The 4 businesses to replicate this week #044

Goodbye, snail mail! 🇺🇸

Mail forwarding services: a well-functioning but somewhat aging industry.

We find big office companies offering prestigious addresses. You can choose from major cities, and even specific districts.

Handy, but a "fake" prestigious address might not necessarily be that useful for companies today. What is useful is being able to automate mail handling.

And this company gets it: Stable is about next-generation business domiciliation. Mail can be automatically forwarded to Slack, email, etc.

And there's even an API to manage snail mail as if they were emails.

A smart concept, and a company that's hiring a lot at the moment, and...

Still probably not in your country (for now 🐓): https://www.usestable.com/

Hotels often have quite limited marketing techniques: optimizing their presence on platforms like Booking/Expedia, etc., enhancing their reviews, and reaching out to local businesses for potential room bookings here and there.

Curacity offers them a new distribution channel: content. This platform connects influencers, media (travel and tourism blogs, etc.), and hotels. Content creators earn money on each booking, and thus hotels gain visibility.

A minimum standard is probably required (a 2-star hotel will have a hard time getting media coverage unless it has interesting features): special activities, etc.

But hotels are very eager for channels that would allow them to be less dependent on OTAs (Booking, Expedia, etc.)

$300M in revenue generated for its hotel partners in 2023, and…

Still probably not in your country (for now 🐓): https://curacity.com

B-Corp, planet-neutral and… highly profitable! 🇺🇸

Few "planet-neutral" projects make it into the newsletter, so let's take advantage of one like this when we find it.

For those looking to combine social, environmental business aspects while still making money, this project is a rare gem! Fundraising amount unknown, revenue multiplied by 3 in 3 years, with clients like Visa, Microsoft, Adobe, etc., and…

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Having e-commerce sites as clients is great because it is easier to measure conversion rates with them and see if a solution has a positive return on investment or not.

So here's a SaaS tool that ticks quite a few boxes to minimize the entrepreneur's risk: - Monthly revenue - Not too hard to launch - Hundreds of thousands of potential customers - A fairly simple sales pitch (“we make you money”).
$65M raised (but promise, you can do this without fundraising!), and…

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