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If you want to start your own business now, what services will emerge in your brain? Sign in, mobile payment and photo sharing? I'm sorry, but I have to tell you now that I think of these hot topics.

1. Photo Sharing:

Startups:

Abroad: Instagram, Piictu, Pinterest, Sincerely and Pictour.us

China: Beauty Show Xiu, push map, our Tech2PO report found

Instagram has matured and has downloaded 1 million times online for 10 weeks.

As far as China is concerned, Meitu Xiu Xiu has occupied most of the market.

Moreover, photo sharing is not a closed area. If you still want to win in the photo community sharing field, you need to face many competitors.

2. social networking:

Startups:

Abroad: Storenvy, Goodsie, Magento.go, and even Yahoo eCommerce.

China: beautiful, mushroom cloud

E-commerce sites absolutely need constant improvement. You have to face the industry giants like YAHOO and Taobao. Their market size, payment function and optimized search engine optimization will enable users to pay 40 dollars a month.

(founder of Goodsie Jonathan Marcus)

3. service for others:

Startups: TaskRabbit, Zaarly and Craigslist

In fact, even BusinessInsider did not like this idea.

Such a service demand is insufficient, only to meet the needs of a small number of people.

If you want to buy shampoo, or do it yourself, only lazy people will think of such errands. If you really need the services of errands, Craigslist can find many. If you want quick maintenance service, Zaarly or TaskRabbit may be the best choice.

(TaskRabbit founder Leah Busque)

4. mobile payment:

Startups:

Abroad: Square, Intuit, Google Wallet, Starbucks Mobile Card, Giftly

China: fast money, Alipay

Technology companies are investing in the field of action, and Square, the start-up company, has already taken the lead. At present, the company's valuation is as high as 1 billion dollars.

The domestic market has been occupied by the three party payment of Alipay and fast money.

5. education and training:

Startups: Coursekit, Coursehorse, Skillshare, TutorSpree, Hoot.me

Many start-ups want to break the traditional education system. TutorSpree helps you find the right private tutors. Coursehorse lets you tailor training courses as simple as ordering services. Coursekit wants to completely dissolve the blackboard, though no new company has a clear lead, but education is indeed a challenging business field.

6. music sharing:

Startups:

Abroad: Spotify, Turntable.fm, MOG and Rdio

Domestic: shrimp, watercress

The top enemy of music sharing companies is apple iTunes, many of which threaten Apple's status, like Spotify's valuation of $1 billion, and Turntable.fm's celebrity support such as Lady Gaga. In addition to fierce competition, this type of new company has to face legal problems.

7. online booking:

Startups: Lifebooker, Hotel Tonight, ZocDoc and Savored

In fact, it is not necessary to avoid this area, because online booking has so far no major leader, but it is foreseeable that the market will become more competitive. It is like ZocDoc to help you find a doctor with time. Hotel Tonight allows you to get a cheap discount at the last minute. Lifebooker is working together with the beauty salon, Savored and OpenTable to find a discount restaurant.

8. monthly order:

Startups: Birchbox, GuyHaus, ManPacks, ShoeDazzle and FreshDirect

ShoeDazzle is the market leader, the innovation and development space of this mode is not large, but competition is fierce.

In addition, it is like FreshDirect in the three states of the United States to establish its own business, ShoeDazzle also has its own store, Birchbox has just completed $10 million 500 thousand financing, to move forward in the field of cosmetics, and other new companies launched male condoms and underwear and other commodities, but have not yet been successful.

9. video interview:

Startups: Ovia, Take The Interview, Skype and Google Hangouts

If video interview is a new way, enterprises should adopt Skype or Google group chat service Hangout; these two companies can easily defeat any competitor.

There is no such service in China, but for Tencent and Baidu giants, launching such services is a breeze.

10. professional training:

Startups:

Abroad: Goodsie, OnSwipe, Flotype and Onepager

China: T AP self built station reported by Tech2IPO before

In fact, this is an area of great business opportunities. If people with non technical background want to engage in some technical work, they need such a platform, such as Onepager allows users to simply set up websites, Flotype allows users to develop applications, OnSwipe allows publishers to develop action App, and Goodsie provides services to set up online stores.

11. social networking reading experience:

Startups: BenchPrep, AppAddictive, Copia and BookTracks

Many entrepreneurs foresee that textbooks will disappear, so many companies are investing in developing e-books and adding community functions.

BenchPrep combines seminars with e-books. It also studies GRE, GMAT and other test App, Copia locks books and students, and Booktracks brings stereo into e-books.

Various functions have been added to the e-book reading experience.

12. rental services:

Startups: GetAround, Airbnb, LooseCubes and Liquid Space

There is still room for innovation in the development of rental services. However, it is important to note that many new start-ups have developed unique business models, such as Airbnb with a market value of 1 billion dollars, and the champion team of TechCrunch Disrupt innovation competition this year, Getaround provides car rental services, and LooseCubes and Liquid Space are renting office space.

13. mobile games:

Startups: Zynga, Rovio and Lima Sky

No need to think about it, mobile game leaders have emerged, whether Rovio or Zynga, but that doesn't mean you should not try. After all, this is still one of the most concerned projects for venture capitalists. As long as you can find the way to success, try it.

14. group buying:

Startups:

Abroad: Groupon, LivingSocial, Group Commerce, SignPost and Yipit

Domestic: US regiment and handshake

Groupon and LivingSocial have already taken most of the market. How do you get into it? As far as China is concerned, the competition of group buying has entered the stage of day to day.

But it doesn't mean that this field can't be done. It's very important to find the right product logic, such as the shopping assistant before Tech2IPO. It's a good way to combine group buying with the same hot LBS recently.

15. men and women make friends:

Startups:

Abroad: Match, JDate, eHarmony, OkCupid, Clique, HowAboutWe, Ignighter, Moonit and Luv@FirstTweet

China: Jiayuan and Lily net

In the Internet dating industry, Match.com and eHarmony belong to the leader. Other service providers also offer different services. HowAboutWe allows you to choose suitable objects according to the data. Ignighter provides party making parties. Online dating is not the same as before. The chances of success are very low.

16. social travel:

Startups: Nextstop, Sonar and SpotOn

At present, there are numerous social service applications in the market, so it's hard for you to imagine that if you are interested in it, you may have to think about it.

17. social / friends recommendation news:

Startups:

Abroad: Twitter, Shelby, Meebo and OnSwipe

China: Sina micro-blog, everyone, happy

Shelby can recommend audio and video content according to the links sent by friends. Meebo allows you to view web pages. OnSwipe allows you to annotate content, let your friends see the content of tags, and do not mention Twitrer and Facebook two.

As for the domestic situation, the exclusive situation of sina has been formed in micro-blog, and SNS has been occupied by everyone and happy two.

18. time limited discount:

Startups: Gilt Groupe, Ideeli, Lot18, HauteLook, Artspace and Village Vines

Gilt Groupe can be said to be a discounted success representative of the fashion industry, and it will also expand to food and tourism.

Lot18 founder Philip James said that the potential of the wine group buying market is optimistic, so Snooth is set up; the time limited discount market can reach US $30 billion, exceeding music, DVD, and so on, which may be said to be a niche market.

If you have any idea of a time limited discount, maybe you can try it.

19. social networking chat service:

Startups: Kohort, Path, Fridge, Beluga (acquired by Facebook), Facebook and Google

Facebook and Google can easily become a social group chatting service supremacy, believe that any small start-ups can not compare.

20. check-in service:

Startups:

Abroad: Foursquare, Gowalla, SCVNGR, Turf, MyTown and Matchbook

China: Street side

The check-in service of Foursquare and SCVNGR has been developing for a long time, and there is plenty of money. Unless you think you are better than them, you should not try it easily.

The street side trend in China is strong.