When the CEO looks around the room, looking for an owner, and there is a pause And you are the one that raises your hand That's a bond for life

In tech, “Fail fast, fail often" is overused and often misunderstood. Failure is not the goal. The goal is to be creative, try new things, and learn—mistakes are a natural consequence of doing so. Better to build a culture of rapid recovery and learning so failure isn’t feared.

Every one of these U.S. tech companies was founded by 1st or 2nd generation immigrants: Apple Google Amazon Facebook Oracle IBM Uber Airbnb Yahoo Intel EMC eBay SpaceX VMWare AT&T Tesla NVIDIA Qualcomm Paypal ADP Reddit SlackHQ WeWork Stripe Cognizant Intuit Optimism at #DLD19

Seems like DTC brands really don't want to sell on Amazon f.otreva.com/2FPyIsP

2019 Predictions from @CommerceFuture: - 🛍 End of Boring Retail - 🛒 Year of Walmart - 👜 Rise of Second-Hand Commerce + more from Phillip Jackson Brian Lange 👁️ buff.ly/2EFOLbK #retailtrends

Big changes for Amazon this week. Sounds like they are closing Vendor Central for many. Vendors are no longer receiving POs. They're also closing all 87 pop-up stores to focus on expanding Amazon Books and Amazon 4-star. What's next? #amazon

Secret Amazon brands aren’t crushing the competition—yet bit.ly/2Jn8q4n

Starting a DTC today, choose a platform to launch with:

Andrea Hippeau talks about how the D2C market is overcapitalized and what a smart Amazon strategy looks like for D2C brands who are OK with selling on Amazon. f.channelape.io/2UTOwiU

First time reporting to a CEO? 3 simple things to learn: - admit your mistakes. CEOs make even more of them. They get it. - end excuses. Those don't work anymore. - when you bring up a problem, make sure you also bring a solution. Do just this, you'll excel.

11 ways to educate your consumers about malware, phishing or other cyberattacks f.channelape.io/2I0zpBw

I've had the problem of micromanaging processes, but I've learned (by experience) to give clear, measurable objectives, my team may take a different approach than I would have but still gets the same outcome #leadership #entrepeneurship #entrepreneur inc.com/young-entrepre…

While account management processes weren't fun to create, they've saved us many times: f.channelape.io/2Db4EWr

Nike is entering the subscription business with a kids' sneaker club ecom.me/2MW418F via Lauren Thomas

After the failure of America’s vaccine logistics program, there will never again be an American government without senior executive eCommerce experience in the cabinet.

From April 2020

Best commerce platform on the internet with the best inventory management on the planet. Let's go!

Having left NYC to sit for an hour to get into a tunnel/bridge, I decided plan more consistently using historical data: crossing.nyc Now if I leave on a Friday night, I look at the last 3 Friday's and it turns out, history repeats itself. #nyc #traffic

Inventory without traceability is debt. Treat every adjustment like a transaction with a receipt & require referenceDocumentUri on all adjustments: bit.ly/464qPLM

Today we're launching Tasklet — an AI agent for automating your business. Unlike ChatGPT, @TaskletAI actually does the work for you: connecting to your tools, triggering automatically, and handling tasks while you sleep.