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Stats From Amazon’s Holiday Sales

by Jason Wilk on December 26, 2008

  • Amazon announced today their 2008 holiday season was its best ever, with over 6.3 million items ordered worldwide on the peak day, Dec. 15. Amazon proved that they were recession proof throug this holiday season. I think the reason being is the growth rate  at which people are shopping online to save time is greater than the decline in people’s wallets this season. Here are the stats from Nov.15 to Dec.19th
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    • Amazon shipped to over 210 countries.
    • 72.9 items per second.
    • On the peak day this season, Amazon’s worldwide fulfillment network shipped over 5.6 million units.
    • 99 percent of orders in time to meet holiday deadlines worldwide
    • Amazon.com sold enough “Breaking Dawn” books that stacked end to end they would reach the summit of Mt. Everest eight times.
    • During the period from Nov. 15 – Dec. 10, Amazon sold one copy of Microsoft Office Home and Student 2007 every 2.5 minutes.
    • Amazon Grocery sold enough coffee to give each resident of the highly caffeinated city of Seattle a cup per day for two months.
    • Amazon sold enough Casio G-Shock watches to outfit every Kanye West fan attending the 2008 Glow in the Dark Tour concert at Madison Square Garden, N.Y.
    • Amazon sold enough Coldplay CDs that laid side by side they’d stretch from Seattle to Violet Hill (a street in London and the album’s first single) and more than halfway back.
    • Amazon sold enough Munchkin Mozart Magic Cubes to fill every seat in the Sydney Opera House five times over.
    • Amazon sold enough Wild Planet Hyper Dash games that the total weight of sets sold is over 81,000 pounds — almost the size of two 747 aircrafts.
    • Amazon sold enough Spalding basketballs to fill three C-130 cargo planes.
    Best Sellers Include:
    • Eyeclops night vision stealth goggles, Blokus classic board game and Wild Planet’s Hyper Dash.
    • Samsung’s 52-inch 1080p 120Hz LCD HDTV
    • iPod touch 8 GB 
    •  Acer Aspire One 8.9-inch netbook, sapphire blue.
    • Nintendo Wii 
    • Razor A Kick scooter
    • Victorinox Swiss Army Champion Plus pocket knife and Klean Kanteen sports cap.
    • 14-karat white gold Journey Curve pendant
    • Invicta men’s Pro Diver stainless-steel watch
    • Sephora Brand Ultimate Blockbuster – collector’s edition makeup palette.
    •  ”Wall-E,” and  ”The Dark Knight” for Blu-ray 
    • “The Tales of Beedle the Bard” by J.K. Rowling 
    • “Fearless” by Taylor Swift”

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    More info can be found at the official press release here:

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CEOs: If This is Your First Company, You Have to Fight

by John Jorgensen on December 1, 2008

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  • Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman wrote a guest post on TC titled “The First-Time CEO’s Recession Survival Guide” with some solid advice for any startup CEOs who want their companies to live to see the economy recover.
    • 1. Compete With Your Successor – Imagine the CEO who would replace you if you got fired. Think about all the objective decisions that person would be able to make. And then make them yourself.
    • 2. Act Like an Owner. This goes along with #1. Take responsibility and re-examine every expense of your company.
    • 3. Get a Board You Connect With (Not Just One With Connections). Instead of big names who you feel the need to impress, choose board members that you can speak candidly with who have real world experience turning a profit.
    • 4. Run Weekly Revenue Meetings to brainstorm immediate ways to increase revenue week over week.
    • 5. Automate Bad News. Provide revenue & traffic reports on a consistent basis to the board. This forces you to deal with problems in the open as they happen.
    • 6. (Just Ask to) Meet Your Peers. Ask other entrepreneurs their opinions; their advice tends to be more practical and valuable than what you would hear from an “expert.” [Anyone who has had the opportunity to listen to Jason Nazar (Docstoc CEO) speak in Los Angeles can vouch for the veracity of this.]
    • 7. Create Simplicity. Don’t ignore complexity, instead, work through it by using a combination of precise identification and persistence.
    • 8. Go on the Attack. The economy is hurting your competitors too. Don’t wait around for conditions to get better before taking action. Be aggressive — when others slow down, it often pays to speed up.
    • 9. Be a Roman. Don’t let your head get too big after a single brush of success. On the same token, don’t let small setbacks seem like the end of the world. Keep your head down and charge forward.
    • 10. The Journey is the Destination. Every CEO dreams of the big exit, but even that won’t compare to the rush you feel while you’re building your business. Remember, you’re never down and out until the lights are shut off.

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Travel Plans Postponed To New Virtual World

by glu on September 3, 2008

  • Journeys is a new virtual world that seeks to recreate real world destinations via integration with Flickr and Yahoo Maps.
  • Virtual worlds have proved mostly disappointing for Second Life and Google’s recently launched Lively.
  • A feature hardly mentioned but with arguably the most potential is the offline interaction virtual characters can engage in independent of its real world counterpart.

Can Journeys successfully attract virtual users interested in the physical world or are virtual worlds a dead end for now?

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