Hi Sujit, Don't forget one thing: They had the right idea and they had the > financial backing.- The 2 most important factors.
hallelujah! :) i was actually part of the news team that did due diligence on them before we invested in them :) (martin, if you are out there, i still love mod_perl and you wrote the some of the best i have ever seen :) The partnership is > for the product and to grow the product here and overseas. > Realetstae.com.au is a slighlty different offering. There are > gadzillion listing sites which do the same thing list properties for > buyers to view and take some action like send and email, print a > brochure, visit an open house. i don't know if it is that different... they also very much had/have(?) a "hub" product that did just crm/listing management for the office (no connection required), and unrelated to the website... you can almost think of it as offline products as one company + public online site as another company. They won the game then because the web was getting stronger, and there was no clear winner, agents wanted to be on the web, and the offline product was quite decent too... what you are offering (if i am not mistaken) is everything an agent would do in the office... i think it will be good to tie up to auto-publish to online sites (including realestate.com.au) so that agent's don't have to do double entries etc... should just be the click of a button to "sync" inventory to the web on realestate.com.au etc... then over the longer term, once your product is in hundreds of agents, perhaps have an standalone online play in the market as well? you probably have a beautiful product... and a brilliant strategy... my 2 cents worth... if you have a beautiful online vision as part of your strategy, the product will be more bankable! :) hear ye, hear ye about not needing to disrupt... sometimes you can grow a good model :) a disrupt (if successful) changes the game though, as it did for google via adwords, and makes you the incumbent leader... (at least until that is, someone disrupts your model :) But they were there first and the name > sticks. I cannot see any other reason why they dominate this market. > Our products are aimed at the real estate agent. Not the buyer or > seller. Its got several USPs but I will leave that for advanced stage > discussions. To aim to disrupt the market will probably bring a wrong > focus. But there is always space for innovation and progress despite > what may seem like formidable competition. > > Thanks for filling in. > > On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 12:52 PM, simran <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Sujit, > > Are you looking for business development partners/companies in Australia > to > > help grow the product here? Or around the world to help launch your > product > > in different markets? > > Also, is the partnership for your Real Estate sector product or for your > IT > > business in general? > > I remember the "days of old" - back in 2000 (when milk was just a buck a > > litre and a refill in the car was $40!!! hahaha), when realestate.com.auwas > > just trying to make a mark in the space, and they had an amazing > strategy, > > "circle the agent" (that's not what they called it, but that's what tesco > > would have called it given their "circle the customer" take on things), > and > > that strategy included having a installable product that could manage the > > real estate agent's office data requirements (aka, CRM, Leases, etc), > and of > > course, "auto publish" to realestate.com.au (for a small fee) or to > > domain.com.au etc for a larger fee... > > Well, look what happened, they have become the incumbent/default in the > > realestate space when someone is looking to rent or buy. > > They have been in the leadership position for quite a long time... might > be > > time for someone to come and "disrupt" the market a little? ;) > > simran. > > On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 10:21 AM, Sujit Shah <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> Hi, > >> > >> I am a software developer and founder of LakeSide IT. We have some > >> interesting products in the real estate sector. I am actively looking > >> for a business development partner/ company. Any advice most welcome. > >> > >> > >> Sujit Shah > >> > >> > >> www.lakesideit.com.au > >> www.fortuna.com.au > >> www.freerealestatecrm.com > >> > >> > >> -- > >> xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > >> "There must be ingenuity as well as intention, strategy as well as > >> strength. " > >> > >> -- > >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Silicon > Beach > >> Australia mailing list. Vist http://siliconbeachaustralia.org for more > >> > >> Forum rules > >> 1) No lurkers! It is expected that you introduce yourself. > >> 2) No jobs postings. 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