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by temphn 4723 days ago
Taskrabbit is a great idea and very useful. Here are a few things they could improve:

1) Take a page from Exec and do flat-rate pricing in different verticals (e.g. $25/hour for Exec Errands). Doing a price auction every time is too time consuming, but that's the UI default at the moment.

2) The refocus on mobile/realtime (like Exec) is also good.

3) Figure out a way to incentivize people to do more transactions through the site. Once you meet a good service provider, right now there's an incentive to do all future interactions outside the site.

4) Re: enterprise refocus: do some sales calls with all the admin assistants of VC funds and funded startups in the Valley. Set up a bulk enterprise account for $Xk per month and have them go crazy assembling Ikea furniture.

Taskrabbit is a great concept and really should succeed with some tweaking.