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How to Survive “The Amazon Effect” as a Small Ecommerce Business Owner

Up and Running

What’s likely more important for most small ecommerce businesses and owners like you is that people are narrowing their choices even further based on search while increasing their demands. If you search “red baseball cap” Amazon tells you that there are “over 100,000 results” but limits you to just seven pages of results.

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Taking on Tech Titans

Reid Hoffman

Greylock investor Sridhar Ramaswamy , who co-founded search engine startup Neeva , says it’s more important for startups to think about creating a product that is useful and resonates with people before worrying about whether a large incumbent is doing it. But the business principles are very different.

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Taking on Tech Titans

Reid Hoffman

Greylock investor Sridhar Ramaswamy , who co-founded search engine startup Neeva , says it’s more important for startups to think about creating a product that is useful and resonates with people before worrying about whether a large incumbent is doing it. But the business principles are very different.

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Why Free Plans Don't Work

Software By Rob

Rob, frankly I’m surprised you’re endorsing this business model. #5 at 9:42 am I agree with the point by Reader X that the Free/Premium model is a marketing strategy. Business software is different and shouldn’t be treated in the same way as B2C. Do you need to differentiate more?

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Special: The 56 Israeli Companies Exhibiting in Mobile World Congress 2011

VC Cafe

Established location-based services to enable the CSP offer B2B and B2C services based on mobile positioning, tracking & locating, turn-by-turn navigation and mobile local search. Bit2go has launched a breakthrough middleware connecting the WWW and the mobile environment.

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