Does Anyone Have Experience With E-Commerce Focused Industries / Themes?

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searcher Harvard University - Harvard Business School Columbia University - Columbia Business School

DOES ANYONE HAVE EXPERIENCE WITH E-COMMERCE FOCUSED INDUSTRIES / THEMES?

Looking to have a casual conversation on e-commerce focused search businesses. Would appreciate the thoughts of anyone that has seriously looked at e-commerce businesses - warehousing, suppliers, etc. Looking to learn more about the opportunity in the space.  

Thanks!

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searcher Drexel University Villanova University - 03/17/2021

try looking at empire flippers for some background on e-commerce- they're a popular broker for e-commerce, FBA, drop shipping- type businesses.

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searcher Columbia University - Columbia Business School London Business School Northwestern University - 03/17/2021

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^[redacted]‌ has done several great shows on the topic:

^[redacted]‌ - "Building an E-Commerce Portfolio" - https://bit.ly/3lquFpy
Bill D'Alessandro - "Acquiring and Scaling E-Commerce Brands" - https://bit.ly/3qUeVMB
David Johnson - "Building a Jeep Ecommerce Business" -

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searcher Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) - 03/18/2021

If you run out of options on EF, checkout exchangemarketplace.com. This is a marketplace for buying and selling shopify stores (of course all ecom). Reviewing exchange marketplace is much more manual as there is a lot of junk; however, we built a tool to sort through the 15k listings and find potential targets. PM me if interested.

Additionally look at quietmlight, FEI, etc.

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searcher Cleveland State University - 03/18/2021

@adriana happy to connect. Ping me via email [redacted] - before we chat check out our recent posts on the writing section of our site. It will get you up to speed quickly on our view of acquiring eCommerce brands.

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searcher University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - 03/18/2021

I have been looking at e-commerce business for the past 2 months. Mainly focusing on the $1M-$2M price range. I have found Quiet light Brokerage and FE International to provide good information on their business for sale. Empire Flippers, Website Closers have been other brokerage firms I have tracked for deal sourcing. Centurica is a place that aggregates business for sale from various brokerage firms.

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searcher Columbia University - Columbia Business School University of California, Berkeley - 03/18/2021

Good article in the NY Times about the PE companies doing Amazon FBA roll ups: https://www.nytimes.com[redacted]style/amazon-brand-flippers.html

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admin Massachusetts Institute of Technology - MIT Sloan School of Management Taylor University Stanford University - Graduate School of Business - 03/26/2021

^[redacted]‌ - Tagging a few Searchfunders that have commented on E-Commerce in the past that might be willing to help you get started.

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intermediary University of Western Australia Curtin University of Technology - 03/26/2021

The mos up-to-date list on acquirers of Amazon FBA businesses is here: https://www.hahnbeck.com/fba-acquirers. From a searcher's perspective the e-commerce market is quite daunting at the moment: very much a seller's market. You can make very good investments in this space, but if your model is reliant on buying at a low multiple, better focus on a different industry

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searcher University of California, San Diego - 03/26/2021

Thx ^[redacted]‌. ^[redacted]‌ - have been evaluating various e-commerce businesses in both marketplaces and standalone DTC. Can share more if you’re evaluating outside of marketplace businesses as well. Pls DM.

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searcher - 03/26/2021

Hi ^[redacted]‌ I have experience in ecomm and happy to chat. Shoot me a note at [redacted]

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searcher University of Strathclyde - Strathclyde Business School - 03/26/2021

Hi Adriana Garcia Ceja‌. i have several ecom businesses. happy to help or chat if you like.

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searcher Brigham Young University - 03/26/2021

Hey Adriana, I've been in eComm for 8+ years, acquired multiple brands and sold 2 eComm businesses. Happy to help.

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searcher University of Wisconsin-Madison - Wisconsin School of Business Peking University - 03/26/2021

Hi guys, I looked at a few deals and can offer what I learned in this space. Want to plan to Zoom session?

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investor University of Wollongong University of Newcastle University of Technology Sydney - 07/15/2021

if anyone has an ecommerce businesses and wants to sell it, and it has revenue $3m+ then please get in touch, i wold be interested in acquiring it.

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