After the departure of CEO Gunnar Piening last December, his successor Ralph Werner has also left Swoopo at the beginning of February (after only 8 months). + Read more
This is a further post for our loose series on “Shopping Systems of the Future”.While the next e-commerce generation has long been hoping for new and more sales oriented shopping systems, in the classical warehouse oriented e-commerce world, Amazon is still the ultimate role model for online trade. + Read more
Everything is suddenly possible again in the e-commerce world. In the US in particular, interest in extreme e-commerce models is rising steeply (“Are you ready for extreme retailing?”).Joshua Goldman from Norwest Venture Partners gave a short introduction to Swooponomics at the Retail Innovation & Marketing Conference: + Read more
Brands4Friends Goes the World: It feels almost like there aren’t any more countries where B4F founding investor Oliver Jung and his cohorts haven’t got a shopping club investment stake.A few days ago an announcement came by email which mentions for the first time publicly the “global shopping club alliance”: + Read more
Overambitious lawyers are the bane of every serious startup company. At the moment, Groupon is finding it necessary to defend against a class action lawsuit in the USA - and is doing so with its customary tongue-in-cheek style (“Groupon Organizes Class Action Against Itself”): + Read more
Facebook is getting serious with their efforts to create a global web currency. With the start of their closed beta phase, Facebook will burden their Facebook credits with a 30% fee. + Read more
At latest since Facebook, the gameification of the (web) world is continuing its steady advance: "Carnegie Mellon University Professor, Jesse Schell, dives into a world of game development which will emerge from the popular "Facebook Games" era." What can be learnt with this presentation, amongst others: + Read more
Be it Spreadshirt, Threadless, Etsy or now Polyvore, nowadays you can set your watch against the time it takes between a big round of financing and the point where investors lose their patience and get a professional CEO to take the reins.And it isn’t as if they aren’t making enough efforts: + Read more
Hollrr is the answer to the question we raised earlier: how should a Twitter for shoppers look like?Even their tagline “Shout about the things you love!” is pretty close to the question/slogan we put out in the German language “Was ist gerade cool und angesagt?” (what is cool and hip?) + Read more
One Block Off the Grid (1BOG) is proving that the Groupon model can be intelligently adapted. They have recently secured $5 million from the Groupon investors: + Read more
In the present phase of upheaval the e-commerce industry has the chance to completely get rid of obsolete mail order structures that have been maintained by catalog retailers so far and rapidly establish modern retail and distribution structures. + Read more
While Magento already delivers very useable solutions for live shopping events, solutions for user driven shopping models are still scarce. + Read more
Amy Jo Kim from Shufflebrain with a good introduction to game mechanics (“Putting the Fun into Functional”), which is being increasingly applied to social apps. In the presentation she repeatedly refers to good examples from e-commerce: A question which immediately arises from this is: Why are shopping systems so bad at presenting already purchased products?Related posts: + Read more
As we’ve now been seeing, the majority of the first generation social shopping networks have begun to re-orient themselves. The most interesting aspect of this are the developments which now lead social shopping in the direction of the personal shopping network. + Read more
After sleeping through some important developments the last couple of years, the social shopping segment is now bustling with hectic activity. The former pioneers are re-orienting themselves and are in part rolling out completely new strategies: + Read more
