The guy in the stripes is a tarpon hooker legend. Teaching @jnoh and @clarkemichael a lesson. (Taken with instagram)
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Our First Ever Rental on Spinlister
Spinlister is coming along so we decided to test the site out a bit and so I threw my bike up there for $1 a day. Partially to see if someone would actually rent a bike from a stranger (they did!) and partially to see if the site was working as it should (pretty much!).
I posted the bike yesterday and within a few hours Ira requested to rent it. We messaged each other through the reservation feed on Spinlister, exchanged phone numbers, and pretty much felt each other out for the rental scheduled for this morning.
He came to pick up the bike from our offices this morning and we chatted for 10-15 minutes as he checked out the bike and we got to know each other.
A few things I learned about Ira:
He does photography and lives in Williamsburg. He just ordered a new bike and is waiting for it to be delivered and has been wanting to ride so he rented my bike. He showed me a new app to find bike routes through the city I had never seen.
What was interesting is that we got along really well. Obviously it’s the first experience on Spinlister, but I’m optimistic it will be a trend. There’s a few key elements that make me think this interest-specific peer-to-peer rental thing is pretty cool and will lead to big things:
1. The connecting process is natural, purpose driven and mutually beneficial.
2. By using the service, we by definition share an interest and passion for recreation and bikes.
3. People who want to use the service are inherently interested in having an interesting and authentic experience.
The experience this morning was genuinely new for me, new for Ira, pretty interesting and extremely positive.
I’m looking forward to seeing if this point of data becomes a trend. I think it will.
Thanks for being the first ever renter on Spinlister Ira Enjoy my “Blue Lady Killer.” You’re an early adopting boss.
PS We’ll be live in a few major bike cities late March. In the mean time, List your bike!
Are you a techie/biker/early adopting explorer?
Rent my bike right now for $1 a day and help us test the Spinlister beta. Check out my “Blue Lady Killer” here: http://spinlister.com/bikes/1.
Reserve it before someone else does!
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The beginning…building a brand. I’m a recent graduate from Parson’s School of Design and I am building an activewear brand. I have decided to blog about the process to show others what I learn along the way!
Cool idea. Seeing a brand built from the ground up. Great way to build an audience: take them on the roller coaster. You gonna kill it t.haney.
Innovation Done Right
I just watched Elon Musk intro his new Tesla Model X and it struck me how far he’s pushing vehicles (not just electric) forward. I didn’t just think “Wow, that’s a great electric car” but rather “That’s a great car.”
And that’s how innovation pushes adoption and widespread change.
Not once did Elon mention miles per charge, emissions, or saving the environment. He promoted tangible benefits that people care about, like the ability to stand in the car while putting a child in a car seat. That’s so important because it’s the little, tangible features and improvements that drive purchase behavior and lead to widespread adoption.
I’m starting to see the electric car as a genuinely better vehicle rather than simply a green-washed feel-good alternative to gas powered cars. As Musk continues to push forward I think more and more people will agree.
Whether it’s electric cars, solar panels, or recycling, the push for change has to be tangible and benefits driven. Musk is doing it right.
Important Stuff this Week
1) The app Highlight:
This thing is great. I’ve had a couple random interactions (initiated by myself) that were pretty entertaining. One resulted in a “Hey, what’s up? This app is cool. Big Gulps huh? Well… see you later.” The other resulted in me meeting a friend of a friend from college and setting up a time to grab coffee. We both work in tech, we have mutual friends, six degrees of separation violently reduced down to one.
I think it’s succeeding because people (at least geeked out early adopters) are getting more laissez-faire about their online-meets-real-world presence.
Loopt was too early but I think people are ready for Highlight. I am and I’m having fun with putting myself out there.
2) The MIA video Bad Girls that you can see here. Romain Gavras and MIA offer another solid and fresh music vid that continues to promote the 4-minute-film-set-to-a-song as a legit artistic medium. If you haven’t seen their last, Born Free, it’s also worth a watch, or two, or three.
People flying over NYC. Sort of.
Excited to announce we’re pitching during Social Media Week at Common Pitch NYC. Great competition with some innovative companies and heavy hitting judges. If you’re in NYC come out to Brooklyn Bowl on February 15th and watch. It’s going to be a great event.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Cornell University President David Skorton, and Technion-Israel Institute of Technology President Peretz Lavie today announced an historic partnership to build a two-million-square-foot applied science and engineering campus on Roosevelt Island in New York City.
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Things get pretty silly at about 1:20 in.
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