Eateries always prepares breakfast work during the night and start selling it at dawn. They are invariably crowded and you will usually see a long queue waiting to buy breakfast. As most people prefer not to cut back on their sleep, there was always a motivation to find an easier way to get this delicious and nutritious breakfast to them.

So, Kalapch provided the answer. It made the process of buying breakfast easy. Customers can sit at home and order their breakfast online. For registered members, there is another option too. They can order by text or call.

Getting the online orders and shipping the breakfast to customers is all Kalapch does. Kalapch gets the breakfast from the best restaurants having the best Chefs.

Reviewing the website, Kalapch uses colloquial language on its pages. This is a good way to earn the trust of customers and Kalapch is using it as a competitive advantage. The other competitive advantage of Kalapch is using the best standard containers in its packaging.

For the first order, Kalapch asks for traditional methods of payments. Customers get their order and pay the delivery guy. Using online orders and sending orders to any address, customers can use this service to send this delicious breakfast as a gift to their loved ones. And after the first order, Kalapch can update the payment method to an online method.

Kalapch is one of the most active startups on Social Media. You can follow Kalapch on Facebook, twitter, instagram, pinterest and aparat.

One of the most exciting parts of Kalapch website is the entertainment and game part. You can play 4 online games on Kalapch website. All the games has the same character that is a sheep.

Kalapch is active in Tehran and they are planning to expand their business all over the country.

As Kalapch team cares about the customers opinions, they ask that you can post your comments on any of the media you’re on, or on its website. Most of the customers were satisfied with the service and some have asked for more type of breakfast. So, as a result of their comments, Kalapch has now added a second breakfast.

“Kalapch” should be served warm, it is an important issue about this type of food that is well taken care of. About 100% of the customers were satisfied with their order and they’ve mentioned that their “Kalapch” were as warm as expected.

Recently, Kalapch won the Iran Web Conference prize for the best startup of its kind.

Nazanin Daneshvar is the CEO and the Founder of Takhfifan and has more than 12 years on experience in E-commerce field, Working in Europe before Takhfifan and getting to know this business model made her to think about starting the same thing in Iran. So basically after customer validation and development they launched the site in 2011.

Nazanin Daneshvar(left), the founder of Takhfifan

Staring with two people( Nazanin & Negin, her sister) by then, now they are over 60 people in HQ and other cities and they have grown organically without any investment so far. They were recognised as the best entrepreneur in 2011 and Got the award of the best Group buying website in the following years.

Takhfifan has now more than 10000 merchants working with her and continues to grows and expands to different regions and areas. Nazanin Daneshvar, the CEO believes today is the time that all the businesses should move online to continue marketing and old marketing ways don’t work any more.

Takhfifan has developed their mobile application from the first year and offering all the deals and information online. They also added the functionally called “Takhfifan just now” which customers can buy and use the coupons straight away.

Takhfifan group along the way came to the need of having a reviewing platform and they started Tarinan.com on 2012 which is a free review and local search platform. Has been quite successful and the mobile app would be launched soon.

Finding a woman entrepreneur in IT with a running business is not easy in Iran and Nazanin Daneshvar is a good example of one. She owned Meydoonak.com couple of years ago which was the first Iranian Online Grocery shopping and has years of experience in e-commerce inside and outside of the country. She really believes in Entrepreneurship and loves all the challenges in this way.

Nick Stevens as a Facilitator started the event by introducing startup weekend to all attendees. After 31 pitches, 12 ideas got selected and 10 teams gathered to start “No talk, all action”.

Nick’s presence was a great opportunity to all attendees, mentor, staff and also the liveblog team. By his advice, all teams got out of the building and evaluate their ideas.

Friday afternoon we had the presentation and judging session. Every team had 5 minutes to present their work and 3 minutes to answer the questions. GiftMan, Brown Ground and DarooYar win this battle, but as you know all the attendees are winners if they use what they’ve learn in their real business.

I had the honor to interview Mr. Koorangi Founder at MPS, the first Incubator for supporting technological business here in Iran. This event as the first startup weekend he attended attracted his attention. He said that he has seen obvious change past 3 years he has got back Iran. Although there is some problems, the startup ecosystem is in progress.

Entrepreneurship is a case that should be reviewed and he taught some investors are paying attention to Middle East and Iran since the problems are the same all over the world. Problems such as traffic, shopping, library and entertainment are the same in Iran and San Francisco or France as well. Because of these similarities the strategies and methods should be global. So, we should solve a problem by whole and as Iran is part of the whole, the problem will got solved.

We have so many creative young people here who could solve the problems but they need support and some tools. The main tool is fund.

He also mentioned about the importance of investors. As you know, Mark Zuckerberg had enough investors so he could launched facebook. The idea itself could not guaranteed success and fund is important as well.

He answered the last question about localization the successful startups around the world. He said that most people are afraid of foreign investors and they say foreigners has got the market and we cannot compete. This idea is wrong, if you have a strategy you can work as well and attract the investors. And this would be a positive act when a foreign company buy internal companies. So think global and act local.

First of all, Divar has been developed on Android OS. After getting enough users, they developed the website and iOS application as well. The application is free and has more than 1 million active users on android. The application on iOS has been released lately and they’re working on it to make it better.

Two groups of people use Divar:

• Visitors who are searching for a service
• People who are going to provide a service

The second group is the main customers of Divar. Joining Divar and managing the advertisements is as easy as subscribing to a newsletter. After you submit your email address you will receive a link to your panel.

As Divar provides a service for all kinds of advertisement, there is two main branches. The advertise branch and the location branch.

With the location based filter you can see all the advertisements in a city. Cities shown on the first page, are being chosen by the population of advertisement in that city on Divar. If the numbers has passed the expected level, Divar will put the name of the city in the home page.

The other branch is about the advertisements categories. Except the employment category, all categories are free. Employer must pay for the job advertisement on Divar. If the employer did not delete the advertisement, every employment advertisement will stand on Divar 60 days.

There are specialized features in Divar. You can pay and use the urgent category in Divar. Every payment will put your advertisement in urgent category for 3 days.

So, Divar is an online Newspaper just presenting the requirement part.

This startup is the first of its genre in Iran. It has been launched six years ago and the first project was “Designing Logo for Pars Coders”.

Projects are classified as:

Time

• Short
• Long

Size

•  Small
•  Large

Complexity

• Simple
• Hard

The procedure is defined as:

• Order a project
• Select a freelancer
• Early Pay
• Delivery
• Payment

There are 11510 freelancer registered in Pars Coders. The average number of projects is 900 monthly and the total number of successful projects is 5374.