Killer Startups – Latest Gonzalo Arzuaga’s creation

Posted on | March 21, 2007 | Comments Off

I’m constantly seeking at the web trying to find something interesting among the million projects (sites) are launched every day. It’s hard to find something interesting or creative with also a solid model of business, apparently internet is the perfect place where the people launch projects without even asking about how are they gonna obtain money to finance their project and get some benefits.

The last 20th of January Gonzalo Arzuaga (An internet Pioneer that has demonstrated with the years an splendid capability for developing and launching projects balancing creativity and a solid business model, something pretty unique in internet) has launched killerstartups.com, a brilliant project with a great marketing mix.

The idea is both simple and brilliant. Killerstartups.com was developed based on Pligg. Originally named menéame in Spanish, Pligg is a web application that allows users to submit a startup that will be reviewed by all and will be promoted, based on popularity, to the main page. When a user submits a startup it will be placed in the “Newly Submitted” area until it gains sufficient votes to be promoted to the main page. The original source for Pligg was authored by Ricardo Galli. He was influenced by the extremely popular English technology site digg.com.

Probably a lot of people say, this is just a Meneame clon, but that’s in my opinion is a very simplistic analysis and has no relation with reality. Killer Startup is a completely different project with a different business model, so the utilization of a similar platform doesn’t make Killer Startups a Meneame clon.

I could keep talking about KillerStartups.com but I think that nobody could explain better this project that the founder and owner. So I’ll be interviewing Gonzalo Arzuaga this days and later posting it here. By now let me invite you to visit KillerStartups.com and build your own opinion.

Juan Manuel Damia (web analytics)

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