Comments on: LicketyShip: Founding CEO Out, Ditches Business Model To Focus On Couriers As A Web Service

By: Kev

Kev — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 11:13:42 +0000

Where do these people such as Robert Pazornik learn the skills of obtaining vast amounts of money on such untried ventures.
The secret to success is surley keeping it simple.
I am no highly educated expert but I think an idiot could see this business plan of his just wouldn’t work as the logistics were just too complex.

By: DeliveryEdge Tumbles Into The Deadpool | The Scripts Zone

DeliveryEdge Tumbles Into The Deadpool | The Scripts Zone — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 11:06:30 +0000

[...] DeliveryEdge, the courier aggregator startup which refocused its business model several times in the past few years (and was previously known as LicketyShip until recently), appears to be in the deadpool. We wrote about the startup’s countless changes to its business model and tumultuous history as a startup here. [...]

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DeliveryEdge Tumbles Into The Deadpool — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 21:03:48 +0000

By: Shoshana Rothstein

Shoshana Rothstein — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 00:51:24 +0000

Hope adults are in charge of the company now.

By: Shoshana Rothstein

Shoshana Rothstein — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 00:49:44 +0000

This is what happens when you let kids mind the store.

By: xx

xx — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 15:34:27 +0000

Hershey failed 7 times before he found success in the chocolate industry. Difference was, he burned through his own money, time, resources. Idiots like Pazornik are welcome to burn through cash, as long as it is their own. Wonder if he’ll put “able to burn through $1.5 million in a lickety-split” on his resume. Tough call answering who’s dumber–Pazornik or his investors.

By: Murshed

Murshed — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 11:08:38 +0000

Jonathan,
once a Darrbers wins a bid, his mobile number will be sent to the person who asked for the delivery, the Darrber will recieve the mobile number of the person as well. This allows them to communicate outside the site & get to meet each other.

Darrbers print the summary page to use it as an invoice. we are working on an invoice system to make this process easy to act as an evidence of item ownership.

online marketplaces tend not to offer Insurance, they act as a platform to connect both parties, Although its a good idea to create something around it that would work for all.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 16:14:14 +0000

Good idea Murshed, but what about security, insurance, SLA’s, that type of thing? I think that’s why companies use couriers. But for regular joe’s it might work.

By: Murshed

Murshed — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 13:46:40 +0000

At Darrb.com we had a different approach. We created a marketplace for delivery services, where people willing to send items meet others willing to delivery those items (we call them Darrbers) and get money in return.

If you live in a city and work in another city, why not picking up something on your way and deliver it to the destination you are already going to, and get some cash in return?

If you use the same route on a daily basis, why not monitize your trip?

someone needs to send something somewhere .. and with a database of people going to that location any way .. we create a cheaper, faster and sometimes better quality delivery service compared to couriers. it has worked in many cases and feedback system does the needful to insure quality and effectiveness.

By: steven

steven — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 13:15:45 +0000

What were these guys background?

Just reading this business model makes it sound nearly impossible. Not even a fully integrated retailer like BestBuy could pull this off. Trying with independents is suicidal.

This must have been some MBA study that shows some enmormous ROI if you could deliver quickly.

Who gave them the $$$ – they should be fired.

By: springraise

springraise — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 12:01:23 +0000

can you say feasibility assessment? they should’ve known these issues up front….aggregating couriers? big maybe.

By: shokeya

shokeya — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 06:53:49 +0000

Who didn’t see that coming?

By: Bob Wyman

Bob Wyman — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:05:35 +0000

Kozmo had a chance when their service was limited to Manhattan — a very compact and dense territory… The problems for Kozmo came when they expanded. There are few, if any, scale advantages that come from growing a “local delivery” business beyond any particular locale.

LicketyShip tried to serve “all California Metropolitan areas”… Insane. The secret to this sort of thing is to carefully cherry-pick your territories. Only enter markets that are dense and only stay in a market as long as it is self-funding.

bob wyman

By: Justin

Justin — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 03:34:33 +0000

Ooooh, nevermind. 25M per month. Disregard!

By: Justin

Justin — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 03:33:57 +0000

“25 million courier packages are delivered each month in the U.S., McGrory says, at an average cost of $100 per delivery (implying a $30 billion market annually).”

Whaaaa?? 25M x 100 = 2.5B….

By: keith

keith — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 02:13:28 +0000

I love the fade out picture but the added coloring to the eyes . . .argh. . . bonfire of the vanities . . .

By: Gabriel B

Gabriel B — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 01:39:43 +0000

Having a hard time envisioning how this concept will scale to become a meaningful, profitable business – but time will tell

By: Mike Grifing

Mike Grifing — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 00:58:46 +0000

talking to Robert is a chore in itself, glad to see he got what was coming, welcome to the real world idiot!

By: Andy Wong

Andy Wong — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 00:46:08 +0000

Web 2.0 has become a silver bullet to cure any ill-fated business plan.

By: david

david — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 00:42:25 +0000

The idea sounds like a win to me, but as usual it is totally dependent on the execution and not the idea.

By: Workpost

Workpost — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 00:39:55 +0000

R.I.P. froggy

By: jj

jj — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 00:19:03 +0000

The other day I saw a guy wearing a brand-new-looking UrbanFetch t-shirt on the Upper East Side.
That was freaky — like a good Lost episode.

If you, UrbanFetch guy, are reading this, please explain.

By: ImageCo

ImageCo — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 00:07:49 +0000

You can tell from their name and logo that they had aspirations of greatness.

By: Vandeep Supta

Vandeep Supta — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 00:05:26 +0000

Kozmo 2.0 won’t work – sorry. How many links in this article go to Crunchbase? Seems like all of them except one tiny link to Lickety.

By: Zach Weisman

Zach Weisman — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 23:48:52 +0000

Who didn’t see that coming?