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Ask HN: Third world country, Internet company success stories?

#1
I'm a CS student living in a third world country, and I am starting a Internet company in October.

I was curious to know about other successful Internet companies in third world or developing countries. There for I could use their experience.

Here in third world countries we have quite different problems. For example we don't have that many Internet users.

EDIT: I have read lots of PG's essays but little info there are applicable in my country. Like we don't have angles or VCs here.

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#2
Some of the successful internet companies in India

1. irctc.co.in - indian railways gov site to sell tickets online. largest amount of online transactions happen over here 2. naukri.com - jobs site 3. shaadi.com/ bharatmatrimony.com - matrimony site 4. redbus.in - online bus ticketing 5. bookmyshow.com - online movie ticketing 6. zomato.com/burrp.com - local search websites with reviews 7. makemytrip.com/yatra.com/cleartrip.com - online air ticketing sites

There are lot more. Maybe others can add in. If you find that internet users is low in number you can try for a hybrid online/offline model. This is something that early job and matrimonial sites did in india

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#5
Whats ur country? ... Im from mexico,i hace bootstraped my business (guali.com.mx) from zero.

I already make more than 350us a week .. Thats good for a 24yr old in Mexico.

I have applyed for startupchile and we got selected this round ... So seems like my startup with make the leap!

And yes .. Im from a third world country.q

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Some of the successful internet companies in India 1. irctc.co.in - indian railways gov site to sell tickets online. largest amount of online transactions happen over here 2. naukri.com - jobs site 3. shaadi.com/ bharatmatrimony.com - matrimony site 4. redbus.in - online bus ticketing 5. bookmyshow.com - online movie ticketing 6. zomato.com/burrp.com - local search websites with reviews 7. makemytrip.com/yatra.com/cl…

While I use ticketing sites quite often. I have complete hatred for matrimony services. Sure, they are successful, and are profitable, But, they offend me ethically, sorting people by race, and weighing and matching by income? Sorry, I have no respect for them.

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#9
I'm from Mexico .. my company is: Guali.com.mx.

We do adwords assistance for company's in Mexico, we started this with $300usd 15 months ago and now we have around $8,000 usd on the bank and like 25 paying customers (each give us at leas 80usd each month)

We also applied for "Startup Chile" Program and we got selected yesterday .. they will give us $40k on equality-free money.

I'm 24 years old .. i started my project just when graduated and I'm really satisfied with the accomplished goals by now.

And yes .. I'm from a third world country .. if you want excuses you will find a lot, if you want a way to succeed .. guess what? .. you can find a lot to.

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#10
Check out Nasper's portfolio; they have heavily invested in successful Internet and media companies in emerging countries: http://www.chubbybrain.com/investors/naspers/investment-port...

In Brazil, the four friends in a garage to multi-million dollar company story every young entrepreneur tries to emulate is the shopping comparison site BuscaPé.

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