Hello there. My name is Leah Busque and I am the Founder of RunMyErrand.com – a social networking inspired web and mobile platform connecting a community to get things done. We work with people and small businesses in a neighborhood, to help them outsource their life, and live more efficiently. We are one of the fbFund REV companies working hard in Palo Alto this summer. Since we are currently based in Boston, we are bouncing back and forth a lot. I’m glad I got on a frequent flier program at Virgin America!
What sorts of things can RunMyErrand do for you? Everything from picking up donations for goodwill and dropping off dry cleaning, to shopping trips to Ikea and Target. There are even some really out of the ordinary “errands” that are posted – take for instance the woman who needed her new Pug puppy picked up in New York, fresh off a flight on Pet Airlines, and chauffeured up to Boston! Runner fee on that one? $190! That’s the beauty of it, we allow people (we call them Senders) to decide how much they are willing to pay to have an errand done. On the other side, our network of local *background checked* errand runners (college students, young professionals, stay at home moms, and retirees too!) are alerted. They can place a counteroffer on the runner fee, or accept the errand immediately. The typical response time between and errand posting and a Runner acceptance is under 10 minutes. 10 minutes! Since it is a marketplace, there are many factors that come into play – price, location, complexity, time involved, special equipment needed – but generally, if all those stars align, everything moves very quickly on the site.
So what are we doing at fbFund REV? Well besides staying amped up on caffeine and keeping our heads buried in wide screen monitors, RunMyErrand is leveraging the social graph to build out what we are calling a trusted service network. It’s not social networking – it’s service networking in a people cloud. Using social networking in this powerful way enables us to build trust between people and make connections beyond status updates and photo sharing. It’s some pretty exciting stuff! If you want to learn more, check out our blog, fan page, or follow us on twitter!
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