Rentaholism over Shopaholism 11 years ago
ok great idea thanks!
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Reno Wants to Be Silicon Valley's Back Office 11 years ago
It's interesting to see how many places in the world are trying to bring about their own Startup Row esque thing. Interesting to see where it will flourish.
Will be fascinating to see how this progresses, we thought about this 2-sided marketplace problem a lot to all the points that folks mentioned here: is the risk and time/ effort worth the reward, how do you seed appropriately, etc.
Ultimately we decided to build The Rentaholic, www.therentaholic.com, where you rent from other businesses. That way availability is guaranteed and the other businesses are equipped to handle damages and what not. All we do is provide a platform to connect you and a delivery service so for the renter it's literally the easiest thing they can do.
Good luck on this!