Miraj, Tim, Alex, and Brendan are developing a business social network project. The project aims to merge ecommerce features from sites like eBay and Amazon into an easy-to-use social network tailored for Australia. The plan is to generate revenue through commissions and advertisements while keeping startup costs low. Potential risks include issues with trust, revenue not offsetting operational costs, lack of usage, and legal issues from ratings. Benefits include encouraging NBN use, exposure for small businesses, easy product searching, and potential for many Australian businesses to use the site.

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3. Revised Timetable – Project Plan

4. Project – Business Social Network
• Merging the ideas of existing services (e.g. eBay, Shopify, Amazon)
into a simple, easy to use website tailored to Australian requirements.
• Providing simplicity and interconnectivity modelled off of social
network sites (such as facebook, myspace, twitter, etc.).
• Revenue generated via commission and advertisement, low start-up
costs.
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xNational real-time Traffic Monitoring System x

5. Risks
• Trust.
• Revenue generated from may not offset operational costs.
• Not enough usage, may be too complicated.
• Defamation – providing rating system may cause issues to arise (e.g.
eBay).

6. Benefits
• Encourages the use of NBN – rich content and stability.
• Small businesses offering products and services get exposure to the
entirety of Australia.
• Easy product search through browser toolbars.
• User-friendly.
• If just 1% of Australian businesses use this service, that’s at least
20,000 stores on the site.

7. • Questions?