The History of the Web Clone Industry

The History VIoteiH odT dəW erli 10 Veubal anolɔ Of the Web h waubni Clone Industry HOW PEOPLE MAKE MILLIONS CLONING ONLINE BUSINESS IDEA LATEST CLONE The History Of the Web Clone Industry Pinterest The Mist Of the Web Clone Indus- Pinspire.com Fab.com THE BIG PLAYERS IN THE CLONE INDUSTRY transaction date cотpany founded buyer price Alando 1999 eBay $50 million 1999 cember.net 2005 Xing $6.4 million 2008 eDarling 2009 eHarmony 30% stake 2010 Bamarang.com Gratispay 2009 SponsorPay na 2010 CityDeal 2009 Groupon $126 million 2010 viversum 2003 Questico na 2010 Bamarang.fr CLONES OF POPULAR WEBSITES Bamarang.co.uk current number of existing clones WHO'S NEXT: 2leep Every web company Adbrite Adwords where evaluation hints $100.000.000 plus 11 AdBux 4 Airbnb 3 99Designs 500Words Amazon 4 23 The most famous B2B-Alibaba websites have been 12 cloned with the highest rate, while lower numbers potentially means less competition and more marketshare. BeeMp3 20 Autotrader Digg 15 CJ Delicious 14 Aweber 16 dogpile 2 11 22 ChatRoulette Craigslist EzineArticles Fiverr ehow 33 17 14 Dmoz fMyLife Flickr 32 Facebook eBay Elance 35 Flippa 30 Hi5 15 10 Fansite Fotolog Google Friendster 4 10 Expedia kayak Hot or Not Gmail Groupon 11 10 JustinTV 22 4 Netlog Imageshack Last.FM Lyrics Kickstarter 15 Linkedin MySpace 8 Indeed 18 Imdb Knowledge Bas 3 keepvid Mafia MagMy Pic Rapidshare Neobux Bux.to Netflix/Hulu PirateBay 9 24 Netvibes Photobucket Orkut 4 13 Proxy Newsvine Travian Quora Paypal Sourceforge 20 RSS/News 11 Snipplr Sitebuilder Pure Volume Reddit Twitter RetailMeNot 3 Pingdom 12 5 25 Shopzilla Telebid Swoopo 11 YouSendit 31 Sedo Theme Forest 3 Trulia Real Estate Wikipedia Website Outlook 45 Yipit Youtube 5 Zazzle 51 Cafepress Sidereel Yelp WHAT THE ENTREPRENEURS CAN DO TO PREVENT “CLONING“ LEGAL ACTION EXPAND A quick expansion with raised funds can stop people from taking your business idea. INNOVATE Most websites are duplicates of uncopyrighted code: Parents cannot be registered and most clones Facebook showed how innovation can kil competition: StudiVZ, which has been sold for 100 million Euros is now worth pennies. happen in other jurisdictions than the US. Therefore legal action against clones is very limited. COMMUNITY&PR Use the community and influencers to your advantage. This might be difficult to do, but sites like Pinterest or Airbnb live of their PARTNERSHIPS 'Partner up with global partners, which can fuel and community. Cloning a vivid community is nearly impossible. support int'l growth. SOURCES: http://www.sanskritweb.net/forgers/ http://www.rabbitclone.com/ http://www.scriptcopy.com/ REPUTATIONOBSERVER