We continue our rotating Startupbootcamp blog series – our ten teams take turns sharing their thoughts and experiences on their Startupbootcamp adventure.
Simple is beautiful
Last august, a friend and I had a spontaneous idea which we liked so much that we began to implement it right away. What did we do? We created an Internet platform, where car renters can post their requests and car rental companies can respond. They do so by sending their bids through this platform – it’s like a reverse auction really. Two weeks into the project we already had the first elementary prototype running, and after the first month of operations we realized that it really works. We soon found that we had created a simple way for renters to receive offers from a multitude of small and medium sized car rental companies. This is something that is not possible when using Google as your starting point. In return, the car rental companies get new customers from the Internet. Simple is beautiful. We had no amazing design and just basic features to support the process, nothing else. That way we could get to proof of concept without investing lot of money. Read More
