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AI-powered Beauty Insights Platform Daash Intelligence Raises $5.5 Million Seed Investment. The start-up offers predictive commerce insights meant to inform product development, launch forecasting and competitive strategies.
Selecting the Right VC for Your Company: The Three "T"s
There are entire playbooks devoted to the qualities VCs are looking for in a startup's leadership; relatively few go toward advising...
Sid Mookerji
2 days ago1 min read
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The Five (New) Pillars of Retail
As younger generations of shoppers exert new pressures on retailers—including demands for omnichannel accessibility, flawless...
Sid Mookerji
Apr 94 min read
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It’s Time to Invest in Commerce Enablement: The Near Future
As we’ve explored in parts one and two of this series, e-commerce is an industry in revolution. And experts predict that this state of...
Sid Mookerji
Mar 312 min read
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It’s Time to Invest in Commerce Enablement: The Present
Part II Here is part two of a three-part series discussing why it is time to invest in Commerce Enablement. Here is a link to the first...
Sid Mookerji
Mar 252 min read
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It’s Time to Invest in Commerce Enablement: The Dynamics of the Recent Past
We’re pleased to bring you our new Silicon Road Ventures blog series which will post weekly and cover a range of topics and insights. It...
Sid Mookerji
Mar 182 min read
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Why Personalization Is Paramount In Retail
What is personalization and why does it matter? It’s much more than your name at the start of a marketing email or text message. It’s...
Sid Mookerji
Jul 16, 20242 min read
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The Five Pillars of Retail
Retail’s evolution was well underway prior to 2020, but post-pandemic, the revolution arrived with a sudden shift in consumer behavior....
Sid Mookerji
Jul 15, 20242 min read
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Why Last Mile Delivery Is Going To Be Affordable By 2030
Last-mile delivery is a notoriously tricky business. There are several huge VC-backed companies in the space focusing on on-demand...
Shaunish Mookerji
Oct 4, 20233 min read
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Fashion Tech’s Funding Boom
Over the past couple of years, especially post-Covid, fashion technology has received abundant attention from investors in the industry...
Shriya Syamala
Aug 8, 20233 min read
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College Athletes for Sale: Commerce Tech and the Future of Sports
What do the sports and commerce tech industries have in common? Ten years ago, that question would have sounded like the start of a bad...
Nishka Bahl
Jul 20, 20232 min read
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What An Early Stage Tech Founder Should Look For In A VC
For early stage tech founders, securing the right venture capital (VC) funding can make all the difference in turning their startup...
Frank Tighe
Jun 8, 20233 min read
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Springtime For Hitler, Or, The Worst Way To Sell Stock In Your Company
In 1969, Mel Brooks won the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay for his irreverent and outrageously funny movie The Producers. An...
Clint Richardson
May 23, 20232 min read
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The Problem With PLG
With the recent buzz around the Figma acquisition, product led growth (“PLG”) has once again been thrust into the spotlight. While...
Carson Cromartie
May 15, 20236 min read
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Two Areas of Commerce Where AI is Primed to Help
The impact of AI across commerce promises to be far-reaching. We are already seeing startups building AI-powered solutions across...
Ross Kimbel
Apr 13, 20234 min read
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2023 Retail Predictions
Venture capitalists are, in some sense, professional predictors. We meet startups, and we predict that some will do well and some won’t....
Shaunish Mookerji
Feb 4, 20239 min read
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13 Predictions in Technology and Early Stage Investing in 2023
One year ago, at the start of 2022, public markets were at an all time high, valuations for technology startups had never been more...
Ross Kimbel
Jan 10, 20233 min read
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Six Essential Elements In Building A Venture Backable Technology Company
Every entrepreneur begins with the excitement of their idea and how it will transform the world. However, just as important is paying...
Frank Tighe
Nov 30, 20223 min read
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19th Century Whaling - A Wet Start For Venture Capital
IN YOUR FREE TIME (yeah, right) check out Nathaniel Philbrick's In the Heart of the Sea (Harper Collins) to read the whaling story that...
Clint Richardson
Nov 7, 20222 min read
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Just Desserts: The End of Third-Party Cookies
In January 2020, Google announced its plan to phase out support for third-party cookies. Though ample time was afforded to prepare for...
Carson Cromartie
Nov 2, 20224 min read
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Computers Can Be Creative, Too
The pace of advancement in AI capability in the last twenty years has been astonishing. Around the turn of the century, a paradigm shift...
Shaunish Mookerji
Oct 10, 20223 min read
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