You Need to Know 5 Big Companies Emerging from Simple Idea

Often there is still thinking in society that considers a large company created from ideas that complicated. In fact, the assumption is not correct.

Currently, many large companies began to actually constructed of different ideas, and initially is often considered inappropriate or impractical. In fact, now rarely encountered a large company started from an idea that guarantees the company became a giant in the future.

As quoted from businessinsider, Tuesday, April 26, 2011, there are at least five successful companies are built from an initial idea of ​​different and often considered problematic.

1. Groupun
The initial idea of ​​forming this company is to provide an opportunity for a group of people to embrace a common goal. The purpose was described as ThePoint.

In operation, the site Groupon provides a medium for companies looking to offer coupons (vouchers), usually with a certain discount, provided the number of bidders must reach a certain limit. If the threshold is not met, then no transactions on that day.

Operations such as this reduces the risk for the retailer if the number of coupons being offered do not meet the minimum limit.

According to its website, Groupun.com, the program was first launched in November 2008. Currently, Groupun has about 1,500 employees in the Chicago headquarters and offices are being developed in Palo Alto, California.
Now Groupun develop its business by opening a representative office in Europe, South America, Asia, and other countries.

Groupun revenue, which comes abbreviation Coupon Group, as quoted from Wikipedia, from January 2010 through January 2011 is estimated to reach U.S. $ 11 million to U.S. $ 89 million per month. During the year, estimated revenues Groupun reach U.S. $ 460 million. Groupon revenue this year is predicted to reach around U.S. $ 3 billion to U.S. $ 4 billion.

In October 2010, Groupun Yahoo! reportedly received the proposal from U.S. $ 3 billion. Not to be outdone, Google is also interested in acquiring the company with a bid of U.S. $ 5.3 billion, which was then rejected on December 3, 2010.

Groupun reportedly going to release its shares on the trading floor in 2013.

2. Instagram
The initial idea came from thinking Instagram HTML 5 is capable of supporting the program location information service for its users.

Instagram itself is an application that users can use the iPhone for photo sharing. With this program, users can add special effects to photographs made before Instagram propagated to other users using social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter or Tumblr.

3. Flickr
The company is built on the idea of ​​a multiplayer game website that has a very broad member called Game Neverending.

Based on the Wikipedia site Flickr was developed by Ludicorp explained, a company based in Vancouver, Canada and was built in 2002. Ludicorp launched Flickr in February 2004. This service was developed initially to make the Game Neverending.

An early form of Flickr focused as a space for dialogue (chat room) with lots of users with names FlickrLive with the ability to share photos directly (real time). Which is more common is the splitting image or images found on the web rather than photographs made by the users themselves.


The next evolution is more emphasized for uploading and chat room site disappeared from the map.

In 2005, Yahoo Inc.. take over Ludicorp and Flickr. On June 28, 2005, all the content from the server of Canada moved to a server residing in the United States, which causes all existing data under United States federal law.

4. Facebook
Initially, the company that has now become a giant corporation seeks only to share images among its members. Furthermore, the members of the rank of the photographs that are considered most attractive.

According to the BusinessWeek site, revenue up in 2009 or six years since its inaugural launch has reached U.S. $ 700 million to U.S. $ 800 million or equivalent to Rp 6 0.3-7, 3 trillion.

CNet estimates, in 2009 Faceboook managed to obtain a net profit of tens of million U.S. dollars, or about hundreds of billions of dollars.

Facebook is also recruiting more sales staff to attract more advertisers, thus at the end of the year amount to more than four-fold since early 2009.

In his country, the company is headquartered in Palo Alto California USA has now also has become one of the company that owns the largest ad display.

According to comScore, Facebook, now control 16 percent market share of display advertising, up from 11 percent in the final quarter of last year.

5. To be Determined
Almost the same with Facebook, the company provides an Internet program, the members can share photos, and form groups based on location via an application called Color.

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