PhokatCopy.com
PhokatCopy is a free photocopying service which connects student needs of photocoping of their notes with an innovative marketing strategy and providing an opportunity for highly innovative advertising solution for the advertisers. It offers students photocopying services at no cost, the cost of photocopy is subsidized by revenues gained through advertising initiatives on the back page.It has tied up with photocopiers of 25 colleges in Delhi.
22-year-old Harsh Narang, an IIT-Delhi student and three students from the institute, two from Delhi University and one from BITS-Pilani, to set up 'phokatcopy' that subsidizes photocopying for students across various colleges in the Delhi, Mumbai and Bangalore.
Business Model
For every 20 sheets you photocopy from PhokatCopy’s tied up photocopiers, you get a scratch card which has to be registered through PhokaCopy's website. The scratch cards give you points equal to the money spent by you. Example the cost of 20sheets photocopy is Rs 10 (50 paisa/sheet),when you register in the website with scratch card and enter the pin you get 10 points.you have to collect the points to redeem the points for fast food, free mobile talktime or iPods. If you accumulate 65 points which is equal to Rs 65, you can avail a free hot chocolate fudge coupon which would be mailed to the address.
The company has tied up with numerous companies like Fast Track, Cafe Coffee Day and Nirula where scratch card points can be redeemed, also act as a platform for advertisers to target specific audience.
Founder
Harsh Narang
Harsh is a fifth year student at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. He is pursuing a Masters of Technology in Mathematics and Computing. He has worked in the Algorithmic Trading Desk at an international Investment Bank, with a start up firm within IIT-D and also as a Research Assistant at a reputed European University. The concept of free photocopying came to him on a long afternoon in 2007, after he had just copied a mountain of notes! He worked on refining the concept and the financials and fleshed out the idea over the course of the year - and PhokatCopy was born! With a team of fellow IIT-D companions, Harsh has participated and won laurels at numerous entrepreneurship and business plan competitions for this idea. He has been recognized at institutions such as IIT-D, IIT-R, IIT-M, IIM-B, PEC, Delhi University amongst others. Currently, Harsh acts as the founding director of PhokatCopy and would love to discuss the idea and its potential with you at: harsh.narang@phokatcopy.com.
List of colleges running PhokatCopy
- Zakir Hussain College
- St. Stephens
- Sri Venkateshwara College
- Sri Aurobindo College
- Shivaji College
- PGDAV
- Moti Lal Nehru College
- Mata Sundari College
- Laxmi Bai college
- Lady Irwin College
- Keshav Mahavidhyalaya
- JNU
- Jaypee Institute
- Janki Devi Memorial College
- IP University (main campus)
- Institute of Home Economics
- IIMC
- IILM
- GGS College of Commerce
- Galgotia Institute
- Deshbandhu College
- DCAC
- Dayal Singh College
- College of Vocational Studies
- BIMTech
- Amity University
- AIIMS
- Acharya Narendra Dev
- IGNOU
- Atma Ram Sanatan Dharma College
- Ramjas College
- Amity International Business School
- Maharaja Surajmal Institute of Technology
- Deen Dayal Upadhyaya College
- Lady Shri Ram College for Women
- Miranda House
- Maitreyi College
- Guru Nanak Dev Khalsa College
- Vivekananda College
- Ram Lal Anand College
- S.S. College of Business Studies
- Shyam Lal college
- Jesus and Mary College
- Delhi College of Engineering
- University School of Law and Legal Studies, GGSIPU
- University School of Information Technology, GGSIP
- Indira Gandhi Institute of Technology, GGSIPU
- Rajdhani College
- Kalindi College
- Lady Hardinge Medical College
- Shaheed Bhagat Singh College
- Kamla Nehru College
- Shri Ram College of Commerce
- Delhi School of Economics
- Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology
- Daulat Ram College
- Hindu College
- Sri Venkateswara College
- Hans Raj College
- Faculty of Law, Delhi University
- Kirori Mal College
- Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi
- Satyawati College
