February 22, 2005

MarketWatch's Bambi Francisco Interviews Become.com CEO Michael Yang

Become.com became less mysterious after this six-minute interview, but no less impressive. You can find a summary and a link to the video clip in the February 23rd edition of Net Stocks.

Highlight: Become.com also plans to add a comparison shopping service.

Implications for the consumer...

vs. comparison shopping engines, Become.com could try to cover more stages of the buying cycle, especially the under-served early stages.

vs. Yahoo/Yahoo Shopping and Froogle/Google, Become.com could try to offer more compelling integration of the earlier and later stages.

Implications for their business...

* They can pick the low-hanging arbitrage fruit like everyone else for a base of revenue.

* They could also exploit the weakness of other shopping comparison partner programs.

* Plus, they still have plenty of upside potential for the organic, repeat (free) visitors.

Net Stocks has additional details related to funding.

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Posted by Sean O'Rourke on February 22, 2005 at 10:57 PM
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