Techcrunch is reporting on a great new startup which crosses folks looking for overnight accomendations while traveling and hosts looking for guests…
It’s AirBed and Breakfast (forgot hotels!) … check out the simplicity of the interface… serves up the essentials in a simple way… gets right to the point… (launched on less than $ 20,000… so long Silicon Valley…)
From Techcrunch... ~~ “AirBed and Breakfast will definitely appeal to younger travelers, and conventioneers who can’t find a regular hotel room. In overbooked Denver, where 20,000 people will be descending for the Democratic National Convention, hotels are already sold out. More than 600 people have found alternative accommodations through AirBed and Breakfast, and 50 to 100 new listings appear every day. Prices range from $20 a night for an airbed to $3,000 for an entire house.”~~
How disruptive can this be? How disruptive was Craigslist when it began… and now we know its seriously hobbled revenue generation in the newspaper business… what about financial services?
On the soft side of finserv - information provision -mashups and Web 2.0 models work pretty well… quietly a lot of new types of information sharing and providing is happening organically…
On the hard side of finserv, trading and account management, not too disrupted yet… it’s an entrenched model with some Internet access to broker sites built on top…
Still looking for a good disruptive model for retail fixed income…. with auction rates blowing up some new opportunities might emerge… : )
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