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    Market research search engine - new venture

    Thanks for your input. What I've been working on would give you direct access to the original report, would you still want to see citations in this case?. Example: Google publishes a comprehensive study on "online retail", the search engine would give you access to the original study. The issue...
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    Market research search engine - new venture

    Hi all, Background: I'm working as a research expert for global consulting firm. A lot of the information I'm using for client analysis comes from the internet but is quite difficult to find. Venture: I've been working on a search engine for market research reports on the internet. The search...
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    Market Research and Competitive Analysis

    I currently work for a multinational consulting firm and we have an internal team that provides on-demand market research and competitive analysis to our internal teams whenever they need critical data for a project. I am wondering weather data availability and in-depth market research /...
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    I'm launching a startup at London Startup weekend on Google Campus and need support.

    Hi Everybody, I'm at London Fashion Startup Weekend and we are building and launching a startup this weekend. To put what we are doing in a nutshell: XOVOlinks (our startup) is an online community of fashion promoters that designers can use to sell products. We let promoters sell up and coming...
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    Online Estate Agent

    Rightmove hat properties to let but as a tenant, how will you find the bet ones out of all the choice. Nobody has time to go through 2000 different flats in one specific region. You said you worked as an estate agent so you should know that there is a different between estate agencies and...
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    Online Estate Agent

    Good point, a similar point was brought up before, and I agree. Give me your thoughts on lettings. Thats a market that has just recently gained significance and is absolutely different. Especially short term lettings. We have an incredible amount of people renting flats in the short term...
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    Online Estate Agent

    If you have a good position for me I might ditch my venture and come work for you straight away to bring your lettings department up to speed! ;)
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    Online Estate Agent

    I didnt actually plan on offering an online estate agency but I wanted to hear from other why it would or wouldn't work.
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    Online Estate Agent

    Not sure what you mean by offer... I want to talk about why there is not a startup that is taking on estate agencies
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    Online Estate Agent

    Feel free to give it a quick Google search and see what you come up with. There are a few agencies that are providing everything online, but for one, they are not focusing on lettings, only on sales. The most successful one I found is eMoov, which managed to sell 560 houses in 2012 (To be fair...
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    Online Estate Agent

    Hi ya, I am currently an estate agent at a big firm and have this idea in my head of an online estate agency. If we can have Banks, Insurance, Car Dealerships online, why not estate agencies? I know that popular aggregators such as Zoopla, PrimeLocation etc. exist, and offer a lot of choice...
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    Funding Website - Can't remember name?

    Do you mean Kickstarter? there are a lot of them, but kickstarter is by far the most famous one. Also there is indiegogo, seeders, and fundable hope that helps
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    For Entrepreneurs

    I simply shared an interesting business idea that could be helpful to a lot of folks that are trying to get started with their business. Doesn't seem like it would be in your interest anyway, since a business like that would be likely to raise real VC funding after their angel round?
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    For Entrepreneurs

    I meet them at an Entrepreneur event in London
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    For Entrepreneurs

    I agree, would be nice to see how they actually validate ideas in practice. :)