Whatever the fate of individual firms and sales models, e-commerce is bound to become more social, predicts Sonali DE Rycker of Accel Partners, a venture-capital firm.

来自创业投资公司Accel Partners的Sonali de Rycker预测到，无论私人公司和销售模式的命运如何，电子商务一定会更加趋于社交化的。

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Katherine Barr is a Partner at Mohr Davidow Ventures, a venture capital firm investing in digital media, mobile and e-commerce startups.

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To solve this problem, Voice Genesis' Chief Executive Mark Marriott started his company in October 2001 and seeded his startup with capital from the sale of his previous venture--a software e-commerce company called Brave New World that was sold to VA Linux Systems in 1997.

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