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Remco Livain

Remco Livain

📍 Zürich, Switzerland

Why smart cyclists train with watts

Watts and watts/kg are the magic numbers in cycling. There is not a single metric that is more important than the number of watts a cyclist can produce for a certain amount of time. Update — August 2026: Six years after I wrote this, it is still one of the

Alibaba Luxury Soho aims to help luxury brands lower overstock

Alibaba is dipping its toes into the luxury fashion pond. Not for the first time, but this time it is serious. Luxury Soho is distinctly different from Luxury Pavillon as it is more boutique style and “last season-” / “evergreen products-driven”.

VAM might be a vanity metric, but I like it

Cyclists are a strange bunch of people, especially the data cracks. But if there is one thing I love most about cycling, it is exactly that, the data. Update — August 2026: Six years later, VAM is still my favourite vanity metric — and the lesson in it aged better than I

Better late than never, LinkedIn rolls out „stories“

Well, it is official, LinkedIn has rolled out its stories function in Brazil. The stories feature holds the most prominent placement of all CTA elements on the Instagram app and will use the exact same placement on its LinkedIn app. Right at the top of any user‘s app and

Why I needed to learn to type differently

Preface by author Remco Livain – Why I need to improve on my typing skills Breaking habits is hard, especially those you have become accustomed to over long periods of time. Typing is one of them, for me. I am not the slowest typer in the world, but my typing could

Direct mail still works if you avoid common mistakes

Direct mail works, if the target group makes sense and is not advertised to, too much. It sort of makes sense, everyone wants to be part of a close(d) community. Furthermore, it is important to create a sense of exclusivity and <insider> knowledge. > Julian Shapiro Contributor

LVMH buys Tiffany & Co, strengthening position as luxury retail market leader

> Luxury group LVMH is buying Tiffany & Co for more than $16bn (£12.5bn). The companies have entered into a definitive agreement whereby LVMH will acquire Tiffany for $135 per share in cash, in a transaction with an equity value of approximately €14.7 billion (£11.41bn) or $16.

17 Responsibilities Of Non-Technical Founders In A Startup And My Advice

Are you a tech entrepreneur, but not a coder? Neither am I. Here is what I have learned about my role as a founder in tech startups for more than 15 years. > There is no such thing as being the idea person in a startup. Idea generation is not

Why did the Spark Email App receive a design update?

Spark is a great email client, it is fast and reliable, but unfortunately heavily overpriced. Okay, I admit it, I was very tempted to “switch” from using my native iOS mail client to whatever is better. And Spark seems like a great alternative. It ticks many of the boxes I

What’s going on with TikTok?

> TikTok is described by Mark Zuckerberg as the single biggest threat to Facebook. Maybe rightfully so, but the app has a very long way to go. Attracting users is not enough to run a viable business model. TikTok has struggled to find the right advertizing modes (or not really

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