Oh this is one I can answer. I was the co-founder of Prosper an early p2p lending company. Your problem is a relatively easy one.
Go find one or two companies with a lot of packages. Focus on delivering packages whose delivery time is not critical (say 7 days) and whose registered value is low (say $500 or less). Focus on deliveries that are just outside of ubers practical range (say LA to SFO).
Find a bunch of uber drivers who are already reliable. Over pay them to make runs. If they screw it up have them drop the package off at a ups store and over night it as a catch all.
Do 1,000 packages to get your logistics worked out. Don't market or launch or promote until you have it nailed.
Then find 10 more companies with lots of packages. Your goal is to develop profitable routes (e.g. 5 packages per car) and customers who are delivering 1000s of packages a month.
Your pmf is about reliably servicing one geographic region at a time like yelp and LinkedIn did.
Do not try and roll out a national service day one.
Do not focus on people shipping packages. Not enough repeat business.
Do not take high stakes runs day one.
One big advantage is your ability to do small heavy objects. Ups and FedEx are very weight sensitive.
Sorry to break it to you, but the article doesn't describe that at all. In fact, the reason why a DB has such great performance isn't mentioned at all. Learn what a datapath architecture is and how a DB kernel works if you are interested in that topic. And then there is how an optimizer works, how the prepare time works, how metadata is handled, etc...
Look a rural electric coops like www.lpea.coop if you want a battle tested approach to an org structure that resists the inescapable profit dynamics of a corporation.
I've been using Kagi search for a while now and frankly it's fantastic. Google looks like AOL to me now.
These guys are doing great work and this news product is exactly what I want... Once a day hit. What is happening in the world? As far as pmf goes they hit the mark for an old fart like me.
Usually the observation that “a widely used thing is objectively bad” is strong market signal for entrepreneurial opportunity in a big tam.
I for one would welcome a set of deeply integrated ui improvements in a Mac that included a better file manager, better window management, better desktop search, a contact manager just that worked, a messaging client that just worked, audio and camera controls that just worked, a calculator that didn’t suck, etc.
BI was founded by convicted fraudster Henry Blodget and owned by the lowest of the low EU publishing houses Axel Springer. I give this publication zero merit.
This is a good point. Why would someone even notice people burning to death in cars let alone keep track how many people burn to death in their cars? Counting people that burn to death in their cars must be motivated by politics
However, you're doing the right thing. It's important to not let the great become the enemy of the good. Yes, there is work to be done to make batteries zero impact. But no matter what's happening in the world of batteries it is nothing compared to the extraordinary destructive force of coal, oil, and gas globally.
Go find one or two companies with a lot of packages. Focus on delivering packages whose delivery time is not critical (say 7 days) and whose registered value is low (say $500 or less). Focus on deliveries that are just outside of ubers practical range (say LA to SFO).
Find a bunch of uber drivers who are already reliable. Over pay them to make runs. If they screw it up have them drop the package off at a ups store and over night it as a catch all.
Do 1,000 packages to get your logistics worked out. Don't market or launch or promote until you have it nailed.
Then find 10 more companies with lots of packages. Your goal is to develop profitable routes (e.g. 5 packages per car) and customers who are delivering 1000s of packages a month.
Your pmf is about reliably servicing one geographic region at a time like yelp and LinkedIn did.
Do not try and roll out a national service day one.
Do not focus on people shipping packages. Not enough repeat business.
Do not take high stakes runs day one.
One big advantage is your ability to do small heavy objects. Ups and FedEx are very weight sensitive.
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