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What will be BigCommerce IPO valuation

Posted On July 23, 2020July 24, 2020 By Alex Levashov2 Comments
BigCommerce and Shopift key finances pre IPO

BigCommerce, a company behind SaaS ecommerce platform is going to IPO. In this blog post I’ll try to make a prediction, what will be company market capitalization. The time will show am I right or wrong soon.

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The future of Magento as a brand

Posted On April 5, 2019April 5, 2019 By Alex Levashovcomment
Magento brand future hero image

When last May Adobe Inc acquired Magento for $1.68B it sparked number of discussions: will Magento stay open-source, how Adobe approach enterprise market and many others. Close to one year after acquisition and between Adobe Summit and Magento Imaging I asked myself the next question: what is the future of Continue Reading

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Clash of SaaSes: Mailchimp vs Shopify

Posted On March 23, 2019March 25, 2019 By Alex Levashovcomment

Yesterday we witnessed an exchange of blows between two popular Software-As-A-Service providers Mailchimp and Shopify after the latter decided to remove Mailchimp application from Shopify store. That things happen in business, but now the parties decided to post quite harsh public statements, which is more rare. It however helps o Continue Reading

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Australian tech companies and taxation

Posted On December 18, 2018December 18, 2018 By Alex Levashovcomment

How the bigges tech companies paid their share of taxes in Australia, 2016-2017 data ATO has published a fresh data about the biggest taxpayers, so I decided to revisit how the biggest and apparently the best Aussie and global technology businesses with Australian presence paid their taxes. I wrote a similar Continue Reading

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Scraping data about Australian politicians with RSelenium

Posted On November 21, 2018November 22, 2018 By Alex Levashov4 Comments
APH website screenshot

While there is more and more data available in structured formats (CSV, JSON) through initiatives like OpenData, sometimes nicely formatted data still not publicly available. When I decided to conduct a little study of what Australian politicians from the major party post in Twitter. So I decide to find list Continue Reading

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R plus Magento 2 REST API revisited: part 2 – filtered search

Posted On November 14, 2018November 16, 2018 By Alex Levashovcomment
Nested product - Rstudio screenshot

In previous post I wrote about how to set connection with Magento 2 REST API from R and make queries to universal search. Now let’s see how  use filtered search. Also we’ll use other than universal search endpoints that provide access to more specific Magento 2 store information. Using filtered Continue Reading

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R plus Magento 2 REST API revisited: part 1- authentication and universal search

Posted On November 7, 2018November 7, 2018 By Alex Levashovcomment
Magento 2 REST API with R hero image

I wrote a post about getting Magento 2 data to R using REST API last year. Now I provide more examples of use and a wrapper over API that you can re-use to get data from Magento 2 to R in a bit more convenient way. Prerequisites Magento 2 I Continue Reading

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Are petrol prices in Australia fair?

Posted On October 30, 2018October 30, 2018 By Alex Levashov1 Comment
Crude oil and retail petrol prices scatterplot

Petrol is a product that used by most of Australians. So people are pretty sensitive to price changes, especially when the fuel become more expensive. With prices reaching $1.6 for unleaded the debates are becoming more and more hot. Are greedy petrol traders ripping off Australians or the price changes Continue Reading

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Shopify customer segments

Posted On March 5, 2018 By Alex Levashovcomment

Not so long time ago Shopify has published its annual report.  Thanks to the fact that Shopify is a publicly traded company and obliged to publish such reports, we have a rare opportunity to get better understanding how the business of leading ecommerce platform work. If you wish to view full Continue Reading

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Australia Post to launch a marketplace

Posted On October 25, 2017 By Alex Levashov3 Comments
Australia Post to Launch a Marketplace hero image

It isn’t a fact yet, but my educated guess: Australia Post will launch a marketplace sooner rather than later. Australian eCommerce landscape changes quickly. Just an year ago we only really had eBay as a major player in general eCommerce marketplace space. Now we have also Catch Of The Day Continue Reading

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