Exciting Commerce Ideas for Innovators

Besides the current live shopping rage, other e-commerce areas also offer high innovation potential. 

If you don't have your own startup idea yet you may benefit from a boost from Paul Graham of Y Combinator ("Startup Ideas We'd Like to Fund"):

"Online auctions have more potential than most people currently realize.

Auctions seem boring now because EBay is doing a bad job, but is still powerful enough that they have a de facto monopoly.  Result: stagnation. 

But I suspect EBay could now be attacked on its home territory, and that this territory would, in the hands of a successful invader, turn out to be more valuable than it currently appears.

As with dating, however, a startup that wants to do this has to expend more effort on their strategy for cracking the monopoly than on how their auction site will work."

via live.hackr ("Preemptive Cloning")

Originally posted in German by Jochen Krisch, translated by Jason Soo.

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Also a good case for Live Shopping by 123tv is Jaahh: https://www.1-2-3.tv/jaahh