I saw this in Internet-
StudiVZ, a German clone of Facebook was sold for 100 million Euros to Holtzbrick Verlag, a giant German publishing company, reports3 Spiegel Online, a well known German news outlet. The Chinese clone of Facebook was acquired back in October 2006. StudiVZ claims to have a million users.
Is it a start-up idea?
Clones of websites with high number of users or high volumes of uses?
And similarly, clones of products with high-volume of sales?
I guess the number of users, amount of uses and sales are more important than cloning. Cloning, of course, can innovate on something to make it more relevant and useful.
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As always success is not in Idea but in implementation. Gmail implemented web-email much better than hotmail or yahoo, Business networking was started by ryze.com but linkedin is more successful.
– Vikcy
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Its not called cloning, its called inspiration 😉 Has been happening for decades: Times of India modelled on The Times, Sumeet Mixer modelled on Moulinex, Bajaj Chetak inspired by Vespa…
So you get inspired and then you customise to market: Match > Shaadi, Monster > Naukri, etc etc….
The value is not in the closing or the inspiration, but the value the product has created by attracting customers. So yea, look around for cool ideas around the world and give it a shot in the Indian market…you won’t a prize for being innovative, but someone might write you a check for a penthouse and a mercedes 😉