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
Australia Post to launch a marketplace
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
Bitcoin vs Paypal comparison of size and transaction cost
Bitcoin and more in general blockchain technology is a very hot topic now. Every man and his dog either invest in crypto-currency or work in a start-up based on this technology. One of the benefit that often promised by blockchain pundits is a decreased transaction cost. For example people from Continue Reading
How Australian IT companies pay taxes
Recently ATO published data about the biggest businesses in Australia and how much do they contribute to the budget. According ABC report, around 1 of 3 of this large local and multinational businesses with at least one hundred million dollars of revenue paid zero income tax for 2014-2015 financial year. Continue Reading
Why Uber has insanely high valuation or unit economics of self-driven taxi
In the wake of the recent legalisation of Uber in Victoria (Australia) and news about self-driven car test that the company conducting in Pittsburgh, I decided to make a short analysis of self-driven taxi industry prospects. The questions I was interested are: How will introduction of autonomous cabs will change Continue Reading
Can we trust Facebook audience interests?
Are you using Facebook Advertising and target people by interests? Well, I have not very good news for you – this targeting isn’t as reliable as you may assume. How Facebook assigns interests to their users? Let’s check the official documentation. At What is interests targeting? page of Facebook Adverts Help Continue Reading
Tennis and country income correlation
Is the expression that tennis is a sport for the rich still true? Will we see the correlation between income level and success in tennis? This post is follow-up to the analysis of “The most tennis countries” post I wrote couple months ago. Here I’ll analyse is there a link between Continue Reading
Are you still bidding on your company or brand name in Adwords? You may waste your money
Last week I had an opportunity to attend a presentation of Professor Steve Tadelis at Melbourne Business School. It was part of ‘Talking Data’ series and Prof Tadelis shared his experience of a large scale study he and his colleagues conducted for eBay few years ago. The study is called “Consumer Heterogeneity and Continue Reading
The most tennis countries: where are the top tennis players from?
It’s end of the January and therefore a tennis time in Melbourne. Australian Open is in high gear; Melbournians and guests can enjoy watching top of the crop tennis athletes playing at their doorsteps. Have you even wondered what countries are the home of good tennis players? I’ve always been, so Continue Reading
e-commerce customer lifecycle diagram
Just republishing this useful tool from Magenable blog Courtesy of: Magenable