Short answer: yes. Google is undeniably one of the most successful tech companies in the world. Twenty years ago, numerous startups were wiped out in the dot-com crash, which concluded in 2002. As a result, Silicon Valley lost 200,000 jobs (1), and yet, Google was able to survive and flourish…

Getting your customer through the checkout process is only half the battle. If you can’t deliver when you say you will, it’s a waste of time to perfect your onsite user experience. Frustrated customers won’t shop with you again after a bad delivery experience. Today’s shoppers expect transparent, quick and…

by Andrew Maff, Director of Marketing and Operations for Seller’s Choice Traffic is an important part of any eCommerce business. You cannot build and grow your brand if people do not visit your pages. But traffic and page visitors are not enough. If you are not converting the majority of…

A couple weeks back, Sezzle leadership attended Shopify’s Unite conference in San Francisco. Conferences have largely represented positive opportunities for us to network with other industry players and learn more about consumers in the payments space. Despite missing out on a meet and greet with incubator visionary Erlich Bachman due…

I came across this book as I was searching Google for an answer to a question: would universal basic income work for developing countries like India and the Philippines? Assuming the money is there to carry out a program like that in the first place… Whenever I read about basic…

If you don’t make it to the end of the review, know that all I wanted to say was that this is great reading for “outsiders,” immigrant or otherwise. Because it’s 700+ pages, I wasn’t sure I had the time or energy to finish it. A few pages into it…

I read this book over many cups of tea that eventually turned cold before I remembered to take another sip. Digital Gold is an incredibly well-organized timeline of events on Bitcoin’s founding fathers and their pseudonymous friends. …

I spent Easter Sunday with my roommate’s family. I was speaking with her 17-year old sister about social media and she starts telling me about a photo journal she maintains on VSCO, adding that the consistent subject in her photos are her feet in different settings — hiking, swimming, being…

I earned my first dollar, actually $400, on the internet in 2010. I did some graphic design work for a tech company that was co-founded by none other than Charlie Youakim, our CEO here at Sezzle. Since that time, I’ve completed graphic design projects for many entrepreneurs, including e-commerce store…