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Marco Milano Co-founder May 28, 2012
There’s nothing better than friends’ advice
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Problem
I want to buy a new dress.
I’ll buy it online as it is easier to go through many options without driving all around town with such time and traffic issues.
So what to do now?
I’ll browse the Web in search for an inspiration and ask my friends for advice. ‘Right?
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Not so simple… 3
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Lots of Options 4
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Is this a solution? 5
Probably Not. Why? Too messy! FB is not designed to
support discussion of purchases.
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Can We Design a
Better Experience?
YES!
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How?
Social Platform that supports
pre-purchase activities
Connecting Products with Friends
Creating and sharing virtual collections
Voting and commenting on purchases ideas
Finding the best deals on the Web and beyond
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Interactive Discussion 8
Friend’s comments
Worthitmeter
Geo-localised map of venues where
to try & buy
In-platform shopping
Recommendation System
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Facebook Integration 9
Facebook app for greater discussions integration
within the World’s favourite Social Network. No
need to ask friends to install any app.
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10 Competitors
Social Network for images. Everyone can ‘pin’ anything. Not fashion-focused. Not an E-Commerce platform, yet.
Social Network and E-Commerce platform . Users can ‘fancy’ anything. Not specific for purchasing purposes. Not fashion-focused. Not a personal experience.
Social Network and E-Commerce platform for fashion bloggers. Gamified experience. Closed-community oriented.
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Others whatUthink
11 What Makes Us Special?
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Revenue Model 12
Affiliation Programs
In-platform Purchasing
Advertising After Beta
Data Analytic After 1 year
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€150k for 1st year
13 Talking about Money
3 months
6 months
12 months
- Hire a Graphic Designer - Develop the platform - Use Web Services to host
platform
- Receive feedback - Launch prototype
- Launch beta version
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The Team
Shanshan Zhou
Hoan Nguyen
Marco Milano
Matteo Poletti
Innovation Management Marketing and Advertising
MS @University of Trento
Computer Vision & Web Developer
MS @University of Trento
Back-end Developer. C, C++ and Python.
Intern @FBK-IRST
Social Networks Analysis and Text Processing
PhD @CIMeC / FBK-IRST
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Thanks for your attention!