What does eBay think of this valuable driver of sales to its marketplace? Sponsored by: ChannelAdvisor, which helps merchants determine where to sell their wares across marketplaces, search engines and shopping sites, is the largest providers of seller tools to eBay’s biggest sellers. Some 20% to 30% of the largest merchants using its service. It's a SaaS (software as a service) startup that's raised some $80 million since it began earlier this decade. EBay has been a fairly consistent investor in ChannelAdvisor throughout the years as well. Given that Erik Stuart's job as director of corporate strategy at eBay is to understand which companies for eBay to partner with or acquire, we asked him to be our guest host of this Vator Box segment.Here are a few observations made in the show by ...   [ Read more ]