36 Quotes by Ken Cassar

These startups are really just a virtual shelf. You have to wonder about their value. They don't even have a customer base.

...As consumers increase their use of the Internet, the opportunity for the Web to influence their online and off-line shopping behavior grows. Simply put, businesses must integrate across channels.

This is the opposite of the recent Levi online situation. Levi was seen as cutting out its retail partners to get to their customers directly online,

It means you don't have to hand off each purchase and pray that some other guy is going to deliver it properly.

It's not necessarily a dot.com play, but seems like an effort to get into publishing,

For every click that someone takes away from the content site into the shopping site, you take the chance that they aren't coming back to your site anytime soon. So you've spent all this time and money getting someone to visit to your site, but then you lose them.

Consumers seem to increasingly see search as their starting point when they go online.

E-commerce last year, revenues totaled about $3 billion, ... We anticipate they'll total about $7 billion in 1998. And the forecast for 2002 is $41.1 billion.

It's clear that this event will shake up the search/portal space.