Five Questions and One Link with Unpakt
This installment of Five Questions and One Link requires full disclosure: Undercurrent worked with Unpakt to help conceptualize the product and place the key creative and technical partners. But regardless of our personal connection, Unpakt is the disruptive kind a startup we always admire. With the goal of bringing transparency, simplicity and accurate pricing to the arduous process of moving, the service lets users search, compare and book movers online. Daniel Cooke, General Manager of Unpakt, took on this batch of questions.
1) In 140 characters or less, what problem is your company solving?
Finding a great mover and getting pricing is a time-consuming, difficult process. Unpakt is a digital service that makes it fast and easy.
Why I Gave Up My iPhone for Three Months
This was not a deliberate experiment. At least, not at first. A summer of funemployment, traveling the world and skating my way through endless Instagram opportunities had me wielding my iPhone at all times. Until one fateful day, I took a tumble off the old plank pusher and the revolutionary/very expensive piece of communications technology broke my fall. My iPhone was sacrificed to the skateboarding gods.
Five Questions and One Link with Riffle
Welcome to Five Questions and One Link, a new feature that gives a quick look inside some of the most interesting startups. This week we’re talking to Neil Baptista, the founder and CEO of Riffle, a new social web app that helps users discover great books. Read on and see below for a special link to jump the beta queue and join the community.
1) In 140 characters or less, what problem is your company solving?
Riffle is the future of book publishing. Connecting readers with books they’ll love, anywhere they’d like to read them.
The Agony and the Ecstasy
I recently co-ran workshops at a couple of graduate schools in Stockholm. At the end of one of the sessions, a series of questions from the students evolved into one of the themes of the day: Knowing when your work is finished is one of the most valuable skills.
A Day in The Rockaways
Walking out of the Undercurrent office last night, I tripped through the doorway and tore open the sole of my left shoe–I’m clumsy. As I stepped out into the night, I was met with the slush, snow, and wind of Nor’easter Athena. My shoe quickly began to fill with freezing water, and I cursed to myself as my umbrella flipped inside out, blowing snow into my eyes. But, really, I have nothing to complain about. I got to ride the subway home, throw on a pair of warm socks, and eat dinner in my lit and heated apartment. My broken shoe and frozen toe were absolutely nothing compared to what those affected by Hurricane Sandy are enduring, and will continue to endure.