Ancou Aya Aunkur Arya, general manager of mobile payment start-up company Braintree Mobile Business, recently wrote about 10 popular E-commerce start-ups in the U.S. market. The main contents of Ancou Aya's article are as follows.
In Braintree, we like to work with companies of all sizes – from small auto developers to large e-commerce companies with a revenue of $ billions of trillion. But what's even more exciting is seeing new e-commerce companies completely changing the way people think about their shopping. However, the current media coverage is still the focus of major e-commerce companies, such as Uber, Airbnb, fab.com, Hailo and Hotel tonight, in fact, in the United States market, more and more entrepreneurial e-commerce companies are emerging from the head of the Cape, can not be ignored.
Here are 10 popular E-commerce startups that I think deserve attention in the coming year.
1, luvocracy from San Francisco
Sites such as Pinterest and Wanelo can help users and brands better promote the impact of unique products. Luvocracy follows this unique pattern, allowing users to buy all the items they see on the site without having to point back to the original merchant. Luvocracy can help consumers deal with all the business, including finding the best price, handling shipping, and providing a return policy within 30th, which in the end provides an end-to-end shopping experience, which, in our view, is likely to push the entire social-business revolution Luvocracy.
2, Zumper from San Francisco
Finding an apartment is a very troublesome and discouraging thing. Zumper has adopted a novel approach to subvert the traditional rental market, zumper mainly to provide the latest rental information, and carefully clean and provide classified information that is important. Although Zumper has been protested by some homeowners, protesting Zumper to disclose their message on the website, there are some housing market information on the zumper website that Craigslist cannot provide. In addition, Zumper also focus on the mobile business as a communication between landlords and tenants of an important channel, which we feel very important.
3, Beergram from Austin, Texas
Imagine that your friend is tired after a day, if you on the way home, through an application to send him a glass of delicious beer, what would that be? And Beergram just can do this step. The Beergram Web site uses a unique approach to helping users deliver gifts and business, such as helping users bring a glass of beer to a real friend.
4, Surf Air from Santa Monica, Calif., Monica
The start-up Surf Air is a newly established member Air Service company that provides short-distance travel between California and hot cities, offering "various flights" to its members at a monthly fee of less than 2000 dollars, rather than charging for different journeys, It plans to focus on providing short service flights to major U.S. business hubs, the company's founder, Wede Orley (Wade eyerly). Surf Air Company has been considered "the future of aviation", allowing users to enjoy ultra-low prices, unlimited flights and 30-second ticket booking and many other experiences. Currently, Surf Air mainly provides flights between San Francisco Bay Area, Barbara and Los Angeles metropolitan area, and the industry expects Surf air to expand its services to more cities.
5, Tonx from Los Angeles
Companies such as Blue Bottle, four-barrel cafes (Loko barrel) and intelligentsia have increased service standards for consumers. At the same time, consumers are now able to get coffee directly from the coffee-growing farmers, while the Tonx allows users to have direct access to the experience in their home kitchens and provide services to users so they can avoid a lot of trouble and teach consumers to easily brew coffee. In short, Tonx purchased coffee beans, and then baked out into the hands of users, users just brew.
6, Silvercar from Austin
In 21st century, car rental agencies have been busy cooperating with each other to better meet the needs of consumers. The airport Car rental company Silvercar focuses on providing a high quality airport car rental experience, mainly through the integration of some technology in the car, and through mobile applications to simplify and improve the entire process, and the company also offers a preferential price, throughout California and Texas, the weekday daily rent of 89 dollars, The rent is 59 dollars per day on weekends.
7, scripted from San Francisco
Do you hate writing? It's hard to find good writers, especially for small businesses that don't have to create content on a regular basis. However, freelance website scripted can help solve these problems, the site can help users write blogs on the phone. Scripted is a major provider of high-quality writing content that can help users subscribe to versatile authoring content from professional writers who know the user's industry, so scripted is also an excellent platform for writers.
8, liquidspace from San Francisco
Pioneering company Loosecubes is committed to communicate with office space to share people and the need for office space, and Airbnb focus on residential short rental is not the same, it focused on the sharing of office space. At the same time, Liquidspace's team has facilitated links between mobile professionals, office owners and business leaders, and has also worked with office space providers such as Marriott and JLL to ensure the availability of office space. We believe that in the next year, Loosecubes will usher in explosive growth opportunities.
9, WillCall from San Francisco
WillCall is a company that lets users enjoy concerts more happily. Through this company, users can make the process of watching concerts more interesting, more mobile and more social. WillCall's apps are already spread across Android and iphone phones, and can provide a lot of information about concerts. WillCall's application can provide users with video, accurate descriptions, and useful information like arrival time. More importantly, through this application, users can also learn which friends have expressed the desire to watch the concert but still do not have tickets to the information, so that users to mobilize the undecided people to make decisions. Buying tickets through WillCall will be very quick and easy, not only when you buy tickets, but also when you arrive at the concert site.
10, boxed from New York
Boxed is the world's first member of the warehouse wholesale store-The United States good City Multiple companies (COSTCO) mobile version. Their creation team has a unique perspective that the bulk price is still cheaper than retail prices, but it is difficult for urban residents to see the bulk of these goods. Boxed can facilitate users to order the required bulk goods via mobile devices, which can be delivered to the user for free within one or two days, and the user does not have to pay the membership fee. Companies such as Diapers.com have proven able to sell and deliver large, heavy goods and profit from them, and boxed will be able to develop this model to a higher level through the storage club shopping style.