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Startup Talk: Now sell off those group deals you bought and did not use through sellmydeal.com
Mar 16th
This day had to come. It’s an almost predictable cycle for products. Once you have something and cannot use it, sell it. Marketplaces prop up everywhere when there is second hand stuff that can be sold. Craigslist should get you up to speed with the size of the second hand market.
Now sellmydeal.com wants to help you sell off your unused discount coupons you got from group buying sites like Groupon. Why this sudden flash of genius? Well, numbers talk. Apparently 20% of all group bought coupons never get used. So why not just sell it to someone at a reduced price compared to the reduced price you paid for it already? In the end the second hand consumer benefits from this sale. Sellmydeal also sends out a daily newsletter to make your second hand coupon hunting even more of a breeze. Depreciation rocks or what! Whatever be the case we can almost predict that there will be hundreds of sellmydeal clones very soon if Groupon and Livingsocial don’t already have plans to start off a second hand delas marketplace. These guys support deal hunting in almost all major cities in the US and Canada. Watch this startup!
It’s A Very Russian Idea
Sep 8th
How do we stimulate the economy? Russian financial minister Alexei Kudrin has the answer: drink and smoke. Kudrin has encouraged the country to drink and to smoke in order to fill up the coffers with the excise taxes. A new cigarette tax was introduced by Kudrin in June. Once it’s fully implemented in three years, the state government will double what they make now per 1,000 cigarettes and earn £12.59, or $19.37. Drinking will become more expensive in Russia, too. By 2013, heavier alcohol taxes are expected to increase the price of the cheapest Russian vodka from £1.83 ($2.81) to £3.07 ($4.72).
Ideabing Daily Roundup: Annoying Cigarette Case Edition
Jul 28th
Make Your Walking Useful, Make Some Electricity.
UPS Pushing Carbon Neutral Shipping To Customers
Design To Annoy
Video: Wireless Parking
Jun 24th
How often have you gotten out of the comfort of your high rise home at 6 in the morning JUST to feed the parking meter? Trust me, I have, several times. Big cities means big problems parking your car and then keeping the cops from giving you a parking ticket. In comes wireless parking. How about finding a parking spot with that smartphone you have? How about controlling the parking meter with your smartphone? Interesting? Watch.
A New Way To Fight Corruption In India
Apr 29th
How do you fight corruption in a country like India? What if the police force is itself corrupt? Shaffi Mather talks about his ventures that stop corruption in India.
Shootitlive Enables Real Time Media Publishing
Apr 27th
Ever been to a live concert and wanted to share videos the concert to all your friends in real time? A startup called Shootitlive has made this possible.
What An Advert! What An Idea!
Apr 13th
There can be very little debate as to how important marketing is for any product or service.And the giver of this product or service has a great responsibility to bombard his target segment in as many ways as possible, each way getting more captivating than the other. A marketing strategy should be such that it makes the audience stop,consider and seek the product/service as if they really had a desperate need for it.
Here is one such captivating strategy.
Think Geek Makes Amazingly Geeky Products. We Likes.
Apr 13th
Its not everyday that you come across insanely creative people, and I think I have come across a whole bunch of them today. ThinkGeek makes insanely innovative products – I have not seen other companies selling anything even close to these awsome prodcuts. What products, you ask? Well, picture this – a wearable drum kit
Idea 287: Find Your Lost Electronic Gear
Mar 29th
Lost your phone anytime and never got it back? Chances are that you never had a “Stick-and-find” label on that phone. Did you also know that more than 9,000 cell phones and 1 Million laptops are turned in to Southwest Airlines’ lost and found every year and that 65% of these items are never reclaimed? A new company – Stick And Find claims to turn that number around its head if people start using a specially coded label which helps people return lost and found goods without hassle. Full PR text after the break.
Xerox Heads To India Looking For Innovation
Mar 26th
This piece of news is awesome. Xerox will open its first ever “innovation hub” in India. Xerox is not the first company to bring R&D work to India but is the first to bring it at the scale they are talking about. Maybe the whole bad blood between technology companies and Obama is making companies to shift entire operations to other countries instead of haggling with the US government. When whole technology comes from India, there is nothing that was really outsourced, right? And there was this report which claimed an abundant supply of talent within the US to work at growth of science and technology firms. Maybe these firms just cannot afford the engineers in the USA anymore. What poses to be the start of a new wave of technology companies actually moving the entire innovation process to low cost locations instead of small portions of work could be a great strategy to keep the company fresh with ideas while cutting costs. Nice job Xerox! Full PR text after the break.
