Yesterday, Gabriel Aldamiz-Echevarria, the founder of Chicisimo gave lecture to our class.
He has already been the entrepreneur for 3 startups and has enough experience of Internet business.
He had spent significant time in Sillicon Valley and made alliance with websugar.com, which focuses on women blogs in US, and found the online business chances targeting for women fashion.
Then, he launched online fasion community site – Chicisimo in Spain. In Chicisimo web-site, members can upload their fashion pictures and share fashion trend among members.
The key points which I impressed are…
● Business idea
By utilizing nowadays Social network trend, Gabriel targets at women fashion and launched Chicisimo. I think that the key point is normal women can upload their pictures and share them in this community ; every women who join this community can become a fashion model on this site. If only the pictures of fashion models are uploaded on this site, it would get hard to call on… (Their style & appearance are perfect and sometimes it is hard for normal women to refer to their fashion…. )
In Japan, similar kind of web site (http://www.zoolook.me/) is now catching on because ordinal women can share their fashion by uploading their picture…. All members can feel a sense of affinity ….
● Start early
Owing to his enough knowledge & experience with Internet business and human network, he was able to launch this business less than a week. Firstly he created ugly prototype with UI (User Interface) and launched it in this short term. Normal entrepreneurs might wait for launch until they can complete neat business model & products, but he did it immediately. This energy & spirit is the point where most entrepreneurs should follow.
I respect not only for his attitude toward disclosing everything he thinks and wants to say, but also for his ability to get things done.
Thanks…
As I mentioned in another colleague's blog I respect his do it as soon as you can approach and I think I'd do the same in a market where still nobody is working on the opportunity that well. I think, though, that this can also backfire in a market where everybody is looking for new revenue streams and such attitudes must be carefully considered.
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