Taiwan's Guo brothers created 4 profitable websites in half a year

In our impression, Taiwan has almost no world-class Internet products. In fact, not only is there a lack of world-class products in Taiwan's Internet industry, but there are also very few world-class products in countries other than the United States. Even the three major domestic Internet giants, Tencent, Alibaba and Baidu, which we, the average entrepreneurs, are in awe of, cannot be called world-class. All this seems too difficult to happen in our cultural context. So we can only comfort ourselves by saying that the Chinese market is big enough and if we do well in this market first, we will be able to rank among the world's top markets. Although it sounds a bit cowardly, it does make sense. After all, you have to eat one bite at a time, walk one step at a time, and all great achievements start from small beginnings. You should have the ideal of making world-class products, but you should not be idealistic. Back to reality, for most new entrepreneurs, capital, talent and experience are lacking, so choosing a suitable entry point is very important.
So today we will turn our attention to Taiwan. In such a small, beautiful and limited market, how will Taiwan's Internet entrepreneurial elites make choices about projects?
Brothers Kuo Shu-chi and Kuo Chia-chi are the founders of Taiwan's famous website "Map Diary" (a map social networking site established in Taiwan in 2007). The company was acquired by Groupon at the end of 2010, making him a veteran Internet entrepreneur with a history of success. At the beginning of this year, he left Groupon Taiwan to start a new round of entrepreneurship and established "Entrepreneur Brothers Co., Ltd." and plans to launch 5 different network services in the next two years.
The entrepreneurial thinking of the Guo brothers' team this time is different from the last time they focused on a single product. Guo Shuqi said that the entrepreneurial experience of Map Diary made them realize that Taiwan is limited by language usage habits and market maturity. Many good international services usually do not list Taiwan as a priority market for promotion. Therefore, in the future they will use the Online+Offline business model to find successful models abroad and carry out localized business transformation. In other words, the plan is to copy five successful business models from abroad. In the past six months, four websites have been successfully launched:
1. Photo123-Provides lazy service for personal photo scanning

Many people have old paper photos and negatives at home, but scanning and organizing them by yourself is not only a technical job (such as post-production PS retouching), but also extremely time-consuming and laborious. Photo123 helps users scan photos and negatives for permanent storage. Taiwan's largest scanning website provides 24-hour service. Before your old photos get moldy and fade, send a whole box to the website and they will scan and digitize them + do color correction + burn them to a disc + preview them online for you, all for NT$5 per photo. The prototype of this business is GoPhoto, which became popular in Silicon Valley in 2011. Photo123 was launched in May 2012 and was the first project of the Guo brothers' second entrepreneurial venture.
2. Baiyi.com - launches a T-shirt every day, out of print within 24 hours

This model is based on an American website called ShirtPunch. Since its launch in October last year, it has achieved considerable success in the United States, with total revenue of nearly one million US dollars in 7 months. Recommend a creative T-shirt every day and sell it for $10 each. Baiyi.com was launched at the end of June this year. When it was first launched, it only had one T-shirt every day. Every day, it would select the most distinctive T-shirts from the designs of many outstanding designers and put them on the shelves. At present, we no longer emphasize 24-hour out-of-print, but allow each model to be sold for 3 days, which gives people more time to buy and allows good designs to have more time to spread. We have also expanded the product line and put multiple models on the market at the same time every day.
3. Business Card Network - Make business cards in 1 minute

What Business Card Network wants to introduce to consumers is an innovative service experience. To print business cards on the business card screen, you don’t need to understand design, say a word, go out, or take more than a minute. It was launched online in September this year. Unlike the usual offline or cumbersome steps of printing business cards, the business card website aims to make printing business cards very simple through the Internet. Its main customer groups are small and micro enterprises and professional individual users (such as freelancers, nannies, piano teachers, taxi drivers, and tutors). The biggest considerations for this group are probably "simple" and "cheap". The website has now been sold (it was only three months old).
4. Haocai.com - Providing safe ingredients

We prepare dishes for everyone every week and attach recipes so that everyone can cook the dishes using these ingredients according to the recipes. The way to order ingredients on Haocai.com is simple. Members can now choose between two plans: 7 dishes a week for 1,149 yuan, and 4 dishes a week for 549 yuan. Members will receive a Haocai box every Thursday or Friday, which includes fresh ingredients, side dishes, and easy-to-use recipes. New dishes will be added to the food box every week, and these dishes are jointly launched by professional nutritionists and popular food blogger Xiao Xiong. Inspired by Birchbox's subscription model (that is, paying regularly to purchase a certain service), the Guo brothers decided to experiment with this model in the food field and launched it in October this year.
What do you think of the Guo brothers’ ideas?
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