Silicon Valley entrepreneurs who transform the world: 5 imaginative O2O Companies

The Times are easy also, I dark Horse found that the Silicon Valley innovation company has also begun to deepen the field of O2O, and the previous pure internet start-ups, Silicon Valley, a new group of startups want to deepen the real world. "Tech2ipo" This article, introduced 5 Silicon Valley innovation company, from warehousing to transit system transformation, very imaginative. The southern market area of San Francisco is a very magical place, with successive occurrences of science and technology that affect the world. This is the lair of companies such as Twitter, Yelp, Airbnb, and the south of San Francisco. Until 1990, there were only a few warehouses, and until the early 90, low-priced properties made it an office resort. Although the venture here at the beginning of the new century has experienced a bubble crisis, the current entrepreneurial trend has swept through again. There are towering glass-walled buildings, and public bicycle bits are starting to appear. The city's landmark building, which competes with New York, will be built in 2017. To keep up with the second wave of startups in the internet age, Los Angeles entrepreneurs have opened their own stores here. ArsTechnica reporters from among them selected 5 companies to visit the president of the company, we think their influence in their respective industries can surpass this area to shake the whole city life. 1. Real-World cloud storage: Boxbee as president of a company, Kristoph Matthews's office and other employees share a place, and his office is in fact only a table. Here it introduces his business to reporters, and it is understood that Boxbee has secured a huge but classified venture capital. "I grew up all over the world and I've been to 22 places since I was a kid," he said. Every time we move, there are some things we can't let go of at home, but I am a minimalist. Every time we move home, we have to think about what to do with the family. I'm so familiar with this feeling. "So there is his start-up company Boxbee: This is a cloud storage enterprise that aims to empty personal storage space and deliver goods on demand, and consumers can list them on mobile phones and Web pages. Boxbee is not a warehousing company, our job is to make people in the city more convenient life. As long as people can move, we can move. "After the consumer orders, Boxbee staff will send some big plastic boxes to the door." When filled, Boxbee employees will move in and put them in a safe warehouse for storage. If a consumer wants to get a box back, it can submit an application to get it back online. As for the price, each box 6 dollars per month for the custody fee, door-to-door to take the box free, take back the box each time 15 dollars and add 2 dollars per box cost. So far, the service is available only in Los Angeles and New York. In Los Angeles you can deliver the door in 2 hours, and in New York it will be within 24 hours. Boxbee has now stored thousands of boxes. Initially, BoThe idea of Xbee is the real world of cloud storage ", but they found that the technology circle, the use of cloud storage concept does not make any sense. So Boxbee is now the concept of simple urban warehousing. The idea of entrepreneurship stems from Matthews's parents, who now live in Thailand and sometimes return to the United States to pick up something to deposit. Matthews said that because he had so few possessions, his friend always thought he had just moved in when he came to visit his home. The year before the CEO graduated as a mechanic, electronic engineers, in the 8 years before the venture has been working for the world's technology enterprises. But the engineer's identity is doing the handling of goods, delivery work. Matthews said: "I really feel that I am naturally suitable for logistics." I am fascinated by the phenomenon of cities, the survival of cities, and how to make life better for the city. We help businesses and residents manage their belongings. Whatever the state of the economy, they hoard more and more, and some things have to leave their lives. "But Matthews also had some complaints at the beginning of the start-up, when our WordPress Web site was unable to record new information about the user's credit card, and the company was the only one and a pickup truck that traveled through the office hours." "At first, Matthews door-to-door to sell their services, and later he began to investigate people's expectations of freight and logistics companies." Of course, only one person and one car is obviously not too convincing. But Matthews found a group of loyal consumers, the first batch of users are a large number of students, they showed us more trust, the storage of goods are also many. "In early 2014, Matthews is ready to start a second round of financing to accelerate the development of enterprises." The next goal is to standardize the work process, the goods boxed, free from the outside world intrusion, while storing the time to be reasonable placed to reduce the vehicle's road distance. Loading and unloading synchronization, which is one aspect of our efforts. "2. Crowdsourcing logistics system: TaskRabbit (Mission Rabbit) like Matthews, Mission Hare President Leah Busque want to do is to change the way people work and live. Her startups can help people find short-term errands on the Internet and successfully develop new markets. "Our goal is to revolutionize the way people work around the world," Busque said. We can achieve too many opportunities and potentials: Can we get 1 million of Americans to open their own business on the Mission rabbit platform? I think the Mission Rabbit's uniqueness and added value lies in people's participation, especially in the supply of demand. But what I want to really change is that when someone asks for a delivery, someone runs errands. Our goal is to become a global company, expand the Enterprise Services, and then serve the fine. "I have used the task in my personal life and work rabbit This site, mainly use it to find someone to pick up the package or find someone to send documents to the post office, or less people scan files。 Every time I came to work, I was thinking about whether the site would cause more people to give up their jobs and freelance. Mission Rabbit now get 20% Commission on salary. Busque doesn't care about the problem: I think the beauty of the site is that the rabbits can decide for themselves the time and value of their work. "According to local standards, the mission rabbit should be a veteran start-up, it was founded in 2008, and recently won 40 million of dollars in venture capital." The mission Rabbit developed very quickly in 2013 and has extended its business to London outside the United States. Busque said: "There are 200 million people in the United States to receive goods on the Mission Rabbit." 75% of people are running errands and moonlighting to pay for the electricity and gas rents, and 10% think of it as full-time work, earning 5000-6000 dollars a month. "Mission Rabbit and Boxbee very much like, in addition to not save boxes, the task of the rabbit to find people who work all work." You can find someone on the website to clean the lawn, go to the laundry room to get the washing, or find someone to dive under the water to get the keys. Now there's a mission. The rabbit is driving a van from Philadelphia to Sacramento because the company may not be able to deliver the goods as scheduled, so they paid him 2000 dollars to run a trip. Another woman was playing on the lake when she threw the key in the lake, so she put a task on the Mission Rabbit, and soon there was a diver task rabbit picked up the task and found her key, the service cost of 150 dollars. It's so exciting that when you can help someone find something that fits their abilities, everything will work out. "There is always a bitter way behind the seemingly successful." Last summer, the mission Hare had to give up 20% of its employees. "We have restructured our company to focus our human resources on business opportunities, mobility, geographic expansion, business services and market operations," Busque said. I hope to make the mission healthy development of the rabbit, so that the strength of enterprises to become stronger. Since May 2011, our monthly performance has grown 11 times times, with some market areas having a monthly growth rate of 30%. "Many consumers may not know that employees within the company will also go to rejoined." According to the company's regulations, the company encourages employees to go to the site at least 2 times a quarter of the goods, so that the task rabbit to the offline consumers and online consumers have a good understanding and analysis. Residents of San Francisco prefer Ikea furniture to those in New York, and the people of Austin prefer to grow flowers and grasses more than those on the east coast. ”