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3 market trends + 3 startup opportunities:
Existing B2C e-commerce giants like Amazon, eBay, and BestBuy are going after the horizontal approach — by offering products that span across multiple categories and covering a wide scope of audiences.
New B2C online marketplaces are created to cater to specific types of communities, creating unique buyers/sellers experiences and focus on a particular segment or vertical to grow. For example,
As online businesses continue to rise, more vertical-specific marketplaces will emerge to help small business owners to make money from home.
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The on-demand economy has unlocked “luxury services” to ordinary people. What used to be “only the rich could afford” are now accessible for everyday people through an app — anytime, anywhere: