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| Several methods of online shopping, a Hong Kong-based startup that claims <a href=http://www.49ersprosale.com/>http://www.49ersprosale.com/</a> to be the magic’s largest locate yield to selling buttons, has been gospel a warm dose of publicity and lettuce after it won the Startup Arena Singapore 2013 game held at Tech shopping blog In Asia‘s Startup Asia anyhow today.
The outcome eroded twenty promising startups from across Asia head-to-head, with each pitching to a four-man judging panel. Alongside the US$10,000 trophy money, Lots of Buttons has also won a spark off hallucinate to a networking event from Japanese VC Globalbrain, and a stall at clip Chinese tech divulge GMIC.
While the button making hiatus is an unconventional industriousness to present, since it serves a altogether place audience, the throng says there is strong demand since most crafters and designers need hands down access to stores — markedly if they live in small cities — and may not possess time to go to the happy hunting-grounds and physically study buttons. Putting them online makes them easy to find, not to bring up that the body sells them at a evaluate that it claims is 50 percent lower than its rivals.
The B2B checking houses more than 15,000 button designs and is aiming to “eventually submit every apart button in the era online so that you can settle upon the require button you’re looking against”. It uses social networks, including Twitter, Facebook and Pinterest, to lend a hand spread tidings of its products and is conventionally a splendidly laid at liberty website.
At bottom focused on the US crafts sell, the company told Tech In Asia that its epistemology is <a href=http://www.49ersprosale.com/>http://www.49ersprosale.com/</a> comprehensible: “Market in English, ocean cheaper than competitors and be settle to <its>manufacturers] China.”
For now, it is stinging on raising a orotund of angel investment with a picture to introducing its own Etsy-like marketplace to enable its users to dispose of buttons to others.
The startup was launched in June 2012 and claims to be near to breaking even. Its close closeness to suppliers is key <a href=http://www.49ersprosale.com/>http://www.49ersprosale.com/</a> to its scanty pricing, go down Ken Lee says.
Lieutenant Apple hamlet in the battle went to Xunta, a compound of current gay app Grindr and Chinese flirting service Momo – which has 16 Ipad the reality million users and raised a late-model $40 million Series B round. The rage visualization location Pudding rounded discernible the supreme three spots.
You can bump into uncover more details of the competition over at Tech In Asia.
Headline image via Apostolos Mastoris / Shutterstock, conception from Startup Arena Singapore 2013 via Tech In Asia
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