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| Company Name |
Vakow! |
| Founded in |
2007 |
| Headquartered in |
Mumbai |
| Company website/URL |
www.vakow.com |
| Industry |
IT/ Internet/ Software |
| Stage of the company |
Scaling up |
| Source of idea |
Wanted it as an individual customer |
| Awards & honors |
N.A. |
| Partnerships & Tie-ups |
N.A. |
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| Business description |
In India (and certain other geographies) there is a huge demand for SMS based content whether it's "useful" content (like cricket score, news etc.) or "just entertainment" content (jokes, shayari etc.). Vakow! satisfies that need.
Vakow! is a community of people who love to share SMSes. They can post their SMS (from web or phone), receive SMSes ...> Read more.. |
In India (and certain other geographies) there is a huge demand for SMS based content whether it's "useful" content (like cricket score, news etc.) or "just entertainment" content (jokes, shayari etc.). Vakow! satisfies that need.
Vakow! is a community of people who love to share SMSes. They can post their SMS (from web or phone), receive SMSes from friends or tags, find new SMSes to share on phone, email or various social networks.
It's like Youtube for SMSes.
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| How does the business make money? |
| Vakow will display advertisements on website, wap site and SMSes that we send out. Vakow will also create premium mobile communities
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| Team information |
| Rahul Gupta, CEO & Founder
Amit Upadhyay, CTO & Founder
Vipin Kannoth, Community Manager
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| Competition |
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| Competitors |
smsgupshup, mytoday
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| How different is your product or service? It has... |
Substitutes that differ in function |
| In what way is your product or service different? |
Vakow! is more 'social' in nature. Focusses more on discovering and sharing high quality SMSes whether it's phone, email or social networks. Various f...> 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 |
Did not exist |
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| Profits |
losing money |
losing money |
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| Primary source of initial funding |
Personal savings |
| Primary source of additional funding |
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| Raised institutional capital? |
No |
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| Why is this startup hot? |
We're called Vakow!
Built, launched and managed for a long time by a two member team (Last month, in July, we hired our first employee). That's cool but it's even cooler when I tell you that our closest competitor has more than 80 employees.
We actually raised money from Rediff.
Vakow! allows you to share SMSes with your Orkut and F...> Read more.. |
We're called Vakow!
Built, launched and managed for a long time by a two member team (Last month, in July, we hired our first employee). That's cool but it's even cooler when I tell you that our closest competitor has more than 80 employees.
We actually raised money from Rediff.
Vakow! allows you to share SMSes with your Orkut and Facebook friends.
Vakow! is unicode supported which means that people can post SMSes in Hindi, Gujarati and other languages and share with their friends. Sharing is cool. Sharing in your language ? cooler.
Vakow! is also one of the popular way to post to twitter! Our longcode (9901554321) works and is lot cheaper than twitter's India shortcode. And because twitter is cool, people think that we're cool too.
If that's not enough you can ask any Mumbai Barcamper if we're cool. Oh, and you can also visit http://www.vakow.com/ and find out yourself.
* It's from a very bollywood and very disco RD Burman song (If we're selected we might play it during the presentation)
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| What keeps the team awake at night? |
Hiring
What more cool things we can do?
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