Everybody knows the story: in the first Internet boom, new companies rode high on staggering losses only to face bankruptcy once the music stopped. At the height of the madness, a single Internet startup lost $720 million in one year, but was somehow valued at $25 billion. Now as companies invent arcane financial metrics to […]
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We revere Amazon, and generally try not to give other companies advice. But does anyone know why Amazon doesn’t give up the state sales-tax fight and station its monstrous fulfillment space-ships over every major American city? Benefits: Deliver everything same-day including groceries the way it does here in Seattle Go after UPS, using its analytical
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We revere Amazon, and generally try not to give other companies advice. But does anyone know why Amazon doesn’t give up the state sales-tax fight and station its monstrous fulfillment space-ships over every major American city? Benefits: Deliver everything same-day including groceries the way it does here in Seattle Go after UPS, using its analytical
Memo to Amazon: Pay the Sales Tax & Put Everyone Else in E-Commerce Six Feet Under Read More »
Josh Kopelman observed Friday that e-commerce has changed very little since he founded Half.com: more than half the top-15 media companies did not exist in 1999 while all but one of the e-commerce companies did. Josh concludes that “I believe we’ve seen more innovation… in eCommerce in the last 10 months than we have in
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A job applicant just told me Thursday that “Everybody knows you don’t like Microsoft or Amazon people.” Just last week, a board member heard the same thing. Which came as news to our chief technology officer, our Seattle-based engineering leaders, three star product managers and our hyper-productive lone marketing director, all of whom worked at
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