{"id":2296,"date":"2017-03-30T22:44:56","date_gmt":"2017-03-31T02:44:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/?p=2296"},"modified":"2017-03-30T22:44:56","modified_gmt":"2017-03-31T02:44:56","slug":"small-business-people-vs-260-billion-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/2017\/03\/30\/small-business-people-vs-260-billion-company\/","title":{"rendered":"Small Business-People vs. $260 Billion Company"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/03\/18\/business\/alibaba-fake-merchandise-e-commerce.html?_r=0\">This is an interesting article<\/a>\u00a0about Alibaba, one of the world&#8217;s largest e-commerce websites, with a primary focus on exporting goods from China. The article is written from the perspective of a small business owner in the United States, one who makes antique tables. His tables, which cost approximately $5,000, were knocked off on Alibaba for $24. (See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/03\/18\/business\/alibaba-fake-merchandise-e-commerce.html?_r=0\">article<\/a>). The article outlines Alibaba&#8217;s claims that it proactively fights counterfeit goods, along with the small business owner&#8217;s fight against the company, armed with only &#8220;his iMac, $74-a-month image-searching software, his phone and a lot of time \u2014 sometimes, he says, 12 hours a day.&#8221;\u00a0<em>Id.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This article is relevant to the class for a few reasons. It shows what kind of competition a small business owner and\/or entrepreneur could be faced with in our increasingly connected world. It also allows for some insight into the importance of IP, especially with how much easier it is to manufacture something quickly than it was in the past. Overall, I found this to be an informative read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is an interesting article\u00a0about Alibaba, one of the world&#8217;s largest e-commerce websites, with a primary focus on exporting goods from China. The article is written from the perspective of a small business owner in the United States, one who &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/2017\/03\/30\/small-business-people-vs-260-billion-company\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2338,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2338"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2296"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2297,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2296\/revisions\/2297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}