Case Study: Wimdu And 9flats
Wimdu and 9flats joined hands in order to compete with Airbnb
Wimdu and 9flats joined hands together to be on the top of the online platform for private holiday apartments in Europe. At the same time they are working on the growth and profitability of the project.
This merge of the two companies, will be the strong competitor for Airbnb as they deal with the same domain as Airbnb does. The two companies have more than 500,000 properties worldwide.
Wimdu was founded by Rocket internet and it has received around $100 million in venture capital. Now along with its merger it plans to focus on the growth and profitability. According to the Rocket Internet Standards, the developments of the Wimdu seem to be a failure.
Wimdu has a chance to become …show more content…
Let’s take a look on the Airbnb and 9flats.com.
What is the difference between the Airbnb and 9flats?
Both the companies Airbnb and 9flats are the online platforms that can be accessed through the mobile, tablet and by other electronic devices. They allow the users to rent their properties and they also help people who look for the holiday apartments or the people who search for the places to rest for few days with the unique accommodations across the world.
Both the companies provide facilities to stay in tree houses, boats and even in igloos and they also provide facilities to stay in homes, apartments, single and shared homes. Airbnb is based on U.S and it has more inventory listings and 9flats is a European based company.
History of Airbnb
Brian Chesky, Joe Gebbia and Nathan Blecharczyk founded Airbnb in August 2008. Two of the founders, Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia got the idea of Airbnb during the Industrial design conference conducted by industrial designers’ society of America. At that time, Chesky and Gebbia was the roommates and they cannot able to afford their loft in San Francisco, so they decided to change their living room into the bread and breakfast and they accommodated three guests and provided them home breakfast. Form this small step; they decided to work on this …show more content…
Nathan Blecharczyk, who was the technical architect, joined the other two. At the beginning stage the founders focused on the high profile events.
Then the company helped the co-founders to pay their rents. They provided their guests with the airbed in the apartments, so it was named as Airbnb.
Mission of Airbnb is to provide a online marketplace where clients have the freedom to book or list the living places all around the globe and to make the travel experience affordable and unique to each and every clients. And allowing the clients to showcase their free space and make money out of that.
People were thinking that Airbnb is about renting houses, but the company said that, they are like home. The co-founder of Airbnb, Brian Chesky said that, house is just simply a space and home is where you live with love and
Wimdu and 9flats joined hands together to be on the top of the online platform for private holiday apartments in Europe. At the same time they are working on the growth and profitability of the project.
This merge of the two companies, will be the strong competitor for Airbnb as they deal with the same domain as Airbnb does. The two companies have more than 500,000 properties worldwide.
Wimdu was founded by Rocket internet and it has received around $100 million in venture capital. Now along with its merger it plans to focus on the growth and profitability. According to the Rocket Internet Standards, the developments of the Wimdu seem to be a failure.
Wimdu has a chance to become …show more content…
Let’s take a look on the Airbnb and 9flats.com.
What is the difference between the Airbnb and 9flats?
Both the companies Airbnb and 9flats are the online platforms that can be accessed through the mobile, tablet and by other electronic devices. They allow the users to rent their properties and they also help people who look for the holiday apartments or the people who search for the places to rest for few days with the unique accommodations across the world.
Both the companies provide facilities to stay in tree houses, boats and even in igloos and they also provide facilities to stay in homes, apartments, single and shared homes. Airbnb is based on U.S and it has more inventory listings and 9flats is a European based company.
History of Airbnb
Brian Chesky, Joe Gebbia and Nathan Blecharczyk founded Airbnb in August 2008. Two of the founders, Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia got the idea of Airbnb during the Industrial design conference conducted by industrial designers’ society of America. At that time, Chesky and Gebbia was the roommates and they cannot able to afford their loft in San Francisco, so they decided to change their living room into the bread and breakfast and they accommodated three guests and provided them home breakfast. Form this small step; they decided to work on this …show more content…
Nathan Blecharczyk, who was the technical architect, joined the other two. At the beginning stage the founders focused on the high profile events.
Then the company helped the co-founders to pay their rents. They provided their guests with the airbed in the apartments, so it was named as Airbnb.
Mission of Airbnb is to provide a online marketplace where clients have the freedom to book or list the living places all around the globe and to make the travel experience affordable and unique to each and every clients. And allowing the clients to showcase their free space and make money out of that.
People were thinking that Airbnb is about renting houses, but the company said that, they are like home. The co-founder of Airbnb, Brian Chesky said that, house is just simply a space and home is where you live with love and