leaders in E-Commerce: Rick Wilson, President of Miva Merchant (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: In 2007, what was the landscape in the e-commerce shopping cart or the e-commerce platform world? What was going on around you? What was the competitive landscape? Whom did you compete with directly and indirectly? Rick Wilson: Yahoo stores was still a popular platform. I wouldn’t say that it had momentum, but it

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1Mby1M Deal Radar 2010: 3dcart, Tamarac, Florida

Deal Radar continues its coverage of all things e-commerce with 3dcart, a software provider that supplies programming, technical support, templates, SSI certificates, and other products and services needed to sell products online. The software is integrated with all major shipping carriers (USPS, UPS, FedEx, DHL) and several major accounting packages (QuickBooks, Mas90, Peachtree).

Deal Radar 2010: Volusion ,Austin, Texas

According to some analysts estimates, nearly 20,000 entrepreneurs open online storefronts every week, and the growth in e-commerce sales continues to outstrip that of sales in physical stores. Early online players such as Dell and Starbucks are now joined by luxury watchmaker Longines and clothing designer Roberto Cavalli. With so many businesses now on the

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