Broadcast Shopping, a 21th century business model visualised

Recently Scott Adam described an upcoming new way of doing business. He calls it ‘Broadcast shopping’. The main idea is that potential clients expose their intention to buy on an online platform. Clients can do this by describing their specific need or problem. On the other hand we would find companies that could provide a [...]

Posted on November 29, 2009 in Internet & media Read more

Wraply, a hassle free gift service

After several very basic business models, it is time for a more advanced example. The problem it focuses on is rather straightforward. When buying a gift for somebody together with some friends, you might run into the hassle of collection money. The start-up Wraply.com will try to solve this with a simple and convenient online [...]

Posted on October 22, 2009 in Consumer goods, Entertainment & tourism Read more

Irehab.com: Let doctors pay to give you health care

The new start-up Irehab.com tries to take a different approach to health care. Patients can get free advice on how to treat specific complaints. By answering a few questions and looking at several 3D animations, these users should be able to diagnose themselves. To treat for instance ‘back pain’ they can follow step-by-step instruction videos [...]

Posted on August 17, 2009 in Other-industries Read more

Quirky, get paid to influence product designs

Quirky, the social product development community, has a very intriguing multi-level business model that shows other web 2.0 projects that money making from day one is possible. Product developers all over the world can submit their ideas to the Quirky platform. Since the posting of these ideas will cost a designer 99 dollar, a first [...]

Posted on August 5, 2009 in Internet & media Read more