New position: Senior Java engineer
June 5th, 2011 | andreas
As of today, we are actively looking for an experienced Java engineer in Santiago to join us for scaling our business. We offer a great international work environment, working with cutting-edge technology, and learning about best practices from Silicon Valley. You can work directly with the customer, and lead our engineering effort. Learn more at www.aimerchant.com/jobs
Meeting the president of Chile
May 7th, 2011 | andreas
This Thursday AI Merchant, as part of Startup Chile, met the President. Over “breakfast”, Startup Chile introduced itself and its teams to the President and the Minister of Economy; Then, in a speech Pinera highlighted the government’s determination and conviction to entrepreneurship in Chile. They’re serious about it. With 110 new startups coming in in the second Startup Chile round, we’re excited to see what happens next in the scene here.
Revenue management in consumer markets
May 1st, 2011 | andreas
Last week there has been quite some attention about a book on Amazon that was priced over $23m by third-party vendors. The reasons for this curiosity are that these two vendors use revenue management software that apparently does not perform any sanity checks when revising their prices based on their competitors. Granted, this incident brought the vendors a lot of Internet traffic, but all for the wrong reasons. How difficult would it have been to implement e.g. email alerts when the price of an item exceeds x% of its cost basis? 10 minutes maybe?
What’s also interesting about this is how market crashes like the recent mortgage bubble move from highly advanced markets like wall streets to less developed and standardized areas like consumer markets. This shows that progress in technology; now that we are able to map products to each other (determine product identity between providers) and can perform the scanning of our competitive land scape automatically, we can move into the tricks that have been reserved for stock market and flight markets… but these tricks need to be well executed; as a progressing society we have had only limited experience in using revenue management in consumer markets… there is still lots to be learned.
Launching www.aimerchant.com
March 16th, 2011 | andreas
Today we’re happy to launch our new web site — which gives much more information and allows you to apply to become a merchant. Jorge, our designer really rocks; he saw the design from the beginning to the end; he gets all credit for the implementation. Let us know what you think!
Twitter & Facebook!
March 11th, 2011 | andreas
We’re now on Twitter, aimerchant, and on Facebook, AIMerchantSoftware; Follow us and friend us now to stay informed of our imminent launch of our new flashy web site, and later our product launch.