"Our old solution wasn't scalable enough. We had to do patchwork fixes and custom integrations for everything. We were limited in our flexibility and we couldn't experiment – it was time to look elsewhere."

“We chose Shopify because we had limited IT resources and needed a platform that would scale in case Purple blew up.”

"Once I saw the light and how everyone was trying to mimic Shopify, the choice was obvious. The team at Shopify Plus is really innovative and always coming up with insanely cool updates."

“I believe that packaging is an essential part of a brand and I put time and love to my packaging. On my Shopify store, I offer a flat shipping rate to cover shipping in branded packaging materials. Now I get people writing emails to me or tagging me on Instagram, …

“We just went for it cold turkey. We certainly weren't getting rich doing it, but it was fun to do as a family. It was moving in the direction of our dreams. We started developing some brand ideas. We called it Old World Market. Initially we were planning on getting …

"We are a manufacturer first, and a brand second, and that structure will always inform our marketing efforts.”

“We’ve gathered a lot of learnings from our first couple months using Facebook ads. Those insights have informed really tangible next steps for refining our messaging and content strategy, for example. Facebook is the best closed feedback loop out there today. People often look at it as just a marketing …

"It wasn't until I married into a family of entrepreneurs that I thought, ‘Why not."

"This experience with Shopify and the Unity Buy SDK has shown us that there's demand out there [for merch] that far outweighs what you could ever expect."

"We were losing orders that were thousands of dollars because the manufacturer started saying they couldn't fulfill them."

“We're in a pretty small town here, so there are a lot of people that need some good quality work. It continues to be really one of our main focuses—continuing to grow and continuing to provide more jobs here.”

"People come to One Tree Planted and they can pick the region that's most interesting to them. Let's just say they pick North America and then they can read about these different great projects that are happening. What we do is we pool these donations and then quarterly give it …

"A lot of the soap bars that are made in the Middle East, Asia, and Europe are typically olive oil based. So, different from a lot of the bars you find in North America that contain palm and other ingredients that aren’t necessarily as good for your skin. Fouad went …

“My background is Taiwanese, I'm not Japanese, but I did spend a year teaching English in Japan and I feel like I have a pretty strong connection to it. My grandmother also speaks Japanese so I learned it when I was growing up.”

“I studied retail and consumer studies at University of Arizona and directly out of school worked for Nordstrom doing special events and sales promotion across a couple of states and many different stores. It was a great training ground for me to really learn and to bring that forward into …