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Sabeer Bhatia’s Latest Ventures - YouSalary.com & LayoffGossip.com
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Sabeer Bhatia is been pretty active in the last couple of months or so investing in new dotcom idea’s. The man behind Hotmail who is yet to see success with any of his other investments like Arzoo, Apnacircle, Instacoll or sabsebolo.com
Sabeer has not seen even 1/4th of the kind of success he saw with Hotmail but then its not everyday that you have a 400 million dollar payday. His latest two investments are also in the dotcom space and both are started by the same entrepreneur Abir Bhattacharyya who is a serial internet entrepreneur based out of the US.
These two dotcoms are Yousalary.com and LayoffGossip.com. Both are pretty much targetted at the global markets with focus on the US. As the names suggests Yousalary is a salary comparison tool while Layoffgossip is just about that Gossips about the now contant layoffs. Layoffgossip is a user generated content driven site which and is little over 2-3 weeks old.
Both these site seem to be in what most would call as the early beta stage. These two seem like experimental projects and if you ask me these seems no longterm business case for both of them in terms of a scalable monetization model besides for ads. UGC platforms like digg have also suffered at the hands of poor monetization and it wouldn’t be any different for any social media platform even facebook is still figuring out a scalable monetization model.
All in all sabeer’s new ventures are nothing even close to hotmail or i doubt they will ever see that kind of success. But what remains to be seen is as investor can Sabeer bhatia turn around atleast one or two of his current investments into decent success or else he wont have much to write home about besides for hotmail.com.
Terrible ideas ! sites like yoursalary.com are dime and a dozen and LayoffGossip is just plain ridiculous. The website design and concept itself is bad.
I guess hotmail has proved too much for him and each successive venture sees him plumbing new depths of stupidity. Yoursalary as it downloads, gives you the impression of a squatter’s website. You know the kind set up in a few hours. Layoff gossip is super puerile. I guess if it was indexed in a few relevant ways [by grudge, by company, by sex, by profession] then it would have made sense. I guess enough time and enough chances have passed to label hotmail as a flash in the pan. But heck so what, a flash in the pan is better than no flash.
Agree with the article and the comments. Wondering if Sabeer spare some cash to my venture which definitely has 100 times more potential than the two (Yousalary.com and LayoffGossip.com) combined… or isn’t it saying much?
Well If sabir Bhatia intends to go ahead with same way coming only with not so successful ventures. He would be setting a trend unheard in the Internet Industry
Sabeer Bhatia is like the Dev Anand of the internet industry