Comments on: Boston Startups: Run My Errand – Need Some Help? Find Helpers Around Your Town http://adrianmott.com/2009/09/15/boston-startups-run-my-errand-need-some-help-find-helpers-around-your-town/ Thu, 18 Feb 2010 22:43:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.3 hourly 1 By: Claire Luck http://adrianmott.com/2009/09/15/boston-startups-run-my-errand-need-some-help-find-helpers-around-your-town/comment-page-1/#comment-5768 Claire Luck Mon, 21 Sep 2009 08:47:02 +0000 http://adrianmott.com/?p=930#comment-5768 What a great idea! We do the same in London (GB). The main problem with running errands is not the money as folks who have it will pay to get their errands done. Overtime, we have found that the real challenge is TRUST. A runner goes out to do the errand on their own. How do you make sure they deliver on time and as requested. The business is also fraught with potentially high risks which we wouldn't have envisaged when we started in late 2007. It's taken time for us to understand these risks. We undertook an initial consultation with KPMG in the first few months of starting up and even that didn't hightlight some of the risks we have encountered. It's taken time and crawling before we can run to understand the business of running errands. Good luck to Run My Errand. Claire What a great idea! We do the same in London (GB). The main problem with running errands is not the money as folks who have it will pay to get their errands done.

Overtime, we have found that the real challenge is TRUST.

A runner goes out to do the errand on their own. How do you make sure they deliver on time and as requested. The business is also fraught with potentially high risks which we wouldn’t have envisaged when we started in late 2007. It’s taken time for us to understand these risks.

We undertook an initial consultation with KPMG in the first few months of starting up and even that didn’t hightlight some of the risks we have encountered. It’s taken time and crawling before we can run to understand the business of running errands.

Good luck to Run My Errand.

Claire

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