Successful sports business idea: mobile application for the control of sporting loads

Успешная спортивная идея бизнеса: Мобильное приложение для контроля спортивных нагрузок Sport has become an integral part of the life of every modern man. And more and more businesses pay close attention to this sphere of life, offering their versions of products and services that help make the sport more comfortable, more convenient, more interesting, more effective.

Danish resource Endomondo offers users a service that helps you keep track of their sports activities and achievements in this area, as well as share their sporting achievements, advice and finds with your friends and associates.

Even the name of this resource was not chosen by chance - Endomondo means the merger of two words-Endo - abbr. of endorphins (hormones that are released during athletic training), and mondo - world (from Esperanto), ie the world of endorphins.

Rate this resource makes to distance sports such as kayaking, running, cycling, hiking, skiing and others.

Program offered Endomondo its users for free, supported by all mobile phones and other mobile devices. Users simply load the program onto your phone and take it with you to training, during which the program controls all important parameters of the training - distance, speed, time, calories, etc.

After finishing training, all data is transferred using the site.

Through this program, athletes can control the intensity and effectiveness of their workouts, results, achievements in sport, and communicate online with their peers, creating a team and sharing tips, new routes, and their successes and achievements in sport.

The idea of creating such a resource occurred in 2007, three friends from Copenhagen - Kristinau, Jakob and Mette, who left their jobs consultants in the field of management and decided to realize his dream of entrepreneurship. Sport has become the theme that united the participants of the project, and at which they decided to build their business.

The purpose of the entrepreneurs were quite obvious and simple, they wanted to create a resource that would unite all sports fans, and helped them to achieve certain objectives and results, explained to the success and helped to find helpers and associates in this area.

In September 2008 the project Endomondo.com was ready and successfully launched the network. Within five days after its official opening on the site had 100 000 participants from Denmark.

Draft Endomondo.com good example for entrepreneurs from other countries and cities, as well as an additional service to other resources devoted to this popular theme - sports.