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Ways to compete in Amazon’s shadow (versiononeventures.com)
15 points by bwertz on Oct 10, 2012 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments



We have been seeing this kind of movement in our data.

People are switching out from being price takers to price setters by picking their offering more carefully. Of course, it becomes more difficult when you are a monopolistic competitor to optimize on price and that's why people use our API. We offer them a dynamic pricing API that maximizes profit over time.

I think it's great seeing all the creative products people are starting to sell on the internet. With companies like Shopify around, it's never been easier to set up a store and sell "That One Thing" that you make that everyone loves and have a large enough audience to make a profit from it.


Launching quick tests on Shopify is probably the best strategy to get immediate feed-back on products and their traction with a certain audience




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