Amazon has paved the way for other e-commerce startups by making consumers comfortable with the process of buying online, says Kirsten Green of Forerunner Ventures. "They have created a set of rules and expectations with the consumer, and that works for a lot of stuff, but it doesn't check every box," she says.
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