Vipshop (domain: vip.com) is a Chinese company that operates the e-commerce website VIP.com (formerly Vipshop.com) specializing in online discount sales. Vipshop is based out of Guangzhou, Guangdong, China, and was listed on New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: VIPS) on March 23rd, 2012. As of 2017, Vipshop had 52.1 million customers. Vip.com is now the third largest e-commerce site in China, following Tmall.com (Alibaba Group) and JD.com, according to Wikipedia.org.
Founded: December 2008
Headquarters: China
Area served: China
Subsidiaries: Vipshop International Holdings Limited, Lefeng.com, more
#Tencent and #JD.com announced on Mon that they will invest an aggregate of $863mln in cash in Chinese online discount retailer #Vipshop, making their holdings to 7% and 5.5% respectively. The price represents 55% premium over closing price of Vipshop's ADSs as of last Friday.
Video above: FT.com’s John-Paul Rathbone looks at the hurdles investors are likely to face as Cuba aims to increase foreign direct investment. FT World published March 21, 2016.
Video above: Why Airbnb Has Been So Successful in Cuba - Other tech startups are also active there. (Published March 24, 2016)
My City: Havana - Video above published March 19, 2016, ahead of the U.S. President’s historic visit to Cuba. FT.com's John Paul Rathbone retraces his mother’s life in Cuba and gauges how the country is changing. He met a new class of entrepreneurs and talked to a journalist about life in a police state.
Should Investors Continue to Invest in Walmart? Walmart Chief Executive Officer Doug McMillon defended his attempt to revamp the retailer after a weak profit forecast sent the shares on their biggest decline in more than 27 years. Bloomberg's Shannon Pettypiece reports on "Bloomberg ‹GO›" October 15, 2015. Disrupted by Amazon: Amazon's (amazon.com; NASDAQ: AMZN) $262.5 billion market cap exceeds Wal-Mart’s $190 billion market cap--Amazon surpassed Wal-Mart in market capitalization in July. Walmart has annual digital sales of about about $13 billion, and is the third-largest Internet retailer, but that is only about one-sixth of Amazon’s total. Also, Walmart’s digital sales growth has slowed. Recent headlines:
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., d.b.a. Walmart is an American multinational retail corporation that operates a chain of discount department stores and warehouse stores. (source: Wikipedia)
Principal domain name: walmart.com
Walmart Investor Relations: (watch the Replay of the Walmart 22nd Annual Meeting for the Investment Community Wed., Oct. 14, 2015) here.
Marc Andreessen: Don't Panic, Be Cautious, Invest in Growth (video above) - After meeting with Defense Secretary Ash Carter to talk cybersecurity, Marc Andreessen, co-founder of Andreessen Horowitz (venture capital firm), discussed market volatility in China and Twitter's search for a new CEO with Bloomberg's Emily Chang at the Moffett Federal Airfield/NSA Ames Research Center on Friday, August 28, 2015. (Bloomberg LP, the parent company of Bloomberg Television, is an investor in Andreessen Horowitz.)
Andreessen Horowitz - domain name: a16z.com
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chart on U.S. Tech Funding -- What's Going On? IPOs not the norm anymore. U.S. Tech Funding -- What's Going On? IPOs not the norm anymore source: a16z.com - Andreessen Horowitz, venture capital firm ...
When it comes to the new gTLDs, a lot of noise and general BS is now going on, now that the reality is upon us. On the other hand, many in the domain business are clarifying their positions, here's one example:
Lets Set The Record Straight; My 5+ Year Journey Through New gTLD’s | TheDomains.com: "... simply put, my involvement in the new gTLD’s is a result of the program, not my desire for the program. My message throughout the 5+ years New gTLD’s has been they have the potential to be a disruptive force to domain name space as we have known it for over 25 years ... if you’re in the domain business you better figure out a way to get involved, because you think it will be widely successful or just as a hedge against the domain assets you hold. Plain and simple..." (not sure if the author of the above is Mike Berkens or Raymond Hackney whose name appears in the byline.)
Regardless of whether it is Mike or Raymond, my response is as follows -- just because ICANN has made a BIG MISTAKE, you don't have to. What are you, one more lemming running off the cliff? A hedge? A hedge against what? The assets you now hold? If dot coms lose value that does not mean gTLDs will gain value. In fact, the biggest, most likely risk is that gTLDs will not only be mostly worthless for domain investors, but will diminish domain investors' current inventory values. To buy gTLDs under that scenario is NOT a hedge, but compounding your losses!
Since the analogy of a market hedge has been used, here's some good investment advice for 2014, also applicable to the domain space:
Huprich: Wisdom Comes in the Smallest of Packages. | The Big Picture: "... Understanding mass psychology is just as important as understanding fundamentals and economics ... Any dead fish can go with the flow. Yet it takes a strong fish to swim against the flow. In other words, what seems “hard” at the time is usually, over time, right. Don’t make investment or trading decisions based on tips. Tips are something you leave for good service..." -- John Poole, Domain Mondo, January 1, 2014
