Does the Philippines need a Koprol?

hip, new, blah, sure its a trend but what someone here should do instead of copying ideas is to make something profitable that works here in the market locally. Yes we can make a foursquare. Will it make any money? Probably not.

Do something that has a good business plan and makes good money and you will be worth getting bought out by Yahoo and many other companies.

thats called a money hole :)

Yeah.. large internet company like yahoo.. will worry about the revenue later.. What’s importantbis that people uses their brand/products. classic eample of this youtube being bought by google for atleast 5 billion (someone correct me if I’m wrong), then there’s the broadcast.com that bought again by yahoo for 2 billion from mark cuban… and then there’s twitter though which is rumored as for sale…. these company before being bought by large company does not have revenue generator but has alot of user either visitors or people who actually use their service… sorry in reality.. big company are not just buying the company but the user’ themselves as well.

if Koprol have a few million active users… the price tag would have been much higher.

sounds like kapural… hehe

The problem of us coming up with something like this is lack of access. Hosting prices are too expensive here because of bandwidth prices and our lack of regulation in telecom. Koprol is Indonesian because its actually in Indoesia.

You realize that you are advocating a Filipino business idea on an American site Yuga? You are hosted in the US and would be considered a US site by a Yahoo acquisition Team.

That is correct, you choose to host in the US because its so much cheaper than doing it locally. Actually, if you shop, you would find better prices and better connect times to your site from you Filipino visitors in HK.

My point is, successful Internet business arise 1 in a million as the saying goes. For every Koprol, there are 100k+ other Indonesian sites that failed.

How can we hope to have hundred of thousands of Filipino internet entrepreneurs when access costs are so high and poor?

This goes back to your article many months ago on broadband speed. I believe many commentators said something likg they were ok with the low speeds for high prices we have.

I disagreed and said we needed faster, lower cots quality broadband, both in personal and professional markets to catch up with our neighbors.

This is a perfect example of my argument. Think big picture people, not in terms of selfish “ok for me”.

@abe ang alam ko may pro account ang flickr.

@Herce – the problem here is the whenever there is a big project by the government.. people connected to the project is already “has” a plan on what they can “get” even before the project is approved or being implemented.

Just look at what happened to the ZTE deal. Anyhow… I guess that’s the main difference between them and us. I sure hope this will change soon.

@abeolandres looking forward to Pinoy #startup acquisitions!

abe whats your favorite pinoy startups? or are is that a conflict of interest? :)

this site focuses a lot on tech but not much on business or entrp…

well if its online then its tech :)
but i mean Abe likes to feature PH sites once in a while but hasnt done in a while :)

YPN is gone

We have eskwela.ph but it appears to be abandoned. FYI our local startup founders are encouraging anyone interested to promote the culture on their respective localities. There’s Terence Pua, Erick Zoo, JP De la Torre, and etc.

Here are a couple of pinoy startups:

http://insynchq.com
http://www.reserveup.com/
http://piclyf.com/

You might want to subscribe too here, Terence has a regular writeup here:
http://thestartupdigest.com/

Ive made a mobile based social network site for filipinos, but seems theres no market for it. theyre just so addicted to facebook lol. i halted the development of the desktop version, mainly due to financial constraints. hope to see ya around there.