recruiting service providers

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I look at smart companies like- campusfoods.com, mint.com, restaurant.com and get amazed at how they struck up a deal to connect with the actual service providers.

how did CampusFoods recruit so many Campus restaurants, same thing with Mint.com, how did they manage to get the banks on board to share their information.

I would add Taxi Magic (taximagic.com) to the list. It has deals with a ton of taxi dispatchers. Once their user base grows they will literally eat out their business. How did they get them to sign the deal???

insanemo · Answer 1 · 2009-12-24 22:01:55Z

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Banks aren't that hard a lot of them have apis. But the restaurants are more interesting, I think the reason campusfood had so much success is that they are owned by dotmenu and already had standing connections.

answered Dec 24 '09 at 22:01

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	@insanemo, thanks, I assumed as about having some standard API but doesn't Mint.com need to sell their idea on a bank by bank basis. thanks very much for your answer – bushman Dec 24 '09 at 22:49
	@bushman, most banks make their APIs available to business accounts, and as far as I know a lot of personal accounting software has access to the data. I think there must be some sort of system to just apply and gain access to the API, I remember reading that the API is read only, so I'm assuming its semi-open to anyone with a legitimate idea, that checks out. You do need the account holders information to access the data anyways. – insanemo Dec 24 '09 at 23:52
	@bushman: No banks do NOT need to be contacted individually. Mint doesn't sell to banks, they sell ad space to credit card companies. – Jason Dec 26 '09 at 18:22

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