Re:Kisan Network (YC W16) is an online marketplace for India...
by aogaosdighao on Thursday March 10, 2016 @07:20AM
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According to that article, you take care of sorting & processing of the produce. Doesn't it take a lot of investment to start something like that? Seems you would need a big hygienic facility for this. And the logistics of moving the produce from remote villages to your facility and then from there to the buyer..doesn't that take a fleet of trucks? And finally, how exactly are you different from the existing middlemen? I don't quite get the advantage of a custom built platform when you still have to act as the middleman between the seller and the buyer. In the most extreme case, couldn't you just do it through Whatsapp?
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Re:Kisan Network (YC W16) is an online marketplace for India...
by adi_agarwalla on Thursday March 10, 2016 @12:17PM
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Thanks for the questions. We have designed our own cost effective mechanisms to handle the costs that you mentioned. We are a facilitator, not a middleman.