5 Richest Companies in the World which starts from kidding | Five

     Often there are still thinking in society that considers a large company created from ideas that complicated. In fact, not all of these assumptions is true. Currently, many large companies began actually constructed of different ideas, and initially often considered unfit or impractical. In fact, now rarely encountered a large company started from an idea that ensures the company has become a giant in the future.

    There are at least five successful companies are built from an initial idea of different and often considered problematic.

1. Facebook

Initially, the company has now become a giant corporation seeks only to share photos among its members. Furthermore, the members of the ranks of the photographs are considered the most attractive.According to BusinessWeek website, revenue up in 2009 or six years since its launch has reached US $ 700 million to US $ 800 million or equivalent Rp6,3-7,3 trillion.

CNet estimates, in 2009 Faceboook managed to obtain a net profit of tens of millions of dollars, or about hundreds of billions of dollars.Facebook also recruit sales staff more power to attract more advertisers, so that at the end of the year amount to more than 4-fold since early 2009.

In the country, the company is headquartered in Palo Alto, California USA is now also has become one of the companies that have the largest display advertising.According to Comscore, Facebok now control 16 percent market share of display advertising, an increase of 11 percent in the final quarter of last year.

2. Groupon

The initial idea of the establishment of this company is to provide an opportunity for a group of people to embrace a common goal. The goal is described as ThePoint.

In operation, the Groupon site provides tools for companies that want to offer a coupon (voucher), usually with a certain discount, provided that the number of bidders must reach a certain limit. If the minimum limit is not met, then there is no transaction on that day.
Operations such as this reduces the risk for retail if the number of coupons that are offered do not meet the minimum.

According to its website, Groupon.com, this program was first launched in November 2008. Currently, Groupon has about 1,500 employees in the Chicago headquarters and offices are being developed in Palo Alto, California.
Groupon is now expanding its business by opening representative offices in Europe, South America, Asia, and other countries.

Groupon revenue, which comes abbreviation Group Coupon, as quoted from Wikipedia, from January 2010 to January 2011 was estimated at US $ 11 million to US $ 89 million per month. During the year, revenue is expected to reach US $ 460 Groupon million. Groupon revenue this year is expected to reach around US $ 3 billion to $ 4 billion.

In October 2010, Groupon reportedly received a proposal from Yahoo! worth US $ 3 billion. Not to be outdone, Google is also interested in acquiring this company with a bid of US $ 5.3 billion, which was later rejected on December 3, 2010.

3. Instagram

         The initial idea came from thinking Instagram HTML 5 which is able to support the location information service for its users.
Instagram itself is an application that can use the iPhone users to share photos. With this program, users can add special effects to the photograph that was taken before propagated to other Instagram users use social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter, or Tumblr.

4. Flickr

The company is built on the idea of a multiplayer game website that has a very wide members called Game Neverending.

Based on the Wikipedia website described Flickr was developed by Ludicorp, a company based in Vancouver, Canada and was built in 2002. Ludicorp launched Flickr in February 2004. This service was developed in the beginning to make the Game Neverending.

An early form of Flickr focused as a space for dialogue (chat room) with many users with names FlickrLive with the ability to share photos directly (real time). Which are more prevalent is split images or images found on the web rather than images created by the users themselves.

The next evolution is emphasized for uploading and chat rooms disappear from the map of the site.

In 2005, Yahoo! Inc. took over Ludicorp and Flickr. On June 28, 2005, all the contents of the server Canada transferred to servers located in the United States, which causes all the existing data are under United States federal law.

5. To Be Determined

Almost the same as Facebook, the company is providing an Internet program, the members can share photos and forming groups based on location through an application called Color.