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| Company Name |
Funpiper.com |
| Founded in |
2007 |
| Headquartered in |
Hyderabad |
| Company website/URL |
http://www.funpiper.com |
| Industry |
IT/ Internet/ Software |
| Stage of the company |
Have first customer |
| Source of idea |
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| Awards & honors |
First to launch a theme based portal on "How was your weekend?". Got covered by various portals.
Appeared in IIT Alumni Journal for innova...> Read more.. |
| Awards & honors |
First to launch a theme based portal on "How was your weekend?". Got covered by various portals.
Appeared in IIT Alumni Journal for innovation.
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| Partnerships & Tie-ups |
N.A. |
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| Business description |
Funpiper.com is envisioned to be a leader in event planning and management in India. To achieve the vision, Funpiper.com is revamping the current portal to provide its user with greater collaboration in event planning and a unique concept of blog-like event page. A launch is planned in September. Going forward, Funpiper.com will be integrating event plan...> Read more.. |
Funpiper.com is envisioned to be a leader in event planning and management in India. To achieve the vision, Funpiper.com is revamping the current portal to provide its user with greater collaboration in event planning and a unique concept of blog-like event page. A launch is planned in September. Going forward, Funpiper.com will be integrating event planning with mobile services and live streaming. Funpiper.com plans to make money from selling services to event planning companies, video photographers, local city centers, and last but not the least, classified and contextual advertising revenue.
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| How does the business make money? |
Selling service to event planners, Selling service to Local city centers, and Advertising
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| Team information |
Ajitesh Shukla, Co-founder |
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| Competition |
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| Competitors |
Centerd.com, Socialzr.com, Going.com
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| How different is your product or service? It has... |
Identical or close substitutes available abroad |
| In what way is your product or service different? |
Ease of accessibility, Seamless integration with local listing, Collaborative event planning, Future integration with Mobile and Live video Streami...> Read more.. |
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| By The Numbers |
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2006 |
2007 |
| No. of employees |
0-5 |
0-5 |
| No. of locations |
0-1 |
0-1 |
| No. of customers |
over 50 |
over 50 |
| Turnover |
pre revenue |
pre revenue |
| Profits |
losing money |
losing money |
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| Primary source of initial funding |
Personal savings |
| Primary source of additional funding |
Personal savings |
| Raised institutional capital? |
No |
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| Why is this startup hot? |
1. Funpiper.com is marrying collaborative event planning with Local Listing and will be first of its kind for Indian Market.
2. Funpiper.com is planned to bring mobile integration to event planning.
3. Funpiper.com is envisioned to bring the advantages of live streaming to event planning in India. One simple example of this is live strea...> Read more.. |
1. Funpiper.com is marrying collaborative event planning with Local Listing and will be first of its kind for Indian Market.
2. Funpiper.com is planned to bring mobile integration to event planning.
3. Funpiper.com is envisioned to bring the advantages of live streaming to event planning in India. One simple example of this is live streaming wedding proceedings which friends and family members can watch it live at their home.
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| What keeps the team awake at night? |
| "A cup of coffee with a lot of passion in it!"
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