Hi David, You might like to get in touch with Tyson Lundbech (@tysonlundbech), he's working on a similar startup here in Melbourne and has taken on funding through the AngelCube incubator.
— Ivan On 14/11/2011, at 11:50 AM, David Caldwell (@roodave) wrote: > I’m David, I’ve been working on a couple of startups over the last > couple of years, most recently YourJobDone.com in London, which was a > mobile peer-to-peer marketplace for getting jobs done. Technically > speaking it was an SMS targeting and auctioning platform developed in > ASP.NET We got up to 10,000 users, 300 active. > > I want to have a good crack at the same market in Australia, using a > much more socially integrated approach, and one which doesn’t cost $4 > every time we auction off a job! The technology has changed > substantially since I started on YourJobDone (smart phone adoption up, > SMS costs up, HTML5 maturation, expansion of FB social graph etc) and > I have to return to Australia for a few reasons. > > I’m currently experimenting with paths to market in Sydney, and it > looks plausible in a few markets. > I'm looking to team up with someone who is passionate about both > Collaborative Consumption (or social mobile peer-to-peer marketplaces) > and software engineering- a strong generalist in the mobile social web > (HTML5, FB social graph, anything that can be hosted in a Heroku-style > platform) > > Part of the opportunity here is to get a lean hack together and go for > an incubator in Sydney or Melbourne (like StartMate) > > I've no doubt the market is hot (similar businesses in the US, Zaarly > and TaskRabbit, entered later and have experienced v.fast growth + > have raised USD18m and USD7m). The other aspirants to this market in > Aus are early days. > > I know the sector well. Though an engineer by degree, I've been in bus > dev and product for 3 years (both with former startup and > consulting). > If you’re interested, would love to have a chat, drop me a line here > or otherwise, other feedback also welcome. > > You can get more of an idea of what I’m working on here: > http://blog.JobKangaroo.com, > and can see some info on previous startup YourJobDone here: > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7f551TbJxg > > Cheers, > > David Caldwell. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en.
