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SimplySeven - Seven Ways to Create a Sustainable Internet Business
Workshop at General Assembly, London, 19.02.12

Who buys what and how.
SimplySeven                                                             Dr. Niko Waesche



Business models are not the most important thing in your business,
but it makes sense to systematically look at them all.
Creating a sustainable internet business
“SimplySeven.”
•  Seven models – a finite number, but far more than most internet
   entrepreneurs and managers consider for their business.
•  “Who buys what and how.”
•  Business models are a deep part of customer experience.
“Evolution, not revolution.”
•  It is about systematically evaluating all the options, continually.
•  War stories and business model design… Measurement, experimentation
   and continuous development along seven paths.
Never forget “People Power.”
•  “Free” means to give back and cherish the contribution of the users.

>> Today’s workshop: Discuss, protest, complain, participate <<

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SimplySeven                                                  Dr. Niko Waesche



SimplySeven is the product of many joint brainstorming sessions
by an entrepreneur, an academic and an investor.
SimplySeven authors

The Entrepreneur
 Jörg Rheinboldt: Founder of eBay Germany, Founder internet design
 company, Co-Initiator and Board Betterplace.org, Founder M-10, active angel
 and entrepreneur.

The Marketing Professor
 Erik Schlie: Associate Dean and Professor of Marketing and General
 Management and Associate Dean of MBA Programs at IE Business School,
 Madrid.

The Investor
 Niko Waesche: Founder GMPVC, media for equity investment pool.
 Previously Partner at global tech firm, VP at US VC fund, angel in Alando
 (acquired by eBay), Triphunter (acquired by Brands4Friends), Dealvertise and
 Linguee.com. Previous book: “Internet Entrepreneurship in Europe.”

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SimplySeven                                                                      Dr. Niko Waesche


One reason why SimplySeven framework is useful is that it’s
finite, people like models they understand from real world.
Introducing the (finite) SimplySeven
#    Model            Description                      Flagship        Common mistake

1    Services         A onetime charge for a service   Skype           Not being able to scale
                      provided directly
2    Subscription     Collecting a recurring payment   Blizzard/       Believing that people like to
                      stream from your customers       Thomson         be held captive
                                                       Reuters
3    Retail           Selling real goods in an         Amazon.com      Treating online like offline
                      internet shop
4    Commission       Taking a cut on a transaction    eBay            Thinking your clients won’t
                      between a buyer and a seller                     deal behind your back
5    Advertising      Collecting a fee for an          Google          Invading people's screen
                      advertisement or referral                        space or their privacy.
6    Licence          Selling digital goods in an      Apple           Going it alone
     sales            internet shop
7    Financial risk   Making money with financial      Emerging, too   Ignoring additional risks such
     management       risk positions.                  early           as fraud and regulators.


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SimplySeven                                                                                                      Dr. Niko Waesche



     While the seven basic business models have remained, but the rate
     of evolution within these models is astonishing.
     Types of business models and their rapid evolution
                              Ideo         USWeb
                             (1991) Kabel (1995)     iXL
                                                                                                                              new
                                      New          (1996)      Denkwerk                   Skillberry              Skype               Gazelle
             Services                                                                                                       Razorfish
                                      Media         Lava        (1998)                     (2001)                 (2003)              (2007)
                            Pixelpark                                                                                        (2004)
                                                   (1996)
                             (1991) (1994)
                                                                                                                 Linden
                                                                                              Blizzard
                                        AOL                     Celera           Jamba                          Lab 2nd                         Spotify
           Subscription                (1985)                   (1998)           (2000)
                                                                                               WOW
                                                                                                                   Life       Xing              (2008)
                            Bloomber                                                          (2000)
                                                                                                                 (2003)      (2003)
                            g (1981)
                                                                                  Doc                                                 Vente
                                    Amazon                     Boo.com                                                                Priveé
               Retail         ABC (1994)                        (1998)
                                                                                 Morris
                                                                                 (2000)                                               (2004)
                            Telebuch                                                                        Stumbleu
                                                                                                                           MySpace
                             (1992)         craigslist                                                         pon
                                                                                                                            (2003)            MyVideo
                                    Netscape (1995) GoTo.co Google                                           (2002)
                                                                                                       LinkedIn                      YouTube (2006)
           Advertising               (1994)            m (1997) (1998)                                  (2002)                        (2005)
                                                                                                                                                Twitter
                                                                                                                                  Facebook
                                                                                   Friends                                                      (2005)
                                                            PayPal       Alando                        Commis-                     (2005)
                                                                                    United
                                     eBay                   (1998)       (1999)                          sion          Smaava     Plastic     Groupon
          Commissions               (1995)
                                                  eLance       LastMinut        Questico
                                                                                    (2000)
                                                                                                       Junction         (2005)    Jungle     (2007/08)
                                                   (1998)       e (1998)         (2000)
                                                                                                        (2004)                    (2006)
                                                Macro-
                               Microsoft
                                                media
                                           Blizzard                                                                         RealPlay
                                (1975)
                                   Oracle            Intershop                                                    iTunes
          License Sales                         (1996)
                                              Ent                                                                           er Store           AppsStor
                                Adobe
                                   (1977)              (1997)                                                     (2003)
                                           (1991)                                                                            (2004)            e (2006)
                                (1982)
                                                      Party-                      ING                                                  Prosper.c
          Financial Risk                                                         Direct
                                                     Gaming                                                                      Weather-
                                                                                                                                       om(2006)
          Management                                 (1997)                      (2000)                                          bill (2006)
Source: Internet research          1995                                                   2001
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SimplySeven                                                                                              Dr. Niko Waesche



     As an entrepreneur, you need five things to get started (courtesy of
     Guy Kawasaki).
     The right business model is important – but it is definitely not everything

                                                             This is what
                                                             entrepreneurs
                   Make meaning                              should do 80% of
          1      (Something that inspires
                 you, not the idea to make
                                                             their time…
                                                                             2           Make mantra
                   money or gain power)                                            (Guidance for your company
                                                                                          – every day)




                             3     Get going (You should
                                      always be selling, not                                 Define your
                                    strategizing about selling)                      4     business model
                                                                                           (You must know how you
                                                                                           will make money, but you
                                                                                           don’t need to be original)
         Project management
        skills are important for
                                                  5         Weave a MAT
        survival in every single                             (Define milestones,                This is the core of the workshop.
         career – I don’t know                               assumptions, tasks)                 Be able to identify and analyze
             any exception.                                                                       business models continually
                                                                                                helps you make the right choices
Source: Guy Kawasaki, “The Art of the Start,” 2004, pages 3 -26.                                       in a changing world.

       Seven Ways to Create a Sustainable Internet Business                                                      London, 19.02.12
SimplySeven                                                                                         Dr. Niko Waesche



Success in digital business depends on mixing the right cocktail
containing business model, skills, finance and organization.
Getting the cocktail right
                                  Fit with skill set? Fit with
                                   location of company?               What skills do you
                                                                    have? Which skills do          Is the organization
                                Maturity of business model?
                                                                     you need to source        effective? Do you have to
       Financing from cash       Barriers to entry? Growth
                                                                   externally? How do you       reinvent the wheel each
         flow? Expansion        opportunities? Positioning in
                                                                     upgrade your skills?       time? Are you scalable?
            constraints?                 value chain?
                                                                                               Can you plug new hires in
         Involvement with                                                                            easily? Ability to
             financiers?                                                                            internationalize?


                                                                                                       Organization
       Financing                                                       Resources and
         model
                              Business Model                                                               and
                                                                           skills                       processes




        Competition                                      Customers                                Partners

              Are my competitors               Do I have the most demanding customers       Am I dependent on my
            helping me to define my             in the world? Are my customers resilient     partners? Are they
              market? Or are they                   to mistakes? Is my customer base         dependent on me?
               eating my lunch?                  growing? Can my customer afford me?          What is the legal
                                                                                                 framework?
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SimplySeven                                                                            Dr. Niko Waesche



Every company has its own approach to business success factors.
Here, the 37Signals way, as presented in the book “Rework.”
An “intentionally small company” making software for small companies and three
million people
                              Start a business, not a                                Good enough is fine
                                      startup               Do it yourself first
                                                            Hire when it hurts          Don’t be a hero
      Why grow?           Building to flip is building
                                    to flop                Forget about formal        Meetings are toxic
Outside money is Plan Z
                                                               education           Send people home at five



                                                                                         Organization
       Financing                                            Resources and
         model
                              Business Model                                                 and
                                                                skills                    processes




         Competition                             Customers                           Partners

         Don’t copy
                                                 Say no by default                   Welcome obscurity
  Out teach the competition
                                                 Build an audience                 Press releases are spam
  Underdo the competition
                                               Go behind the scenes                 Start at the epicenter
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SimplySeven                                                                        Dr. Niko Waesche


“Europeans – in particular Germans - don’t innovate, they can
only clone.”
The myths and truths of the internet clone machines

!  One of the most common criticisms about Europe – in particular Germany - is that no original internet
   companies exist, only clones.
!  Indeed, there have been some spectacular clone stories from the very beginning, for example, eBay
   clones:
       QXL (UK, Poland), Alando (Germany), Ricardo (Germany)
      And many, many more…
!  This continues today, with Groupon acquiring CityDeal and Google buying DailyDeal in Germany.
!  There are several “clone factories,” started by successful serial entrepreneurs: Rocket Internet,
   Project A Ventures, Team Europe Ventures, White Bear Yards, Rheingau Ventures, FoundFair...
   They would never call themselves “clone factories.”
!  These companies are actually offering “internationalization oursourcing” to US companies. Rocket
   Interet for Groupon, Springstar for AirBnB.
!  However, people also claimed the Japanese could only copy in the 60s and 70s, then they invented
   the Walkman, without which there would be no iPod.
!  Talent and capabilities are being built up in these environments… school for many entrepreneurs.
!  Some very unique global internet successes come out of Europe today: SoundCloud, Vente Privee,
   Research Gate, Linguee.com, Statista, Betterplace, Transferwise… and many more.


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SimplySeven                                            Dr. Niko Waesche




Service Sales




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SimplySeven                                                                            Dr. Niko Waesche


Services sales is a straightforward model – a company
providing a one-off and direct service over the web.
Definition of services sales

!  Very straightforward - you can set up a services
   business on the web tomorrow.
!  Services sales have two main characteristics: They
   are one-off and direct.
      One-off means they aren’t subscriptions, for example, through
      which a service is bought over a longer period of time.
      Example: Tax tax return services. Offshore tax return services
      were the most thought provoking case cited in Thomas
      Friedman’s 2005 bestseller “The World is Flat.”
      Example 2: 23andMe, technology pioneer Esther Dyson’s genome
      service founded in 2006.
      Direct means that services are sold directly by the company or
      person providing the service. They can be brokered by an agent –
      but they are using a different business model.
!  One of the first internet service businesses was to
   create web sites for businesses – the interactive
   agencies.
      Much of this business was marketed over the web, but sold in       Web-based human translation service
      person.

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SimplySeven                                                      Dr. Niko Waesche


It is important to differentiate Services Sales from the ad or
commissions business models.
Definition of services sales

!  It is important to understand the differences to
                                                         End customer for
   what agents and intermediaries do.
                                                         translation, plumbing
!  Agents help sell services too; as aggregators they    service
   create marketplaces connecting providers to
   buyers of services. Agents make money through
   the advertising or commissions business                      Aggegator
   models… examples ate eLance, Craigslist or                   (Craigslist,
   Groupon. They are scalable.                                  eLance,
                                                                oDesk…)
!  On the back of these aggregators, services are
                                                          Services Sales
   sold. Services make up a huge part of some
   economies, for example, 70% of the US economy.        Translator or plumber
!  Service sales are made by the service provider        selling her/ his
   directly, this can be to an end customer or through   service over the
   an aggregator.                                        internet

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SimplySeven                                                             Dr. Niko Waesche



Maturity: What did not work initially was the sale of a substantial
quantity of e-services over the internet - apart from agency work.
The re-invention of eLance

!  eLance was founded in 1998 and initially financed in the Dot Com boom with US$60m
   as an „eBay for outsourcing.“
!  It survived the years after 2001 selling B2B software to manage subcontractors for large
   companies such as American Express, BP, FedEx and GE.
!  It sold this software to Click Commerce to refocus on the orginal vision – create a
   marketplace for freelance projects.
!  The services business model applies to the freelancers, whereas eLance or oDesk
   takes a commission.
!  Groupon works in a similar way, matching demand with localized services offers such as
   Whalewatching. Most of these are offline services, but they don‘t have to be.
!  With new initiatives such as Groupon and mobile commerce, the sale of services over
   the internet will be increased in the next years.




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SimplySeven                                                              Dr. Niko Waesche


Companies in the “re-commerce” segment buy used media or
goods from consumers and re-sell them for a profit.
Services Sales example “Re-commerce”

!  Gazelle buys back used electronics.
!  SecondSpin buys used media.
!  These companies exist because it takes a lot of effort for consumers to sell items on
   eBay.
!  They have inventory risk and require working capital.
!  From the Gazelle web site: “To date, more than 100,000 consumers have used the
   service as a way to clean out closets, get cash and help out a good cause. In addition,
   Gazelle empowers consumers to avoid time consuming and risky online experiences
   associated with peer-to-peer selling.“




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SimplySeven                                                      Dr. Niko Waesche


Often a problem model, however. Not scalable, high customer
acquisition costs and very little lock in.
Despite efforts by the agencies, there are few truly scalable services companies

!  Yes, services sales are much more straightforward than subscriptions or
   agent-based models.
!  The business model poses several problems, however: It is not recurring, it is
   not scalable and it does not benefit from aggregation.
!  Services sales only makes sense if one or more of these criteria apply:
  1.  It is scalable
  2.  Customer acquisition costs are low
  3.  Customers are somehow “locked in” and keep coming back.
!  The communications service Skype manages to tick all these boxes. It is the
   most successful service sales internet company we know. Its main business
   model is charging for call services into fixed lines or mobiles.




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SimplySeven                                                                Dr. Niko Waesche


From the very beginning, Skype’s scalability was based on
the power of peer-to-peer. It did not have a business model.
The search for a business model

!  Skype took more than a year to get any funding. 20 different venture
   capital funds refused to invest in 2003. Mangrove in Luxembourg
   was one of the few to see the potential.
!  It did not help that the founding team was notorious for having
   founded Kazaa – and was being sued.
!  Skype used peer-to-peer technologies for voice over IP. This meant
   that it could scale massively.
!  In fact, Skype proved later that it could add 150,000 new users each
   day without spending anything on new hardware or connectivity
   (“The meaning of free speech,” The Economist, 15.09.2005).
!  This also meant that Skype had a very low break even point. And it
   could be a massive threat to the telecommunications industry if it got
   the technology right.
!  It did not have a business model yet, only an idea (which was bad on
   top of it for this company): “Maybe advertising.”


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SimplySeven                                                      Dr. Niko Waesche


The ability to massively scale and virally grow saved Skype: It
did not need a great business model, just a good enough one.
Skype has a severe impact on the telecommunications industry

!  The impact of Skype on the telecommunications industry cannot be
   overstated. Skype has over 500m user accounts. 13% of all long distance
   phone calls in 2009 were made with Skype, a whopping 54bn minutes,
   according to the telecommunications analysis company TeleGeography. This
   makes Skype the largest long distance phone carrier in the world, by far
   (“International Phone Traffic Growth Slows, while Skype Accelerates,”
   TeleGeography Press Release, 19.01.2010).
!  While internet communication is free, Skype charges for calls to mobiles or
   fixed lines. There is a subscription, too, but Skype made most of its $551m in
   2008 revenue through pre-paid phone credits (“Investor Group to Acquire
   Majority Stake in Skype,” Skype press release, Menlo Park, CA, 01.09.2009).
   This is the services sales model.
!  Skype has so many users and such a low cost base, that it can afford to make
   money on only 5% or less of its calls with a basically very challenged business
   model (one time and not recurring).
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SimplySeven                                                       Dr. Niko Waesche


A comparison of AT&T and Skype shows that AT&T actually
cannot compete with Skype with its current structure.
Snapshot from 2007: Real world vs. the internet

                                AT&T                    Skype
Age                             122 years               4 years
Revenue                         $119 billion            $382 million
Number of customers             14 million broadband,   276 million registered
                                70 million mobile       users
Employees                       309,000                 700
Revenue/ employee               $385,000                $546,000
Customers/ employee             272                     394,286



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SimplySeven                                            Dr. Niko Waesche




Subscriptions




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SimplySeven                                                                            Dr. Niko Waesche


Subscriptions are the heaviest weapon in the arsenal. It is like
asking people if they like to be chained to a wall.
A simple sanity check

!  Sales people hate subscriptions because they are such a tough sell.
!  There normally only is one person who really likes subscriptions: The CFO. In
   contrast to other business models, subscription creates a constant and
   predictable revenue stream for the company.
!  Potential subscribers actually think deeply about predictability. A simple sanity
   check is made by most people before signing up: With what certainty will I use
   the service how many times during the subscription period to justify the price?
   1.  Necessity: Utilities, mobile phone services or internet access fit into this category. If there is
       competition, these services quickyl become a commodity with rock bottom pricing.
   2.  Unmatched attractiveness. The service has to be so compelling and one-of-a-kind that your
       customers will do anything for it, even sign up for a subscription.
!  If you happen to offer such a truly compelling service, then you have lucked
   out. Not only can you offer premium prices, you may actually want to charge
   more just to underline your status as an exclusive service


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SimplySeven                                                                    Dr. Niko Waesche


It is difficult to stay in the top box, it is a position many
companies will envy.
Justifications for subscriptions

!  It is very hard to hold the premium position forever.
   Some services move into commodity and were
   premium previously.
!  If services are only a necessity and not compelling
   or one-of-a-kind they become a commodity…. Rock
   bottom pricing.
!  Although the subscription business model insures
   some sustainability and is thus loved by CFOs,
   services are not immune to becoming a commodity
   and thus loosing value.
!  This is what happened to AOL.




                                     These services have turned   Psychologically, people who want to
                                     into commodities. Little     subscribe to a unique service
                                     differentiation means low    usually justify this as being
                                     margins.                     necessary. This box is uninhabited.


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SimplySeven                                            Dr. Niko Waesche


An interesting psychological fact is that people who
subscribe to a compelling service also feel it is necessary.
Selling subscriptions with the Apple iPhone

!  Remember the greyed out box – unique but
   not necessary. This box is uninhabited.
!  Psychologically, people who want to
   subscribe to a unique service usually justify
   their subscription as being necessary.
!  Some services, such as a golf club
   membership or an iPhone subscription,
   however, are not necessities, but when
   asked, people will say they are.




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SimplySeven                                                                              Dr. Niko Waesche


The subscription model is one of the oldest in the online
business – it began its life as premium access provision.
The beginnings of the subscription model and competition with the ISPs

!  Compuserve (founded 1969) was one of the first providers
   of online access for private businesses.
!  AOL was started in 1985.
!  Since the 1990s, there was tension between the online
   service providers and ISPs, or internet service providers.
      Online services tried to provide premium services – exclusive forums,
                                                                                         AOL Time Warner had
      content, games – to its users and were late to offer direct internet               to conduct a goodwill
      access.                                                                            write off resulting in a
      ISPs were low-cost providers which offered only internet access - where            2002 loss of $99bn
                                                                                         due to the AOL
      the user-created content was.
                                                                                         acquisition.
!  The high value of Compuserve and AOL (leading to AOL                                  Finally, in 2009, AOL
   acquiring Time Warner) was based on the elusive belief in                             was spun off from
                                                                                         Time Warner - as a
   exclusive content and the sustainability of the subscription                          shadow of ist former
                                                                                         existence.
   business model.

                                                                 Source: “Kill AOL” number plate found on the internet.

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SimplySeven                                                                   Dr. Niko Waesche



    Truly exclusive content is very, very difficult to find. Subscription
    companies discovered that providing exclusive access was the key.
    Lessons of the survivors of the subscription business model

     !  Financial Times (FT.com) successfully offers a
        tiered access model with some free and some
        subscription content – but to a specialist audience.
     !  Companies such as Bloomberg and Reuters do
        the same. They need to keep investing to offer
        timely information specially prepared for
        investment professionals.
     !  What keeps financial customers on these services
        is the understanding that their competitors are
        using the same information sources.
     !  In fact, most brokers have both screens from
        Reuters and Bloomberg!
     !  It is not really exclusive content – all the content
        exists elsewhere almost real time as well – but        Reuters screen for financial professionals.
        exclusive access to a place where your                 You are competing against the market – so
        competitors are.                                       you need to access the same information
                                                               place as all other market players have.

Source: Reuters Knowledge 2.5.

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SimplySeven                                                                                                    Dr. Niko Waesche


     Here come the MMORPGs. Just when all thought subscription
     was dead, it was reinvented again.
     The boom of Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games (MMORPGs)
     !  About 10m people worldwide play MMORPGs.
     !  The boom of subscription-based multiplayer online
        games is not obvious…
              There were free multiplayer environments in the internet from the
              very beginning. The first (text based) Multi-User Domain, MUD,
              dates from 1978.
              There are many licensed games you can put on your computer and
              you need to pay only once.
     !  The first graphical MMORPG actually ran on AOL
        from 1991 to 1997 and cost US$6 per hour. It was
        too expensive.
     !  It was the combination of other game participants
        with the premium content of licensed games that
        resulted in the rebirth of the subscription model.
     !  Kids wanted to be in the place where their friends
        (and competitors) were. Exclusive access with
        premium content was the key.                                                  Heavy guidance and a game objective with your
                                                                                      friends online – not user created content - is the
     !  The model is very similar to FT.com, Bloomberg                                secret of World of Warcraft (WoW). 7m customers
        and Reuters… the customer wants to be in the                                  play WoW globally. It is the most popular
        same place as his or her friends and enemies.                                 MMORPG with a market share of over 50%.

Image: World of Warcraft, Developer: Blizzard Entertainment, Publisher: Vivendi Universal. Source: Wikipedia entry.

       Seven Ways to Create a Sustainable Internet Business                                                           London, 19.02.12
SimplySeven                                                                    Dr. Niko Waesche


The zombie business model subscription is back: Spotify is
challenging Apple’s licence sales model for music.
Music subscription web sites

!  After being forsaken as a business
   model for most internet companies,
   subscription is back.
!  Apple has revolutionised music on
   the internet by successfully
   establishing their iTunes store in
   combination with their hardware iPod
   sales.
!  New contenders such as Spotify,
   however, are offering “all you can
   eat” music services based on                    Spotify on the web and mobile phones
   advertising and exclusive member
   subscriptions.


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SimplySeven                                                                               Dr. Niko Waesche


    The subscription model seemed dead… user created content
    was better and “free…”
     The subscription business model developed the “bouncer principle”


                                                                                Access to doctors as
                                                                   (1) People   exclusive content
                                                                  need to be
                                                                   where the
                                                                  competition    (3) Health
                                            The “bouncer               is in      services
                                            principle:” Some        financial                     Software as
                       First experiments
                         The dream of       services started to     services
                                                                                  such as
                                                                                                  exclusive content
                                                                                Hellohealth
                       participation and
                           exclusive        understand that                       charge a
                                            exclusive access to
                          interactivity
                             content        a virtual “place”
                                                                                subscription
                                                                  (2) Gaming       rate for
                                            was more              companies         doctor          (4) Software as
                                            successful than       understand       access              a Service
                                            trying to develop       that kids                       companies such
                                            exclusive content.       want to                               as
                                                                  share their                       Salesforce.com
                                                                  experience                        use subscription
                                                                                   (4) Music          successfully
                                                                                    services              (1m
                                                         Bouncer principle to       such as           subscribers)
                                                         make content more       Grooveshark
                                                         attractive               and Spotify
Image of bouncer: Not for commercial use.                                         introducing
                                                                                 subscriptions
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SimplySeven                                            Dr. Niko Waesche




Retail




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SimplySeven                                                                                              Dr. Niko Waesche



    The early online pioneers looked for retail categories that could be
    sold better on the internet than in a shop. Books were ideal.
    Only a small proportion of books can ever be in a shop

     !  ABC Bücherdienst – founded in 1992 in Germany on BTX
        “*TELEBUCH#” - featured 700.000 books in its online database,
        200.000 could be sent within 24 hours of ordering.
     !  Even though the price of books was fixed in Germany, the sheer size of
        the database as well as free postal service over a purchase price of
        DM80 made the offering competitive against conventional retail shops.
     !  Amazon was founded two years after ABC Bücherdienst by Jeff Bezos,
        an employee of a hedge fund who had researched the different
        business models of internet ventures. Books seemed perfect because
        of the impossibility to carry a large book stock in a retail store.
     !  The average Borders bookstore in the US carries 100.000 titles. Jeff
        Bezos founded Amazon with the vision of offering a million books.
     !  Other successful online retail examples exist as well: DocMorris
        founded an online pharmacy in Holland for the German market, thus
        bypassing strict German pharmacy regulation.


Amazon example: Chris Anderson, „The Long Tail. The New Economics of Culture and Commerce,“ Random House, 2006, p. 48.

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Internet retail seems straightforward. But there is a lot to
watch out for.
Internet retail is anything but easy

!  At first, internet retail seems straightforward. It is about selling your own inventory in an
   internet shop. These are real things we can touch. There are a multitude of shops on the
   internet selling almost everything one can imagine.
!  It is far less fancy than its closest relative, digital license sales, because it does not
   require formats, interfaces or devices.
!  However, selling in an internet shop is anything but easy. Retail knowledge is not
   necessarily sufficient. There are a multitude of aspects which need to be considered
   unique to internet selling.
                                          Some retail categories require detailed           In some retail categories,
                                          information about items on the web site or        return rates can be 70% or
                                          even customer service involvement.                higher.



  Discovery of                                                          Completion
                           Discovery of          Engagement                                                Return of
  shop on the                                                           of check out   Shipment
                           item in shop          with the item                                           item to shop
    internet                                                              process

Exposing content directly to Google
                                      Process flow in internet retail from customer perspective

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     Retail start-ups failed if they did not focus systematically on
     the right product categories, costs and fulfillment.
     Boo.com was the most spectacular retail flop ever - RIP May 18, 2000
     !  Started by a Swedish model and friends, backed by the luxury goods
        company LVMH and throwing fantastic parties all over the world.
     !  The spectacular flop of Boo.com showed how sexy the internet economy
        could be – by celebrating it’s own rise and fall. Its story “capture[s] all the
        fever, glamour and broken dreams of the dot.com era” (Malmsten).
     !  Boo.com famously spent its way through $120 million during its frequent
        delays and brief existence from 1998 to 2000.
     !  The web site actually was online for only half a year.
     !  A very high number of products returned by the customer… a service that
        was offered for free, but charged for by their logistics supplier Deutsche
        Post.                                                                                                              Boo.com founders
                                                                                                                           Patrik Hedelin, Kajsa
     !  Tristan Louis, Interim CTO of Boo.com: “Boo was the first company to                                               Leander and Ernst
        launch from the ground up in multiple countries from day one. This                                                 Malmsten
        represented a set of challenges that were previously unaddressed, ranging
        from technology challenges to more traditional issues in generating a global                                        Boo.com burned
        brand. While I was working for Boo, I was in charge of developing the back-                                         through a huge sum of
        end fulfillment system, a platform that allowed us to handle multiple                                               money making every
        currencies, multiple languages, on the fly tax calculation, and integration with                                    possible internet retail
        multiple fulfillment partners.”                                                                                     mistake in the book

Tristan Louis‘ web site: http://www.tnl.net/; Ernst Malmsten, Erik Portanger, Charles Drazin, „Boo Hoo,“ Random House, 2001, p. vii.

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    Despite its scale advantages, Amazon is systematically reducing inventory
    cost and risk by allowing Third Parties to sell over the web site.
    Shifting warehouse costs and risk to suppliers and distributors
     !  For some of its inventory, Amazon introduced its “Marketplace”
        program for “ProMerchants” in 1999 for used books where it
        shifts cost and risk to small suppliers who keep their own stock.
        This represents about 28% of Amazon’s units sold.
     !  Amazon.com needs to react to its competitor eBay, which in its
        original business model carried no fulfillment costs. Wall Street
        is watching closely which models promise higher growth and
        better margins.
     !  eBay, specialized on the commission business model and
        connecting buyers and sellers of used goods, has also moved
        into new goods. But it immediately begun with the concept of no
        warehouse. All of the warehouse costs and risks are held by the
        supplier partners.                                                                                 Amazon’s partner program

     !  In cases where rapid delivery is required, warehouse and
        fulfillment costs may be reduced further by outsourcing the
        function to distribution experts such as FedEx, UPS or DHL.
     !  As a consequence, medium sized warehouses are
        disappearing… either they are very small with a very specialized
        selection or they are very large to benefit from scale.
                                                                                                           eBay’s partner program
Amazon example: Chris Anderson, „The Long Tail. The New Economics of Culture and Commerce,“ Random House, 2006, p. 92 - 97.

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Digital books are inspiring internet book retailers. Here is the chance for
zero inventory costs and a new license based business model.
Forsaking the retail business model and going digital

!  Books on demand are becoming cheaper and cheaper to
   produce. To be economical, it is still a requirement to print
   more than just one book, but this will be realized soon.
!  Amazon owns “Booksurge” a print-on-demand company:
   “Headquartered in Charleston, South Carolina,
   BookSurge’s state of the art book manufacturing facility
   produces one book or 100 books profitably for authors and
   publishers and fulfills retail book orders in most cases
   within 24 hours.”                                               Amazon’s Kindle and Fire family
!  This is happening in many other areas as well – especially
   audio and film production. Lower production costs are
   leading to a participant information culture which further
   moves away from mainstream.
!  In February 2009, Amazon launched the second version of
   Kindle, its digital book reader.
!  Further Kindles and the Fire followed with Amazon
   investing significantly to capture license revenues and
   develop its own ecosystem and platform.
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     The internet has become such an important source of product information
     and brand experience that “bricks and clicks” are a must-have.
     Creating brand experience through flagship stores and the internet
     !  Internet sites are a must have for retail:
               Research information on products in shops
               Search for shop locations
               Order in advance
               Experience the flavor and culture of the brand
     !  Many purchasing decisions in shops are researched in
        advance on the internet.
     !  This explains the great demand for product information on
        the internet and is leading to increased sophistication of the
        consumer in purchasing decisions from cars to olive oil.
     !  Luxury brands are evolving in their store concepts as well.
        “The product is not enough.” Brands are moving away from
        third-party presence in department stores to their own stores.
        Each global city has their own store look...
     !  The new Gucci store in Tokyo, Prada's New York store, with
        its cultural performance space, and Louis Vuitton's Champs-
        Elysees flagship, with its art gallery and bookstore.
     !  "We think it is the second stage of globalization," says
        Francois-Henri Pinault, chief executive of PPR, Gucci
        Group's parent company. "First all stores looked the same,
        now they are tailored to their local markets.“
     !  It is the “desire for experience” (Future Laboratory, a London-
        based consulting firm) and the “selling ceremony” (Financial
        Times) which leads to both extravagant flagship stores
        combined with an extensive experience-based internet
        presence.                                                                     Gucci new Ginza Flagship Store and internet Site
Images from the Gucci Japan site: http://www.gucci.com/; Vanessa Friedman, „Gucci opens Tokyo flagship store,” Financial Times, 13.11.06, page 9.

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    The early online bookshop founders were the first to
    understand the benefit of the “long tail” concept.
     Selling the “long tail” of books – near zero distribution costs
     !  When online pioneers selected books as their retail category
        because of the vast selection advantages available on the
        internet, they had discovered “the long tail.”
     !  Chris Anderson described the “long tail” as a central concept
        for internet business in his influential book.
     !  The thesis of “The Long Tail” is that the reduction of fulfillment
        costs through the internet resulted in a nearly unlimited
        demand for specific items far from the mainstream.
     !  This applies to many categories: Books, music, etc.
     !  Demand for these specific items surprised most consumer
        companies. Anderson cites that 98% of all online music tracks
        are sold at least one time a quarter by an online music
        company. Hardly any songs in its huge database - 2% - never                              The demise of hit albums 1957 - 2005
        get requested.
     !  These specific items may be bought only one or two times a
        year, however, together they result in sales that can surpass
        the sales figures for mainstream items.
     !  Anderson declared that the era of mainstream music and
        mainstream taste is finally over as people are able to cultivate
        very individualistic and fragmented tastes. A virtuous circle
        because large availability of variety installs demand for even
        more specific items.                                                                     “The Long Tail”
Chris Anderson, „The Long Tail. The New Economics of Culture and Commerce,“ Random House, 2006, p. 7, hit album image is on p. 32.

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    How does one find very specific niche products? Smart
    aggregation and lots of diverse opinions are the answer.
     Recommendations based on the “wisdom of crowds”
     !  If you are selling very specialized niche products in
        the “long tail,” how do you make sure your
        customers find them?
     !  Amazon.com tracks purchases of products and
        makes aggregated recommendations based on the
        choice of thousands of other consumers.
     !  This system taps the “wisdom of crowds” (James
        Surowiecki) Diverse sets of people allowed to make
        decisions independently can be remarkably
        intelligent. More than most experts.                                     Amazon.com recommendation for Herbert’s Scale
     !  While the TV show “Who Wants To Be a Millionaire”
        is not scientific evidence, the expert opinion is on
        average 60% right whereas the crowd opinion has a
        success rate of 91%.
     !  A diverse group of smart and not-so-smart people is
        always better than a group made up of just smart
        people. Diversity erodes group pressure – which
        leads to wrong choices.
     !  Large groups require an aggregation mechanism,
        which Amazon provides.
     !  We will see more of this when we discuss Google.                         Amazon.de recommendation for Herbert’s Scale

James Surowiecki, „The Wisdom of Crowds. Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few,“ Abacus, 2004, p. 4, 28 - 49.

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Google search and new viral models are enabling new micro
shops with may be a threat to Amazon.
The future of internet retail
!  Opening shops is really cheap through Open Source SW. In the 1990s, an e-shop could cost one
   million US$.
!  PayPal and other payment mechanisms are available. Logistics companies such as FedEx, DHL
   and UPS have developed special services for online retailers, making shipping costs more
   affordable.
!  Through the crowd-powered search mechanism of Google, small, very specialized niche players
   can today be successful on the internet.
!  The new niche players can rely on global reach to create the customer size they require to survive.
!  New club-based concepts take niche retail further still into the area of viral marketing. Companies
   such as Brands for Friends use club concepts to allow manufacturers to sell excess inventory for
   much lower prices. The club concept allows an artificial separation between the regular retail
   channels of the manufacturers and the club members. The concept is viral, because these players
   rely on word of mouth to pass on the advantages of the club.
!  We see from these innovative club concepts that innovation in the internet retail model has not
   ended – on the contrary, new ideas are appearing continuously.


                                                                     Viral club concept vente-
                                                                     privee.com – Members have
                                                                     to sign in




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In their quest to improve their margin and reduce inventory costs
further, online retail is actually transforming its business model…
The transformation of online retail… a revolution in inventory costs
                                                                                             Fulfillment seeks
                                                                                            scale advantages.
Bricks and                                                                                   Print on demand
   Clicks:                                                                                        removes
Offline retail                                                        Reduced                    inventory.
   moves                                                              inventory                             Amazon and eBay
   online                                                                 and                                become the front
 seeking a                                                           distribution                           end of thousands
 complete                                                                                      Reduced
                                            Moving into                 costs…                production of small shops and
 consumer                                                            from scale
experience
                                             categories                                       costs turn producers-sellers.
                                               where                   to virtual
                                                                                             consumers
                                             online has                  goods
                                                                                                 into
                                             immediate             “The Long Tail”            producer-
                 Selling things             advantages                                         sellers
                                                                              Intelligent
                     online                    to real
                                                                             filters take
                                            shops… eg.
                                               books                         advantage                    Threat for Amazon:
                                                                                 of the                   Emergence of
                                                                             wisdom of                    independent micro
                                                                              crowds to                   shops and viral
                                                                            locate niche                  models
                                                                               products
                                       Aggregation and filters are
                                    complementing or replacing expert                Google has enabled countless small
                                     opinion and are enabling further               micro shops because they can set up
                                  fragmentation and individualistic taste           independently from eBay or Amazon.
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Commissions




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The upcoming two business models, commissions and
advertising are both agents-based models.
Agents-based business models

!  Previous business models, services, subscriptions and retail always include
   two parties, a seller and a buyer.
!  The upcoming two business models, commissions and advertising, include at
   least three parties: A seller, a buyer and an agent.
!  Often, there are even four or more different parties.
                                                                        How it works: The agent
                                                                         places a cookie on the
        Seller                    Publisher                  Seller    computer of the potential
                                                                      buyer, registering that she/
                               70%
                                                                          he saw a product or
                                                                        service described on a
                                                                       publisher site (such as a
   Marketplace                                       Agent            price comparison service).
                      100%                                              When the person then a
                                     Time                               week later actually buys
                                                                         the product, the agent
                                                                       receives his commission.
        Buyer                               30%
                                                     Buyer                 He splits it with the
                                                                       publisher – the publisher
                                                                       getting the higher share.
Three party commissions      Four party commissions model:
model: eBay                  Commissions Junction

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The two agent-based models share similarities, but also an
important difference.
Agents-based business models
!  Agents thrive in complex, rich environments (like the internet) with a lack of complete transparency.
!  Due to a lack of information, parties which are potentially interested in a transaction cannot find each other. If agents
   do their job right, they serve as intelligent traffic coordinators through the chaos of the internet.
!  Agents working with commissions often serve companies or freelancers working with other internet business models,
   for example eLance, a marketplace for internet services, or eBay, which is a marketplace for items sold using the
   internet retail business model.
!  Agents have to strike a delicate balance, however. They have to watch out they that are not too obtrusive. At the
   same time, they have to keep proving to their clients that they are worth their money.
!  There is an important difference between the two agent-based models, however.
       The commission model only generates cash when the transaction actually is successful, when an item is bought
       or a service purchased. The sales risk is spread among the agent, the seller and the buyer. The agent accepts
       this risk because the reward is potentially higher. The higher the value of the sale, the higher the proceeds from
       the commission.
       Advertising models generate cash regardless if the actual sale goes through or not.
       Some companies, such as Commissions Junction, offer both models adjusting to the current sales situation.
!  Commission models are therefore particularly appropriate when the agent is a significant part in the whole sales
  process.


                                                                   Agents thrive in complexity

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    The eBay business model worked instantly… based on three simple
    concepts: Power of C2C, the fun of auctions, payment model.
     Birth of the global consumer marketplace in 1995

     !  Power of the C2C: Matching consumers with consumers.
             Connecting 30m buyers and sellers around the world.
             Millions of collectibles, appliances, computers, furniture, equipment, vehicles,
             and other miscellaneous items are listed, bought, and sold daily.
             In many ways, success of C2C marketplaces foreshadowed success of Web 2.0.
     !  Fun with auctions.
             People actually enjoy the competition of auctions, even though they often end up
             paying more.
             The marmalade jar of Axel Ockenfels at the University of Cologne. Students
             always end up paying more than the !12 on average in the glass jar.
                                                                                                eBay.com web site
     !  Payment model: The seller pays.
             eBay generates revenue from a number of fees. The eBay fee system is quite
             complex; there are fees to list a product and fees when the product sells, plus
             several optional fees, all based on various factors and scales.
             The U.S.-based ebay.com takes $0.20 to $80 per listing and 2–8% of the final
             price (as of 2006).
             The business took off from the founding year 1995 – “Unstoppable.”

                                                                                                eBay HQ in San Jose, CA
Source for commission fees in US: Wikipedia.

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    eBay’s C2C business model generated revenues and profits early and its
    share price was never pushed up and down like its contenders.
     Does eBay simply have a perfect business model that does not have to evolve?
     !  eBay was never hyped as much as the other big internet players.
     !  eBay’s business model was an instant success and required the
        least refinement – like no other player.
             Low cost base due to C2C – Better than Amazon.com or Yahoo!
             Monetization intrinsic element – Much like Google AdWords.
             Morgan Stanley identifies three crucial drivers for eBay revenue (Gross Merchandise
             Volume GMV)
             listings * average sales prices (ASPs) * conversion rates = GMV
     !  “For most of its existence, eBay has enjoyed a sort of virtual
        monopoly. It now commands more than 90 percent of the online
        auction market, and from 1999 to 2004 it posted at least 40
        percent annual profit growth every year, even as strong
        competitors like Amazon and Yahoo were taking runs at its core
        business.”
     !  Raffi Amit of the Wharton School and Christoph Zott of Insead                                  Share price development
        argue in a recent paper that the internet opened up “opportunities                             graph from The Economist
        to be very creative in the design of the business model”.
             In e-commerce, they say, most value is created by business models—the way in which
             firms conduct their affairs with suppliers and partners, as well as customers—rather
             than (as is largely the case in the offline world) the products or services themselves.
     !  The eBay business model seemed to be perfect from the very
        beginning – this is may be a problem for growth.
Source: Graph and Amit and Zott mention: „Happy e-Birthdays. After ten years, what has been learnt about succeeding as an e-business?“ The Economist,
21.07.05. eBay statistisics auction market: Michael V. Copeland, The Big Guns' Next Target: eBay, Business 2.0 Magazine on CNNMoney.com, 31.01.06.
Mary Meeker, David Joseph, “Listings * ASPs * Conversion Rates = GMV eBay US Historical Trends,” Morgan Stanley, 11.01.07.

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    C2C economics only works if abuse is limited to reasonable levels.
    The most important fraud prevention mechanisms is user feedback.
     Fraud prevention through user feedback and supported by eBay staff

     !  Pierre Omidyar began with user feedback as fraud prevention mechanism very early…
        he could not handle answering all the dispute emails directly himself.
     !  In general, user feedback works excellently as a fraud prevention mechanism.
     !  There are only a few potential weak aspects:
              Small and large transactions carry the same weight in the feedback summary.
              Feedback may be provided by partners of the fraudulent seller.
            A user may be reluctant to leave honest feedback out of fear of negative retaliatory
            feedback (including "negative" in retaliation for "neutral").
     !  Without feedback, eBay would not work and collapse under fraud instantly.
     !  In addition, eBay have a staff of 1,000 people focused on fraud and payment issues.
     !  Fraud heavily impacts other commissions-based marketplaces, for example freelance
        platforms providing access to software coders.



Source: Adam Cohen, „The Perfect Store,“ Little, Brown and Company, New York, 2002, pages 27 - 29

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     Moving off site: The danger every agent faces, is that buyers and
     sellers carry out their business directly.
     eBay is threatened by big sellers moving off site, and now from big buyers, too

      !  In some eBay categories, big sellers are gaining power – they can “go solo”
         enabled by Google search.
              The threat of moving off site is a challenge for eBay. Between 10 and 20 sellers account for 80%
              of the golfing goods sold via eBay.
              Google is using its advertising business model to steer specialist buyers straight to specialist
              sellers — in effect disintermediating eBay.
      !  “Big buyers” have emerged, too, using the service business model and buying
         back standardized items like used media and electronics. The model is called
         “ReCommerce.”
              SecondSpin
              Gazelle

       Even P2P is not an endless source of growth. One third of eBay‘s revenues
       today already comes from an alternative business model, from PayPal. In
       2011, eBay presented a software platform for merchants as a strategic
       growth area.
Source for Golf statistic. Dominic Rushe, „Ebay rivals bid to put the boot in,” The Sunday Times, 05.02.06.

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If eBay could be wildly successful with a global virtual flee
market, what about the same model in hotels and tourism?
AirBnB

!  AirBnB team founded its company based on an
   idea having emerged from a couple of design
   school students offering their apartment as a
   place to stay.
!  The payments system actually became one of the
   main advantages of the services. Staying at
   people‘s places was not compromised by
   awakwardness of payments situation.
!  Company growing fast with complete focus on
   product.
!  Internationalization outsourced to Springstar in
   Berlin.



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     Companies that tried to copy eBay in B2B did not succeed. Some
     have put a huge amount of effort into search and standardization.
     The spectacular failures of the B2B marketplaces – Some exceptions
     !  With the success of eBay, many entrepreneurs thought that the
        same business model aspects – low costs and intrinsic
        monetization – could bring them great success in B2B.
     !  They set up commission-based marketplaces for businesses to buy
        and sell goods from building supplies (Build Online or http://
        www.ctspace.com/), engineering supplies and services
        (techpilot.net) to used machines (Surplex.com).
     !  Venture capitalists thought success here was obvious and poured
        money into this category. Companies like Verticalnet were listed on
        NASDAQ.                                                                                             Verticalnet offers software and
     !  Most failed miserably. Many of those involved still wonder exactly                                  complete solutions
        why. The answers are not obvious…
              A real large-scale C2C market never existed, whereas companies have been optimizing
              B2B procurement for decades.
              Procurement at companies is part of complex supply chain processes. Optimization of
              these processes often brings more value than a better B2B marketplace.
              Goods procured by businesses are often accompanied by services such as installation or
              integration services or requires substantial explanation. This limits the number of sellers
              and makes an open marketplace less useful.
     !  Today, the focus of B2B market players like Verticalnet is on
        complete solutions for businesses and on software.
     !  B2B markets did not entirely disappear, survivors have put a huge
        amount of work into standardization and search… Mercateo.com.                                       Mercateo has 4m articles
        They now enjoy significant barriers to entry.                                                       standarized and comparable
Source of graphic: http://www.verticalnet.com/

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In China, B2B platforms were highly successful because of
the transformation to a partially capitalist economy.
B2B in China – Right place, right time

!  Alibaba – Huge success story as the biggest B2B wholesale marketplace in
   China
!  In the meantime, Alibaba.com has launched international versions to facilitate
   global trade
!  The Alibaba founder then also went into other areas:
      TaoBao (B2C, C2C)
      ZhiFuBao (Electronic Payments, Escrow Services)




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Groupon grew in turbo mode by offering daily deals in cities
and taking a 50% commission (but dropping).
The star among new commission-based models – but not P2P

!  Using a straightforward approach of offering a daily deal in a specific city available to
   people if a sufficient number is reached, Groupon proves that urban classifieds market
   can be tapped through innovative schemes.
!  The main asset of Groupon is it’s mailing list of millions of consumers.
!  Groupon keeps 50% of every deal sold and also benefirs from coupons which are
   bought but not used (recently dropping to 38% - triggering a cost programme).
!  Groupon is offered in 300 local areas in 29 countries.
!  Sales may top $500m in 2010. Growth has slowed down somewhat.
!  The company requires additional financing because it is powered by sales teams
   acquiring the daily deals.
!  Groupon was founded in November 2008… IPO on Nov 4th, 2011.




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The original C2C marketplace model has not evolved since its
conception, attempts to adapt it have mostly failed.
The remarkable longevity of the original C2C model – But how to grow?
                                                                                                  eBay bought
                                                                                                  StubHub in 2007
                                                                                                  for $310m
    Benefits or synergies between
    conventional auction house               ?                               C2C Segments
    Butterfield and Butterfield and eBay                     New                                AirBnB
    did not materialize.
                                                          specialized            C2C Services
        Conventional auction house                       C2C markets
                                                                                             Services
                                                PayPal Payments                           Business Model
     eBay                                                                                  Challengers:
                                               C2C goods markets
  Marketplace                                                                             “ReCommerce”
                                                                              Affiliate
                               Communications system                         Marketing
                                                                           (Commissions
                       B2B                                                   Junction)
                    Marketplace                                                               B2C
                        s
                                                         ?                                 Commissions
                                                                      Use both
    Corporate procurement is a wide area including
    consulting services, business processes,
    software technologies and yes, to a limited extent
                                                             ?        commissions and
                                                                      advertising based
                                                                      business models
    also internet marketplaces.
                                                                                          Success of B2B
                                                                 Alibaba.com              in China
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Advertising




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Like the commissions model, the advertising business model
involves at least three different parties.
The challenges and opportunities of advertising

!  The three parties involved in the advertising business model are: The publisher selling
   the ads, the advertising client buying the ads and the consumer engaging with the ad.
!  Sometimes, the publisher and the agent are separate entities. Now we have four
   parties: The publisher providing the reach, the agent selling the ads, the advertising
   client and the end consumer.


           Client                                                             Client

 Publisher/           Ad                                Ad
                                       Publisher                              Agent
 agent

       Consumer                            Consumer
Three party advertising               Four party advertising model: Google AdSense, DoubleClick
model: Craigslist, Google
AdWords, Facebook

 Seven Ways to Create a Sustainable Internet Business                                London, 19.02.12
SimplySeven                                                                        Dr. Niko Waesche


The publisher of the web site and the advertising agent do
not carry the risk of sale – as in the commissions model.
Seller’s risk and price of an ad

!  In the traditional media model, the publisher does not assume sales risk.
      For example, TV broadcasters and their agents received money whether the advertisement was
      successful or not – in the sense that the company advertising a product actually sells more of the
      product due to the ad.
      In part, this is because the success of a TV ad cannot be measured. Proxies are used. Ads are
      measured with panels reporting on reach and frequency (GRP: Gross Rating Points).
!  This difference between the commission and advertising models exists also on
   the internet – the advertiser does not carry the risk of the sale.
      The advertising agent fee is due whether the ad actually is successful or not in the sense that a
      product actually is sold.
      The fee usually is some form of fixed fee related to the value of the ad – not the value of the
      product (like a commission).
      Internet advertising is often sold with some success element, for example, Google AdWords only
      have to be paid if a consumer clicks on the ad.
!  When you think of commissions, think of “selling,” when you think of
   advertising, think of “information.”

 Seven Ways to Create a Sustainable Internet Business                                London, 19.02.12
SimplySeven                                                          Dr. Niko Waesche




Advertisers are always in a Catch 22 situation.
Catch 22

!  To attract more clients and ask for higher prices, publishers and
   their agents always seek to make their ad space more valuable.
!  The more they push their ads on the visitors of their web sites and
   try to force engagement, the higher the likelihood of achieving the
   opposite effect.
!  People will find the ads horribly annoying or, worse still, an
   intrusion on their privacy.
!  This is not just the case with banner ads. People are very
   suspicious if their private information is being used for targeting,
   too. This challenge was faced by Facebook in 2007.
!  The best ads are those that are seen as a service by users.
   People don‘t seem to mind ads on Google, and they actually
   voluntarily visit sites composed only of ads, for example,
   Craigslist.

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SimplySeven                                                            Dr. Niko Waesche


In the beginning, advertising was very much designed as if
we were still in a traditional print world. Users hated it.
The unloved banner ad

!  Imagination was missing about the possibilities
   of being in an interactive space of thousands of
   clicks.
!  Some innovation was present in banner
   advertising, such as floating, moving and large
   banners, however, mostly to the annoyance of
   internet users.
!  Google differentiated itself not just in terms of a
   new advertising business model as we will see,
   but also in terms of its look and feel, which
   represented a counter reaction to the banner
   ad.
!  Many did not understand that this simple
   rebellion against the banner ad itself was a
   contribution to Google’s success.
                                                         Banner ad on Spiegel Online

 Seven Ways to Create a Sustainable Internet Business                    London, 19.02.12
SimplySeven                                                                                             Dr. Niko Waesche


     But Google did not just simplify the interface, it perfected
     search by using the “Wisdom of Crowds.”
     Using the “Wisdom of Crowds” to improve search
     !  The power of Google is the power of information aggregation of
        thousands and millions of links.
     !  Google PageRank works with complex algorithms:
             Links on a page
             Anchor text around links
             The popularity of pages that link to a page
     !  When these algorithms are periodically adjusted to reduce click
        fraud, page rankings are changed, sometimes heavily… this is
        called the “Google Dance.”
             Battelle’s example of Niel Moncrief and the web site 2bigfeet.com… he lost his       Search on Google for “big feet”
             Christmas business 2003.
             This is unlikely to happen today, as search algorithms have improved considerably.
     !  John Battelle describes in his book the search phenomenon as a
        cultural artifact… how Google mirrors our culture and has built
        the “Database of Intentions…” “Google knows what our culture
        wants.”
     !  Google “Zeitgeist” is a must-see showing the top searches each
        month in each Google country.
     !  Google has an incredible market position, for example, in the UK,
                                                                                                  Google “Zeitgeist” for Germany
        Google has a market share in search of 78% (Financial Times,                              October 2006
        “Yahoo is starting to think out of the box,” 08.12.06, page 18.)
Source: John Battelle, „The Search,“ New York, 2005, 2-3, 20-37, 153-188.

       Seven Ways to Create a Sustainable Internet Business                                                    London, 19.02.12
SimplySeven                                                                                                        Dr. Niko Waesche



     While Google tapped the “Wisdom of Crowds,” GoTo.com had already
     found another solution against spam… the “Wisdom of Capital.”
     The true business model innovation in advertising came from GoTo.com
     !  Bill Gross, the genius behind LA-based IdeaLabs developed “one idea per month”
        This resulted in many web sites (such as CitySearch, Tickets.com, eToys.com) which
        required user traffic.
     !  Gross developed the idea of organizing search results according to who paid the most
        per click.
     !  Gross: “The true value of the internet was in its accountability… performance
        guarantees had to be the model for paying for media.”
     !  Gross calculated that it took 5-10¢ a click to buy traffic through banner advertising
        from major web sites. In the beginning he decided to subsidize GoTo.com by selling
        traffic for 1¢ a click… Gross believed that the cost of acquiring traffic would go down
        as GoTo would gain popularity and the price for a click would go up… because it was
        the right traffic!
     !  When GoTo.com was launched in 1998 it had 15 advertisers, by 1999 it had
        thousands.
     !  Gross was right… targeted traffic would be valued at about 50¢ in early 2005.                            Bill Gross
     !  GoTo.com realised it could extend its reach by syndication and decided in September
        2001 to transform itself into syndication-only… it was renamed Overture.
     !  Gross met Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin in 2001, but they decided to
        copy and further improve the business model of GoTo.com (Google’s AdWords).
     !  The well-known venture capitalist Bill Gurley called this business model “the salvation
        of the internet.”
     !  Bill Gross is working on his next idea… “SNAP” uses pay on conversion



Source: John Battelle, „The Search,“ New York, 2005, 95-121; Image from Fortune web site, “Idealab Reloaded Surprise!.”

       Seven Ways to Create a Sustainable Internet Business                                                               London, 19.02.12
SimplySeven                                                                      Dr. Niko Waesche


What is killing the newspapers are online classifieds and
especially the lean operating model they have.
Running a top 10 web site with 23 people… craigslist classifieds




http://www.craigslist.org/about/                        http://sfbay.craigslist.org/
pages.and.peeps.html (Oct 2006)


 Seven Ways to Create a Sustainable Internet Business                             London, 19.02.12
SimplySeven                                                                         Dr. Niko Waesche



Can everyone benefit from Google economics? Internet players
have completely different cost structures established competitors.
Google economics allows it to pour money into development

!    Part of the Google advantage are
     its fantastic margins.
!    Deutsche Telekom has !61.4bn
     sales with an EBIT margin of 15%.
!    Google has revenues of US$7.2bn
     with an EBIT margin of 50%.
!    Google revenue growth 75.8%
     CAGR (2004A-2007E) compared to
     DTAG’s 2.3% in the same period.
!    Deutsche Telekom has 250,000           Google financials (UBS, “Google Inc,” 07.11.06)
     employees, Google has 2,600.
!    Google invested US$2.8bn in R&D
     in 2008, DTAG !422m.




                                            Everyone is invited to suggest and rate Google product ideas

 Seven Ways to Create a Sustainable Internet Business                                London, 19.02.12
SimplySeven                                                          Dr. Niko Waesche


Google has announced that it is expanding into internet and
streaming based TV and interstitial advertising.
Interstitial ads in streaming video – Google, Apple TV, Hulu

!  The global TV advertising market is $180bn. As TV moves
   online, will new contenders be able to tap this large market?
!  AppleTV has already been very successful in launching its TV
   device.
!  Media players have responded to internet TV by successfully
   launching Hulu, a service owned by several large media
   companies and financed by a Private Equity fund.
!  Google is also seeking to enter this market, having made an
   announcement in September 2010.
!  Google has discovered that major advertisers will not place
   their ads next to user generated YouTube content, but they do
   go for premium content on Hulu.
!  It is widely expected that tablet PCs – especially the iPad will
   accelerate this development.
 Seven Ways to Create a Sustainable Internet Business                 London, 19.02.12
SimplySeven                                                                                                           Dr. Niko Waesche



     Google needs to move beyond search to grow… the battlefield that Google
     is concentrating on right now is mobile.
     Beyond search

      !  Google’s excursions into conventional advertising
         were not successful:
              Extended into traditional print advertising through placement in
              local US newspapers.
              Google has acquired a radio-based ad network.
      !  The first move beyond search advertising was
         integrating third parties into the Google ad network:
         AdSense                                                                                    Local Google AdWords
      !  Software as a Service was the next area. SaaS
         (email, office programs) extend the amount of
         advertising space and capture the consumer.
      !  Most important is mobile computing, however, in a
         challenge to Apple’s iPhone
              Google Maps with ads
              Google street view and augmented reality                                              The growth of search: Internet
                                                                                                    expenditures by type
              Android mobile phone OS with with the Android Marketplace

Statistics: Zenith OptiMedia, “Online advertising to grow seven times faster than offline advertising in 2007,” Press Release, 04.12.2006

       Seven Ways to Create a Sustainable Internet Business                                                                  London, 19.02.12
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Seven Ways to Create a Sustainable Internet Business Workshop

  • 1. SimplySeven Dr. Niko Waesche Not for distribution - Personal copy only for participants of the workshop. SimplySeven - Seven Ways to Create a Sustainable Internet Business Workshop at General Assembly, London, 19.02.12 Who buys what and how.
  • 2. SimplySeven Dr. Niko Waesche Business models are not the most important thing in your business, but it makes sense to systematically look at them all. Creating a sustainable internet business “SimplySeven.” •  Seven models – a finite number, but far more than most internet entrepreneurs and managers consider for their business. •  “Who buys what and how.” •  Business models are a deep part of customer experience. “Evolution, not revolution.” •  It is about systematically evaluating all the options, continually. •  War stories and business model design… Measurement, experimentation and continuous development along seven paths. Never forget “People Power.” •  “Free” means to give back and cherish the contribution of the users. >> Today’s workshop: Discuss, protest, complain, participate << Seven Ways to Create a Sustainable Internet Business London, 19.02.12
  • 3. SimplySeven Dr. Niko Waesche SimplySeven is the product of many joint brainstorming sessions by an entrepreneur, an academic and an investor. SimplySeven authors The Entrepreneur Jörg Rheinboldt: Founder of eBay Germany, Founder internet design company, Co-Initiator and Board Betterplace.org, Founder M-10, active angel and entrepreneur. The Marketing Professor Erik Schlie: Associate Dean and Professor of Marketing and General Management and Associate Dean of MBA Programs at IE Business School, Madrid. The Investor Niko Waesche: Founder GMPVC, media for equity investment pool. Previously Partner at global tech firm, VP at US VC fund, angel in Alando (acquired by eBay), Triphunter (acquired by Brands4Friends), Dealvertise and Linguee.com. Previous book: “Internet Entrepreneurship in Europe.” Seven Ways to Create a Sustainable Internet Business London, 19.02.12
  • 4. SimplySeven Dr. Niko Waesche One reason why SimplySeven framework is useful is that it’s finite, people like models they understand from real world. Introducing the (finite) SimplySeven # Model Description Flagship Common mistake 1 Services A onetime charge for a service Skype Not being able to scale provided directly 2 Subscription Collecting a recurring payment Blizzard/ Believing that people like to stream from your customers Thomson be held captive Reuters 3 Retail Selling real goods in an Amazon.com Treating online like offline internet shop 4 Commission Taking a cut on a transaction eBay Thinking your clients won’t between a buyer and a seller deal behind your back 5 Advertising Collecting a fee for an Google Invading people's screen advertisement or referral space or their privacy. 6 Licence Selling digital goods in an Apple Going it alone sales internet shop 7 Financial risk Making money with financial Emerging, too Ignoring additional risks such management risk positions. early as fraud and regulators. Seven Ways to Create a Sustainable Internet Business London, 19.02.12
  • 5. SimplySeven Dr. Niko Waesche While the seven basic business models have remained, but the rate of evolution within these models is astonishing. Types of business models and their rapid evolution Ideo USWeb (1991) Kabel (1995) iXL new New (1996) Denkwerk Skillberry Skype Gazelle Services Razorfish Media Lava (1998) (2001) (2003) (2007) Pixelpark (2004) (1996) (1991) (1994) Linden Blizzard AOL Celera Jamba Lab 2nd Spotify Subscription (1985) (1998) (2000) WOW Life Xing (2008) Bloomber (2000) (2003) (2003) g (1981) Doc Vente Amazon Boo.com Priveé Retail ABC (1994) (1998) Morris (2000) (2004) Telebuch Stumbleu MySpace (1992) craigslist pon (2003) MyVideo Netscape (1995) GoTo.co Google (2002) LinkedIn YouTube (2006) Advertising (1994) m (1997) (1998) (2002) (2005) Twitter Facebook Friends (2005) PayPal Alando Commis- (2005) United eBay (1998) (1999) sion Smaava Plastic Groupon Commissions (1995) eLance LastMinut Questico (2000) Junction (2005) Jungle (2007/08) (1998) e (1998) (2000) (2004) (2006) Macro- Microsoft media Blizzard RealPlay (1975) Oracle Intershop iTunes License Sales (1996) Ent er Store AppsStor Adobe (1977) (1997) (2003) (1991) (2004) e (2006) (1982) Party- ING Prosper.c Financial Risk Direct Gaming Weather- om(2006) Management (1997) (2000) bill (2006) Source: Internet research 1995 2001 Seven Ways to Create a Sustainable Internet Business London, 19.02.12
  • 6. SimplySeven Dr. Niko Waesche As an entrepreneur, you need five things to get started (courtesy of Guy Kawasaki). The right business model is important – but it is definitely not everything This is what entrepreneurs Make meaning should do 80% of 1 (Something that inspires you, not the idea to make their time… 2 Make mantra money or gain power) (Guidance for your company – every day) 3 Get going (You should always be selling, not Define your strategizing about selling) 4 business model (You must know how you will make money, but you don’t need to be original) Project management skills are important for 5 Weave a MAT survival in every single (Define milestones, This is the core of the workshop. career – I don’t know assumptions, tasks) Be able to identify and analyze any exception. business models continually helps you make the right choices Source: Guy Kawasaki, “The Art of the Start,” 2004, pages 3 -26. in a changing world. Seven Ways to Create a Sustainable Internet Business London, 19.02.12
  • 7. SimplySeven Dr. Niko Waesche Success in digital business depends on mixing the right cocktail containing business model, skills, finance and organization. Getting the cocktail right Fit with skill set? Fit with location of company? What skills do you have? Which skills do Is the organization Maturity of business model? you need to source effective? Do you have to Financing from cash Barriers to entry? Growth externally? How do you reinvent the wheel each flow? Expansion opportunities? Positioning in upgrade your skills? time? Are you scalable? constraints? value chain? Can you plug new hires in Involvement with easily? Ability to financiers? internationalize? Organization Financing Resources and model Business Model and skills processes Competition Customers Partners Are my competitors Do I have the most demanding customers Am I dependent on my helping me to define my in the world? Are my customers resilient partners? Are they market? Or are they to mistakes? Is my customer base dependent on me? eating my lunch? growing? Can my customer afford me? What is the legal framework? Seven Ways to Create a Sustainable Internet Business London, 19.02.12
  • 8. SimplySeven Dr. Niko Waesche Every company has its own approach to business success factors. Here, the 37Signals way, as presented in the book “Rework.” An “intentionally small company” making software for small companies and three million people Start a business, not a Good enough is fine startup Do it yourself first Hire when it hurts Don’t be a hero Why grow? Building to flip is building to flop Forget about formal Meetings are toxic Outside money is Plan Z education Send people home at five Organization Financing Resources and model Business Model and skills processes Competition Customers Partners Don’t copy Say no by default Welcome obscurity Out teach the competition Build an audience Press releases are spam Underdo the competition Go behind the scenes Start at the epicenter Seven Ways to Create a Sustainable Internet Business London, 19.02.12
  • 9. SimplySeven Dr. Niko Waesche “Europeans – in particular Germans - don’t innovate, they can only clone.” The myths and truths of the internet clone machines !  One of the most common criticisms about Europe – in particular Germany - is that no original internet companies exist, only clones. !  Indeed, there have been some spectacular clone stories from the very beginning, for example, eBay clones:   QXL (UK, Poland), Alando (Germany), Ricardo (Germany)   And many, many more… !  This continues today, with Groupon acquiring CityDeal and Google buying DailyDeal in Germany. !  There are several “clone factories,” started by successful serial entrepreneurs: Rocket Internet, Project A Ventures, Team Europe Ventures, White Bear Yards, Rheingau Ventures, FoundFair... They would never call themselves “clone factories.” !  These companies are actually offering “internationalization oursourcing” to US companies. Rocket Interet for Groupon, Springstar for AirBnB. !  However, people also claimed the Japanese could only copy in the 60s and 70s, then they invented the Walkman, without which there would be no iPod. !  Talent and capabilities are being built up in these environments… school for many entrepreneurs. !  Some very unique global internet successes come out of Europe today: SoundCloud, Vente Privee, Research Gate, Linguee.com, Statista, Betterplace, Transferwise… and many more. Seven Ways to Create a Sustainable Internet Business London, 19.02.12
  • 10. SimplySeven Dr. Niko Waesche Service Sales Seven Ways to Create a Sustainable Internet Business London, 19.02.12
  • 11. SimplySeven Dr. Niko Waesche Services sales is a straightforward model – a company providing a one-off and direct service over the web. Definition of services sales !  Very straightforward - you can set up a services business on the web tomorrow. !  Services sales have two main characteristics: They are one-off and direct.   One-off means they aren’t subscriptions, for example, through which a service is bought over a longer period of time.   Example: Tax tax return services. Offshore tax return services were the most thought provoking case cited in Thomas Friedman’s 2005 bestseller “The World is Flat.”   Example 2: 23andMe, technology pioneer Esther Dyson’s genome service founded in 2006.   Direct means that services are sold directly by the company or person providing the service. They can be brokered by an agent – but they are using a different business model. !  One of the first internet service businesses was to create web sites for businesses – the interactive agencies.   Much of this business was marketed over the web, but sold in Web-based human translation service person. Seven Ways to Create a Sustainable Internet Business London, 19.02.12
  • 12. SimplySeven Dr. Niko Waesche It is important to differentiate Services Sales from the ad or commissions business models. Definition of services sales !  It is important to understand the differences to End customer for what agents and intermediaries do. translation, plumbing !  Agents help sell services too; as aggregators they service create marketplaces connecting providers to buyers of services. Agents make money through the advertising or commissions business Aggegator models… examples ate eLance, Craigslist or (Craigslist, Groupon. They are scalable. eLance, oDesk…) !  On the back of these aggregators, services are Services Sales sold. Services make up a huge part of some economies, for example, 70% of the US economy. Translator or plumber !  Service sales are made by the service provider selling her/ his directly, this can be to an end customer or through service over the an aggregator. internet Seven Ways to Create a Sustainable Internet Business London, 19.02.12
  • 13. SimplySeven Dr. Niko Waesche Maturity: What did not work initially was the sale of a substantial quantity of e-services over the internet - apart from agency work. The re-invention of eLance !  eLance was founded in 1998 and initially financed in the Dot Com boom with US$60m as an „eBay for outsourcing.“ !  It survived the years after 2001 selling B2B software to manage subcontractors for large companies such as American Express, BP, FedEx and GE. !  It sold this software to Click Commerce to refocus on the orginal vision – create a marketplace for freelance projects. !  The services business model applies to the freelancers, whereas eLance or oDesk takes a commission. !  Groupon works in a similar way, matching demand with localized services offers such as Whalewatching. Most of these are offline services, but they don‘t have to be. !  With new initiatives such as Groupon and mobile commerce, the sale of services over the internet will be increased in the next years. Seven Ways to Create a Sustainable Internet Business London, 19.02.12
  • 14. SimplySeven Dr. Niko Waesche Companies in the “re-commerce” segment buy used media or goods from consumers and re-sell them for a profit. Services Sales example “Re-commerce” !  Gazelle buys back used electronics. !  SecondSpin buys used media. !  These companies exist because it takes a lot of effort for consumers to sell items on eBay. !  They have inventory risk and require working capital. !  From the Gazelle web site: “To date, more than 100,000 consumers have used the service as a way to clean out closets, get cash and help out a good cause. In addition, Gazelle empowers consumers to avoid time consuming and risky online experiences associated with peer-to-peer selling.“ Seven Ways to Create a Sustainable Internet Business London, 19.02.12
  • 15. SimplySeven Dr. Niko Waesche Often a problem model, however. Not scalable, high customer acquisition costs and very little lock in. Despite efforts by the agencies, there are few truly scalable services companies !  Yes, services sales are much more straightforward than subscriptions or agent-based models. !  The business model poses several problems, however: It is not recurring, it is not scalable and it does not benefit from aggregation. !  Services sales only makes sense if one or more of these criteria apply: 1.  It is scalable 2.  Customer acquisition costs are low 3.  Customers are somehow “locked in” and keep coming back. !  The communications service Skype manages to tick all these boxes. It is the most successful service sales internet company we know. Its main business model is charging for call services into fixed lines or mobiles. Seven Ways to Create a Sustainable Internet Business London, 19.02.12
  • 16. SimplySeven Dr. Niko Waesche From the very beginning, Skype’s scalability was based on the power of peer-to-peer. It did not have a business model. The search for a business model !  Skype took more than a year to get any funding. 20 different venture capital funds refused to invest in 2003. Mangrove in Luxembourg was one of the few to see the potential. !  It did not help that the founding team was notorious for having founded Kazaa – and was being sued. !  Skype used peer-to-peer technologies for voice over IP. This meant that it could scale massively. !  In fact, Skype proved later that it could add 150,000 new users each day without spending anything on new hardware or connectivity (“The meaning of free speech,” The Economist, 15.09.2005). !  This also meant that Skype had a very low break even point. And it could be a massive threat to the telecommunications industry if it got the technology right. !  It did not have a business model yet, only an idea (which was bad on top of it for this company): “Maybe advertising.” Seven Ways to Create a Sustainable Internet Business London, 19.02.12
  • 17. SimplySeven Dr. Niko Waesche The ability to massively scale and virally grow saved Skype: It did not need a great business model, just a good enough one. Skype has a severe impact on the telecommunications industry !  The impact of Skype on the telecommunications industry cannot be overstated. Skype has over 500m user accounts. 13% of all long distance phone calls in 2009 were made with Skype, a whopping 54bn minutes, according to the telecommunications analysis company TeleGeography. This makes Skype the largest long distance phone carrier in the world, by far (“International Phone Traffic Growth Slows, while Skype Accelerates,” TeleGeography Press Release, 19.01.2010). !  While internet communication is free, Skype charges for calls to mobiles or fixed lines. There is a subscription, too, but Skype made most of its $551m in 2008 revenue through pre-paid phone credits (“Investor Group to Acquire Majority Stake in Skype,” Skype press release, Menlo Park, CA, 01.09.2009). This is the services sales model. !  Skype has so many users and such a low cost base, that it can afford to make money on only 5% or less of its calls with a basically very challenged business model (one time and not recurring). Seven Ways to Create a Sustainable Internet Business London, 19.02.12
  • 18. SimplySeven Dr. Niko Waesche A comparison of AT&T and Skype shows that AT&T actually cannot compete with Skype with its current structure. Snapshot from 2007: Real world vs. the internet AT&T Skype Age 122 years 4 years Revenue $119 billion $382 million Number of customers 14 million broadband, 276 million registered 70 million mobile users Employees 309,000 700 Revenue/ employee $385,000 $546,000 Customers/ employee 272 394,286 Seven Ways to Create a Sustainable Internet Business London, 19.02.12
  • 19. SimplySeven Dr. Niko Waesche Subscriptions Seven Ways to Create a Sustainable Internet Business London, 19.02.12
  • 20. SimplySeven Dr. Niko Waesche Subscriptions are the heaviest weapon in the arsenal. It is like asking people if they like to be chained to a wall. A simple sanity check !  Sales people hate subscriptions because they are such a tough sell. !  There normally only is one person who really likes subscriptions: The CFO. In contrast to other business models, subscription creates a constant and predictable revenue stream for the company. !  Potential subscribers actually think deeply about predictability. A simple sanity check is made by most people before signing up: With what certainty will I use the service how many times during the subscription period to justify the price? 1.  Necessity: Utilities, mobile phone services or internet access fit into this category. If there is competition, these services quickyl become a commodity with rock bottom pricing. 2.  Unmatched attractiveness. The service has to be so compelling and one-of-a-kind that your customers will do anything for it, even sign up for a subscription. !  If you happen to offer such a truly compelling service, then you have lucked out. Not only can you offer premium prices, you may actually want to charge more just to underline your status as an exclusive service Seven Ways to Create a Sustainable Internet Business London, 19.02.12
  • 21. SimplySeven Dr. Niko Waesche It is difficult to stay in the top box, it is a position many companies will envy. Justifications for subscriptions !  It is very hard to hold the premium position forever. Some services move into commodity and were premium previously. !  If services are only a necessity and not compelling or one-of-a-kind they become a commodity…. Rock bottom pricing. !  Although the subscription business model insures some sustainability and is thus loved by CFOs, services are not immune to becoming a commodity and thus loosing value. !  This is what happened to AOL. These services have turned Psychologically, people who want to into commodities. Little subscribe to a unique service differentiation means low usually justify this as being margins. necessary. This box is uninhabited. Seven Ways to Create a Sustainable Internet Business London, 19.02.12
  • 22. SimplySeven Dr. Niko Waesche An interesting psychological fact is that people who subscribe to a compelling service also feel it is necessary. Selling subscriptions with the Apple iPhone !  Remember the greyed out box – unique but not necessary. This box is uninhabited. !  Psychologically, people who want to subscribe to a unique service usually justify their subscription as being necessary. !  Some services, such as a golf club membership or an iPhone subscription, however, are not necessities, but when asked, people will say they are. Seven Ways to Create a Sustainable Internet Business London, 19.02.12
  • 23. SimplySeven Dr. Niko Waesche The subscription model is one of the oldest in the online business – it began its life as premium access provision. The beginnings of the subscription model and competition with the ISPs !  Compuserve (founded 1969) was one of the first providers of online access for private businesses. !  AOL was started in 1985. !  Since the 1990s, there was tension between the online service providers and ISPs, or internet service providers.   Online services tried to provide premium services – exclusive forums, AOL Time Warner had content, games – to its users and were late to offer direct internet to conduct a goodwill access. write off resulting in a   ISPs were low-cost providers which offered only internet access - where 2002 loss of $99bn due to the AOL the user-created content was. acquisition. !  The high value of Compuserve and AOL (leading to AOL Finally, in 2009, AOL acquiring Time Warner) was based on the elusive belief in was spun off from Time Warner - as a exclusive content and the sustainability of the subscription shadow of ist former existence. business model. Source: “Kill AOL” number plate found on the internet. Seven Ways to Create a Sustainable Internet Business London, 19.02.12
  • 24. SimplySeven Dr. Niko Waesche Truly exclusive content is very, very difficult to find. Subscription companies discovered that providing exclusive access was the key. Lessons of the survivors of the subscription business model !  Financial Times (FT.com) successfully offers a tiered access model with some free and some subscription content – but to a specialist audience. !  Companies such as Bloomberg and Reuters do the same. They need to keep investing to offer timely information specially prepared for investment professionals. !  What keeps financial customers on these services is the understanding that their competitors are using the same information sources. !  In fact, most brokers have both screens from Reuters and Bloomberg! !  It is not really exclusive content – all the content exists elsewhere almost real time as well – but Reuters screen for financial professionals. exclusive access to a place where your You are competing against the market – so competitors are. you need to access the same information place as all other market players have. Source: Reuters Knowledge 2.5. Seven Ways to Create a Sustainable Internet Business London, 19.02.12
  • 25. SimplySeven Dr. Niko Waesche Here come the MMORPGs. Just when all thought subscription was dead, it was reinvented again. The boom of Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games (MMORPGs) !  About 10m people worldwide play MMORPGs. !  The boom of subscription-based multiplayer online games is not obvious…   There were free multiplayer environments in the internet from the very beginning. The first (text based) Multi-User Domain, MUD, dates from 1978.   There are many licensed games you can put on your computer and you need to pay only once. !  The first graphical MMORPG actually ran on AOL from 1991 to 1997 and cost US$6 per hour. It was too expensive. !  It was the combination of other game participants with the premium content of licensed games that resulted in the rebirth of the subscription model. !  Kids wanted to be in the place where their friends (and competitors) were. Exclusive access with premium content was the key. Heavy guidance and a game objective with your friends online – not user created content - is the !  The model is very similar to FT.com, Bloomberg secret of World of Warcraft (WoW). 7m customers and Reuters… the customer wants to be in the play WoW globally. It is the most popular same place as his or her friends and enemies. MMORPG with a market share of over 50%. Image: World of Warcraft, Developer: Blizzard Entertainment, Publisher: Vivendi Universal. Source: Wikipedia entry. Seven Ways to Create a Sustainable Internet Business London, 19.02.12
  • 26. SimplySeven Dr. Niko Waesche The zombie business model subscription is back: Spotify is challenging Apple’s licence sales model for music. Music subscription web sites !  After being forsaken as a business model for most internet companies, subscription is back. !  Apple has revolutionised music on the internet by successfully establishing their iTunes store in combination with their hardware iPod sales. !  New contenders such as Spotify, however, are offering “all you can eat” music services based on Spotify on the web and mobile phones advertising and exclusive member subscriptions. Seven Ways to Create a Sustainable Internet Business London, 19.02.12
  • 27. SimplySeven Dr. Niko Waesche The subscription model seemed dead… user created content was better and “free…” The subscription business model developed the “bouncer principle” Access to doctors as (1) People exclusive content need to be where the competition (3) Health The “bouncer is in services principle:” Some financial Software as First experiments The dream of services started to services such as exclusive content Hellohealth participation and exclusive understand that charge a exclusive access to interactivity content a virtual “place” subscription (2) Gaming rate for was more companies doctor (4) Software as successful than understand access a Service trying to develop that kids companies such exclusive content. want to as share their Salesforce.com experience use subscription (4) Music successfully services (1m Bouncer principle to such as subscribers) make content more Grooveshark attractive and Spotify Image of bouncer: Not for commercial use. introducing subscriptions Seven Ways to Create a Sustainable Internet Business London, 19.02.12
  • 28. SimplySeven Dr. Niko Waesche Retail Seven Ways to Create a Sustainable Internet Business London, 19.02.12
  • 29. SimplySeven Dr. Niko Waesche The early online pioneers looked for retail categories that could be sold better on the internet than in a shop. Books were ideal. Only a small proportion of books can ever be in a shop !  ABC Bücherdienst – founded in 1992 in Germany on BTX “*TELEBUCH#” - featured 700.000 books in its online database, 200.000 could be sent within 24 hours of ordering. !  Even though the price of books was fixed in Germany, the sheer size of the database as well as free postal service over a purchase price of DM80 made the offering competitive against conventional retail shops. !  Amazon was founded two years after ABC Bücherdienst by Jeff Bezos, an employee of a hedge fund who had researched the different business models of internet ventures. Books seemed perfect because of the impossibility to carry a large book stock in a retail store. !  The average Borders bookstore in the US carries 100.000 titles. Jeff Bezos founded Amazon with the vision of offering a million books. !  Other successful online retail examples exist as well: DocMorris founded an online pharmacy in Holland for the German market, thus bypassing strict German pharmacy regulation. Amazon example: Chris Anderson, „The Long Tail. The New Economics of Culture and Commerce,“ Random House, 2006, p. 48. Seven Ways to Create a Sustainable Internet Business London, 19.02.12
  • 30. SimplySeven Dr. Niko Waesche Internet retail seems straightforward. But there is a lot to watch out for. Internet retail is anything but easy !  At first, internet retail seems straightforward. It is about selling your own inventory in an internet shop. These are real things we can touch. There are a multitude of shops on the internet selling almost everything one can imagine. !  It is far less fancy than its closest relative, digital license sales, because it does not require formats, interfaces or devices. !  However, selling in an internet shop is anything but easy. Retail knowledge is not necessarily sufficient. There are a multitude of aspects which need to be considered unique to internet selling. Some retail categories require detailed In some retail categories, information about items on the web site or return rates can be 70% or even customer service involvement. higher. Discovery of Completion Discovery of Engagement Return of shop on the of check out Shipment item in shop with the item item to shop internet process Exposing content directly to Google Process flow in internet retail from customer perspective Seven Ways to Create a Sustainable Internet Business London, 19.02.12
  • 31. SimplySeven Dr. Niko Waesche Retail start-ups failed if they did not focus systematically on the right product categories, costs and fulfillment. Boo.com was the most spectacular retail flop ever - RIP May 18, 2000 !  Started by a Swedish model and friends, backed by the luxury goods company LVMH and throwing fantastic parties all over the world. !  The spectacular flop of Boo.com showed how sexy the internet economy could be – by celebrating it’s own rise and fall. Its story “capture[s] all the fever, glamour and broken dreams of the dot.com era” (Malmsten). !  Boo.com famously spent its way through $120 million during its frequent delays and brief existence from 1998 to 2000. !  The web site actually was online for only half a year. !  A very high number of products returned by the customer… a service that was offered for free, but charged for by their logistics supplier Deutsche Post. Boo.com founders Patrik Hedelin, Kajsa !  Tristan Louis, Interim CTO of Boo.com: “Boo was the first company to Leander and Ernst launch from the ground up in multiple countries from day one. This Malmsten represented a set of challenges that were previously unaddressed, ranging from technology challenges to more traditional issues in generating a global Boo.com burned brand. While I was working for Boo, I was in charge of developing the back- through a huge sum of end fulfillment system, a platform that allowed us to handle multiple money making every currencies, multiple languages, on the fly tax calculation, and integration with possible internet retail multiple fulfillment partners.” mistake in the book Tristan Louis‘ web site: http://www.tnl.net/; Ernst Malmsten, Erik Portanger, Charles Drazin, „Boo Hoo,“ Random House, 2001, p. vii. Seven Ways to Create a Sustainable Internet Business London, 19.02.12
  • 32. SimplySeven Dr. Niko Waesche Despite its scale advantages, Amazon is systematically reducing inventory cost and risk by allowing Third Parties to sell over the web site. Shifting warehouse costs and risk to suppliers and distributors !  For some of its inventory, Amazon introduced its “Marketplace” program for “ProMerchants” in 1999 for used books where it shifts cost and risk to small suppliers who keep their own stock. This represents about 28% of Amazon’s units sold. !  Amazon.com needs to react to its competitor eBay, which in its original business model carried no fulfillment costs. Wall Street is watching closely which models promise higher growth and better margins. !  eBay, specialized on the commission business model and connecting buyers and sellers of used goods, has also moved into new goods. But it immediately begun with the concept of no warehouse. All of the warehouse costs and risks are held by the supplier partners. Amazon’s partner program !  In cases where rapid delivery is required, warehouse and fulfillment costs may be reduced further by outsourcing the function to distribution experts such as FedEx, UPS or DHL. !  As a consequence, medium sized warehouses are disappearing… either they are very small with a very specialized selection or they are very large to benefit from scale. eBay’s partner program Amazon example: Chris Anderson, „The Long Tail. The New Economics of Culture and Commerce,“ Random House, 2006, p. 92 - 97. Seven Ways to Create a Sustainable Internet Business London, 19.02.12
  • 33. SimplySeven Dr. Niko Waesche Digital books are inspiring internet book retailers. Here is the chance for zero inventory costs and a new license based business model. Forsaking the retail business model and going digital !  Books on demand are becoming cheaper and cheaper to produce. To be economical, it is still a requirement to print more than just one book, but this will be realized soon. !  Amazon owns “Booksurge” a print-on-demand company: “Headquartered in Charleston, South Carolina, BookSurge’s state of the art book manufacturing facility produces one book or 100 books profitably for authors and publishers and fulfills retail book orders in most cases within 24 hours.” Amazon’s Kindle and Fire family !  This is happening in many other areas as well – especially audio and film production. Lower production costs are leading to a participant information culture which further moves away from mainstream. !  In February 2009, Amazon launched the second version of Kindle, its digital book reader. !  Further Kindles and the Fire followed with Amazon investing significantly to capture license revenues and develop its own ecosystem and platform. Seven Ways to Create a Sustainable Internet Business London, 19.02.12
  • 34. SimplySeven Dr. Niko Waesche The internet has become such an important source of product information and brand experience that “bricks and clicks” are a must-have. Creating brand experience through flagship stores and the internet !  Internet sites are a must have for retail:   Research information on products in shops   Search for shop locations   Order in advance   Experience the flavor and culture of the brand !  Many purchasing decisions in shops are researched in advance on the internet. !  This explains the great demand for product information on the internet and is leading to increased sophistication of the consumer in purchasing decisions from cars to olive oil. !  Luxury brands are evolving in their store concepts as well. “The product is not enough.” Brands are moving away from third-party presence in department stores to their own stores. Each global city has their own store look... !  The new Gucci store in Tokyo, Prada's New York store, with its cultural performance space, and Louis Vuitton's Champs- Elysees flagship, with its art gallery and bookstore. !  "We think it is the second stage of globalization," says Francois-Henri Pinault, chief executive of PPR, Gucci Group's parent company. "First all stores looked the same, now they are tailored to their local markets.“ !  It is the “desire for experience” (Future Laboratory, a London- based consulting firm) and the “selling ceremony” (Financial Times) which leads to both extravagant flagship stores combined with an extensive experience-based internet presence. Gucci new Ginza Flagship Store and internet Site Images from the Gucci Japan site: http://www.gucci.com/; Vanessa Friedman, „Gucci opens Tokyo flagship store,” Financial Times, 13.11.06, page 9. Seven Ways to Create a Sustainable Internet Business London, 19.02.12
  • 35. SimplySeven Dr. Niko Waesche The early online bookshop founders were the first to understand the benefit of the “long tail” concept. Selling the “long tail” of books – near zero distribution costs !  When online pioneers selected books as their retail category because of the vast selection advantages available on the internet, they had discovered “the long tail.” !  Chris Anderson described the “long tail” as a central concept for internet business in his influential book. !  The thesis of “The Long Tail” is that the reduction of fulfillment costs through the internet resulted in a nearly unlimited demand for specific items far from the mainstream. !  This applies to many categories: Books, music, etc. !  Demand for these specific items surprised most consumer companies. Anderson cites that 98% of all online music tracks are sold at least one time a quarter by an online music company. Hardly any songs in its huge database - 2% - never The demise of hit albums 1957 - 2005 get requested. !  These specific items may be bought only one or two times a year, however, together they result in sales that can surpass the sales figures for mainstream items. !  Anderson declared that the era of mainstream music and mainstream taste is finally over as people are able to cultivate very individualistic and fragmented tastes. A virtuous circle because large availability of variety installs demand for even more specific items. “The Long Tail” Chris Anderson, „The Long Tail. The New Economics of Culture and Commerce,“ Random House, 2006, p. 7, hit album image is on p. 32. Seven Ways to Create a Sustainable Internet Business London, 19.02.12
  • 36. SimplySeven Dr. Niko Waesche How does one find very specific niche products? Smart aggregation and lots of diverse opinions are the answer. Recommendations based on the “wisdom of crowds” !  If you are selling very specialized niche products in the “long tail,” how do you make sure your customers find them? !  Amazon.com tracks purchases of products and makes aggregated recommendations based on the choice of thousands of other consumers. !  This system taps the “wisdom of crowds” (James Surowiecki) Diverse sets of people allowed to make decisions independently can be remarkably intelligent. More than most experts. Amazon.com recommendation for Herbert’s Scale !  While the TV show “Who Wants To Be a Millionaire” is not scientific evidence, the expert opinion is on average 60% right whereas the crowd opinion has a success rate of 91%. !  A diverse group of smart and not-so-smart people is always better than a group made up of just smart people. Diversity erodes group pressure – which leads to wrong choices. !  Large groups require an aggregation mechanism, which Amazon provides. !  We will see more of this when we discuss Google. Amazon.de recommendation for Herbert’s Scale James Surowiecki, „The Wisdom of Crowds. Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few,“ Abacus, 2004, p. 4, 28 - 49. Seven Ways to Create a Sustainable Internet Business London, 19.02.12
  • 37. SimplySeven Dr. Niko Waesche Google search and new viral models are enabling new micro shops with may be a threat to Amazon. The future of internet retail !  Opening shops is really cheap through Open Source SW. In the 1990s, an e-shop could cost one million US$. !  PayPal and other payment mechanisms are available. Logistics companies such as FedEx, DHL and UPS have developed special services for online retailers, making shipping costs more affordable. !  Through the crowd-powered search mechanism of Google, small, very specialized niche players can today be successful on the internet. !  The new niche players can rely on global reach to create the customer size they require to survive. !  New club-based concepts take niche retail further still into the area of viral marketing. Companies such as Brands for Friends use club concepts to allow manufacturers to sell excess inventory for much lower prices. The club concept allows an artificial separation between the regular retail channels of the manufacturers and the club members. The concept is viral, because these players rely on word of mouth to pass on the advantages of the club. !  We see from these innovative club concepts that innovation in the internet retail model has not ended – on the contrary, new ideas are appearing continuously. Viral club concept vente- privee.com – Members have to sign in Seven Ways to Create a Sustainable Internet Business London, 19.02.12
  • 38. SimplySeven Dr. Niko Waesche In their quest to improve their margin and reduce inventory costs further, online retail is actually transforming its business model… The transformation of online retail… a revolution in inventory costs Fulfillment seeks scale advantages. Bricks and Print on demand Clicks: removes Offline retail Reduced inventory. moves inventory Amazon and eBay online and become the front seeking a distribution end of thousands complete Reduced Moving into costs… production of small shops and consumer from scale experience categories costs turn producers-sellers. where to virtual consumers online has goods into immediate “The Long Tail” producer- Selling things advantages sellers Intelligent online to real filters take shops… eg. books advantage Threat for Amazon: of the Emergence of wisdom of independent micro crowds to shops and viral locate niche models products Aggregation and filters are complementing or replacing expert Google has enabled countless small opinion and are enabling further micro shops because they can set up fragmentation and individualistic taste independently from eBay or Amazon. Seven Ways to Create a Sustainable Internet Business London, 19.02.12
  • 39. SimplySeven Dr. Niko Waesche Commissions Seven Ways to Create a Sustainable Internet Business London, 19.02.12
  • 40. SimplySeven Dr. Niko Waesche The upcoming two business models, commissions and advertising are both agents-based models. Agents-based business models !  Previous business models, services, subscriptions and retail always include two parties, a seller and a buyer. !  The upcoming two business models, commissions and advertising, include at least three parties: A seller, a buyer and an agent. !  Often, there are even four or more different parties. How it works: The agent places a cookie on the Seller Publisher Seller computer of the potential buyer, registering that she/ 70% he saw a product or service described on a publisher site (such as a Marketplace Agent price comparison service). 100% When the person then a Time week later actually buys the product, the agent receives his commission. Buyer 30% Buyer He splits it with the publisher – the publisher getting the higher share. Three party commissions Four party commissions model: model: eBay Commissions Junction Seven Ways to Create a Sustainable Internet Business London, 19.02.12
  • 41. SimplySeven Dr. Niko Waesche The two agent-based models share similarities, but also an important difference. Agents-based business models !  Agents thrive in complex, rich environments (like the internet) with a lack of complete transparency. !  Due to a lack of information, parties which are potentially interested in a transaction cannot find each other. If agents do their job right, they serve as intelligent traffic coordinators through the chaos of the internet. !  Agents working with commissions often serve companies or freelancers working with other internet business models, for example eLance, a marketplace for internet services, or eBay, which is a marketplace for items sold using the internet retail business model. !  Agents have to strike a delicate balance, however. They have to watch out they that are not too obtrusive. At the same time, they have to keep proving to their clients that they are worth their money. !  There is an important difference between the two agent-based models, however.   The commission model only generates cash when the transaction actually is successful, when an item is bought or a service purchased. The sales risk is spread among the agent, the seller and the buyer. The agent accepts this risk because the reward is potentially higher. The higher the value of the sale, the higher the proceeds from the commission.   Advertising models generate cash regardless if the actual sale goes through or not.   Some companies, such as Commissions Junction, offer both models adjusting to the current sales situation. !  Commission models are therefore particularly appropriate when the agent is a significant part in the whole sales process. Agents thrive in complexity Seven Ways to Create a Sustainable Internet Business London, 19.02.12
  • 42. SimplySeven Dr. Niko Waesche The eBay business model worked instantly… based on three simple concepts: Power of C2C, the fun of auctions, payment model. Birth of the global consumer marketplace in 1995 !  Power of the C2C: Matching consumers with consumers.   Connecting 30m buyers and sellers around the world.   Millions of collectibles, appliances, computers, furniture, equipment, vehicles, and other miscellaneous items are listed, bought, and sold daily.   In many ways, success of C2C marketplaces foreshadowed success of Web 2.0. !  Fun with auctions.   People actually enjoy the competition of auctions, even though they often end up paying more.   The marmalade jar of Axel Ockenfels at the University of Cologne. Students always end up paying more than the !12 on average in the glass jar. eBay.com web site !  Payment model: The seller pays.   eBay generates revenue from a number of fees. The eBay fee system is quite complex; there are fees to list a product and fees when the product sells, plus several optional fees, all based on various factors and scales.   The U.S.-based ebay.com takes $0.20 to $80 per listing and 2–8% of the final price (as of 2006).   The business took off from the founding year 1995 – “Unstoppable.” eBay HQ in San Jose, CA Source for commission fees in US: Wikipedia. Seven Ways to Create a Sustainable Internet Business London, 19.02.12
  • 43. SimplySeven Dr. Niko Waesche eBay’s C2C business model generated revenues and profits early and its share price was never pushed up and down like its contenders. Does eBay simply have a perfect business model that does not have to evolve? !  eBay was never hyped as much as the other big internet players. !  eBay’s business model was an instant success and required the least refinement – like no other player.   Low cost base due to C2C – Better than Amazon.com or Yahoo!   Monetization intrinsic element – Much like Google AdWords.   Morgan Stanley identifies three crucial drivers for eBay revenue (Gross Merchandise Volume GMV)   listings * average sales prices (ASPs) * conversion rates = GMV !  “For most of its existence, eBay has enjoyed a sort of virtual monopoly. It now commands more than 90 percent of the online auction market, and from 1999 to 2004 it posted at least 40 percent annual profit growth every year, even as strong competitors like Amazon and Yahoo were taking runs at its core business.” !  Raffi Amit of the Wharton School and Christoph Zott of Insead Share price development argue in a recent paper that the internet opened up “opportunities graph from The Economist to be very creative in the design of the business model”.   In e-commerce, they say, most value is created by business models—the way in which firms conduct their affairs with suppliers and partners, as well as customers—rather than (as is largely the case in the offline world) the products or services themselves. !  The eBay business model seemed to be perfect from the very beginning – this is may be a problem for growth. Source: Graph and Amit and Zott mention: „Happy e-Birthdays. After ten years, what has been learnt about succeeding as an e-business?“ The Economist, 21.07.05. eBay statistisics auction market: Michael V. Copeland, The Big Guns' Next Target: eBay, Business 2.0 Magazine on CNNMoney.com, 31.01.06. Mary Meeker, David Joseph, “Listings * ASPs * Conversion Rates = GMV eBay US Historical Trends,” Morgan Stanley, 11.01.07. Seven Ways to Create a Sustainable Internet Business London, 19.02.12
  • 44. SimplySeven Dr. Niko Waesche C2C economics only works if abuse is limited to reasonable levels. The most important fraud prevention mechanisms is user feedback. Fraud prevention through user feedback and supported by eBay staff !  Pierre Omidyar began with user feedback as fraud prevention mechanism very early… he could not handle answering all the dispute emails directly himself. !  In general, user feedback works excellently as a fraud prevention mechanism. !  There are only a few potential weak aspects:   Small and large transactions carry the same weight in the feedback summary.   Feedback may be provided by partners of the fraudulent seller.   A user may be reluctant to leave honest feedback out of fear of negative retaliatory feedback (including "negative" in retaliation for "neutral"). !  Without feedback, eBay would not work and collapse under fraud instantly. !  In addition, eBay have a staff of 1,000 people focused on fraud and payment issues. !  Fraud heavily impacts other commissions-based marketplaces, for example freelance platforms providing access to software coders. Source: Adam Cohen, „The Perfect Store,“ Little, Brown and Company, New York, 2002, pages 27 - 29 Seven Ways to Create a Sustainable Internet Business London, 19.02.12
  • 45. SimplySeven Dr. Niko Waesche Moving off site: The danger every agent faces, is that buyers and sellers carry out their business directly. eBay is threatened by big sellers moving off site, and now from big buyers, too !  In some eBay categories, big sellers are gaining power – they can “go solo” enabled by Google search.   The threat of moving off site is a challenge for eBay. Between 10 and 20 sellers account for 80% of the golfing goods sold via eBay.   Google is using its advertising business model to steer specialist buyers straight to specialist sellers — in effect disintermediating eBay. !  “Big buyers” have emerged, too, using the service business model and buying back standardized items like used media and electronics. The model is called “ReCommerce.”   SecondSpin   Gazelle Even P2P is not an endless source of growth. One third of eBay‘s revenues today already comes from an alternative business model, from PayPal. In 2011, eBay presented a software platform for merchants as a strategic growth area. Source for Golf statistic. Dominic Rushe, „Ebay rivals bid to put the boot in,” The Sunday Times, 05.02.06. Seven Ways to Create a Sustainable Internet Business London, 19.02.12
  • 46. SimplySeven Dr. Niko Waesche If eBay could be wildly successful with a global virtual flee market, what about the same model in hotels and tourism? AirBnB !  AirBnB team founded its company based on an idea having emerged from a couple of design school students offering their apartment as a place to stay. !  The payments system actually became one of the main advantages of the services. Staying at people‘s places was not compromised by awakwardness of payments situation. !  Company growing fast with complete focus on product. !  Internationalization outsourced to Springstar in Berlin. Seven Ways to Create a Sustainable Internet Business London, 19.02.12
  • 47. SimplySeven Dr. Niko Waesche Companies that tried to copy eBay in B2B did not succeed. Some have put a huge amount of effort into search and standardization. The spectacular failures of the B2B marketplaces – Some exceptions !  With the success of eBay, many entrepreneurs thought that the same business model aspects – low costs and intrinsic monetization – could bring them great success in B2B. !  They set up commission-based marketplaces for businesses to buy and sell goods from building supplies (Build Online or http:// www.ctspace.com/), engineering supplies and services (techpilot.net) to used machines (Surplex.com). !  Venture capitalists thought success here was obvious and poured money into this category. Companies like Verticalnet were listed on NASDAQ. Verticalnet offers software and !  Most failed miserably. Many of those involved still wonder exactly complete solutions why. The answers are not obvious…   A real large-scale C2C market never existed, whereas companies have been optimizing B2B procurement for decades.   Procurement at companies is part of complex supply chain processes. Optimization of these processes often brings more value than a better B2B marketplace.   Goods procured by businesses are often accompanied by services such as installation or integration services or requires substantial explanation. This limits the number of sellers and makes an open marketplace less useful. !  Today, the focus of B2B market players like Verticalnet is on complete solutions for businesses and on software. !  B2B markets did not entirely disappear, survivors have put a huge amount of work into standardization and search… Mercateo.com. Mercateo has 4m articles They now enjoy significant barriers to entry. standarized and comparable Source of graphic: http://www.verticalnet.com/ Seven Ways to Create a Sustainable Internet Business London, 19.02.12
  • 48. SimplySeven Dr. Niko Waesche In China, B2B platforms were highly successful because of the transformation to a partially capitalist economy. B2B in China – Right place, right time !  Alibaba – Huge success story as the biggest B2B wholesale marketplace in China !  In the meantime, Alibaba.com has launched international versions to facilitate global trade !  The Alibaba founder then also went into other areas:   TaoBao (B2C, C2C)   ZhiFuBao (Electronic Payments, Escrow Services) Seven Ways to Create a Sustainable Internet Business London, 19.02.12
  • 49. SimplySeven Dr. Niko Waesche Groupon grew in turbo mode by offering daily deals in cities and taking a 50% commission (but dropping). The star among new commission-based models – but not P2P !  Using a straightforward approach of offering a daily deal in a specific city available to people if a sufficient number is reached, Groupon proves that urban classifieds market can be tapped through innovative schemes. !  The main asset of Groupon is it’s mailing list of millions of consumers. !  Groupon keeps 50% of every deal sold and also benefirs from coupons which are bought but not used (recently dropping to 38% - triggering a cost programme). !  Groupon is offered in 300 local areas in 29 countries. !  Sales may top $500m in 2010. Growth has slowed down somewhat. !  The company requires additional financing because it is powered by sales teams acquiring the daily deals. !  Groupon was founded in November 2008… IPO on Nov 4th, 2011. Seven Ways to Create a Sustainable Internet Business London, 19.02.12
  • 50. SimplySeven Dr. Niko Waesche The original C2C marketplace model has not evolved since its conception, attempts to adapt it have mostly failed. The remarkable longevity of the original C2C model – But how to grow? eBay bought StubHub in 2007 for $310m Benefits or synergies between conventional auction house ? C2C Segments Butterfield and Butterfield and eBay New AirBnB did not materialize. specialized C2C Services Conventional auction house C2C markets Services PayPal Payments Business Model eBay Challengers: C2C goods markets Marketplace “ReCommerce” Affiliate Communications system Marketing (Commissions B2B Junction) Marketplace B2C s ? Commissions Use both Corporate procurement is a wide area including consulting services, business processes, software technologies and yes, to a limited extent ? commissions and advertising based business models also internet marketplaces. Success of B2B Alibaba.com in China Seven Ways to Create a Sustainable Internet Business London, 19.02.12
  • 51. SimplySeven Dr. Niko Waesche Advertising Seven Ways to Create a Sustainable Internet Business London, 19.02.12
  • 52. SimplySeven Dr. Niko Waesche Like the commissions model, the advertising business model involves at least three different parties. The challenges and opportunities of advertising !  The three parties involved in the advertising business model are: The publisher selling the ads, the advertising client buying the ads and the consumer engaging with the ad. !  Sometimes, the publisher and the agent are separate entities. Now we have four parties: The publisher providing the reach, the agent selling the ads, the advertising client and the end consumer. Client Client Publisher/ Ad Ad Publisher Agent agent Consumer Consumer Three party advertising Four party advertising model: Google AdSense, DoubleClick model: Craigslist, Google AdWords, Facebook Seven Ways to Create a Sustainable Internet Business London, 19.02.12
  • 53. SimplySeven Dr. Niko Waesche The publisher of the web site and the advertising agent do not carry the risk of sale – as in the commissions model. Seller’s risk and price of an ad !  In the traditional media model, the publisher does not assume sales risk.   For example, TV broadcasters and their agents received money whether the advertisement was successful or not – in the sense that the company advertising a product actually sells more of the product due to the ad.   In part, this is because the success of a TV ad cannot be measured. Proxies are used. Ads are measured with panels reporting on reach and frequency (GRP: Gross Rating Points). !  This difference between the commission and advertising models exists also on the internet – the advertiser does not carry the risk of the sale.   The advertising agent fee is due whether the ad actually is successful or not in the sense that a product actually is sold.   The fee usually is some form of fixed fee related to the value of the ad – not the value of the product (like a commission).   Internet advertising is often sold with some success element, for example, Google AdWords only have to be paid if a consumer clicks on the ad. !  When you think of commissions, think of “selling,” when you think of advertising, think of “information.” Seven Ways to Create a Sustainable Internet Business London, 19.02.12
  • 54. SimplySeven Dr. Niko Waesche Advertisers are always in a Catch 22 situation. Catch 22 !  To attract more clients and ask for higher prices, publishers and their agents always seek to make their ad space more valuable. !  The more they push their ads on the visitors of their web sites and try to force engagement, the higher the likelihood of achieving the opposite effect. !  People will find the ads horribly annoying or, worse still, an intrusion on their privacy. !  This is not just the case with banner ads. People are very suspicious if their private information is being used for targeting, too. This challenge was faced by Facebook in 2007. !  The best ads are those that are seen as a service by users. People don‘t seem to mind ads on Google, and they actually voluntarily visit sites composed only of ads, for example, Craigslist. Seven Ways to Create a Sustainable Internet Business London, 19.02.12
  • 55. SimplySeven Dr. Niko Waesche In the beginning, advertising was very much designed as if we were still in a traditional print world. Users hated it. The unloved banner ad !  Imagination was missing about the possibilities of being in an interactive space of thousands of clicks. !  Some innovation was present in banner advertising, such as floating, moving and large banners, however, mostly to the annoyance of internet users. !  Google differentiated itself not just in terms of a new advertising business model as we will see, but also in terms of its look and feel, which represented a counter reaction to the banner ad. !  Many did not understand that this simple rebellion against the banner ad itself was a contribution to Google’s success. Banner ad on Spiegel Online Seven Ways to Create a Sustainable Internet Business London, 19.02.12
  • 56. SimplySeven Dr. Niko Waesche But Google did not just simplify the interface, it perfected search by using the “Wisdom of Crowds.” Using the “Wisdom of Crowds” to improve search !  The power of Google is the power of information aggregation of thousands and millions of links. !  Google PageRank works with complex algorithms:   Links on a page   Anchor text around links   The popularity of pages that link to a page !  When these algorithms are periodically adjusted to reduce click fraud, page rankings are changed, sometimes heavily… this is called the “Google Dance.”   Battelle’s example of Niel Moncrief and the web site 2bigfeet.com… he lost his Search on Google for “big feet” Christmas business 2003.   This is unlikely to happen today, as search algorithms have improved considerably. !  John Battelle describes in his book the search phenomenon as a cultural artifact… how Google mirrors our culture and has built the “Database of Intentions…” “Google knows what our culture wants.” !  Google “Zeitgeist” is a must-see showing the top searches each month in each Google country. !  Google has an incredible market position, for example, in the UK, Google “Zeitgeist” for Germany Google has a market share in search of 78% (Financial Times, October 2006 “Yahoo is starting to think out of the box,” 08.12.06, page 18.) Source: John Battelle, „The Search,“ New York, 2005, 2-3, 20-37, 153-188. Seven Ways to Create a Sustainable Internet Business London, 19.02.12
  • 57. SimplySeven Dr. Niko Waesche While Google tapped the “Wisdom of Crowds,” GoTo.com had already found another solution against spam… the “Wisdom of Capital.” The true business model innovation in advertising came from GoTo.com !  Bill Gross, the genius behind LA-based IdeaLabs developed “one idea per month” This resulted in many web sites (such as CitySearch, Tickets.com, eToys.com) which required user traffic. !  Gross developed the idea of organizing search results according to who paid the most per click. !  Gross: “The true value of the internet was in its accountability… performance guarantees had to be the model for paying for media.” !  Gross calculated that it took 5-10¢ a click to buy traffic through banner advertising from major web sites. In the beginning he decided to subsidize GoTo.com by selling traffic for 1¢ a click… Gross believed that the cost of acquiring traffic would go down as GoTo would gain popularity and the price for a click would go up… because it was the right traffic! !  When GoTo.com was launched in 1998 it had 15 advertisers, by 1999 it had thousands. !  Gross was right… targeted traffic would be valued at about 50¢ in early 2005. Bill Gross !  GoTo.com realised it could extend its reach by syndication and decided in September 2001 to transform itself into syndication-only… it was renamed Overture. !  Gross met Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin in 2001, but they decided to copy and further improve the business model of GoTo.com (Google’s AdWords). !  The well-known venture capitalist Bill Gurley called this business model “the salvation of the internet.” !  Bill Gross is working on his next idea… “SNAP” uses pay on conversion Source: John Battelle, „The Search,“ New York, 2005, 95-121; Image from Fortune web site, “Idealab Reloaded Surprise!.” Seven Ways to Create a Sustainable Internet Business London, 19.02.12
  • 58. SimplySeven Dr. Niko Waesche What is killing the newspapers are online classifieds and especially the lean operating model they have. Running a top 10 web site with 23 people… craigslist classifieds http://www.craigslist.org/about/ http://sfbay.craigslist.org/ pages.and.peeps.html (Oct 2006) Seven Ways to Create a Sustainable Internet Business London, 19.02.12
  • 59. SimplySeven Dr. Niko Waesche Can everyone benefit from Google economics? Internet players have completely different cost structures established competitors. Google economics allows it to pour money into development !  Part of the Google advantage are its fantastic margins. !  Deutsche Telekom has !61.4bn sales with an EBIT margin of 15%. !  Google has revenues of US$7.2bn with an EBIT margin of 50%. !  Google revenue growth 75.8% CAGR (2004A-2007E) compared to DTAG’s 2.3% in the same period. !  Deutsche Telekom has 250,000 Google financials (UBS, “Google Inc,” 07.11.06) employees, Google has 2,600. !  Google invested US$2.8bn in R&D in 2008, DTAG !422m. Everyone is invited to suggest and rate Google product ideas Seven Ways to Create a Sustainable Internet Business London, 19.02.12
  • 60. SimplySeven Dr. Niko Waesche Google has announced that it is expanding into internet and streaming based TV and interstitial advertising. Interstitial ads in streaming video – Google, Apple TV, Hulu !  The global TV advertising market is $180bn. As TV moves online, will new contenders be able to tap this large market? !  AppleTV has already been very successful in launching its TV device. !  Media players have responded to internet TV by successfully launching Hulu, a service owned by several large media companies and financed by a Private Equity fund. !  Google is also seeking to enter this market, having made an announcement in September 2010. !  Google has discovered that major advertisers will not place their ads next to user generated YouTube content, but they do go for premium content on Hulu. !  It is widely expected that tablet PCs – especially the iPad will accelerate this development. Seven Ways to Create a Sustainable Internet Business London, 19.02.12
  • 61. SimplySeven Dr. Niko Waesche Google needs to move beyond search to grow… the battlefield that Google is concentrating on right now is mobile. Beyond search !  Google’s excursions into conventional advertising were not successful:   Extended into traditional print advertising through placement in local US newspapers.   Google has acquired a radio-based ad network. !  The first move beyond search advertising was integrating third parties into the Google ad network: AdSense Local Google AdWords !  Software as a Service was the next area. SaaS (email, office programs) extend the amount of advertising space and capture the consumer. !  Most important is mobile computing, however, in a challenge to Apple’s iPhone   Google Maps with ads   Google street view and augmented reality The growth of search: Internet expenditures by type   Android mobile phone OS with with the Android Marketplace Statistics: Zenith OptiMedia, “Online advertising to grow seven times faster than offline advertising in 2007,” Press Release, 04.12.2006 Seven Ways to Create a Sustainable Internet Business London, 19.02.12