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Innovating London's Bus Routes - Entrepreneurs In East London Assemble -
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Moiz Ali and his law school classmate started an e-commerce business,
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"I went to the Best Buy in Union Square (NYC) on my walk home and loaded the
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work. More importantly though, Caskers would not have grown as quickly as it
did.
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=F0=9F=A4=94 </h1>
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normal;text-decoration: underline;">Citymapper</a> is an app that shows =
people the best ways to get from one city destination to the next. In =
the UK you can access it in London, Birmingham or Manchester =
and it's also now available in a further 36 cities around the globe =
including Mexico City and Singapore.<br>
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to innovate a public transport industry which has stayed the same =
for decades.<br>
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This launch put them face-to-face with a number of bureaucratic, =
practical and just plain difficult challenges. It also saw the streets =
of East London welcome a bright green bus service complete with loud =
music, USB chargers and an emoji transport map that tapped right into =
its core millennial market.<br>
<br>
After a mixed MVP launch, Citymapper has published a blog detailing the =
journey they went on, the lessons they learnt and their big plans to =
launch a new project in the same space in the coming months. A =
fascinating read for anyone looking to shake up an industry with fresh =
ideas. Props to the Citymapper team for looking at a traditional market =
and doing their best to deliver a better experience than what already =
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Guild</a>, a new kind of trade union that brings small business owners =
in London together through a method called community organising. Small =
traders account for 97.9 per cent of all businesses in the East London =
borough of Tower Hamlets and 99.7 per cent in Hackney, providing =
half of the employment across two of the poorest boroughs in the city. =
Once joined together these entrepreneurs form a voice that =
MP's can't afford to ignore.<br>
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This East End Guild hold regular community sessions where they put =
questions to the mayors and hold them to account for their promises. An =
interesting idea and one that seems to be working on the rent issues. At =
their recent meetup they asked for more transparent rent agreements =
across the boroughs, by creating a register of landlords to allow small =
businesses to compare rents and support the development of an =
affordable rent formula to standardise how prices are determined. Mayor =
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East End Guild to make the rent problems better.<br>
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125%;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: left;">How Two Non-Technical =
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=F0=9F=91=8F </h1>
<p style=3D"margin: 10px 0;padding: 0;mso-line-height-rule: =
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: =
#202020;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: =
150%;text-align: left;">Moiz Ali and his law school classmate =
started an e-commerce business, <a =
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and successfully exited just 1.5 years later. <a =
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ab9f76e7f4db2e0500c&id=3Dd060f058d9&e=3Dd4e40c46c7" target=3D"_blank" =
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100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2BAADF;font-weight: =
normal;text-decoration: underline;">This blog</a> details how they did =
it. The lessons they learnt and how they're putting it into practice for =
their next business. What's extra special is that neither of the =
co-founders had super techy skills which many think are needed to start =
a business. They did it using tools anyone can find online.<br>
<br>
<strong>Lesson #1. Be Frugal =F0=9F=92=B8 </strong><br>
The backbone of our website was an ecommerce plugin for WordPress that =
was free.<br>
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<strong>Lesson #2. Be Relentless =F0=9F=91=8A</strong><br>
"I went to the Best Buy in Union Square (NYC) on my walk home and loaded =
the Caskers homepage on every Apple computer."<br>
<br>
<strong>Lesson #3: Be Experimental =F0=9F=94=AE </strong><br>
Without experimenting though, Caskers would not have been a fun place to =
work. More importantly though, Caskers would not have grown as =
quickly as it did.<br>
<br>
<strong>Lesson #4: Be Careful =F0=9F=99=85 </strong><br>
Making decisions quickly is important, but rushing into decisions is a =
mistake.<br>
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<strong>Lesson #5 Be Resolved =F0=9F=98=8C </strong><br>
Ignore the noise of other startups. </p>
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<strong>April 24th</strong><br>
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idea can work </a>(London)<br>
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<strong>May 2nd</strong><br>
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