...Kenyan startup Sendy has launched to provide a platform for on-demand deliveries, connecting customers with reliable couriers who have been reviewed by other users. Allowing customers to contract a reliable rider and pay via mobile money or Visa, Sendy seeks to overcome the lack of trust between customers and couriers and gains revenues through a 15 per cent fee on each transaction. The startup is one of 37 Kenyan semi-finalists for mobile startups event PIVOT East, which will be held in Nairobi on June 24 and 25, and is waiting to discover whether it has earned the chance to pitch at the event. Alloys Meshak, founder and chief executive officer (CEO) of Sendy, told HumanIPO the average customer in Kenya was unwilling to have a valuable item delivered by a stranger unless they had been endorsed beforehand, something his startup is trying to facilitate by crowdsourcing recommended riders. “Last year my mum back in the village lost two bags of cement by randomly giving them to a rider to do the delivery, and that was after a 30 minutes wait by the roadside for available riders,” he said. “Back in the city I am always frustrated that we have so many riders in town and you cannot send them to pick or deliver something because you cannot tell their availability or you simply don’t know them.” He said Sendy provided a way to collect information on riders and connect them to customers, creating a new market. Both riders and customers are required to sign up on the site, on which...
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...COURSE PROJECT: E-COMMERCE PROJECT PROPOSAL & MILESTONE 1 and 2 TOPIC This proposal discusses the use of e Commerce- buying and selling goods and services online – is one of the biggest uses of the World Wide Web. Starting an e Commerce business or website or expanding an existing business with an e Commerce website can be highly profitable, as the overhead costs of running a web site are very small compared to running a physical shop and have access to a global market. Small businesses that are considered appropriate become options. Tips and Strategies for attracting and keeping customer are also presented. While the paper focused on implement many technologies options available and strategies help companies to success in using e Commerce. There are all sorts of features and tools businesses owner can include in an e Commerce website design which will make the shopping experience quicker, easier, and more enjoyable for customers - and ultimately drive sales. This paper will analyze the difficulty of company and suggest solution can guide will give an overview of the different kinds of e Commerce web site and some of the features that can be included to help drive your sales. There’s also a guide to finding and choosing the right company to help set up own e Commerce web site and start trading online that most business owners should consider. POTENTIAL PROBLEMS & SOLUTIONS Problem When starting an online business selling products or services there are some...
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...dit NMIMS | The World .com fall - IT Bubble burst | | Poleswar Rao V | | INTRODUCTION The dot-com industry began in the early 1990s as a collection of startup companies using the Internet as their primary means to conduct business. These companies typically used the “.com” suffix in their company names, such as Amazon.com, and proliferated in the late 90’s with the massive investments in Internet-related stocks and enterprises. But with the failure and consolidation of many of these companies their numbers have since dwindled. The catastrophic collapse of the dot-coms that shook the U.S. economy started in May 2000. More than 210 dotcom companies failed in 2000 and a total of 762 dot-coms closed for the period January 2000 to December 2001. Since many of these dot-coms began to lay off their staff, the unemployment rate also increased from 3.9% to 6% by 2002. The dot-com bubble burst because the boom was based on the false premise that new technology would eliminate the need for brick-and-mortar stores as this new business model would supplant the old one, thereby converting the “Old Economy,” which is based on the production of physical goods into a “New Economy,” which is based on heavy use of information and communication technology. Although a great deal can be learned from examining the dot-com successes, it is equally important to study reasons for the failures. Examining the mistakes made by the dot-coms can provide insight into the evolution of e-commerce...
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...Sharing corps: Should company build competitive advantage by embracing the sharing economy? SHARING CORPS SHOULD COMPANIES build a new competitive advantage BY embracing the SHARING ECONOMY? ECOVALA - December 2013 1 Sharing corps: Should company build competitive advantage by embracing the sharing economy? Ecovala © 2013 This report was produced by the Ecovala in December 2013. If no other source is specified, the contents of this report are under a Creative Commons Attribution – Non-Commercial - Share Alike 3.0 Unported License. You can find the full text of the license in this website. Ecovala Ecovala provides innovative solutions to private and public organisations to accelerate their transition towards sustainability. The organisation offers a wide range of services around sustainability and system innovation: from companies’ environmental assessment to sustainable strategic design, from new green services definition to effective implementation of CSR management. Based in Finland, the organisation is active throughout Europe, relying on an extensive network of like-minded organisations and sustainability experts. www.ecovala.eu Author Erwan Mouazan is director and founder of Ecovala. He develops and implements innovative sustainability solutions both at private and public level. Erwan owns a Master's degree in economics, with a specialization in international management. In the last 9 years, he has worked at international level in environmental...
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...WEBSITE QUALITY EVALUATION FOR paytm.com The aim of this project is to evaluate the quality of Paytm.com. Website quality is how well a website is designed and how well the design meets the user’s satisfaction. Website quality could be measured from two perspectives: programmers and end users. The aspect of website quality from programmers focus on the degree of maintainability, security and functionality etc while the end-users are paying more attention to usability, efficiency, creditability, etc. Paytm.com is an online recharge website. URL WEB ADRESS IS www.paytm.com OFFICIAL PAYTM.COM HOMEPAGE In order to define the efficiency of this website, a set of website quality models is used to quantify it. QUALITY EVALUATION MODELS The characteristics of Paytm.com quality evaluation models include: * Functionality * Reliability * Usability * Efficiency * Maintainability * Portability These models are further sub grouped into accuracy, suitability, interoperability, confidentiality, availability, fault tolerance, security, ease of use, comprehensibility, level of communication, attractiveness, visibility, flexibility etc. as shown in the hierarchy below. Paytm.com was put to test with each factor in the image by specialists and end user’s. The table below shows the results of the test. USABILITY Efficiency | Paytm.com responds to the user in time | User-friendliness | The user interface capabilities of Paytm.com website provide a good supportive experience...
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...Stokes Mortuary Business Expansion Plan Stokes Mortuary Summary The mission of Stokes Mortuary (all names have been changed) is to gather people together to celebrate life when it ends and to move forward with living. Stokes Mortuary will have facilities that bring families and communities together to remember the life of the deceased and renew bonds of social support. Because 71 percent of people choose a mortuary based on reputation, the key to success is quickly establishing a reputation for the community to celebrate life when they die. The mortuary’s cornerstone will be its reception facilities. These open and spacious rooms will promote uplifting interactions after the funeral and may also be used for nonprofit organizations. This will make the mortuary more of a community center, which will uplift, connect it to the community, provide the basis for publicity, and make it a center for the living. The reception room and website will feature digital photos and audio of the persons whose lives are being celebrated. This web presence will increase the center's exposure by letting people participate in the celebration of life after the funeral and reception are over. Providing the greatest choice of quality caskets and headstones will make the center the place to celebrate the lives of locally prominent persons. This will foster publicity and further promote our reputation. Stokes Mortuary currently has a website but is seeking to expand the current information, features...
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...FEMALE. CAREER CHANgERS WELCOMED. APPLY WITH 100 WORDS OR LESS AT PIMPMYFUTURE@WHY-BERLIN.COM the hundert Register now, and receive every issue by mail for free! introduCtion Klaus Wowereit KlauS WoWereit haS been the governing mayor of berlin Since 2001, and the longeSt Serving head of government in office of any german State. Governing Mayor of Berlin Hundert Continues as a series! We are very excited about the response that “Hundert – insight on the Online Capital Berlin” has received. Therefore, we have decided to continue “Hundert” as a series. In the coming year we will present new issues such as, “Hundert: Online entrepreneurs speak about their biggest mistakes”, “Hundert: Startups that you should know”, and “Hundert: Online marketing experts explain the way to web success”. Every issue of the series “Hundert” is available free of charge, both as print magazine as well as PDF...
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...MBA – Management and Strategy E-Business QRT2 Task 1 February 13, 2014 1. Viability of Product or Service: Horsepower Towing is a sole proprietorship business established by Tyler Loveridge in the early 2000’s in Lehi, Utah. Horsepower offers a variety of services including towing, law enforcement, truck maintenance, and trucking. Horsepower started out as a single truck towing service and has steadily grown into various services to the company it is today. Horsepower began expanding its towing capabilities shortly following inception to include contracting out towing for law enforcement. This included, but was not limited to DUIs, accidents, and suspended licenses. In 2010, Horsepower continued its growth and set up a division for long-haul trucking. Because of its now diverse product and service offering, Horsepower can greatly benefit from developing a website and gaining a much stronger online presence. Currently, Horsepower Towing does not have an official website. Most of the contact information can be found online by a general Google search, but no website with offerings, testimonials, or other valuable information exists. Horsepower will see a significant increase in interest throughout the area because not only are they in an industry where technology does not have a strong presence, but also the general population is using technology more and more to find business. Also by going online, Horsepower can become a more recognized brand and have much more...
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...work to create a curated resource for creative entrepreneurs. This book is the teaching and inspirational aid for our kbs+ Ventures Fellows – a highly select group of kbs+ staffers from all levels and areas of the agency – who go through a six-month educational program to immerse themselves in the startup and venture capital world. Share this entrepreneurial inspiration with friends using @kbspvc or #kbspvcbook. If you would like to share any inspiration, thoughts or feedback, please contact us at @kbspvc anytime – we look forward to hearing from you. Thank you for downloading our book! Darren Herman Taylor Davidson Creative Entrepreneurship Darren Herman Taylor Davidson a kbs+ partner We have received explicit permission from all authors of the works found in this book. Unless otherwise stated, we do not claim to have written or own any of this work. We are purely aggregating it into a simple book format for the education of anyone who picks up this book. The price of this book is free; if anyone tries to sell this book to you, please report them to us. Hopefully this book inspires you as much as it does us. We do not guarantee you will start the next successful startup after reading this book but we do think it will make you at least one IQ point smarter. Enjoy it and after you are done with it, hand it to someone else to read. Sharing means caring. The author and publisher have taken care in the preparation of this book, but make no expressed or implied warranty...
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...MODULE - 1 BUSINESS MODEL IDENTIFIED BUSINESS TO CUSTOMER The B2C model focuses on direct selling and marketing between a business and a consumer via an e-commerce website. A lower purchase volume of higher priced products typically characterizes B2C companies. Since the model depends on individual transactions and eliminates the wholesale purchaser, the company can make a higher profit while the consumer spends the same amount of money or sometimes less. B2C is effective for smaller companies since individual consumers are not as concerned with company recognition as they are with getting the product for the best price. TYPES B2C companies divide into five major categories: direct sellers, online intermediaries, advertising-based models, community-based models and fee-based models. Each type is so different from the others that they are not directly comparable. In fact, some B2C businesses utilize more than one type to reach different audiences. DIRECT SELLERS Direct sellers, such as online retailers, sell a product or service directly to the customer via a website. You can further divide direct sellers into e-tailers and manufacturers. E-tailers are electronic retailers that either ship products from their own warehouses or trigger deliveries from other companies stocks. Product manufacturers use the Internet as a catalog and sales channel to eliminate intermediaries. ONLINE INTERMEDIARIES Online intermediaries perform the same function as any other broker. The business...
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...to shift from real time market to digital market. All of the business today as we see is done over the internet and anything which is not there is meant to be wiped off. Ecommerce, the online shopping system has brought down political and physical barriers giving everyone in the world an equal playing ground for their market, everyone can put their products on sale through the e-stores (website dedicated to selling of product, a virtual store). Online shopping has ushered in a new era in the lives of young college- and office-goers. They end up buying all their necessary and not-so necessary items from online sites. With the options of cash-on-delivery, these sites have become all the more acceptable to many people. Online shopping or online retailing is a form of electronic commerce whereby consumers directly buy goods or services from a seller over the Internet without an intermediary service. An online shop, eshop, e-store, Internet shop, webshop, webstore, online store, or virtual store evokes the physical analogy of buying products or services at a bricks-and-mortar retailer or shopping centre. The process is called business-to-consumer (B2C) online shopping. When a business buys from another business it is called business-to-business (B2B) online shopping. [pic] HISTORY The history of ecommerce would rightly be back-tracked by the time people felt the need to send “interactive content” to be displayed on television and Videotex came into being. Research was going...
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...M U M BA I S I L I C O N VA L L E Y BA N G A LO RE S I N G A P O RE M U M BA I B KC NEW DELHI MUNICH N E W YO RK Start – Ups: What You Need To Know April 2016 © Copyright 2016 Nishith Desai Associates www.nishithdesai.com Provided upon request only © Nishith Desai Associates 2016 Start – Ups: What You Need To Know About NDA Nishith Desai Associates (NDA) is a research based international law firm with offices in Mumbai, Bangalore, Silicon Valley, Singapore, New Delhi, Munich & New York. We specialize in strategic legal, regulatory and tax advice coupled with industry expertise in an integrated manner. We focus on niche areas in which we provide significant value and are invariably involved in select highly complex, innovative transactions. Our key clients include marquee repeat Fortune 500 clientele. Our practice areas include Mergers & Acquisitions, Private Equity Investments, Corporate & Securities Law, Competition Law, JVs & Restructuring, International Tax, International Tax Litigation, Litigation & Dispute Resolution, Fund Formation, Capital Markets, Employment and HR, Intellectual Property, International Commercial Law and Private Client. Our specialized industry niches include funds, financial services, insurance, IT and telecom, pharma and healthcare, media and entertainment, real estate and infrastructure & education. Nishith Desai Associates has been ranked as the Most Innovative Indian Law Firm (2014 & 2015)...
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...Guru Nanak Institute of Management Studies and Research MATUNGA, MUMBAI – 400 019 Table of Content Chapter No. 1 2 3.1 3.1.2 3.2 3.3 3.3 3.4 4.1 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 5.7 5.8 Topic Executive Summary Literature Review Industry Introduction Models of E-commerce Online Shopping In India Online Grocery Shopping Indian Players in Online Grocery Shopping Company Introduction Hypothesis Research Objectives Scope of the research Limitations Research Design and Methodology Sample Design Sampling Technique Data Collection Tool Used Questionnaire Data Analysis Page No. 03 05 10 12 14 18 20 26 27 30 30 30 31 31 31 32 33 36 55 57 58 60 7.1 7.2 8.1 9.1 Observations Recommendations Conclusion Biography Page 2 CHAPTER 1 Page 3 1.1 Executive Summary Internet and Information technology have made tremendous contributions for business transformation witnessed nowadays all over the world. This has given birth to E commerce which encompasses several pre purchase and post purchase activities leading to exchange of products or service or information over electronic systems such as the internet and the other Telecommunication networks. Analysing the competitive advantage of E-Commerce it is observed that E-Commerce enables simpler, faster and efficient business transactions. For developing country like India, E-Commerce offer considerable opportunity for growth. E-commerce leads to a boon for the current economic downturn. As India’s e-commerce market is worth about...
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...www.nitie.ac.in Volume 7 Issue 1 StreetAtNITIE In-Fin-NITIE ALSO INCLUDES: Bank Loan for Startups MSME Sector Development Global Turmoil and Indian Capital Market IN-FIN-NITIE Vol 7 Issue 1 IN-FIN-NITIE Vol 7 Issue 1 MESSAGE FROM THE CONVENOR Want to become an Investment Banker or a Financial Research Analyst Stop dreaming…Add the skill sets required to become one… IIQF is the pioneer of high-end finance education in India. It is an education initiative of top industry practitioners who have pioneered the most sophisticated financial technologies in India like Portfolio Risk Management Models and Systems and Algorithmic Trading Systems using High Performance Parallel Computing. “A mere 25% of graduates that India produces every year is actually employable. Even though India is poised to become the third largest economy in the world by 2050, out of all the graduates that pass out in an academic year, only 25% are suitable for getting inducted into the industry.” Jeffrey Fuller, Principal Advisor of Human Capital. There exists a huge gap between the skills that are required by the industry and what the Indian academic system produces. The objective of IIQF is to impart training to students in those skill-sets that are in demand in the industry and make them industry ready, or as we call them “The Street-Ready”. Certificate Program in Advanced Financial Modelling in Excel and VBA Certificate Program in Financial Modelling in Excel ...
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