Starting a new Business in an “upside down” economy.
Posted on 17. May, 2009 by Jordan in Ben, Jordan, The Gear Movers
The beginning of it all. The motherload from a great shop in CO
So when Ben and myself started to devise a plan to do an upstart new business in the early months of ’09, we obviously decided to put our knowledge of current affairs, the economy and our business degree to great use, hint the sarcasm.
Believe it or not, this is almost the perfect economic climate to create a new venture devoted to helping people “Move Their Gear.” We created a company where individuals, pro teams, pro athletes, independent reps, industry insiders, and independent retailers can sell their unused, used and even abused gear to the masses through eBay. With a slow economy and the lack of time everyone now has on their hands having to fill in spare small jobs on their calendars to make ends meet – enter The Gear Movement.
Pack it all in! A 22ft box truck full to the brim, ohhh yeahh!!
What we didn’t anticipate was the steady and increasing amount of growth we have seen in just a few months of business. Although the business is still run out of my increasingly cramped house in NoBoCo we are feeling the effects of the growth pretty steadily. Numbers are jumping and new clients are coming though the doors, a few days ago this meant a new phone plan (new iphones) for Duke and myself. Apparently Duke had been using the “free with plan” phone for about 3 years, finally we hooked him up!
The one and only - Mr. Ben Duke, uhh hows the mocha?
Another cool thing about owning our own business is that Duke and myself have been able to make our own hours and be responsible only to our selves, well actually Ben has a few other mouths to feed, but for the most part…
Heres to more bike rides and working towards what we call, “something cool!”
Long time no Talk!
Posted on 18. Jul, 2008 by Jordan in Jordan, Pro Wrenching
Yo Yo! I haven’t written anything here in more than a few months. Since the last, I have been traveling like a mad man as usual. We have raced in CA, GA, NC, SC, MD, DE, VA, NJ, PA, MN, IL and im sure there are some other states that im missing!
I got to spend some time in the DC area with the fam during May which was a huge highlight. Then we had a super tough week of racing in the Minneapolis area at the end of June, and crammed in between that were tons of small East Coast crits. Ohh I forgot, somewhere in there I dropped into my pseudo home – Boulder, CO for a little fun with the homies!
Currently we are in the Milwaukee area for the 2nd week of Superweek! This 18 day series begins the Chicago area and finishes up in Milwaukee. I am the only staff member here for about 6 guys we are racing around 6pm every night around 100km crit courses. Super easy racing and no hype so life is good!
The next few weeks are super busy with lots of Midweastern travel and a few vacation days in Boulder. Lata Yall!
PS: check out these links for some sweet footage of me working. These are some of our sponsor sites:
Our Team website, my bio:
http://www.kbsmedifast.com/team/staff_bios.php?id=17
Our Sponsor Park Tools did a little photo shoot, check out the pic at the bottom of me in action:
http://www.parktool.com/whatsnew/index.asp
Our Sponsor SRAM has started a new behind the scenes blog, super cool, tons of cool footage. Check out the videos titled: The bikes of Kelly Benefits, and the Kelly Candy Throwing…good stuff
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