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  • The Smart Way to Start an Internet Company
  • Now We're All B-to-Bs
  • Consumer Sites Sing a New Song: B2B
  • Honeymoon Over for E-Commerce Pure-Plays
  • Consolidation, Changes seen in E-Tailing
  • On-line Toy Market Continues Rise
  • Much at Stake for Internet Retailers
  • Can E-Commerce Police Itself?
  • Web Merchants Go Multimedia
  • The Bots that Bind: Digital Age Contract Law
  • Study: Sports a $3B On-line Biz
  • One-in-four Suffer E-Shopping Failures
  • On-line Toy Sales Up Nearly 1,000 Percent
  • E-tailers Must Offer More Than Low Prices
  • Software Firms Gear up to run the E-Commerce Race
  • E-Commerce Firms step back from Early Strategies
  • Consumers Showing Interest in On-line Health and Beauty Sector
  • Credit Card Fraud Crippling On-line Merchants
  • Official E-Commerce Count Released


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The Smart Way to Start an Internet Company
So you have a BrilliantIdea.com. Now what? Business 2.0 consults some of the leading minds of Internet business to glean the insights they gained taking their businesses from scribbled-on cocktail napkins to thriving Net companies. Now they divulge the advice they wish they'd had.


Now We're All B-to-Bs
Missing out on the great dot-com run-up? No problem: Just declare yourself a business-to-business play and watch investors line up


Consumer Sites Sing a New Song: B2B
Internet companies from eBay to Buy.com that made their names as consumer-oriented Web sites are changing their tune -- now they are all about business.


Honeymoon Over for E-Commerce Pure-Plays
A growing number of investors have come to believe that pure-play e-commerce companies are burning their cash at an incredibly rapid rate and that these firms will be forced to dilute their outstanding shares with expensive rounds of new financing -- or worse.


Consolidation, Changes Seen in E-Tailing
Floating in red ink, cyberspace retailers may find that marketing dollars used to lure customers to their websites are drying up, leaving a merger with competitors as one survival option.


On-line Toy Market Continues Rise
On-line toy sales catapulted from $45 million in 1998 to $425 million in 1999, according to a report by The NPD Group, Inc. and Media Metrix, which predicts $1.6 billion in on-line toy sales by 2002.


Much at Stake for Internet Retailers
While Internet users are rapidly becoming on-line shoppers, purchase failures, security fears, and service frustrations are rampant, according to a study by The Boston Consulting Group.


Can E-Commerce Police Itself?
Based on the e-commerce industry's youth, disunity and big egos, I doubt that effective self-regulation will happen any time soon. Sad to say, the government will probably be forced to step in and do the job.


Web Merchants Go Multimedia
Many Web merchants are devoting an increasing amount of time and money to implementing audio and video features on their sites. But they are wary of overloading shoppers.


The Bots that Bind: Digital Age Contract Law
In the near future, your shopping bot will be able to enter into legally binding contracts and buy digital products on your behalf.


Study: Sports a $3B On-line Biz
Within three years wired sports fans will create a billion dollar business for sports-related goods and services, Jupiter predicts.


One-in-four Suffer E-Shopping Failures
Some consumers who suffer e-commerce snafus boycott e-tailers' offline ventures as well, report finds.


On-line Toy Sales Up Nearly 1,000 Percent
On-line toy sales shot up faster than an 11-year-old kid last year, rising nearly tenfold to $425 million in 1999, from $45 million the year before, while overall toy sales grew by just 8.6 percent, a survey shows.


E-tailers Must Offer More Than Low Prices
If a new survey is to be believed, low prices can attract new on-line retail customers, but price is no guarantee that customers will keep on coming back.


Software Firms Gear up to run the E-Commerce Race
Companies such as J.D. Edwards, Oracle, SAP and PeopleSoft have found themselves behind in a race to win in the business-to-business e-commerce market -- a market that is expected to surpass the trillion-dollar mark by 2003.


E-Commerce Firms Step Back from Early Strategies
Last week, eToys sharply scaled back its affiliates program, eliminating commissions on sales and paying business partners only one time for a customer referral.


Consumers Showing Interest in On-line Health and Beauty Sector
On-line beauty product sales accounted for approximately 1 percent of the $25 billion-plus total US beauty market in 1999, but could gain significant market share in the near term, according to a report by The NPD Group and Media Metrix.


Credit Card Fraud Crippling On-line Merchants
While credit card companies have consistently maintained that credit card fraud is no more prevalent on-line than in traditional forms of commerce, a number of experts are disputing the notion.


Official E-Commerce Count Released
The Commerce Department reported Thursday that on-line retail sales totaled $5.3 billion in the fourth quarter of 1999, in the government's first official measure of Internet commerce.

 

 


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