Startups in Bangalore: Babajob
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Bangalore-based startup Babajob is a social networking site with a few interesting wrinkles. I recently met with Sean Blagsvedt, co-founder of Babalife in Bangalore, to find out about Babajob. A few weeks ago the company released its first private beta version of their service.
A kind of LinkedIn for villages is one way to describe what Sean and his team are working on. The startup wants to use the ubiquitous mobile phones and the Internet to connect people from the “informal sector” to their potential employees. The informal sector in India includes millions of cooks, maids, security guards, drivers, seamstresses, construction workers and others. How do you create a viable social network system in this space? That’s the challenge that Babajob faces.
For the moment, Babajob is using Bangalore as a test-bed, with plans to roll-out its services to other Indian towns and cities during the next few months.
You can also check out Babajob’s has a sister site, called Babalife.
Tags: Bangalore, Babajob, social networking, Sean Blagsvedt, informal sector, Babalife
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September 26th, 2007 at 1:15 am
[…] I don’t think I’m doing his site justice at all, so if you want a better explanation, you can here Sean talk about it here. It is an interesting use of social networks–partly for profit, and partly for actual social betterment. I will probably post more about this later, as Babajob will be profiled in the news in the coming weeks (and I’m sure they’ll do a better job of summing his project up). […]
September 26th, 2007 at 7:48 am
do you have any such site in Hyderabad
October 31st, 2007 at 2:56 am
Great work.
Are you guys planning to expand your reach to Hyderabad?
Best Wishes.
November 28th, 2007 at 1:40 am
Good attempt.but please guide me what i have to do for hiring a maid.
December 4th, 2007 at 4:00 pm
[…] www.babajob.com is a fee-based job board site kind of like monster.com, except they use social networking among high-income people and paid referrals to find jobs for low wage workers who make up the majority of the indian population. here is a podcast by their founder/CEO Blagsvedt (formerly at Microsoft Research) who explain’s the company model/strategy… babalife is a social network to attract wealthy folks who automatically get signed up for babajobs – the site for jobseekers. […]