Do you want to make daily life more exciting for millions, create deep economic change, and drastically increase the amount of service in our communities? Working with Citizen Logistics, on Groundcrew, might be just your thing.
Working with us
- cofounder/biz dev—we also need help pricing products in several consumer and business markets.
- ui designer—
- investment/financing—We want to run an extremely popular service which consistently puts the users first, like Craigslist, and we need a financing model that gets us there.
- more programmers—
- Tech writers and documenters—we need clear, inviting explanatory text and infographics about how to use our service.
We are currently based in Northampton, MA and Boston.
The main things is, we are looking for business people—someone with an MBA or tech entrepreneur experience—who might want to work on this project with us. Your assignment is to think hard about who you know that should read this manifesto and forward it along. We also need a good UI designer and investment.
Please also leave comments and encouragement below, join the groundcrew-discuss google group, and feel free to reblog or digg this article.
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who uderstand that vision is itself a barrier to campetition
Investors often want to find the next Google. They think Google was successful because they had a patent on some new technology (PageRank) that was key to search, something that everyone was trying to do. Often overlooked is that Google also had a new aesthetic applied to search and to advertising. Google offered minimal, text-based ads, and it turned out there was a huge market for these less-distracting, more targeted ads. They saw the web as an information utility rather than a content pipe, ad that vision had a compelling business model attached to it.
Citizen Logistics doesn’t have a patent on something that everyone is trying to do. But we do have a vision, and it’s a compelling one. Like Steve Jobs, we have a vision about a lifestyle that these new (mobile) technologies will make possible, and a drive to make that lifestyle available to people, by making easy to use and compelling products and services that enable it.
And it turns out that such a vision serves as a barrier to competition. Apple is first to market repeatedly, because they’re still, after 30 years, making “digital lifestyle” products that open up new markets and blow people away. That change the way people interact with technology. In all these years, no one has quite caught on to the vision Jobs brings to the table, which is about involving ordinary people in the production and consumption of digital media, and making it all fun and very well packaged and smooth.
It remains to be seen whether I’ll have Jobs’ other entrepreneurial attributes, but I’ve got the vision. Not any vision, but a vision about lifestyle, a vision that’s compelling and exciting to ordinary people. I’m about using mobile technology to make every day an adventure, and fostering mutual support and massive coordination, putting new powers into the hands of everyone, and making it all fun and very well packaged and smooth.