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