Ryan Jones

Really interesting that surge pricing is so variable within a few blocks. If surge pricing is truly driven by a supply & demand imbalance with such specificity around the origin, it seems like surge pricing should be an absolute dollar amount and not a multiple of the total ride cost. After all, a $10 base fare and a $50 base fare both remove 1 unit of supply from the origin location. At 2x...

Love the concept but what happens when there's a (valet driver) supply shortage when you need your car returned? Even if it's rare, not being able to access your car is high consequence. One of these companies needs to crack this for airport parking.

Haven't taken it out for a spin yet, but I love this concept and the app is really well designed. Because they nailed the music component, I can see myself using this over other fitness tracking apps with broader feature sets.

@daveambrose Nice find! Love this concept - tons of opportunity to reduce friction for consumers while creating efficiencies for restaurants. Taking the best of Sprig and Grubhub. Too bad I can't test it out in SF.

Really cool site for scoring deals on nice bottles of wine from mostly boutique wineries. It's a flash sale model but what I like most about this company is that instead of offering discounts, a pre-determined percentage of bottles purchased are randomly upgraded to higher-end bottles (including magnums sometimes). The surprise makes it adds a fun game-like element to the process while...

Great idea, sounds awesome for the EU, but they only cover overbookings for domestic US flights (airlines are not obligated to compensate you for cancellations, mechanical delays, etc. in the US).

@UXAndrew It seems like these all fall into 2 distinct categories with different business models - 1) subscriptions that offer a more efficient and cost-effective method of getting the things you are already buying (Dollar Shave Club) and 2) novelty products that are rarely cost-effective or practical, but ideal for giving as it's as easy as buying a digital gift card with the perception of...

Such a cool idea from both a user and business model perspective. Seems like there'd be a lot of opportunity for monetization (quick Macy's/Nordstroms affiliate link integration to start, more robust partnerships down the road) and customer acquisition (partnering with on-demand movie providers, movie producers who could then charge more for product placement, movie theaters, etc). Mobile seems...

Interesting. Curious what performance metric(s) determine the cost?

@JMRushworth thanks! Actually came across BottlesTonight a week or two ago. Nicely done. Out of curiosity, what's an average booking window/lead time for bottle service reservations (before BottlesTonight)?

@maiab glad you are liking the app! And we are huge fans of airbnb, so thanks for the compliment (much of the credit there goes to our designer, Jon Dubin). If you ever have more feedback (esp. constructive criticism), please reach out! Not fundraising at the moment, but potentially later this year.

@tokudu right now we are focused on continuing to build a rock-solid pricing and inventory distribution platform. We see different fulfillment options (take-out, delivery, etc) as natural extensions of the model over time.

@AdrianGrant thanks! We'll keep you posted on what we're up to if you sign up here: http://bit.ly/1fcD2ve . In the meantime, if you're ever in SF, let us know and we'll treat you to a early/late lunch via Go Dish!

@gabsong we still have a small team, so we've been shifting back and forth between customer acquisition, product and sales over the past 6 months. We're going back into sales mode in Feb and plan to maintain a good pace of supply growth going forward (assuming we keep demand in line and ensure our existing restaurant partners are happy with the volume of customers we're sending their way). The...

@rrhoover both of us (Jaydon and I) have a weird (=geeky) passion for pricing. We started working together on the revenue management team at Wynn Resorts in Vegas right out of college. At the time, Steve Wynn had instituted a rule that Wynn always had to be priced at least $20 higher than Bellagio (even if Bellagio was almost sold out and Wynn was empty). The result of a personal vendetta, as...

Thanks @gabsong! Since we are a marketplace, we had to validate (or attempt to validate) the value prop on both the consumer and supplier side. Honestly, we sort of built the product for ourselves after working in various offices downtown and hoped there were others (consumers) like us out there! Neither myself nor my co-founder Jaydon have any restaurant experience, so we literally hit the...

Hey there - happy to answer any questions! We're iphone only right now and are just wrapping up a pilot in downtown San Francisco, but nonetheless psyched to get all your feedback on the product, design, etc.