The Periodic Table Of E-Commerce Startups

The diversity of the e-commerce space meant we broke down our table into several subcategories:

• Apparel & accessories: This category consists of companies that sell clothing and related style accessories, including Warby Parker and VANCL.
• Marketplaces: These are Amazon-type e-commerce sites that offer a wide range of products, including companies such as Flipkart and Coupang.
• Food and grocery: This category encompasses companies that specialize in on-demand restaurant food, prepared meals, and grocery delivery, including players such asDoorDash and FoodPanda.
• Beauty and hygiene: These companies cater to cosmetics and grooming needs, and include startups like the Dollar Shave Club and BirchBox.
• Used cars: This increasingly large category includes companies like UK-based Carwowand India’s Cartrade.
• Auctions & classifieds: This category includes startups Avito and Quikr.
• Home and furniture: Companies such as One Kings Lane and Houzz cater to home improvement and decoration needs.
• B2B commerce: These startups focus primarily on the business-to-business market. They include companies like IronPlanet, which is an online auction site for used farm and construction equipment.
• Electronics and toys: Startups in this category include including electronics trade-in service Gazelle and Kiwi Crate, which ships educational “hands-on” project kits for kids.

Note: For this post’s analysis, we focused solely on companies selling physical goods. We excluded e-commerce startups focused on services or digital goods (e.g., video, apps, and music).

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Every number a Vietnamese tech founder should know (INFOGRAPHIC)

From what we understand, Vietnamese entrepreneurs need a lot of help understanding their potential markets before talking to investors and assessing their user-bases. To shed some light, we’ve teamed up with BTIC to make an infographic showing where Vietnam’s potential lies for web and tech startups. Vietnam-based BTIC will launch an accelerator program in the summer and is an investor in local startups. It is also closely tied to Nam Do, who co-founded SeeSpace and Emotiv, hardware startups now based in Silicon Valley. For the infographic, we grabbed data from ComScore, WeAreSocial.sg, Vietnam’s White Book, and GroupM (all of which can be found on our data series tag) and assembled it together into a useful overview for Vietnamese tech founders. Some of the infographic’s highlights include: Vietnam has 36,140,967 internet users – that makes it larger than Thailand. More than 20 million Facebook users. 71 percent of the population is unbanked – which is a challenge for e-commerce businesses. Size of Vietnam’s B2C e-commerce market in 2010: $450 million in revenue In 2013, the average daily time Vietnamese people spent on TV versus the internet was very close, and so it’s safe to say the internet will surpass TV in 2014.

For more fun graphics like this one, check out previous entries in our infographic series. (Editing by Steven Millward)

Read more: Every number a Vietnamese tech founder should know (INFOGRAPHIC) http://www.techinasia.com/vietnam-tech-founder-infographic/

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