"There are so many small businesses in Asia that are professional in dealing with buyers but can't afford the software necessary to link up with the networks of large buyers overseas, " says Douwe Cramer, president of Global Sources' e-commerce division.

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You must tear down and re-create your company--or at least your e-commerce division--to ride what the Internet surf has brought in: oceans of risk capital, highly mobile talent pools, tiny markets that could scale and explode, marginless growth, big hairy bets on the future.

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Wilson, co-founder of Gilt Groupe, currently leads the Gilt City division of the brand, which was once only an e-commerce website selling exclusively women coveted fashions by invitation, and is made up of 4 other founders: Alexis Maybank, Kevin Ryan, Mike Bryzek and Phong Nguyen.

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BT, first in its mobile-telecoms division, then as a pioneer of the group's business-to-business e-commerce efforts.

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