If you are looking to enter the world of ecommerce, you might want to consider heading in the food direction. Don't let the food industry scare you. While opening up and running a successful restaurant or food store has its barriers, that doesn't exactly mean the same for an ecommerce food start up. Food trends indicate extreme potential for this fast growing industry. Between online grocery shopping, delivery services and specialty food stores, the number of customers continue to escalate.
Both mobile and online food and grocery startups have taken off around the globe. According to research by
CB Insights ecommerce food startup space saw a five-year quarterly high of $688M in Q3'14 go towards food startup funding. This was exactly one year ago, imagine the statistics we will see by the end of 2015! Question is, what has caused these numbers to soar?
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