“Runet today”, August 27, 2012. Experts of the issue: Ilya Balandin, Pavel Nikonov

In the studio “Finam FM” - Ilya Balandin, investment manager of the fund iTech Capital, and Pavel Nikonov, investment analyst of the fund Bright Capital. Together with the moderator, Maxim Spiridonov, they talk about Runet startups, about those projects that have fallen into the field of vision of the program over the past year.

1. The Get Taxi service, launched in Russia in March 2012, allows you to order a taxi using a smartphone, without any involvement from the dispatcher.

- What is the fundamental difference between Get Taxi and competitors?
- How will the market of mobile applications develop?
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2. The Futubra microblogging service was launched by the Mail.Ru Group in January 2012. The online resource allows you to share short messages, publish multimedia content, as well as announce events.

- How successful was the Futubra experience?
- Why Mail.Ru Group does not use all its resources for the development of the project?

3. The TagBrand service allows users to indicate on the posted photos, which fashion brand produced one or another item of clothing or accessory.

- How can you monetize such projects?
- Comment: co-founder of the TagBrand service Ivan Olenchenko.

4. Online cinema Ayyo.ru - a service created by the company Innova.

- Is the online cinema business model viable?
- Comment: General Director of Innova company Gevorg Sargsyan.

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