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That's the Ticket

机译:那是票

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After Russ D'Souza and Jack Groetzinger quit their cushy management consultant jobs within a week of each other in the summer of 2008, they took to sitting in a Boston coffee shop every day for two months, struggling to brainstorm a promising startup. Inspiration eventually came from Microsoft, which bought a small website that predicted the fluctuation of airline ticket prices, for $115 million. "We could do that, but for sports" was the idea that eventually became SeatGeek, a fast-growing e-commerce startup that puts a friendly face on ticket search. Right from the beginning users ignored SeatGeek's forecasting in favor of its search function, using it to buy tickets from whichever secondary site they thought listed the best deal. Today SeatGeek aggregates tickets to sports, concerts, Broadway shows and other events sold on more than 100 secondary ticket marketplaces. Last year it handled $155 million in ticket sales. That's a fraction of the massive $5 billion secondary ticket market, but SeatGeek tripled its total transaction value last year and doubled its annual revenue to $25 million. It doesn't charge users for the service, instead taking an 8% commission on most sales from the secondary markets it has enlisted.
机译:在Russ D'Souza和Jack Groetzinger在2008年夏天彼此相隔一周之内辞掉了自己的管理顾问工作之后,他们每天都坐在波士顿的一家咖啡店里呆了两个月,试图集思广益。灵感最终来自微软,微软以1.15亿美元的价格收购了一个预测机票价格波动的小型网站。 “我们可以做到,但为了运动”是最终成为SeatGeek的想法,SeatGeek是一家快速发展的电子商务初创公司,在票务搜索中非常友好。从一开始,用户就忽略了SeatGeek的预测,转而使用其搜索功能,而是使用该功能从他们认为是最划算的任何二级站点购买门票。如今,SeatGeek汇总了在100多个二级门票市场上出售的体育,音乐会,百老汇表演和其他活动的门票。去年,它处理了1.55亿美元的门票销售。这仅占庞大的50亿美元二级机票市场的一小部分,但SeatGeek去年的总交易额增加了三倍,年收入翻了一番,达到2500万美元。它不向用户收取服务费用,而是从它所争取的二级市场上的大部分销售中收取8%的佣金。

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    《Forbes》 |2015年第2期|8890|共2页
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    BRIAN SOLOMON;

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