Three Zappos alums are trying to replicate the garage sale experience on your smartphone — and their startup Rumgr just raised a $500,000 seed round from a group of investors that includes Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh.
They look back on their own and their neighbors' garage-building experience with some amusement.
There are the big names like Mark Zuckerberg, who founded Facebook before he dropped out of college, and Michael Dell, who started a computer empire from his garage with little experience of how a computer company was supposed to work.
As someone who experienced garage the first time round in the mid 1990s (yes, I was a bit of a fan), can I just say: More Kele le Roc samples this time round, less wide boys please.
Nelsen liked him immediately, since he had experience installing garage doors, and told him to come back for a longer interview at 2 p.m.
(And next up may be Norway, with offerings like the scruffy garage rockers Cato Salsa Experience and the Kings of Convenience, reportedly the Norwegian Simon and Garfunkel).
My experience of garage was that – apart from ganja, of which there was loads – it wasn't really a drug scene in the way house was.
Leonard Steinberg, director of sales for the property under Prudential Douglas Elliman, says the buyer of one of his units "doesn't park on the street, and schlepping through the rain or snow to a garage is a humbling experience".
He said he had been influenced by, among other things, the fatal 2005 stabbing of a woman by a convicted sex offender in a parking garage in White Plains, and an experience years earlier when he and his family were accosted while hiking in a state park by a man they later learned was a sex offender.
