With rising competition to acquire and retain customers online, digitally native start-ups are determining how to strike a balance between developing their own e-commerce features in-house and partnering with external software providers.
Key Insights
- Some brands generating more than $100 million are reducing their reliance on software services for basic online selling tools.
- Armed with more resources, these start-ups are building internal tech teams to develop and manage at leastsome of their e-commerce operations in-house.
- But instead of completely abandoning software fi rms like Shopify, brands are developing less expensivefeatures like website design on their own and outsourcing complicated tools like checkout and logistics
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