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How much would a skin fetch on the market? Next startup bootcamp thing should have a homework project on building a dogfood-and-snakeskin-boot-producing snake

• dalke 12y ago
  http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-20509720 http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-20509720 says: >The snake-skin business is extremely lucrative according to this report, which estimates that half a million python skins are exported annually from South East Asia in a trade worth $1bn (£625m) a year. ... That's an upper bound of $2,000 per skin across the entire sales chain. > The nature of the trade is such that there is a strong financial incentive all along the supply chain to use illegal snakes. A skin that a villager in Indonesia might sell for $30 (£19) will end up as a bag in fashion boutiques in France or Italy selling for $15,000 (£9,300). The highest demand is for skins between three and four metres long. It does not seem the market would bear the cost to eradicate Florida snakes, given the high overhead of finding a snake. It's of course possible to increase the market demand. As the article suggests, that would have world-wide consequences. Even if there were a marketing program to promote "ecological Everglades Python skin", there would need to be a verification program that illegal snakes weren't getting into the supply chain, since there would be a strong economic incentive to buy snakes in S.E. Asia for $100 and sell them in the US for $1,000.
• pantalaimon 12y ago
  You can always create a startup making snake oil ;)
  • roel_v 12y ago
    Lots of competition in that field though :)