Shopping app Spring's redesign could be a game-changer

Back in 2013, Alan Tisch, the CEO of the shopping app Spring, thought he was a little late to the mobile party.

"Isn't this a little late to be starting this? Hasn't mobile blown up?" he asked his now business partners.

He was referring to mobile-commerce — m-commerce as we now call it — an experience that was virtually non-existent then. There were, of course, mobile versions of e-commerce platforms. 

But nothing was quite like Spring, an app Tisch would launch in August of 2014, that was mobile-first in its approach.