All the Western companies you’d have to combine to get something like Alibaba
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#2So who's buying the IPO? Seems much better investment than SV companies with little or no profit.
I wonder how it will affect YHOO -- Probably worth buying Jan 2015 $40 calls since Yahoo owns 24% stake, maybe even short AMZN on day of IPO.
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#3Ok now do Craigslist.
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#4Amazing how big of a company they are. This list is missing http://www.1688.com/ and http://www.alibaba.com/ which are B2B wholesaling.
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#5I love this article. Despite the multitudes of news sources telling us about how commerce is now global and business is no longer tied to a place and the internet is changing the world, there is still an ocean of enterprises of which we US-based-or-english-speaking technologists are ignorant.
Take a moment to think about this: Alibaba is a huge company, growing in an absolutely enormous market, providing a pile of services, and most American technologists know nothing about it. Expand this thinking to countries: there are markets that are only just beginning to enjoy the degree of technological luxury the US and Europe enjoys. Who will serve them? These are people just like us, they have needs and desires much like ours. Who will satisfy them?
If you're an entrepreneur, there are millions if not billions of people who are on the cusp of becoming your target market, and the dominant technological discourse and journalistic coverage gives you no insight into the market they occupy. Not the languages they speak, not the companies who would be your competitors, not the cultural differences that would make selling difficult. Nothing.
I hope this article opens peoples' eyes to the fact that the US-based-or-english-speaking countries are soon going to be a relatively small portion of the world. We need news sources like this to practice the globalization sermon they all preach.
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#6I love this article. Despite the multitudes of news sources telling us about how commerce is now global and business is no longer tied to a place and the internet is changing the world, there is still an ocean of enterprises of which we US-based-or-english-speaking technologists are ignorant. Take a moment to think about this: Alibaba is a huge company, growing in an absolutely enormous market, providing a pile of se…
Yes, most Silicon Valley start-ups still seem very Silicon Valley/United States/Apple centric. That has worked well for them in the past, but now the opportunities are a lot bigger than just that market or target type of devices.
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#7Yandex, on a smaller scale, can get you a similar list of its services.
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#8While the article was interesting, as I didn't know much about Alibaba to begin with, the site could use some design work. I didn't realize I was onto the next article with some type of ad in-between. Nothing was making sense till I got to the kidnapped girls of Nigeria article and realized what was happening.
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#9For some reason this article seems flawed, am I crazy or does Google already do most of this stuff?
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#10online payments ---- google wallet
cloud services ---- google cloud platform
mobile apps ---- google play
mobile OS ---- android
maps and nav ---- google maps
physical retail ---- ? no google product
shopping deals ---- google offers
cloud storage ---- google drive
instant messaging ---- google hangouts
car service ---- uber (via google ventures)
c2c ecommerce ---- ? no google product
travel booking ---- google flights
b2c ecommerce ---- ? no google product
e-learning ---- ? no google product
social media ---- google+
music streaming ---- google play music (all access)
video streaming ---- youtube / google play movies
money market ---- ? no google product
all the western companies you'd have to combine to cover alibaba's markets would seem to me to be google, and maybe one or two others. i included uber because i know about that one, you could probably fill in a few more gaps with other google ventures companies.