Wanted.VC Digest # 5
Last week Wanted.VC raised the bar: now we talk about two projects looking for investment every day. In addition, the Investors section has appeared in our blog, in which we ask burning questions to specialists in venture projects.
About all this - in our today's summary.
The Deeep.me project is a service designed to answer user questions in accordance with his tastes. The reaction of the public was mixed: “I like your project. The only comment is a claim to globality and universal coverage. As far as I think, this means multi-million dollar investment. Do you have enough money to realize all these ideas in full? ”Perhaps, with the help of Wanted.VC, the authors will find the necessary funds.
In addition to the mass of pleasant features that you already know about, social networks have one more that you probably suspect but do not dare to voice. Social networks help you build and maintain the image that you want to present to others, or rather to those you added as friends. The creators of Deeep.me understood everything very correctly. Therefore, the basis of the project, most of all resembling a social network, is the question “what are you?” And not “who are you?”. You have to answer it in a roundabout way: we don’t like directly. +++
Photo albums before our eyes have turned from chubby books with large pages to web pages with small squares of thumbnails. “Show photos” means giving a link to an online album. Most likely, it lies in one of the social networks.
And most likely, your grandmother, having crossed herself three times before clicking on the “accept call” button on Skype, is not registered on this social network. And she really doesn’t want to. +++
The Gate-32 project became the winner in the XI All-Russian open competition “Golden Site” in the nomination “Tourism and Recreation”, and also became the second in the nomination “Innovations, Services and Technologies” conceding only to the portal Mail.Ru. Wanted.VC could not pass by.
Unlike most of the projects appearing on Wanted.VC that offer to solve rather specific tasks, the Gate-32 project is designed to help with the most common problem: to help you spend your holidays with minimal expenses of nerve resources.
Everything that once happened in travel agencies is now happening on the site: you also choose the direction, length of stay and hotel. Provide your data and choose the method of delivery of documents - you can send them by e-mail, by courier home or on the day of departure directly to the airport. Then you pay for the selected tour - also, of course, on the network. +++
“Awesome app !!! Hope this will spread through FB and become a standard, ” is something like this on Facebook’s Tipmeet project . The remaining comments are more concise: it's just five stars, a user rating for the project.
We all studied little by little, and now little by little we are trying to prove that learning is not so important, it is much more important to master certain “communicative skills”, master English and learn how to do a hundred things at once.
That's right, but if this maxim were to become universal law, chaos would reign very soon. Because it is specialists who are engaged in law, linguistics, finance and, finally, medicine. And it is precisely qualified specialists who will always be in demand.
The authors of Tipmeet - apparently, from those who have repeatedly experienced the problem of a lack of specialists. Therefore, the service created by them is designed specifically for those who have special knowledge and a desire to share them. Of course, for the appropriate qualifications payment. +++
There are a lot of comments from users in the discussion of the Geoplanning project - difficulties when working with GoogleMaps, difficulties with determining the location, etc. You can read them here , and in the comments to this post - express your own thoughts.
A fair amount of your memory is devoted to keeping small reminders in it: turn off the sound before a lecture or a performance, do not forget to pay the rent, buy food for a cat, send sms to your mom that everything is fine, and so on. memory prefer to put reminders on a mobile.
This works, but with a certain degree of probability: often after pressing the “OK” button, a reminder simply flies out of my head, because its execution time has not yet arrived. Geo Planner Developerssolved this problem differently: reminders are now attached not to time, but to place. +++
“It's cool that in the description of mydarin our project was taken as a starting point)) but I think it's better to focus not on us but on the group, all the same we have a narrower specialization - shopping, and not everything! <...> it’s also not clear how they are going to open representative offices in 12 cities for 500k, it might be enough to open it, but to develop vryatli))) in any case, I wish the guys from maydarin good luck). ” Wanted.VC joins in with the wishes and draws your attention to the fact that we spontaneously retain author spelling and punctuation.
Recently we talked about VIPtalon. We remind you that its essence came down to the fact that you were given the opportunity, by purchasing one of the coupons offered on the website, to get a discount in the corresponding store.
The Maidarin service , which will be discussed today, works just like VIPtalon. True, unlike the latter, “Maidarin” allows you to decide for yourself what you want to get a discount on. +++
- DUKE, I SAY WHAT WAS! DO YOU UNDERSTAND HOW I ALREADY SPEAK? I CAN TURN OUT HEALTH BECAUSE OF YOU, I CAN REDOKE VOICE!
- Uh-uh ... Please
change the tone of communication, otherwise we will have to stop our conversation ... - THESE YOU CHANGE THE RESPECT OF CLIENT COMMUNICATION, UNDERSTAND, S ***? ANSWER MY QUESTION ASKED!
- I have already answered your question repeatedly ...
The contrast between the icy calm of a tech support employee of a well-known company and the fierce unease of his interlocutor made an 18-minute record of their dialogue the main hit of Runet in a few days.
The fact that there are sometimes insane people on the Internet was approximately understandable. However, the question is different: how professional was the operator who brought the client to the frenzy of such emotions? This question should be of interest primarily to the managers of a well-known company - after all, it is they who undertake to solve the problems of their customers.
The creators of MoodCenter think so. +++
Let's do a test. Say aloud the two abbreviations: CTP and CASCO. If your teeth / nape ached unpleasantly, your left palm was combed nervously with a word, if your body reacts extremely ambiguously to these letters, most likely you belong to the “car enthusiasts” subculture.
CarCorner was invented in order to minimize unpleasant reactions of the body to the indicated abbreviations, and at the same time to all other procedures associated with the heavy burden of motoring. +++
After the publication of the post about the “Catalog of Programs”, we received a letter from an investor who wished to give money to the project team for its further development. Contacts of the authors of the project were issued along with a blessing. We stocked up with popcorn and see what happens next.
It is known for certain that the total misunderstanding of the phrase “paid software” is a characteristic feature of the Russian mentality. That the long years of communism at the genetic level atrophied understanding of private property.
And other, other. All this, of course, has little to do with reality. You can look for reasons in the socio-anthropological sphere, but most likely everything is much simpler: there are no conditions for the user to buy software with less energy than driving a Google “free download”.
Meanwhile, a short list of domestic online software stores that instill a culture of "their own", replenished with another name - "Catalog of programs." The authors of the project tried to explain Wanted.VC why they are better than their colleagues. +++
"DeloPro"- a rare case when you can talk about a project right away in numbers and dates.
The idea of the system appeared back in 2006. The task was summarized as follows: “To create a system for supporting management decisions based on the analysis and processing of the organization’s workflow.”
A year later, the first software was developed. The basic module of the system was registered in 2008, then the first sales began. By January 1, 2011, the authors of the DeloPRO project earned 800,000 rubles. selling software licenses in a corporate configuration. +++
About all this - in our today's summary.
The Deeep.me project is a service designed to answer user questions in accordance with his tastes. The reaction of the public was mixed: “I like your project. The only comment is a claim to globality and universal coverage. As far as I think, this means multi-million dollar investment. Do you have enough money to realize all these ideas in full? ”Perhaps, with the help of Wanted.VC, the authors will find the necessary funds.
In addition to the mass of pleasant features that you already know about, social networks have one more that you probably suspect but do not dare to voice. Social networks help you build and maintain the image that you want to present to others, or rather to those you added as friends. The creators of Deeep.me understood everything very correctly. Therefore, the basis of the project, most of all resembling a social network, is the question “what are you?” And not “who are you?”. You have to answer it in a roundabout way: we don’t like directly. +++
Photo albums before our eyes have turned from chubby books with large pages to web pages with small squares of thumbnails. “Show photos” means giving a link to an online album. Most likely, it lies in one of the social networks.
And most likely, your grandmother, having crossed herself three times before clicking on the “accept call” button on Skype, is not registered on this social network. And she really doesn’t want to. +++
The Gate-32 project became the winner in the XI All-Russian open competition “Golden Site” in the nomination “Tourism and Recreation”, and also became the second in the nomination “Innovations, Services and Technologies” conceding only to the portal Mail.Ru. Wanted.VC could not pass by.
Unlike most of the projects appearing on Wanted.VC that offer to solve rather specific tasks, the Gate-32 project is designed to help with the most common problem: to help you spend your holidays with minimal expenses of nerve resources.
Everything that once happened in travel agencies is now happening on the site: you also choose the direction, length of stay and hotel. Provide your data and choose the method of delivery of documents - you can send them by e-mail, by courier home or on the day of departure directly to the airport. Then you pay for the selected tour - also, of course, on the network. +++
“Awesome app !!! Hope this will spread through FB and become a standard, ” is something like this on Facebook’s Tipmeet project . The remaining comments are more concise: it's just five stars, a user rating for the project.
We all studied little by little, and now little by little we are trying to prove that learning is not so important, it is much more important to master certain “communicative skills”, master English and learn how to do a hundred things at once.
That's right, but if this maxim were to become universal law, chaos would reign very soon. Because it is specialists who are engaged in law, linguistics, finance and, finally, medicine. And it is precisely qualified specialists who will always be in demand.
The authors of Tipmeet - apparently, from those who have repeatedly experienced the problem of a lack of specialists. Therefore, the service created by them is designed specifically for those who have special knowledge and a desire to share them. Of course, for the appropriate qualifications payment. +++
There are a lot of comments from users in the discussion of the Geoplanning project - difficulties when working with GoogleMaps, difficulties with determining the location, etc. You can read them here , and in the comments to this post - express your own thoughts.
A fair amount of your memory is devoted to keeping small reminders in it: turn off the sound before a lecture or a performance, do not forget to pay the rent, buy food for a cat, send sms to your mom that everything is fine, and so on. memory prefer to put reminders on a mobile.
This works, but with a certain degree of probability: often after pressing the “OK” button, a reminder simply flies out of my head, because its execution time has not yet arrived. Geo Planner Developerssolved this problem differently: reminders are now attached not to time, but to place. +++
“It's cool that in the description of mydarin our project was taken as a starting point)) but I think it's better to focus not on us but on the group, all the same we have a narrower specialization - shopping, and not everything! <...> it’s also not clear how they are going to open representative offices in 12 cities for 500k, it might be enough to open it, but to develop vryatli))) in any case, I wish the guys from maydarin good luck). ” Wanted.VC joins in with the wishes and draws your attention to the fact that we spontaneously retain author spelling and punctuation.
Recently we talked about VIPtalon. We remind you that its essence came down to the fact that you were given the opportunity, by purchasing one of the coupons offered on the website, to get a discount in the corresponding store.
The Maidarin service , which will be discussed today, works just like VIPtalon. True, unlike the latter, “Maidarin” allows you to decide for yourself what you want to get a discount on. +++
- DUKE, I SAY WHAT WAS! DO YOU UNDERSTAND HOW I ALREADY SPEAK? I CAN TURN OUT HEALTH BECAUSE OF YOU, I CAN REDOKE VOICE!
- Uh-uh ... Please
change the tone of communication, otherwise we will have to stop our conversation ... - THESE YOU CHANGE THE RESPECT OF CLIENT COMMUNICATION, UNDERSTAND, S ***? ANSWER MY QUESTION ASKED!
- I have already answered your question repeatedly ...
The contrast between the icy calm of a tech support employee of a well-known company and the fierce unease of his interlocutor made an 18-minute record of their dialogue the main hit of Runet in a few days.
The fact that there are sometimes insane people on the Internet was approximately understandable. However, the question is different: how professional was the operator who brought the client to the frenzy of such emotions? This question should be of interest primarily to the managers of a well-known company - after all, it is they who undertake to solve the problems of their customers.
The creators of MoodCenter think so. +++
Let's do a test. Say aloud the two abbreviations: CTP and CASCO. If your teeth / nape ached unpleasantly, your left palm was combed nervously with a word, if your body reacts extremely ambiguously to these letters, most likely you belong to the “car enthusiasts” subculture.
CarCorner was invented in order to minimize unpleasant reactions of the body to the indicated abbreviations, and at the same time to all other procedures associated with the heavy burden of motoring. +++
After the publication of the post about the “Catalog of Programs”, we received a letter from an investor who wished to give money to the project team for its further development. Contacts of the authors of the project were issued along with a blessing. We stocked up with popcorn and see what happens next.
It is known for certain that the total misunderstanding of the phrase “paid software” is a characteristic feature of the Russian mentality. That the long years of communism at the genetic level atrophied understanding of private property.
And other, other. All this, of course, has little to do with reality. You can look for reasons in the socio-anthropological sphere, but most likely everything is much simpler: there are no conditions for the user to buy software with less energy than driving a Google “free download”.
Meanwhile, a short list of domestic online software stores that instill a culture of "their own", replenished with another name - "Catalog of programs." The authors of the project tried to explain Wanted.VC why they are better than their colleagues. +++
"DeloPro"- a rare case when you can talk about a project right away in numbers and dates.
The idea of the system appeared back in 2006. The task was summarized as follows: “To create a system for supporting management decisions based on the analysis and processing of the organization’s workflow.”
A year later, the first software was developed. The basic module of the system was registered in 2008, then the first sales began. By January 1, 2011, the authors of the DeloPRO project earned 800,000 rubles. selling software licenses in a corporate configuration. +++