TaskRabbit Gets $17.8M, Wants To Grow Internationally And Beyond

http://techcrunch.com/2011/12/13/taskrabbit-gets-17-8m-for-aggressive-expansion-wants-to-grow-internationally-and-beyond/

by sahillavingia • 15 years ago

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richardburton• 15 years ago

How can you expand beyond being international? Is their long-term goal to be an inter-planetary task service?

"The wages of pedantry is pain." -Carroll O'Connor

jaequery• 15 years ago

I hear them martians is a pretty big target market.

dspillett2• 15 years ago

I've noticed that a lot of people make a distinction between "going global" and "world wide". Being a global company often just means having a reasonable foothold in two continent (say, North America and Europe).

local < regional < national < global/international < world-wide

(or something like that)

kalvin• 15 years ago

It's interesting to note that 2008-onward is the perfect economic environment for Taskrabbit to have started in.

The tasks I've posted, for cleaning and office work, have gotten offers by Stanford and Harvard grads at rates of around $15-20/hour. Most Taskrabbits seem to have college degrees and they often bid at rates of around, or below, minimum wage in SF ($10/hour). They usually have tons of time available, not just an hour or two a day. This wouldn't work so well if unemployment weren't so high right now.

But as a product, it works amazingly well! I highly recommend trying it out, for anything you want done. You can google for a $20 off first-time user code. (I have no affiliation with the company.)

TruthElixirX• 15 years ago

I think I'd like to be a "TaskRabbit" just to pick up some extra cash occasionally, not just because of unemployment.

tyrelb• 15 years ago

Love the idea and would use the service, but sad to see that Harvard / Stanford grads are getting minimum wage :(

jackowayed• 15 years ago

I know someone making $33k/year (+ benefits) in New York City working for a publishing company after graduating from Stanford with honors in English literature. Even for people from top schools, job prospects aren't always that great if you didn't study something somewhat marketable

patio11• 15 years ago

Wait wait wait, Harvard grads for $15? If that is seriously available in quantity, all my SEO buddies just had simultaneous kittens. That's cheap enough that if they can operate a Wordpress interface it is worth using them for pretty much any writing task you could think of.

I'll see if I can find someone interested in elementary education to start fleshing out BCC's site, since I haven't added new cards this year.

sachinag• 15 years ago

Surprised you haven't found someone for this on Fiverr (which you tipped me to). I've gotten book jacket designs done for $5 - and they're good.

ilamont• 15 years ago

Besides Zaarly, what other local service marketplaces are out there?

nestlequ1k• 15 years ago

coffee and power is another one

mmahemoff• 15 years ago

http://www.mytaskangel.co.uk/ in the UK, but still in private beta.

codabrink• 15 years ago

http://viatask.com Still in private beta, but launching soon.

bleonard• 15 years ago