| Business Basics |
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| Company Name |
Nethotzone Media |
| Founded in |
2007 |
| Headquartered in |
Ahmedabad |
| Company website/URL |
www.nethotzone.com |
| Industry |
Media/
Entertainment |
| Stage of the company |
Scaling up |
| Source of idea |
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| Awards & honors |
No |
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| Business description |
| NHZ has been established with motto of 'Let the web be free'NHZ. It is first company across the globe to offer Free Internet service as business model through dedicated Kiosks at public places. Each Kiosk is manned by Nethotzone personnel and is equipped with minimum of five 19" LCD monitors and high speed internet connection. Users can surf free for a time...> Read more.. |
| NHZ has been established with motto of 'Let the web be free'NHZ. It is first company across the globe to offer Free Internet service as business model through dedicated Kiosks at public places. Each Kiosk is manned by Nethotzone personnel and is equipped with minimum of five 19" LCD monitors and high speed internet connection. Users can surf free for a time period of 20 minutes then they can re-login if no there is no queue. Users can also avail discounts coupons, buy online tickets, upload resumes, audio & videos content etc.
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| How does the business make money? |
| Revenue is generated from advertisement on screen and also on Kiosks. It's an ideal distribution platform for any digital content and preferred personalized media for the goods and services providers and their advertisers as they can directly reach out the end consumer using the most interactive media -Internet. |
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| Team information |
| Chetan Ingole-Ahmedabad; Pranav Jhumkawala-San Francisco; Kalpesh Joshi-British Guyana; Jaykrishna Nair-San Francisco; Rajesh Menon-San Francisco; Manan Shah-Washington DC |
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| Competition |
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| Competitors |
Reliance Web World |
| How different is your product or service? It has... |
No substitutes available |
| In what way is your product or service different? |
1. As we have establishments offering free internet access at public places ranging from Malls & Multiplexes, Colleges, Parks, Agricultural Produce Ma...> Read more.. |
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| By The Numbers |
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2006 |
2007 |
| No. of employees |
Did not exist |
6-15 |
| No. of locations |
Did not exist |
2-5 |
| No. of customers |
Did not exist |
16-50 |
| Turnover |
Did not exist |
Under 10 lacs |
| Profits |
Did not exist |
Did not exist |
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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? |
1. 'Nethotzone rocks', is the comment been given by most of 15000+ logged in users in period of just 8 months of operations.
2. Average Nethotzone user has logged in at least four times at the kiosk.
3. 76% of our users are in age group of 16 to 25 years and dose form a perfect Target Group for advertisers of goods and services to this m...> Read more.. |
1. 'Nethotzone rocks', is the comment been given by most of 15000+ logged in users in period of just 8 months of operations.
2. Average Nethotzone user has logged in at least four times at the kiosk.
3. 76% of our users are in age group of 16 to 25 years and dose form a perfect Target Group for advertisers of goods and services to this mass.
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| What keeps the team awake at night? |
| Growth plans and of-course Funding :) |
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