The development course of e-commerce ten years

The collapse of Lehman Brothers spread the global recession and the financial system in Europe and the US collapsed, and many experts said it was the worst recession in decades and could last for 3-5 years. So will the recession make E-commerce a fish?

Alibaba Chairman Ma Yun has a famous saying "The internet is like a glass of beer, when the best to drink foam," The bubble also contains a huge opportunity, China's E-commerce was in the 1998 financial crisis during the initiation. China Manufacturing network, 8848, Alibaba, such as a large number of E-commerce enterprises have been born, from imitation to groping, from groping to innovation, last year, Alibaba listed as a milestone, by 2008, we saw all kinds of e-commerce in China has made great success.

Recently, the largest professional shop software Shopex incorporated its largest competitive product ecshop, a key expansion, the global economic downturn has not blocked the pace of China's E-commerce enterprises. And Alibaba also announced a huge investment in Taobao, continue to nurture the market, Baidu also launched E-commerce Consumer-to-consumer business. Shopex acquisition mergers and Taobao financing expansion, let us see China's e-commerce money Unlimited, rich people earn, who have earned.

Past: 8848 slipping from the peak

November 2, 1997, four-way website BBS on a signed "old Banyan" hot post "Dalian Jinzhou do not believe in tears", so that Wang Juntao overnight fame, of course, few people know Wang Juntao is "old Banyan." 1999, Wang Juntao participated in the founding of China's first E-commerce service website--8848.net, this highly named site of Everest has been China's e-commerce history of a banner, but also a painful past.

According to the memoirs of the Old Banyan, at first 8,848 was a business department of Lian Bang, and by August 1999, it was registered to set up "Everest Electronic Commerce Network Service Co., Ltd.". The total number of Chinese netizens in 1999 was less than 2 million, with no online payment of bank cards, let alone payment tools like Alipay. August 2000 8848 received the CSRC's approval, but unfortunately encountered the cold wave of the Internet, starting from April 2000 Nasdaq network shares all the way down. 8848 The board was divided over the price of the IPO, leaving 8848 to miss the 6-month operating deadline set by Nasdaq. Finally, 8848 became history in hesitation.

Ten years to grind a sword: The past ten years is to cultivate the market 10 years

The author used a lot of space to recall 8848, because this is our e-commerce early enterprise struggle miniature and representative, there are many enterprises have been sacrificed, but "the revolution has not been successful, comrades still need to work hard", in line with China's national conditions of the body of the comrades walked out. Today, such as Alibaba, when, excellence and other well-known E-commerce enterprises have experienced a long growth process, e-commerce to develop, the first business to developed, so in business developed today the great value of E-commerce is recognized by the general public.

The past ten years is a lonely decade, most e-commerce enterprises or in the supply of venture capital to explore and wait, including foreign Amazon is also after eight years of market cultivation to achieve profitability, and China's important turnaround in E-commerce from a company in Hangzhou. The name of this company must be very familiar with, it is Alibaba, Jack Ma created Taobao with free mode to defeat the ebay network, and let E-commerce into the ordinary people's home, Ma Yun's another company Alipay let Chinese ordinary netizens understand the online payment. Ten years later in 2008, China's E-commerce has become the most concentrated area of entrepreneurs, E-commerce has really entered the people's daily life in various fields, belonging to the era of electronic commerce came.

The market is huge, how to divide the soup: go left, go right?

In the United States, this year's e-commerce transactions amounted to 100 billion U.S. dollars, accounting for 6% of the total retail trade, in South Korea, this year's sales reached 20 billion U.S. dollars, accounting for the total retail sales of 12%, but in China, accounting for only 0.6% of the retail trade. China's E-commerce market space is so large, e-commerce enterprises how to share the market?

Ali announced the investment 5 billion to Taobao to create a big Taobao strategy, but also at the beginning of business shopping mall, Baidu also launched E-commerce, said Consumer-to-consumer is actually for the company. Other E-commerce business opportunities where, how to dance with elephants? Famous Marketing master Al Riss (Al Ries) said "opportunities often in the opposite direction", Shanghai Business School can be said to Taobao, ebay, the opposite direction, they do not do the public online Wal-Mart but specifically to do open shop software SHOPEX, recently also incorporated a similar product ecshop, Taobao to do Wal-Mart, they help businesses open stores.

Ten years is a long span, a few words can not be described in detail, but enough to see the bright future of China's e-commerce, whether it is Taobao's online Wal-Mart strategy, or Shanghai merchants Online Store mode, there is enough soil to grow, because the market is too big, no one's stomach can be loaded under. Whether to go to the left, or to the right to go, with sincerity and integrity, Prudential spirit.