{"id":89792,"date":"2018-05-28T15:18:33","date_gmt":"2018-05-28T08:18:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/video-ronaldo-mouchawar-on-souq-amazon-and-what-start-ups-need-to-know\/"},"modified":"2018-05-29T14:03:39","modified_gmt":"2018-05-29T07:03:39","slug":"video-ronaldo-mouchawar-on-souq-amazon-and-what-start-ups-need-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/video-ronaldo-mouchawar-on-souq-amazon-and-what-start-ups-need-to-know\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Ronaldo Mouchawar on Souq, Amazon and what start-ups need to know"},"content":{"rendered":"


\n“We lost 80 percent of our revenue in one night,” says Ronaldo Mouchawar, CEO and founder of e-commerce platform Souq. He’s referring to the moment in 2011 when his company changed its initial auction model to a straight online shopping site. Thankfully, the move has long since proved to be the right one.
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\nSource : arabianbusiness.com
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