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DeliverySupermarket.com, mtvan.com, Speed Couriers
It works for me.
Shutl, SchoolsTrader
Frustrating: perfect concept and execution being trashed by bad timing.
Rewarding: Consumer uptake validating your vision.
Total belief in the concept should not mean you don't listen to the objections of others.
The internet loves a good monopoly.
Always run your business as if there's a recession on.
Strive for balance in everything.
The scale and pace of change in almost everything.
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Woman of many skills: Database System Engineer; SplashX event producer; Author of Startup Teams
All author posts"A great idea is worthless until it’s acted upon – simply put, ideas are cheap, execution is not"
Read more...The best lesson I’ve learned is to be humble and curious, and know that you know absolutely nothing
Read more...Appreciate today’s fundamentals but design and build from the future
Read more...Startup/Business
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mtvan gives couriers all the tools they need to trade with each other.
They can use mtvan every day to find extra courier work, to find empty couriers, to cover your courier work, to track their courier movements with real-time GPS tracking, to take real time signatures for proof of delivery on their PDA, to let their customer book on-line, to invoice their customers, and to make new contacts in the courier industry.
It’s an easy-to-use, all-in-one courier toolkit, with 'Facebook-style' online networking tools, that helps connect couriers and courier companies to help make a more profitable operation for everyone.
mtvan works in almost all countries of the world.
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Key figure in the UK courier industry, now engaged bringing online tools to this market that customers from Generation Y will find appealing.