Category Archives: Building a Company

Posting your photo and getting all sentimental.

When we were in the early planning stages of PickupPal we always had the idea of having member profiles and encouraging members to post their photo. Having your photo along with your profile is actually way more important than you think. I have some statistics to back this up - of the Drivers [...]

Making it look easy - is not that easy!

Well what a week!
To kick things off we had an awesome article in the Toronto Star, (Here), front page Business Secton. A huge thanks to Tyler Hamilton for writing such a great article about PickupPal! So now that it is out there and we have seen the final product - there is a [...]

Partnering to Double up and Cut Down!

Well we are 102 days since the launch of PickupPal and we are so thankful for the warm response we have received from all of you out there and our strategic partners. PickupPal has been working on organizing with a whole host of like minded organizations to provide Ridesharing options.

A month ago we launched [...]

You are right - we made a mistake!

I just love reading Seth Godin’s blog because there are times that he can really put things in a very succinct way. His latest post - You’re Right! is a great example of taking the time to think through the feedback that you get.
A big part of my job is to review [...]