Exporting successful startup ideas to Spain or LatinAmerica is a common topic of conversation with people interested in entrepreneurship. Especially those ideas that need to be localized, because either you need to translate the language, you need to adapt certain features, or you need to make local contacts/agreements/content.
I already talked in a previous post about Second Life and Del.icio.us. Some of the other ideas I have been discussing lately because they do not exist in the Spanish market (or are not getting traction yet) are:
- LiveOps - on-demand call center technology, as well as virtual call center services through a network of over 20,000 independent home agents
- Opentable - restaurant reservation network
- Elance-marketplace to find freelancers (programmers, translators, etc.). Infolancer has been recently launched in Spain by the same team as Infojobs.
- Zillow - online real state service; allows users to see the value estimates of millions of homes across the United States, not just those up for sale
- Streetline - real time information about parking space availability
- Dash Express - GPS navigation device that is connected to the internet and integrates real time information about the local context (e.g., traffic, gas prices in stations around you, availability of houses on sale around you, etc.)
- Surveymonkey - simple way to create online surveys, collect responses and analyze results. EncuestaFacil was recently launched in Spain
- Skyhook - WiFi location system used on the iPhone. The system uses fingerprinting with existing WiFi routers that have been previously mapped (they literally had vans driving around cities to creat their database of localized WiFi routers)
All of them with innovative and viable business models.
Every man is his own worst enemy
Posted by: woolrich outlet | December 17, 2011 at 09:50 PM