1Mby1M Incubation Radar 2012: GloMantra, Sunnyvale, California and Bangalore, India

I made a prediction about 2012 being the year when personalization technologies start to find their stride. GloMantra, Inc. is a company that specializes in personalization technology and social commerce solutions for e-commerce and online media companies. GloMantra understands the intent of consumers and the context of their need, and uses them to provide personalized

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Outsourcing: Fabio Rosati, CEO of Elance (Part 1)

Followers of this blog may recall that Elance was featured on Deal Radar in 2008. Founded in 1999, the Mountain View, California–based company continues to give outsourcing competitors like oDesk and Freelancer.com a run for their money. Sramana Mitra: Hi, Fabio. Would you give me some background about you and also about Elance. I know

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Outsourcing: Matt Barrie, CEO of Freelancer.com (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: What is your business model? Do you charge a percentage? Matt Barrie: We take a commission from the employer. We take 3% of the payments made or $3, whichever is higher. From the worker, we take 10% or $5, whichever is higher. But we do have a membership subscription package where if you

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Jason Stoffer, Principal at Maveron (Part 4)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: Are there any other character traits besides leadership that you think are important for entrepreneurs? Jason: I don’t know how to put it, but a nose for making money. I guess what I love is a quantitative orientation with brand sensibility on top of it. It’s

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Will Amazon Or Apple Buy Netflix?

According to MasterCard Advisors’ SpendingPulse, online spending grew 18% over the year in March, outpacing the growth rate of traditional brick-and-mortar stores. Online retailers Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) and eBay (NASDAQ:EBAY) also saw significant growth in their revenues. Amazon’s stock touched a record high, and recent quarter results surpassed market expectations, recording double-digit revenue and earnings growth. But the company

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eCommerce Growth Continues In Latin America

MercadoLibre (NASDAQ:MELI), Latin America’s eCommerce leader, continues on its growth path despite the poor global economy. Recently announced Q1 revenues of $32.3 million were 12% higher than the previous year’s revenue. The company missed the Street’s expectations of $32.9 million. However, EPS of $0.12 exceeded the market’s expectations of $0.10 and represented growth of 140% over

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Fifteen Years Of eCommerce

Almost 15 years after the advent of the Internet browser in the mainstream market, it is interesting to see how the major eCommerce companies have progressed. Each pioneers in their original niches, are today starting to step on others toes. Amazon’s logical progression will inevitably lead them into Netflix’ territory. They are already squarely in

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Deal Radar 2008: Wigix

eBay’s vulnerability, it seems, is drawing attention. In this installment of the Deal Radar, we look at a company that is trying to hit eBay where it hurts!