Interviews with e-commerce store founders and CEOs

What advice would you give to someone starting an e-commerce business?

Find a great product, with some great numbers and margins, make sure people online are looking for it, and then call me. ;-)...

Will Royall
Factory EStores

What one piece of advice would you give to someone starting an e-commerce business?

Tell your ambitions to wait or you’ll find yourself spread too thin to be really good at any one thing. It’s easy to convince yourself you need...

Allan Stevens
InstallerParts

Sasha Dennig
Callixto Founder

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What made you decide to quit your job as a corporate lawyer and set up Callixto? I had been working for 3 years in a large corporate law firm when I realised...

Sasha Dennig
Callixto Founder

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What made you decide to quit your job as a corporate lawyer and set up Callixto? I had been working for 3 years in a large corporate law firm when I realised...

What advice would you offer to anyone starting up an e-commerce business?

Research! It is so easy to do research on your industry today online. You do not have to fly blind, you can listen to the echos. People are telling you what is...

John Lawson
3rd Power Outlet

You’ve been in e-commerce for over 10 years. Tell us how it all started.

It all started like a lot of E-commerce companies do, in my garage. I saved up £5000 and went to a local computer...

Omar Farra
Scooter City

As an entrepreneur and e-commerce expert, what advice would you give to someone starting an e-commerce business?

Build value into your brand. No matter what you sell, you are in the CUSTOMER business. Your job is not to sell things, it’s to create evangelists...

Firas Kittaneh
One Mall Group

What made you decide to quit your job as a corporate lawyer and set up Callixto?

I had been working for 3 years in a large corporate law firm when I realised that no matter how hard I worked, and...

Sasha Dennig
Callixto