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Solivan: RunMyErrand closed a $50K angel tranche in March 2009
“And the investors say, let's start with 50 K. We'll give you 50 K. Let's see how you do. So we start with 50 K. That was March in 2009.”
Lake: Early Stitch Fix used TaskRabbits to manually digitize paper customer surveys
“Inside there was like a paper return survey, because we still didn't have a website, and so it was a piece of paper that was like an Excel thing that had all the items, and then you would fill out with words what you were going to keep, what you weren't going …”
Solivan: TaskRabbit stayed in Boston for nearly two years before San Francisco launch
“We were this tiny company in Boston for, you know, almost two years before we even opened the San Francisco market.”
Solivan: TaskRabbit laid off around 20% of its 80-person staff in 2013
“So it ended up being about 20% of the team. At that point, we were probably 80 people, and so it was under 20 people that we transitioned out.”