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Aronson co-founded MentorTech and has had a more than 30 year career working with technology companies. He has significant expertise in company formation around business school concepts, software development, capital raising, strategic alliances and joint ventures, financial reporting and tax issues, executive compensation, employment matters and copyright law. He represents MentorTech on the Board of The Neat Company, Ticketleap, Soft Tissue Regeneration , SeniorHomes.com, Innova Dynamics, EyeIC, DietTV and NeuroDiagnostic Devices. He serves as a Board Observer at Bioconnect, Gentis, Kembrel and Medivo and served at Wanderfly prior to their acquisition. He acted as an advisor to management at Merchant Circle, Yodle, and Diapers.com.
E-commerce spending in China set to increase 320% by 2015. Annual e-commerce spending in China will reach 2 trillion yuan (US$315 billion) by 2015, a 320% increase from 476 billion yuan (US$75 billion) in 2010, according to a projection released this week by The Boston Consulting Group.
The research firm says China has 145 million online shoppers, second only to the 170 million online shoppers in the United States. By 2015, the report says, the value of e-commerce sales in China will surpass that in the United States. “Online spending in China is expected to surge over the next five years as personal incomes and comfort with online shopping increase,” says the consulting firm. BEV Capital: Private Company Information. BEV Capital is no longer investing.
It is a venture capital firm specializing in investments in the consumer companies and supporting technologies for consumer companies. Early Stage Venture Capital Fund @ PENN. How did diapers.com come to be so successful. How does Diapers.com DO it? Diapers.com - The Source. Things that caught our eye around the finance and business-related web.
Think you’ve got something for tomorrow’s list? Email Lauren Mills or direct message us on Twitter @wsjthesource Interactive Investor: Helphire: Risky business “Recent profit warning aside, the numbers show Helphire is recovering.” “Not even 48 hours after Dagong dared to tell the truth about America’s sad state of affairs (again) and downgraded the developed world’s most insolvent nation for the second time in half a year, Moody’s has…upgraded China from A1 to Aa3.” “Amazon is selling a book titled The Pedophile’s Guide to Love and Pleasure, and later in the day Amazon defended its sale.
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Fast, Free ShippingShipping is always free when you spend $49 or more, and we ship FAST - overnight to more than 75% of the country, and in 2 days to everyone else. Plus, this now includes Saturday delivery to most of the country. Simply order by 6 p.m., and you will receive your package within 2 business days. 2. Low PricesWe work hard to make our prices as competitive as possible, and offer some of the lowest prices online. 3. Quidsi Opens Third Website to Sell Women’s Beauty Products. Quidsi Inc., the owner of Diapers.com and Soap.com, opened a third site focused on upscale beauty products as it seeks to gain share in online commerce.
Diapers.com’s innovative Web strategies turn customer acquisition and retention into an art form. Diapers.com Rocks Online Retailing - Forbes.com. Average Revenue Per User in Social Networks Set To Rise. Facebook Reaches Over Half of US Web Users. ERP, CRM and eCommerce Blog » World-Wide eCommerce Trends: Asia Pacific Ranks Fastest Growing Region. Home > CTO, eCommerce > World-Wide eCommerce Trends: Asia Pacific Ranks Fastest Growing Region While the ecommerce market in the U.S. is now considered to be a mature segment of the retail industry, In Asia Pacific the expansion of this space remains in its early stages. eCommerce in USA still continues to outpace traditional brick and mortar retail. However in Asia Pacific the growth in eCommerce is staggering.
However, unlike traditional beliefs that Asian consumers are averse to shopping online a report released in 2010 on Global Trends in Online Shopping revealed that only 13% of Internet users in Asia Pacific had never shopped online which was lower than the global average where 16% of users had never shopped online. This forecasts the ecommerce in Asia Pacific will continue to grow fast and only may become one of the largest markets world-wide. Nielsen-global-ecommerce-most-popular-online-purchases-copy.jpg. More than 85% of the world’s online population has used the internet to make a purchase – increasing the market for online shopping by 40% in the past two years – according to the latest Nielsen Global Online Survey on internet shopping habits.
Globally, more than half of internet users have made at least one purchase online in the past month, according to Nielsen. “When The Nielsen Company conducted its first global survey into internet shopping trends two years ago, approximately 10% of the world’s population (627 million) had shopped online,” said Bruce Paul, VP, Customized Research, Nielsen US. “Within two years, this number has increased by approximately 40% (to 875 million).” Among the findings issued by Nielsen: Globally, the most popular and purchased items over the internet are books (41% purchased in the previous three months), clothing/accessories/shoes (36%), videos/DVDs/games (24%), airline tickets (24%) and electronic equipment (23%).