{"id":163693,"date":"2016-05-03T14:18:31","date_gmt":"2016-05-03T12:18:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=163693"},"modified":"2016-05-03T14:19:53","modified_gmt":"2016-05-03T12:19:53","slug":"uber-for-moving-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/163693-uber-for-moving-stuff.html","title":{"rendered":"Uber for moving stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new company in South Africa called <a href=\"https:\/\/movethisstuff.co.za\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>MovethisStuff<\/strong><\/a>, an\u00a0Uber for moving goods globally, aims to become the number\u00a0one platform to move stuff for households and businesses.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe eliminate the stress of moving stuff by providing comparative quotes online in minutes from reputable and verified movers nationwide,\u201d said MovethisStuff.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou simply tell us what you need moved, where you are moving to, and when you want it moved.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Once the job has been completed, companies and clients are able to rate their experience. Customers and companies are also able to view past ratings and reviews.<\/p>\n<p>The company was founded in 2015 by Percy Lawrence (CTO), Michaela Hogan (CEO), and Paule Welgemoed.<\/p>\n<p>MovethisStuff received R350,000 for winning second prize in the #HackJozi competition last year, which helped fund the business.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have bootstrapped the company to date, and are now looking to raise a round of capital which will enable us to scale and grow faster,\u201d said Hogan.<\/p>\n<p>She said they will launch their mobile app soon, and take MovethisStuff into the rest of Africa.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More about companies<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/motoring\/163540-uber-under-fire-in-south-africa.html\"><strong>Uber under fire in South Africa<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/151357-automated-eft-startup-shows-impressive-growth.html\"><strong>Automated EFT startup shows impressive growth<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new company in South Africa aims to offer an on-demand platform to move stuff globally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":163695,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[36,36975,36971,36977,36973],"class_list":["post-163693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-active","tag-michaela-hogan","tag-movethisstuff","tag-paule-welgemoed","tag-percy-lawrence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163693"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163693"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":163699,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163693\/revisions\/163699"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}