• Valu Valu already monitored tens of thousands of Consumer Electronics products before launching its 'Price Intelligence service.
• Any registered User can add any kind of products for monitoring, provided the product is sold on the Internet and has a UPC (Universal Product Code, the 'barcode' number)
• Valu Valu released the public beta of its dynamically priced marketplace on January 2009
• It was the first time ever a 'scientific pricing' algorithm was offered to small businesses and individuals. Previously such technology could only be afforded by Fortune 500 corporations
• Valu Valu's pricing engine required more than 2 years of R&D
• At start, Valu Valu focused exclusively on Video Games in order to proof its Pricing Engine.
• Company is currently funded by its founders

• Twitter: @valuvalu (company), @marotte (CEO), @FutureHype (CTO)
• FaceBook: Valu Valu group

• Emmanuel MAROT, President and CEO: Graduated from leading French Business School ESCP with a major in Computational Finance. Co-founder and manager of three startups, all in the Internet field, and all with successful exits. Previous venture was a mobile search engine, named MotionBridge. The company was acquired by Microsoft Corp. in 2006, where Emmanuel then acted as Director of Mobile Search.
• Bruno Botvinik, Vice-President and CTO: Graduated from French Engineering school, Grande École, ESME Sudria. Over 10 years in the Internet and Mobile Internet industry. As co-founder and CTO of MotionBridge, he designed and architected a search platform serving more than 1 billion queries in 10 countries. Post-acquisition, Bruno held a position at Microsoft Corp. of Senior Development Lead in Windows Live Search, and managed the development team of the Operator Mobile Search platform.
• Garrett van Ryzin, Advisor: Leading authority on scientific pricing. Ph.D. MIT, chaired professor Columbia University. 20 years of experience as researcher, consultant and industry advisor. Lanchester prize winner (The Theory & Practice of Revenue Management) and author of numerous research publication on pricing methodology.

Attributed to Emmanuel MAROT, CEO of VALU VALU:

• Pricing is the variable with the biggest impact on bottom lines. But the 'perfect price', the one that maximizes profits cannot be guessed: it has to be deducted; and we're here to help small businesses doing just that.
• We aim to combine ultimate efficiency in commerce with the smoothest, simplest, most agreeable commerce service ever.

Attributed to Garrett van Ryzin, leading authority on scientific pricing, and advisor of VALU VALU:

• What's exciting is that VALU VALU brings the power of scientific pricing to the masses. Small web retailers and individual on-line sellers can now benefit from the same science and technology previously available only to Fortune 500 airlines and retailers. The potential to create value in this sector is enormous.