MeriCAR.com, a first-in-India focused web portal on car servicing and repair, promoter Mr. Rakesh Sidana has made it to the first cut-off of The Power of Ideas 2010. MeriCAR.com is creating awareness about car servicing and promoting muti brand concept in India. The venture is helping car owners to search for the neighborhood car workshops using web and mobile technology.
The Power of Ideas, is India’s largest entrepreneurial platform that encourages, nurtures and grooms business ideas by connecting them with relevant mentors, incubators and investors. The Power of Ideas 2010 is an initiative by The Economic Times in association with the Department of Science & Technology, Government of India, and the IIM Ahmedabad’s Centre for Innovation Incubation and Entrepreneurship (CIIE).
As per the news, The Economic Times (3 Sep, 2010, 01.26AM IST,ET Bureau) the 850 ideas, which made it to the first cut-off of The Power of Ideas 2010, will now progress to the second phase of the initiative. After sifting through a record 16,242 business ideas, evaluating panel has arrived at a mix of pure dreamers as well as budding start-up entrepreneurs.
“The Power of Ideas 2010 would be a great help for my team to take this idea to next level by evaluating and mentoring process. India needs focused platform like MeriCAR.com to organize car servicing business. Apart from investors, we are also looking for strategic partners to join our team who believe in our idea and concept.” says Rakesh Sidana, founder, CEO, MeriCAR.com
The Economic Times Source:http://www.ideas.economictimes.com/cut-off1
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/Corporate-Trends/articleshow/6482544.cms
Notes to Editor
MeriCAR.com is first in India, dedicated car servicing web portal with a network of neighbourhood car workshops. MeriCAR is creating awarness about car servicing and helping car owners to connect them to the right car workshops, auto repair service centres and giving independent and unbiased advice based on user ratings, reviews and feedbacks. MeriCAR has 73 Premium Car Workshop members in New Delhi and NCR (Faridabad, Noida, Gurgaon, Ghaziabad). MeriCAR has search web directory of 500 verified car workshops all over India. More detail, please visit
http://www.mericar.com and http://search.mericar.com
Why Do We Need MeriCAR.com?
Tuesday, March 24th, 2009I am often approached by people with the question – Why MeriCAR.com? I would like to share problems with car servicing industry in India and MeriCAR solutions. Please read my comments at StartUpDunia.com Blog (copy of comments are below).
MeriCAR has value proposition for dealer to “manage” bookings online and getting “new leads”. For car owners, “comfort and awareness” to find best car dealers in their neighborhood at the best price. To build car owners trust, MeriCAR is helping car owners to resolve problems with assigned MeriCAR car dealers.
To retain car owners for the second time, MeriCAR offers free services, discount offers and some other benefits from MeriCAR associates.
It is true that car owner would be interested to go to one best car dealer. So MeriCAR suggests car owner to choose one from a list of MeriCAR dealers. Premium car owner membership is paid membership.
Some car owners are still not aware about neighborhood workshops. They just visit to same dealer who sold them a car even they are far away. (Some cases I noticed).
Maintaining “online service diary” is good suggestion to give another feature for car owners.
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