Comments on: Media Monday: Bharatstudent.com on for Sale- Is Indian internet media helpless?

By: Bhavesh

Bhavesh — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:43:57 +0000

Yes I am Agree with you Mohite

BharatStudent’s traffic is not genuine, Most of visits coming from popups and ads. And i think Axill is also sister company of BharatStudent. Most ads runing on Axill is BharatStuden. BharatStudent also buy large space on Clicksor.

I believe strongly that no site can earn by ads from ads.

By: shardul mohite

shardul mohite — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 11:28:10 +0000

Just to clarify more on my statement,
BharatStudent was generating traffic through online advertising. We have also seen that the sites they are advertising are also not usual site. They have been spending huge amount of money to buy ad-space on these sites (Even though rates are cheap there) !

By: rabi gupta

rabi gupta — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:29:24 +0000

Hi Rahul,
In this case I think you have some good info reg apnacircle’s internal position and I can’t argue that. Thanks for sharing this. I was just going by what I presumed, but good that you contradicted me with some facts :)!

By: MoneyMint.in

MoneyMint.in — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:44:50 +0000

According to the company's annual report there are 3 potential buyers for bharatstudent.com and ziddu. This article details about it.

By: Pooja Gupta

Pooja Gupta — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 08:52:18 +0000

Hi Rabi,

Nice article.
Just one question. It would be interesting to know that what price (or probably a price range) can such Indian websites command when they are put up for sale.

Probably this is what the were looking out for in the first place – make a site, make it decently popular and then exit from the venture by selling it.

Do let me know if you have any idea about the price range.

By: vithal

vithal — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 05:57:28 +0000

Its always better to sell portals when they are HOT!

By: Divyang

Divyang — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:53:11 +0000

Look at it this way.
We are at least 15 years back then the west’s web usage.
But these 15 years will be covered in next 5 years under the influence of west on Indian janta. So start packing your bags. Ride gonna go crazy.

By: Rahul

Rahul — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:25:43 +0000

Dear Rabi,

If you look at the comments on the article you referred you will see yourself what i am referring to, Again the content there is provided by Contentsutra without facts. Sure no one is denying Sabeer part funded this venture but we are not giving the credit to other people who might have funded this venture more Yogesh Bansal, Times of India….
The news is around that Yogesh Bansal initiative closed the deal with Viadeo and this is the first indian networking site who went global. We know that the team is busy integrating the site with the global platform. May be the time will tell.

By: rabi gupta

rabi gupta — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:20:40 +0000

Hey,
this is really some interesting info :)

By: rabi gupta

rabi gupta — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:18:26 +0000

Hi Rahul,
That’s really a good info. See the point here is apnacircle may be cash flow positive, but since its inception it hasn’t done very well in the market. That’s why it was first Times group which bought some 20-30% stakes in the year 2008 and this year during Feb Viadeo acquired apnacircle. When I read this piece of news (http://contentsutra.com/article/419-french-biz-networking-site-viadeo-acquires-indian-video-site-apnacircle/) it was apparent that website hasn’t done well and it was definitely funded by Sabeer Bhatia.

By: shardul mohite

shardul mohite — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 11:33:41 +0000

I am not surprised to see that BharatStudent not doing well. Bharatstudent has been buying ads to sell ads. It is very obvious that this was going to happen one day.

By: Rahul

Rahul — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 10:42:32 +0000

Dear Rabi

It is surprising to see bharatstudent go for sale, but I disagree on ApnaCircle.com this site is very much live thanks to his founder Yogesh Bansal who not only putting his own money working without taking any money, is merged with Viadeo.com and tianji.com they recently acquired unyk also. The global company is cash flow positive, what i understand is that Yogesh Bansal who has excellent relationship with times of India, this treaty helped apnacircle alot. It is also said that sabeer did not put much so not sure where you got these facts.