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There's a couple of startups that do exactly this for individuals and startups. Here is one that I did a quick search on: http://www.ridepal.com/ http://www.ri
by tazzy531 14y ago
There's a couple of startups that do exactly this for individuals and startups.
Here is one that I did a quick search on: http://www.ridepal.com/ http://www.ridepal.com/
Here's an article on these guys: http://wheels.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/01/ridepal-to-help-bay-area-residents-commute-like-google-employees/ http://wheels.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/01/ridepal-to-help-b...
Also, if there's a market, why doesn't someone on YC solve this problem?
The GBus was started as a 20% project by a single engineer. He got a group of fellow coworkers together and charted a van to commute to work.
When I was working in Finance in NYC, a bunch of the traders got together and chartered a van to drive them to the office in Stamford, CT.
It's really not a hard problem to solve.
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Here's another: http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/business&id=7520208 http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/business&i...