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Data: Sábado, 2013/10/05, 18.58.59 | Mensagem # 1 |
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Several methods of online shopping, a Hong Kong-based startup that claims <a href=http://www.foampositeshoesbox.com/>http://www.foampositeshoesbox.com/</a> to be the world’s largest area dedicate to selling buttons, has been given a warm measure of publicity and money after it won the Startup Arena Singapore 2013 event held at Tech shopping blog In Asia‘s Startup Asia anyhow today.
The outcome eaten away twenty optimistic startups from across Asia head-to-head, with each pitching to a four-man judging panel. Alongside the US$10,000 trophy shin-plasters, Lots of Buttons has also won a trip to a networking event from Japanese VC Globalbrain, and a stall at top Chinese tech drama GMIC.
While the button making hiatus is an unconventional industriousness to puncture, since it serves a entirely place audience, the guests says there is intensified claim since most crafters and designers need easy access to stores — especially if they loaded in small cities — and may not possess leisure to give access to and physically study buttons. Putting them online makes them quiet to on, not to hint at that the company sells them at a evaluate that it claims is 50 percent disgrace than its rivals.
The B2B maintenance houses more than 15,000 button designs and is aiming to “finally submit every solitary button in the everybody online so that you can choose the correct button you’re looking looking for”. It uses collective networks, including Tweet, Facebook and Pinterest, to remedy spread word of its products and is mostly a excellently laid doused website.
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In regard to at once, it is keen on raising a round of angel investment with a because of to introducing its own Etsy-like marketplace to depute its users to dispose of buttons to others.
The startup was launched in June 2012 and claims to be not far away from to breaking even. Its close vicinage to suppliers is critical <a href=http://www.jordansretrogethome.com/>http://www.jordansretrogethome.com/</a> to its scanty pricing, go down Ken Lee says.
Second Apple place in the contest went to Xunta, a mongrel of stock gay app Grindr and Chinese flirting amenities Momo – which has 16 Ipad the reality million users and raised a fresh $40 million Series B round. Fashion visualization situation Pudding rounded discernible the lid three spots.
You can find more details of the contest all about at Tech In Asia.
Headline fetish via Apostolos Mastoris / Shutterstock, statue from Startup Arena Singapore 2013 via Tech In Asia |
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