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TaskRabbit is an online and mobile marketplace that allows users to outsource small jobs and tasks to others in their neighborhood.〔Moran, Gwen. (Building a Business on Busy Schedules and Making Errands Pay ). ''Entrepreneur''. November 21, 2011.〕 Users name the task they need done and the price they are willing to pay, and a network of pre-approved contractors bid to complete the job.〔Tsotsis, Alexia. (TaskRabbit Turns Grunt Work Into a Game ) ''WIRED''. July 15, 2011.〕 It was founded by Leah Busque in 2008 and has received $37.5 million in funding.〔Jeffries, Adrianne. (TaskRabbit takes on another $13 million in funding ) ''The Verge''. July 23, 2012.〕 Busque founded TaskRabbit when she had no time to buy dog food, basing it on the idea of “neighbors helping neighbors.”〔http://www.theverge.com/2013/5/23/4352116/taskrabbit-temp-agency-gig-economy〕 ==History== The precursor of TaskRabbit was RunMyErrand, which was launched in 2008 in Boston with the first 100 "runners."〔〔Kirsner, Scott. (Small start-up takes an idea and runs with it ). ''The Boston Globe''. July 5, 2009.〕 In 2009, Tim Ferriss became an advisor to the firm after meeting Busque at Facebook’s startup incubator, fbFund.〔Eldon, Eric. (FbFund: 18 companies and 2 nonprofits win, head to Palo Alto ). ''VentureBeat''. May 28, 2009.〕〔Kirsner, Scott. (TaskRabbit's Leah Busque: The exit interview ). ''The Boston Globe''. May 26, 2010.〕 The firm accumulated $1.8 million in seed funding from venture capital firms, 〔Lopez, Lolita. (Creative Ways to Make Money in Sour Economy ). ''NBC''. February 3, 2012.〕〔 and hired the company’s first full-time employee, Brian Leonard, a software engineer with whom she had worked at IBM.〔Moore, Galen. (Web startup RunMyErrand to move execs west ). ''Mass High Tech''. March 11, 2010.〕〔〔Hoshaw, Lindsey. (Need someone to run your errands? There’s an app for that ) ''Forbes''. July 28, 2011.〕 In April 2010, Busque changed the name of the company from RunMyErrand to TaskRabbit.〔(RunMyErrand becomes TaskRabbit ). ''L.A.B. Unleashed''. April 8, 2010.〕 By June 2010, Busque and team moved across the country and opened operations in the San Francisco Bay Area. One year later, in May 2011, TaskRabbit closed a $5 million Series A financing round from Shasta ventures, First Round Capital, Baseline Ventures, Floodgate Fund, Collaborative Fund, 500 Startups and The Mesh author Lisa Gansky.〔Parr, Ben. (TaskRabbit for iPhone Lets You Outsource Your Chores ) ''Mashable''. July 28, 2011.〕〔Tsotsis, Alexia. (TaskRabbit Gets $5M From Shasta Ventures ) ''TechCrunch''.〕 At that time the firm had 13 employees and 2,000 participating "TaskRabbits".〔 Within the next year, the firm expanded from Boston and the San Francisco Bay Area to New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Orange County.〔Shontell, Alyson. (Taskrabbit Leah Busque Interview ) ''BusinessInsider''. October 27, 2011.〕〔O’Dell, Jolie. (How one woman technologist single-handedly created thousands of jobs ) ''VentureBeat''. November 2, 2011.〕 In July 2011, TaskRabbit launched an app, which allows users to post a task with an iPhone.〔Tsotsis, Alexia. (TaskRabbit Releases Its Amazing iPhone App ). ''TechCrunch''. July 28, 2011.〕〔Brustein, Joshua. (Outsourcing Chores Made Easy ) ''New York Times''. August 21, 2011.〕〔Hornshaw, Phil. (Fresh iPhone Apps for Sept. 19 ) ''Appolicious''. September 19, 2011.〕〔(TaskRabbit ) ''THRILLIST''.〕〔Myers, Courtney. (TaskRabbit goes mobile! ) ''TheNextWeb''. July 28, 2011.〕 In October 2011, she hired Eric Grosse, the co-founder and former president of Hotwire.com, as the firm's new CEO so she could focus on product development.〔(Why TaskRabbit hired a CEO ) ''SFGate''. October 12, 2011.〕〔Taylor, Colleen. (TaskRabbit nabs Hotwire co-founder as CEO ) ''GigaOM''. October 12, 2011.〕〔Tsotsis, Alexia. (TaskRabbit Gets A New CEO, Eric Grosse ) ''TechCrunch''. October 12, 2011.〕 In December 2011, TaskRabbit received an additional $17.8 million in a Series B round of funding;〔 At the time the firm had 35 employees and generated $4 million in business each month.〔〔Bilton, Nick. (TaskRabbit Looks to Expand Cities and Offer an API ). ''New York Times''. November 10, 2011.〕〔Roush, Wade. (Bay Area Biztech News by the Numbers ) ''Xconomy''. October 12, 2011.〕 In March 2013, a new tool for their “TaskRabbit Business" was introduced which allows businesses to hire temporary workers from the TaskRabbit users, with a 26 percent commission.〔http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/23/taskrabbit-for-business-temp-workers/〕 In July 2013, TaskRabbit confirmed a layoff of 13 people, 20 percent of the 65 employees.〔http://wallstreetinsanity.com/taskrabbit-lays-off-nearly-20-percent-of-its-staff-to-realign-company/〕 In March 2014, TaskRabbit shut down its Business Services portal.〔http://techcrunch.com/2014/04/01/taskrabbit-for-business-service-portal-quietly-disappears/〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「TaskRabbit」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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