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One way to think about it is that Amazon’s “people who bought this also bought” feature was never available to Shopify merchants since any given merchant only had info on who bought their products, not all the other products that people purchased across Shopify. But now, in some sense, the benefits of this data will be available to merchants.
Tanay Jaipuria • Shopify Audiences
Shein shows one way this can go - it’s built a smartphone-only fast fashion brand that appears to be bigger than H&M and Zara combined in the USA. Part of the Shein story is the pace of inventory and the use of data (it claims to add 8-10k new SKUs every single day) but the other is that it has built this business with cheap shipping and (like... See more
Benedict Evans • TV, merchant media and the unbundling of advertising — Benedict Evans
So we need both horizontal and vertical connections as well as the ability to handle structured data. Sounds pretty much like…
Anton Iokov • The Knowledge Organization
If you were never allowed to provide tech support, in any form, what would have to change?
How would on-boarding need to be improved, to the point where customers would self-serve and be happy doing it?
Jason Cohen • Extreme questions to trigger new, better ideas
Everything starts slower on the data side. Building a valuable data asset takes time. Building the supporting infrastructure to actually deliver that data takes time. Sales cycles take time.
Abraham Thomas • The Economics of Data Businesses
Most live streaming is occurring on social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube. Other vertical-specific platforms like Twitch (gaming), MomentHouse (music), and Newness (beauty) are emerging. With so many platforms, each with their own siloed discovery tools and notification systems, it’s difficult for consumers to find relevant... See more
Ashley Brasier • Did you see that live stream?
It didn’t. In all sorts of different fields, research productivity has been flat or declining for decades, and peer review doesn’t seem to have changed that trend. New ideas are failing to displace older ones. Many peer-reviewed findings don’t replicate, and most of them may be straight-up false. When you ask scientists to rate 20th century
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