Comments on: Zimride: A Carpooling Startup That Actually Makes Money

By: Zimride – Technology + Social Networking + Carpooling = Might just work | blinktag inc

Tue, 29 Sep 2009 05:10:21 +0000

[...] business model is innovative too. According to Techcrunch, the servce is capped at fifty people from any one business or school. Once fifty people have [...]

By: jeff

jeff — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 03:32:24 +0000

ridesharing depends more on an active community than technological gadgets as evidenced by failed technology savvy dynamic rideshare programs that lacked critical mass

By: Tech Crunch | Live From fbFund REV’s Demo Day | Your Gadget Review

Tech Crunch | Live From fbFund REV’s Demo Day | Your Gadget Review — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 06:12:21 +0000

[...] and will be break-even by the end of the quarter. For more, check out our post on the startup here, when it described it as a “carpooling startup that actually makes [...]

By: Live From fbFund REV’s Demo Day

Live From fbFund REV’s Demo Day — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 00:08:12 +0000

[...] and will be break-even by the end of the quarter. For more, check out our post on the startup here, when it described it as a “carpooling startup that actually makes [...]

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 22:54:45 +0000

I browsed through their website but didn’t see any iphone app or android.

By: jeff

jeff — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 19:20:14 +0000

There are ridesharing websites that offer free services to colleges and organizations as well.

Check out http://www.ridebuzz.org for a free service that is being used by municipalities, colleges, and other groups

By: A Review of Various Ridesharing Websites « Climate Creativity

A Review of Various Ridesharing Websites « Climate Creativity — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 06:51:16 +0000

[...] – Zimride occupies a unique place in the world of carpool. It was the first rideshare site to utilize Facebook, and it’s gained quite a bit of popularity at major universities (I wasn’t able to find [...]

By: CashGiftsDirect

CashGiftsDirect — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 21:09:11 +0000

This is an interesting concept. Instead of generating revenue by way of one-by-one basis, they are generating their revenue by way of subscriptions. Therefore, reducing the amount of accountants needed to work on their behalf.

Brilliant !

By: Sean O'Sullivan

Sean O'Sullivan — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 20:44:18 +0000

Hey, thanks for the Avego plug. Hey, Techcrunch, Avego also makes money! Our business model is better than theirs

Best of luck to the Zimride folks. And y’all are welcome to use our APIs to add real-time ridesharing to your static interfaces…

By: Zimride… a Carpooling Business that Makes Money. Curious? | Entrepreneur Enclave

Sat, 28 Mar 2009 05:08:52 +0000

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By: Technic News » Roundup: Google’s layoffs, Pick Your Five’s popularity, and more

Fri, 27 Mar 2009 04:30:17 +0000

[...] startup Zimride is profitable – The company, which won backing from the fbFund last year, offers a Facebook application to help users connect with potential carpooling [...]

By: Roundup: Google’s layoffs, Pick Your Five’s popularity, and more » VentureBeat

Fri, 27 Mar 2009 03:59:18 +0000

[...] startup Zimride is profitable – The company, which won backing from the fbFund last year, offers a Facebook application to help users connect with potential carpooling [...]

By: nurider

nurider — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 18:49:36 +0000

There is another way to make money and not charge for ridesharing. Some pretty big sponsors are getting behind the idea http://www.nuride.com/news. It is only available in 6 US markets today but expanding …

By: William Smith

William Smith — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 18:20:21 +0000

This is a great company led by some good guys.

By: http://macmaniapodcast.com

http://macmaniapodcast.com — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 16:47:00 +0000

Great post!

Thanks,
Ben Fryxell
http://macmaniapodcast.com

By: Kara

Kara — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 16:46:04 +0000

Great to see how technology can be used to make lives easier for students without throwing ads in their face. Keep up the great work Zimride!

By: KillerStartups.com - Zimride.com - A Carpool Community

KillerStartups.com - Zimride.com - A Carpool Community — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 16:10:03 +0000

Zimride.com – A Carpool Community…

I found your entry interesting do I’ve added a Trackback to it on my weblog …

By: Shazwi

Shazwi — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 15:38:48 +0000

way ahead of you matt! these startups that get ludcrious amounts of funding in the millions should seriously practise bootstrapping… and use funds really when needed… but about running things on open source? man dude that takes guts… at least buy some decent software -.- microsoft bizspark at least support some startups… for free… thing is most of these startups are just like empty cans, most are clones, and i dunno why VCs are still funding stuffs like this… maybe it’s like a culture that if a company sounds sexy and ’sounds’ profitable, theyll just dump money in…

By: jesse

jesse — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 15:15:35 +0000

It took Yo Dawgg 20 seconds to decide whether or not to put that extra “g”

By: matt

matt — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 14:37:25 +0000

Come on. Web companies have started acting like enterprise software companies and we all know it. Absurd valuations, hiring binges, huge campuses – sound familiar?

Meanwhile, the ones that bootstrap it old skool are doing well. They hire only when absolutely necessary, keep lo-profile offices (or keep the team remote), run on open source everything and practice guerilla promotion. This creates a get-it-done team culture: creative, aggressive, hi-energy; a tight clique that’s passionate about the product and building something from nothing.

Lean and mean companies are still the safest bet on the web. And if/when they do sell the farm, they get to keep lots more cash too…

By: matt

matt — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 14:23:30 +0000

20 seconds is how long is took me to realize your comment blows. actually less.

By: Cian

Cian — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 07:28:02 +0000

It sounds like you thought about your reply for less than 20 seconds…care to elaborate?

By: Yo Dawgg

Yo Dawgg — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 07:12:47 +0000

Actually not at all.

Their “incentive system” is plain stupid, they must have thought about it for 20 seconds at best.

And the answer to it is so obvious.

By: Shazwi

Shazwi — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 06:50:58 +0000

that should by far be the stupidest comment in the whole wide world Waldo… Maybe your point is that the media doesnt really equate to companies making money or not, which is true, but it needs substantiation…

People think yahoo will go under, but they can easily check out their revenues, and profit, and if it’s green, don’t you think they’ll remain there?

As for Facebook, Twitter, delicious, digg, etc. There’s a fuck load of buzz about them but nothing seems profitable… I just know that LinkedIn is profitable because it just creates value… Other than that, Facebook, Twitter, etc. are not really substantiating their ‘oh so we are going to be profitable soon’… Most, like brad say, are just looking for an acquisition…

Please think first, even Youtube couldnt have survived if it wasn’t bought over by Google… So much bandwidth, so many servers, so little revenue… = deadpool no matter how much buzz or popularity it gets…

By: Steffen Frost

Steffen Frost — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 06:44:29 +0000

Carticipate with other carticipants, which is called carticipation.