Drake is known worldwide for his music and massive cultural influence. But you can also add “world-class entrepreneur” to his resume. In 2011 he launched his own record label, October’s Very Own (OVO), followed by his OVO Shopify store in 2012. Certifying his status as a serial entrepreneur, the cultural mogul also launched a line…
Month: July 2023
Preview – Enable Foundation Models to Complete Tasks With Agents for Amazon Bedrock
This April, Swami Sivasubramanian, Vice President of Data and Machine Learning at AWS, announced Amazon Bedrock and Amazon Titan models as part of new tools for building with generative AI on AWS. Amazon Bedrock, currently available in preview, is a fully managed service that makes foundation models (FMs) from Amazon and leading AI startups—such as…
Introducing Shopify Credit: The Pay in Full Business Credit Card With No Fees, No Interest, and No Credit Checks
Having smooth cash flow is important. As your business matures, you may find yourself looking for a credit line to maximize your working capital for expected (and unexpected) expenses. You need a solution built for the reality of an entrepreneur: rewards that help you do more with your money, flexible payment terms, and little to…
AWS Entity Resolution: Match and Link Related Records from Multiple Applications and Data Stores
As organizations grow, the records that contain information about customers, businesses, or products tend to be increasingly fragmented and siloed across applications, channels, and data stores. Because information can be gathered in different ways, there is also the issue of different but equivalent data, such as for street addresses (“5th Avenue” and “5th Ave”). As…
Shop Pay is the Best-Converting Accelerated Checkout on the Internet
A seamless checkout process is essential for higher conversions and a better buying experience. That’s where Shop Pay comes in. Shop Pay, Shopify’s one-tap accelerated checkout, allows shoppers to speed through every purchase with their saved shipping and billing information. You can get Shop Pay for free by setting up Shopify Payments for your store.…
New – Amazon EC2 P5 Instances Powered by NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs for Accelerating Generative AI and HPC Applications
In March 2023, AWS and NVIDIA announced a multipart collaboration focused on building the most scalable, on-demand artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure optimized for training increasingly complex large language models (LLMs) and developing generative AI applications. We preannounced Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) P5 instances powered by NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs and AWS’s latest…
Top Announcements of the AWS Summit in New York, 2023
It’ll be a full house as the AWS Summit gets underway in New York City on Wednesday, July 26, 2023. The cloud event has something for everyone including a keynote, breakout sessions, opportunities to network, and of course, to learn about the latest exciting AWS product announcements. Today, we’re sharing a selection of announcements to…
How Bokksu Helps Family Businesses Get Global Distribution
Danny Taing saw an opportunity to help makers in Japan—many of whom were struggling with falling demand—by connecting them with the interest in Japanese food abroad. He founded Bokksu, an online retailer curating Japanese snack subscription boxes and selling à la carte Asian candies and treats. “Global distribution is something that a lot of these…
Deciphering consumer desires: Elevating customer journeys in retail CPG
What do customers want? They want the consumer goods brands they buy and love to deliver a total experience. One that is transparent across the product lifecycle and is personalized at every touchpoint, regardless of whether it’s the ever-demanding business-to-consumer (B2C) realm or the not-so-different-anymore business-to-business (B2B) landscape of consumer packaged goods (CPG) distributors and…
Contribution Format Income Statement: Definition and Example
As a business owner, you’ve likely prepared a traditional income statement, with the usual line items for revenue and expenses, with net income on the bottom line. This standard format can give you a great financial snapshot of how your business is doing. But if you’d like to dig deeper and shed light on how…