Have an itch? Scratch it. This is the commonsense logic that fuels innovators and entrepreneurs. For example, let’s say a regional public transit system failed to create simple and easy-to-use schedules for navigating their system. When a true entrepreneur experiences the lacking system it would get under their skin until that had no choice but to scratch it like mad. That’s exactly what happened when Randy Schmidt got frustrated with the ridiculously complicated schedules that Septa provides for Regional Rails and created his own mobile app called iSepta.org. To hear Randy talk about the need to scratch that initial itch, how he would love to work with Septa to make transit better and what the future holds for Umlatte, his web dev start up, click on the play button above.
Highlights:
iSepta had gotten 30,000 hits in a week with 5,000 trips planned
iSepta wasn’t even a thought until March 28th (that’s March 28th, 2008)
iSepta is hoping to work with Septa to make the whole transit system more user friendly
Umlatte, Randy’s web dev startup, has some more tricks up it’s sleeves that are ’secret’ for now.
Read more about Randy and iSepta . . .
on Phillyist
on The Unofficial Apple Weblog
on Philebrity
Follow iSepta on Twitter: @isepta
Dave Speers is an online marketing consultant and start-up junky that has worked with a wide variety of Philadelphia businesses. Dave spends most his time annoying really smart people at Indy Hall co-working collaborative.
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