vivekamn

Off late this segment seems to be getting a lot of attention. See http://www.techcrunch.com/2010/01/28/private-sales-site-beyond-the-rack-raises-2-million/. Anybody has any insight on how this works? What are the drivers for the high end brands to give such deep discounts? Do they buy inventory and hold or does the brand do the order fulfillment etc?

Given that white label social networks like kickapps have had great success, what you think of doing a white label mobile social network as a product idea? Every telco seems to want one of their own and I am sure a lot of niche mobile sns are going to mushroom. Quick research turned up only Wadja.

Background: I am a hands on tech guy with a small but kick ass dev team. Doing consulting work for other valley start ups + couple of small in house projects. Looking for one idea to focus all our efforts on. BTW if you have an alternative idea and willing to pull your weight get in touch. I am open to bring in my team + seed money for right idea.

What should be the approach for banning offending users from your site? The only way I can think of to identify them is their IP. In the world of proxies and shared ips, how to ban one user, with out impacting other legitimate users?