6
How Dream Portals Began ?

How dream portals began

Embed Size (px)

DESCRIPTION

How dream portals began - Explore the stories behind successful online entrepreneurs and their portals

Citation preview

Page 1: How dream portals began

How Dream Portals Began ?

Page 2: How dream portals began

• Started with an initial investment of 4 L, Flipkart is India’s most famous e-com store.

• Initially, started by selling books. Now has over 15 category of products including electronic gadgets, healthcare, music, movies and games

• Flipkart sells nearly 20 products per minute and is aiming at generating a revenue of 50 billion (US$1 billion) by 2015

Started in 2007 by Sachin Bansal and Binny Bansal

Page 3: How dream portals began

• Was started as a community portal called www.sysindia.com to connect NRI. Since the matrimony section in the website was a success, Bharatmatrimony was created.

• In 1999, the proposal was rejected by all the top Silicon Valley investors. An online matrimony portal was considered a non viable project then.

• Till date over 700,000 plus couples have found their partner on BharatMatrimony, a feat that has put us in a leadership position in the field of online matrimony.

Founded in 1997 by Murugavel Janakiraman

Page 4: How dream portals began

• Just Dial initially started as “ASK ME” a failed online portal which gave free information to all and started as an extension of Yellow Pages

• It was started with an initial capital of a modest INR 50,000• Today it has the largest number of reviews in the world : 3.5

million and around 8.5 rating feeds• It claims to have a database of approximately 7.8 million merchant

listings.• In the latest valuation JustDial was valued at Rs 2600 crore

Launched in 1996 by VSS Mani

Page 5: How dream portals began

• eBay was originally called Auction Web and the first product that was sold was a “Broken Laser Pointer”, which was uploaded as a test data

• Omidyar wanted to start his own company EchoBay and looked for a domain. Since it was taken already, he instantly booked ebay.com

• A Gulfstream II Jet that sold for $4.9 million in 2001 is the record for highest eBay sale price yet.

• The company registered a US$ 011.651 billion in 2011

Founded in 1995 by Pierre Omidyar

Page 6: How dream portals began

Plot No.1833, 1st Floor, 18th Main Road, Anna Nagar (W), Chennai - 600040, India.

Phone: 4266 0601 / 2618 0901 www.pixel-studios.com