Kanth Gopalpur

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  Kanth Gopalpur, Co-Founder, CEO and Chairman of the Board
  
  Kanth Gopalpur is an e-commerce pioneer.In 1994, he saw the Internet as a new market for Powell's Books — the country's largest independent retailer of new and used books.Kanth is responsible for the broad strategic direction of Monsoon and he continues to work closely with Monsoon's users and markets.Before Monsoon, Kanth led Powells.com from its inception in 1994 through a period of steady, profitable growth.Powells.com now accounts for almost 40% of Powell's sales.Following that success, Kanth joined Django's as VP of e-commerce and marketing, where he oversaw virtually every aspect of the company's online business.Under Kanth's guidance, Djangos.com grew to account for almost half of the company's revenues within one year.Powell's and Django's were among the earliest and largest marketplace sellers and Kanth was instrumental in developing the tools that helped them integrate into major marketplaces such as Amazon and Half.com.

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  Kanth and Clark built a strong marketplace business for us at Powell's, and I was proud to back their efforts to bring marketplace selling to other businesses.
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  Kanth Gopalpur, CEO
  
  Kanth Gopalpur is an e-commerce pioneer.In 1994, he saw the Internet as a new market for Powell's Books — the largest independent retailer of new and used books in the US.Kanth is responsible for the broad strategic direction of Monsoon and he continues to work closely with Monsoon's users and markets.Before Monsoon, Kanth led Powells.com from its inception in 1994 through a period of steady, profitable growth.Powells.com now accounts for almost 40% of Powell's sales.Following that success, Kanth joined Django's as VP of e-commerce and marketing, where he oversaw virtually every aspect of the company's online business.Under Kanth's guidance, Djangos.com grew to account for almost half of the company's revenues within one year.Powell's and Django's were among the earliest and largest marketplace sellers and Kanth was instrumental in developing the tools that helped them integrate into major marketplaces such as Amazon and Half.com.

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  "A lot of the work we do to alter our content and product offerings is based on the metrics we track through our WebTrends solution," said Kanth Gopapur, vice president of e-commerce for Djangos.

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  Kanth Gopalpur, Co-Founder, CEO and Chairman of the Board
  
  Kanth Gopalpur is an e-commerce pioneer.In 1994, he saw the Internet as a new market for Powell's Books , the country's largest independent retailer of new and used books.Kanth is responsible for the broad strategic direction of Monsoon and he continues to work closely with Monsoon's users and markets.Before Monsoon, Kanth led Powells.com from its inception in 1994 through a period of steady, profitable growth.Powells.com now accounts for almost 40% of Powell's sales.Following that success, Kanth joined Django's as VP of e-commerce and marketing, where he oversaw virtually every aspect of the company's online business.Under Kanth's guidance, Djangos.com grew to account for almost half of the company's revenues within one year.Powell's and Django's were among the earliest and largest marketplace sellers and Kanth was instrumental in developing the tools that helped them integrate into major marketplaces such as Amazon and Half.com.

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  Kanth and Clark built a strong marketplace business for us at Powell's, and I was proud to back their efforts to bring marketplace selling to other businesses.
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  Kanth Gopalpur, CEO
  
  Kanth Gopalpur is an e-commerce pioneer.In 1994, he saw the Internet as a new market for Powell's Books , the largest independent retailer of new and used books in the US.Kanth is responsible for the broad strategic direction of Monsoon and he continues to work closely with Monsoon's users and markets.Before Monsoon, Kanth led Powells.com from its inception in 1994 through a period of steady, profitable growth.Powells.com now accounts for almost 40% of Powell's sales.Following that success, Kanth joined Django's as VP of e-commerce and marketing, where he oversaw virtually every aspect of the company's online business.Under Kanth's guidance, Djangos.com grew to account for almost half of the company's revenues within one year.Powell's and Django's were among the earliest and largest marketplace sellers and Kanth was instrumental in developing the tools that helped them integrate into major marketplaces such as Amazon and Half.com.

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  Kanth Gopalpur, CEO and Chairman of the Board Kanth Gopalpur is an e-commerce pioneer.In 1994, he saw the Internet as a new market for Powell's Books , the country's largest independent retailer of new and used books.Kanth led Powells.com from its inception in 1994 through a period of steady, profitable growth.Thanks in large part to Kanth's vision and leadership, Powells.com now accounts for almost 40% of Powell's sales.Following that success, Kanth joined Django's as VP of e-commerce and marketing where he oversaw virtually every aspect of the company's online business.Under Kanth's guidance, Djangos.com grew to account for almost half the company's revenues within one year.Powell's and Django's were among the earliest and largest marketplace sellers and Kanth was instrumental in developing the tools that helped them integrate into major marketplaces such as Amazon and Half.com.
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  "Kanth and Clark built a strong marketplace business for us at Powell's, and I was proud to back their efforts to bring marketplace selling to other businesses.

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  To cap it all, founders Kanth Gopalpur and Clark Hale have done it on $1.85 million , and they don't need a penny more.
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  "I'm invested currently in eight companies, and I've invested in others outside of Oregon, and I've never seen an entrepreneur manage resources as prudently as Kanth," said Dennis Powers, a minority investor.
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  Gopalpur, Monsoon's CEO, has controlled expenses carefully.Software companies have two main expenses: salaries and office rent.Gopalpur has saved on rent by subleasing a series of different offices.
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  Gopalpur launched the Powells.com e-commerce Web site in 1994 for Portland landmark Powell's Books.
  
  He moved on to Portland music store Django's, and helped build the company's Web business to nearly half its total revenue in one year.
  
  Gopalpur realized that many small sellers were turning to online marketplaces to sell their wares, and needed an easy, inexpensive software package to integrate inventory control and online sales.
  
  The extra ingredient Gopalpur and his co-founders created is an automatic pricing feature that scans the Internet regularly for pricing on individual books, CDs and DVDs.The seller can then decide if he or she wants to sell always at the lowest price, or fix some other parameter for setting a price relative to the market.
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  But Gopalpur says his company regularly wins customers from other software packages -- most notably, that offered by ChannelAdvisor Corp., a $30 million company that raised $30 million in venture capital this year , simply because Monsoon's software is expressly designed for media sales.

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  "We got more than $100,000 from seven or eight new investors," said Kanth Gopalpur, CEO of Monsoon, which makes software which helps retailers sell their goods at Internet Marketplaces such as Amazon.com and EBay.
  
  Gopalpur has participated in two venture capital events in Seattle and San Jose, Calif., this month and is now in discussions with potential investors who saw his presentations.

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  Published on: 4/21/2004    Last Visited: 9/5/2008  

  Monsoon, for instance, is helping retailers who sell products on Amazon's multiple international sites to automatically gather data that show how well products sell at different price points in different markets, says Kanth Gopalpur, president of Monsoon."Many companies are afraid to provide access to their back-end data, but Amazon sees not potential harm but the benefit of bringing data to customers," he says.

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  Kanth Gopalpur, who helped Powells.com become one of the nation's leading online booksellers, has launched Monsoon Retail Development Systems (http://www.monsoonretail.com) to help small to medium-sized retailers sell online."We believe that the internet is a vibrant new retail neighborhood for small businesses, and we have the know-how and experience to help smaller stores succeed side-by-side with big-box retailers such as Amazon, Best Buy and Wal-Mart," Gopalpur said.
  
  Through Monsoon, which has three employees who worked with Gopalpur at both Powells.com and Djangos, he hopes to help traditional retailers, who have been "rightly skeptical of the internet," he said, to explore the benefits of e-commerce in a low-impact, cost-effective way."We will work with any retailer who we think has a unique product to sell," he said.

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