Re: VRM Utopia Re: [projectvrm] good Groupon Math

[Satya Krishnaswamy < >]

Katherine's vision is very similar to an idea I started working on last
year - I had briefly discussed it with Doc and Iain when they were in
Mountain View. After a while, I realized that it needed more runway than
I, as a first time entrepreneur, could afford.

Interestingly, this idea pivoted into a "personal RFP" like service for
consumers to interact with local businesses such as restaurants, salons
etc (some folks who have seen it have called it 'Priceline for local
businesses' or 'reverse Groupon').

The solution (called Glasscart) has been fully developed (including an
iPhone app) and is ready for consumers and businesses to be brought on
board but for various personal reasons, I am not moving ahead with it.

If anyone is interested in taking it forward, pls contact me and I would
be happy to discuss more in detail.

Satya

On 5/9/11 7:30 AM, "Mark Lizar" 
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>Katherine,
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>I think you are spot on and your comment below is something I have
>been thinking about for a very long time.
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>On 9 May 2011, at 13:58, Katherine Warman Kern wrote:
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>> To clarify, I'm thinking about an alternative to groupon's
>> discounting model, what if there were a means for people who are
>> existing customers of a category and know a lot about it leveraged
>> the group effect to improve products and grow a market.
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>Lately, I have been imagining what a VRM community platform might look
>like and in this regard I have a great idea.
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>What if the VRM community banded together and put together a platform
>that combined loyalty card program and paperless receipts upon an
>infrastructure of personal data control as to create a user driven
>channel for coupons and groupons.   A reverse or Open Loyalty system
>if you will.
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>Enabling people to independently control, benefit, gain access too and
>make valuable our own personal information in the context of all the
>vendor relationships we have.
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>Perhaps this is a bit of a utopian VRM vision, but I do think there is
>great potential in the combination of these traditional vendor tools
>to build the business book  that contrasts with the Facebook.
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>A concept beyond me to execute but a powerful VRM vision just the
>same.    Perhaps it is time that the VRM community started to think
>about a call to action and collaborative structure to really make
>things happen?    Such a structure would surely have my support
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>Best Regards / Mark
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