Accentium Web launches education portal StudyTimes.com
03 July, 2009
Accentium Web, which runs SecondShaadi.com and Gaadi.com, has now launched StudyTimes.com, an online education portal that aims to help students know about admission related information such as application deadlines, exam format and exam results about various colleges and courses in India and abroad.
StudyTimes.com also allows users to review colleges on multiple parameters and also read reviews of other colleges. According to the company, StudyTimes.com currently offers information about more than 25,000 colleges and over 400,000 courses including engineering, medical and MBA.
Vivek Pahwa, CEO, Accentium Web, has said, “While there are multiple education websites today, most of them are specific to verticals such as engineering, MBA etc. There is a clear lack of good content websites that offer a 360 degree view to the students. StudyTimes, through the ecosystem of college search, college reviews, forums, test preparation, counseling and student living is our attempt to fill that gap.”
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One can’t keep on doing the same stuff over and over again across all kinds of brands. Every brand has a unique feature and this needs to be attributed through innovative marketing initiatives. Unless the people working in this medium can innovate, spends will not grow on internet. "
I feel the website has "borrowed" a lot of things from both Siksha and Study Places. Now they are trying to sweep it under the blanket by making noisy comments (I am looking at you Saurav)
I am not associated with any of the three sites and have no clue about their business model. But I can make out if something is copied and not afraid to say it out loud.
If Pankaj Batra is working for StudyPlaces and his reviews are biased
then Why review by Mr.Ankur, Co-founder of accetium is "a good comprehensive analysis" and "open and transparent approach shown by accentium"
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Overall I think all three portals under discussion lack one think or another and derived from parent portal StudyLink.com (which is not extinct). May be there is a need for a new portal which is conceived by not looking at existing portals but by simply speaking to students. May be the new portal should not focus on competitive analysis and on $800 per lead model but simply on students.
One day it will come .... Amen!!!
Dear Saurav,
If Pankaj Batra is working for StudyPlaces and his reviews are biased
then Why review by Mr.Ankur, Co-founder of accetium is "a good comprehensive analysis" and "open and transparent approach shown by accentium"
Dear Guest, Pankaj Batra works for Studyplaces and the review is biased. Ankur, Co-founder of accetium has given a good comprehensive analysis and compared studytimes with studyplaces and shiksha. It's a very factual post explaining what's lacking in the current educational portal and what studytimes is planning to offer...I like the open and transparent approach shown by accentium...!
And Ruchi, I dont work for Accentium. I am not sure what made you think so!
I was searching on net for something and bumped to this link... http://www.pankajbatra.com/2009/06/24/studytimes-copy-paste-of-studyplac...
seems a genuine fact...wondering what studuytimes guys have to say about it
Please don’t compare it with studyplaces... The content of studyplaces is totally copy pasted.... and it’s into lead generation rather than providing guidance to student’s community...It’s a real flop…. Ask for their P&L account, funding and attrition rate…
Mr. Saurav either you work for Accentium or you want to work form them or may be you are one of them. The point I was making is to highlight that they don't innovate. Accentium just copied the existing products without using their brains (if they have any). Go log on to shiksha or studyplaces and compare the pages, formats and then put your point in case you have any.
Ruchi,
* ICICI, IDBI, SBI, HSBC, Citibank is a copy of HDFC?
* Pizzahut, Dominos is a copy of Pizza corner?
* Bharatmatrimony, Jeevansathi is a copy of Shaadi?
Looks like there should be only one company doing a business model :) Grow up!!
gaadi is copy of carewale.com, secondshaadi is copy of shaadi, studytimes is a copy of shiksha & studyplaces. Come on guys at least innovate a little. Don't be a complete copycat. It doesn't make any business sense.
The site doesn't look professional. It lacs the hygiene factor. Now if i am already register on shiksha or studyplaces, why should i move to this site. They just copied the two existing portals.
An evaluation...expected to be biased but see some sense in it
http://ankurwarikoo.com/2009/07/03/why-studytimes-will-fare-better-than-...
This site really looks good... much better than studyplaces & shiksha...
the website looks very clumsy....... not at all a good work by product head has brains to categorise it propoerly......
looks like has lot of work to do in terms of the site
Seems like too inspired from other education portals. Lets wait for sometime and see If they are able to create any difference.
Interesting...lets see how it fares...! Looks good...but then so do a lot of other sites...
But at the face of it...the search seemed to be quite good. As compared to the other Bharatstudent, studyplaces etc...it actually gave me logical results...
Excellent stuff..On the first look, the site looks very comprehensive! Looks like studytimes is going to give a good competition to all education portals out there...Good luck Pahwa!
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