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By: Will Lickety Ship End Differently Than Kozmo?

Will Lickety Ship End Differently Than Kozmo? — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 06:46:43 +0000

[...] New startup LicketyShip, the Kozmo-like ecommerce service that delivers goods within a couple of hours of ordering, is counting on this holiday season to make a name for itself. The company, which we first noticed back in January, launched in September, but they’ve recently gotten a lot of mainstream press attention and are offering $9.99 delivery up through Christmas Eve. So while the big ecommerce sites can no longer get stuff to you by the big day, Lickety Ship is still running strong. The company is only shipping same day in the Bay Area currently. [...]

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[...] LicketyShip, the Kozmo-like ecommerce service that delivers goods within a couple of hours of ordering, is counting on this holiday season to make a name for itself. The company launched in September, but they’ve recently gotten a lot of mainstream press attention, and are offering $9.99 delivery up through Christmas Eve. So while the big ecommerce sites can no longer get stuff to you by the big day, Lickety Ship is still running strong. The company is only shipping same day in the Bay Area currently. [...]

By: Rachel Sterling

Rachel Sterling — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 03:06:55 +0000

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By: LicketyShip Offers Same-Day Product Delivery » JenIT

LicketyShip Offers Same-Day Product Delivery » JenIT — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 15:33:28 +0000

[...] LicketyShip is a new service launching today (we spoke about it previously here) that allows you to shop online at a number of different local stores and to have products that you order delivered within 4 hours. It works by co-ordinating the online stores close to you with courier companies, allowing you to receive goods that you order very quickly. The service is currently in alpha though launching today in the San Francisco Bay Area and has plans to expand in other areas over time. [...]

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By: Tom Taylor

Tom Taylor — Sat, 27 May 2006 18:53:52 +0000

Licketyship looks cool, and the beta looks great !

By: Tom Hundt

Tom Hundt — Mon, 22 May 2006 18:15:59 +0000

Basically these people plan to charge what the shipping of an item to your door on an “instant” basis is actually worth — i.e., about the price of a cab ride for you to go get it yourself. Meantime, if you actually want a pint of ice cream, Safeway will deliver it, no? (So what if you have to order twenty of them…)

By: Michael Krigsman

Michael Krigsman — Sun, 14 May 2006 15:14:23 +0000

Boy I miss the dot.com days.

Buying subsidized milk from Kosmo.com or a VC-funded desk from Furniture.com — those were the days.

Michael Krigsman
http://projectfailures.com

By: Jon

Jon — Sun, 14 May 2006 14:50:35 +0000

I don’t mind the ads… The Adblock plugin for FireFox blocks them all

The Green keeps Mike focused on his goals. Making Money?

By: Steinbring Inc.

Steinbring Inc. — Sun, 14 May 2006 04:27:38 +0000

New eCommerce Service Using Old Idea…

Have you ever watched a business fail and thought to yourself that you would of done things better? Something tells me that Robert Pazornik, CEO of new San Francisco-based LicketyShip had that idea.
Do you remember Kozmo? Me neither but Kozmo was a…

By: Donte

Donte — Sat, 13 May 2006 23:26:42 +0000

Heavy use of saturated colors is a nightmare on the eyes, and the new green is no exception. Also, the advertising feels like it just bleeds all over the published content. That said, it is still an improvement and departs from the neutral greys that were lulling the previous TechCrunch to sleep. The green gets in your face. Wow.

By: Ray J

Ray J — Sat, 13 May 2006 21:24:04 +0000

Free LCD Monitor!!!
http://www.giftfiesta.com/?rid=1116073

By: Ben

Ben — Sat, 13 May 2006 21:01:55 +0000

Hey Michael. Not sure if this is a widespread issue or not, but your feedburner feed is not updating in my reader (IE7) - others are updating fine. I clicked on your feed icon to try and resubscribe to solve the issue, but all I get is an error from the folks at feedburner. Might be worth looking into. Last post that came through correctly was for collectivex.

Cheers,
Ben.

By: met

met — Sat, 13 May 2006 20:50:48 +0000

If more people are clicking on the ads - I would say its a successful redesign and you should stick on with it.

Its nice that you are filtering the ads on the top. It might be better if it ‘clicked’ to your articles related to the advertised site so that new people can read up on them easily and then visit the site.

I just wish the google ads had a green background. So they would blend in with the surroundings.

I like the green, though it makes it less formal.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sat, 13 May 2006 19:48:53 +0000

Advertising is a part of the web… Im sure that TechCrunch couldnt operate forever with no income. Unless you all expect Mike to foot the bill every month, which im sure is somewhat of a big bill thanks to all of the bandwidth and servers needed, then I think some Ads are needed. The problem here, and my biggest WWW gripe, is how to go about displaying Ads. I think that this new design makes the Ads the primary content on the right side. Instead I think that Ads should be second to the actual content of the site.

Just my $.02

By: Vlad Akilov

Vlad Akilov — Sat, 13 May 2006 18:26:20 +0000

nice site redesign

By: Mitchell

Mitchell — Sat, 13 May 2006 07:38:51 +0000

Mike,

So much for TechCrunch’s credibility as the “Consumer Reports” of Web2.0.
Accepting paid advertising in your sidebar for products you review is wrong.
You had a good thing going. But now - you must make a choice.

By: Frank Cefalu

Frank Cefalu — Sat, 13 May 2006 06:20:18 +0000

Hhmm I think the only thing throwing off is the 3 sub columns on the right. I think If you put one advertising column on the left and one one the right and context centered everything should be balanced.

By: jay

jay — Sat, 13 May 2006 04:26:38 +0000

woha? whats up with the green? I loved the old look!

By: Mitchell

Mitchell — Sat, 13 May 2006 04:03:15 +0000

A number of Seattle based companies are trying it all over again as well. A similar company delivers organic fruits to my door once every two weeks for $30 dollars a month.

I did some quick calculations after factoring gas to the different places that I would need to go to for similar prices, the service is actually quite comparable. I didn’t factor in the intangible of time, since I usually stop by other stores when I go to the local markets (though those stores may be less frequented as a result now).

By: Brian Liu

Brian Liu — Sat, 13 May 2006 03:51:29 +0000

Just a comment on the new design - it might be better if there was a graphical divide between the text and the text area and the columns on the right whether it be through color or a dividing line. (the last design seemed cleaner due to the color scheme) It was just that at initial glance, it seemed cluttered but its not that big of a deal.

By the way, I love your site and thank you for news on the newest services and startups. (makes me want to start one too)

By: DaveU

DaveU — Sat, 13 May 2006 03:00:37 +0000

Mike, the new layout will work in the long run. When Win 98 first came out, many users complained and picked on it. But soon after, Win 95 became extinct quickly.

About the new gen. Kozmos, I totally agree with Leigh Anne. These bikers were making the NYC traffic deteriorating. For what? a pack of gum?!