business-model

A Look At Unique Characteristics Of Group Buying Sites [Why Is It Different?]

by Paul Joseph May 14, 2011 Featured

What makes Group Buying Business a unique business? Deals or discount coupons have been in existence for quite some time but the concept got phenomenal success when companies like Groupon married social with deals. The combination of social and deals is relatively new and has many unique qualities.

Tagged as: additional, business, business-model, even-if-someone, facebook, facebook-even, friends, fundamentals, group, group buying, india, sales, social networking, switching-cost, thoughts

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Participate in Brand Engagement Quizzes And Win Goodies – BrandAndMe

by Paul Joseph May 12, 2011 Featured

User engagement and social media marketing are driving any marketer to spend millions out of the marketing budget. Most CEOs who do not even understand social media are heard asking their CMOs “What is out social media strategy? What are we doing to engage the user”

Tagged as: brand engagement, brandandme, business, business-model, core, engage-the-user, focusing-on-one, indian-startups, marketing, quiz, the-information, user

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Startup TaxiGuide Wants To Be The RedBus Of Car Rental Booking Service

by Paul Joseph May 12, 2011 Featured

We recently interviewed Olacabs, a Mumbai based online car rental service and here is another interesting Bangalore based startup, TaxiGuide.in that offers online car rental service  across 75 cities. The Business Model of TaxiGuide TaxiGuide’s business model consists of tying up with reputed and experienced car rental operators across cities who carry a range of vehicles and charging a commission from these operators for every confirmed customer booking forwarded to them

Tagged as: answer-building, business, business-model, consulting, country, director, fragmented, india, indian-startups, industry, marketing, school

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The Business Model of Paying users Vs Paying-users

by Paul Joseph May 11, 2011 Featured

One of those ‘paying users’ is the ‘conventional’ user who pays for your service. The other, though is just the opposite – you pay the user as a part of your business model! And by ‘user’ I mean the ‘C’ in the typical B2C business (rather in this case –a C2B business )

Tagged as: between-the-two, business, business-model, cars, intention, mind, online, rich-yet-though, user

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Business Model for Deal Aggregators? Should Not Be Aggregation of Deals

by Paul Joseph March 9, 2011 Featured

[We recently asked a question:  Is There a Business Model in Deal Aggregation Space? and while we looked at what deal aggregators are up to in India, here is a guest article by PJ on what could be the business model behind deal aggregators for Indian market.] Movie 300 – One of the most inspiring scenes, when King Leonidas asks his army – Spartans, what is your profession?

Tagged as: aggregators, business, business-model, capabilities, deal, deals, group-bargain, india, indian, mumbai, opinion, post-the-series, space

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iXiGO Launches iPhone App For the Global Audience

by Paul Joseph February 23, 2011 Featured

iXiGO.com has launched a global Travel App ( link ) for iPhone users and the app is available in English, Spanish, German & Italian languages. The app allows iPhone users to do a quick search for flights and compare fares across multiple airline and online travel agency websites, search hotel rates and availability from over 250,000 hotels from across all leading hotel booking websites

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Idea and BSNL to Launch App Store [appNomy]

by Paul Joseph February 11, 2011 Featured

After Airtel, Vodafone, Aircel and Reliance, both BSNL and Idea Cellular have announced the launch of an app store.

Tagged as: business-model, development, mobile

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Appnomy: 26% Downloaded Apps Are Used Only Once

by Paul Joseph February 2, 2011 Featured

Apps apps everywhere, which one should I use?

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Used Vehicle Marketplace, MotorExchange Raises $5mn

by Paul Joseph January 11, 2011 Featured

MotorExchange , an online marketplace for used vehicles, has raised a second round of funding to expand its workforce and increase direct to consumer services. MotorExchange raised investments from Canaan Partners in 2009 and has now raised $5 million in a round, led by early stage investor Epiphany Ventures with participation from existing investor Canaan Partners.

Tagged as: business-model, funding, startup

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Groupon in India, Acquires SoSasta(?)

by Paul Joseph January 10, 2011 Featured

Groupon has been hunting a deals in India (read our exclusive coverage : Groupon Hunting Deal(s) in India–Launch Imminent ) and it seems, Kolkata based SoSasta.com is their first acquisition in India (Ananya Bubna is the Managing Director of India office, as per his LinkedIn profile). SoSasta was launched in October of 2010 and as I spoke to some of the other group buying companies, this deal was in the works for a while. SoSasta doesn’t really have a traffic comparable to its counterparts, i.e.

Tagged as: business-model, india, indian-startups

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