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A founder’s guide to BFCM: Balancing inventory, ad spend, and promotions
This post was written in collaboration with our friends at Mercury . For ecommerce founders, Black Friday Cyber Monday (BFCM) represents the most critical sales period of the year. It’s a time of immense opportunity, but also significant risk. The surge in traffic and sales can be a powerful engine for growth, but without a carefully orchestrated growth marketing strategy, it can also lead to cash flow crises, eroded margins, and missed opportunities. While Mercury has covere
Dennis Yu
Oct 265 min read


AI Marketing Tools for SMB and Mid-Market Shopify Brands
If you lead growth at a $5M–$50M brand, you’re living in the paradox of 2025: more AI than ever, less time than ever. Every week a new...
Dennis Yu
Sep 214 min read


What I Learned Testing AI for Shopping (And Follow Up Conversation with a Major LLM's PM)
A week ago, I ran a personal online shopping experiment, posted on LinkedIn, got a pretty good amount of engagement, and eventually led...
Dennis Yu
Sep 213 min read


Gap Inc.'s eCommerce Renaissance: From Retail Relic to Cultural Catalyst
During a recent visit to the Gap at Stanford Shopping Center, I was genuinely surprised by what I saw—stone-washed fleece, vintage-tinted...
Dennis Yu
Jul 55 min read


The Rick Rubin Era of AI: Taste Is the Last Real Moat in eCommerce
We live in an era where AI can generate a marketing plan, write code, remix a song, and summarize a board meeting in minutes. What once...
Dennis Yu
Jul 55 min read


ChatGPT x Shopify: Commerce Is No Longer Just a Website
A quiet shift is unfolding in the world of eCommerce, one that could change how we shop, discover, and buy online. Developers recently...
The Other Group
Jun 63 min read
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