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Several methods of online shopping, a Hong Kong-based startup that claims http://www.jordansretrogethome.com/ to be the fraternity’s largest area give up to selling buttons, has been given a warm measure of publicity and money after it won the Startup Arena Singapore 2013 game held at Tech shopping blog In Asia‘s Startup Asia anyhow today.

 

The event pitted twenty optimistic startups from across Asia head-to-head, with each pitching to a four-man judging panel. Alongside the US$10,000 booty scratch, Lots of Buttons has also won a lapse to a networking event from Japanese VC Globalbrain, and a booth at apex Chinese tech divulge GMIC.

 

While the button making interruption is an unconventional activity to enter, since it serves a altogether place audience, the throng says there is strong claim since most crafters and designers need compliant access to stores — peculiarly if they red-hot in small cities — and may not beget time to give access to and physically read buttons. Putting them online makes them easy to reveal, not to imply that the actors sells them at a price that it claims is 50 percent lower than its rivals.

 

The B2B maintenance houses more than 15,000 button designs and is aiming to “finally put every single button in the era online so that you can choose the faultless button you’re looking against”. It uses sexually transmitted networks, including Titter, Facebook and Pinterest, to resist spread word of its products and is mostly a excellently laid discernible website.

 

First of all focused on the US crafts stock exchange, the circle told Tech In Asia that its values is http://www.foampositeshoesbox.com/ simple: “Market in English, embark cheaper than competitors and be settle to [its manufacturers] China.”

 

In return at once, it is enthusiastic on raising a orotund of angel investment with a angle to introducing its own Etsy-like marketplace to agree to its users to sell buttons to others.

 

The startup was launched in June 2012 and claims to be near to breaking even. Its precise vicinage to suppliers is pitch http://www.foampositeshoesbox.com/ to its plebeian pricing, founder Ken Lee says.

 

Faulty Apple arise in the contest went to Xunta, a mongrel of stock gay app Grindr and Chinese flirting amenities Momo – which has 16 Ipad in the event that million users and raised a late-model $40 million Series B round. Fashion visualization location Pudding rounded in the supreme three spots.

 

You can notice more details of the tournament over and above at Tech In Asia.

 

Headline image via Apostolos Mastoris / Shutterstock, statue from Startup Arena Singapore 2013 via Tech In Asia