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September 26, 2013 06:57 pm GMT
The phrase “storage unit,” brings to mind one of two things: high-volume drug deals, or a huge hassle. Either way, not good. A startup called MakeSpace is launching in New York today with the promise of making storage ridiculously convenient, by providing on-demand pick-up and drop-off to their storage facilities in Jersey City. To get the operation off the ground, MakeSpace has raised $1.3 million from Upfront Ventures, Lowercase Capital, High Peaks Venture Partners, and Collaborative Fund. Founder and CEO Sam Rosen is Upfront’s first Entrepreneur in Residence, a program that Upfront partner Mark Suster wrote wasn’t really formalized until Rosen came along and pitched him and the team on MakeSpace. As Suster explained in a January blog post, the EIR receives funding to work on his or her ideas in the Upfront offices, attends entrepreneur pitches and partner meetings, helps the Upfront team review a few deals, and get introduced to other entrepreneurs. “The choice of how much VC work and how much start-your-company work you want to do is up to you,” Suster wrote. With the New York launch of MakeSpace today, it seems that Rosen has spent a solid amount of time on the latter. Here’s how it works. MakeSpace drops off bins at a customer’s residence and either waits half an hour for them to pack them, or schedules a pick-up at a later date. The content of the bins are labeled and MakeSpace records which bins belong to which person before they are stored. In order to get any boxes back, the customer just has to hit “Retrieve” on the site. The cost for four bins, each of which occupy about three cubic feet, is $25 per month. Each additional bin is $6.25. Pick-ups are free, while deliveries cost $29. The thinking runs a little deeper than un-cluttering houses, though. MakeSpace is meant to be something like real world cloud storage, like Dropbox for real life. A service like MakeSpace allows us to be less tied down by our physical possessions, Rosen explained. When you want to retrieve something, it should be as easy as pressing a button.There’s also the potential down the line to give friends access to MakeSpace storage, as though they were coming over to borrow something. The idea is as dreamy as apparition.To make its service happen as promised, MakeSpace works with a family-ownedwarehouse in New Jersey that is also used
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MakeSpace, A Dropbox For Real Life Storage, Launches In New York Today, Having Raised $1.3M
The phrase “storage unit,” brings to mind one of two things: high-volume drug deals, or a huge hassle. Either way, not good. A startup called MakeSpace is launching in New York today with the promise of making storage ridiculously convenient, by providing on-demand pick-up and drop-off to their storage facilities in Jersey City. To get the operation off the ground, MakeSpace has raised $1.3 million from Upfront Ventures, Lowercase Capital, High Peaks Venture Partners, and Collaborative Fund. Founder and CEO Sam Rosen is Upfront’s first Entrepreneur in Residence, a program that Upfront partner Mark Suster wrote wasn’t really formalized until Rosen came along and pitched him and the team on MakeSpace. As Suster explained in a January blog post, the EIR receives funding to work on his or her ideas in the Upfront offices, attends entrepreneur pitches and partner meetings, helps the Upfront team review a few deals, and get introduced to other entrepreneurs. “The choice of how much VC work and how much start-your-company work you want to do is up to you,” Suster wrote. With the New York launch of MakeSpace today, it seems that Rosen has spent a solid amount of time on the latter. Here’s how it works. MakeSpace drops off bins at a customer’s residence and either waits half an hour for them to pack them, or schedules a pick-up at a later date. The content of the bins are labeled and MakeSpace records which bins belong to which person before they are stored. In order to get any boxes back, the customer just has to hit “Retrieve” on the site. The cost for four bins, each of which occupy about three cubic feet, is $25 per month. Each additional bin is $6.25. Pick-ups are free, while deliveries cost $29. The thinking runs a little deeper than un-cluttering houses, though. MakeSpace is meant to be something like real world cloud storage, like Dropbox for real life. A service like MakeSpace allows us to be less tied down by our physical possessions, Rosen explained. When you want to retrieve something, it should be as easy as pressing a button.There’s also the potential down the line to give friends access to MakeSpace storage, as though they were coming over to borrow something. The idea is as dreamy as apparition.To make its service happen as promised, MakeSpace works with a family-ownedwarehouse in New Jersey that is also usedOriginal Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/TMqSmV0jkSs/
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