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A recent interview with me and David Barrett on TravelDailyNews Asia: www.traveldailynews.asia/column/interviews/travel-massive-the-global-connection-founded-by-ian-cumming/
Fun stuff I've been involved in:
🌎 Built the world's first search engine for ocean research datasets (2005)
✈️ Developed Airlines of Tasmania's first online reservation system (2006)
💬 Launched World Nomads' "Ask A Nomad" Q&A Community (2009-2011)
🤑 Launched Australia's first flight deals website "GetFlight" (2011-2012)
👶 Investor in TinyBeans.com family photo sharing app which floated on ASX (2014)
🇨🇳 Built Jambo — a crowdsourced interpreter network, trialed MVP in China (2014)
🔥 Investor in Firechat (mesh chat app) — until the CEO disappeared! 🙃 (2019)
📱 Investor in SkyHi — the world's first subscription flight service (2019-2021)
💡 Founding team of the Social Entrepreneurship in Tourism Competition (2019-now)
🥾 CTO of MappyHour.org — a community for outdoor enthusiasts in the US (current)
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LFG: Next-Gen Travel Discovery Platform 5 days ago
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B Corp: Worth it? 5 days ago
Thanks mate!
Hi Alec, thanks for sharing MagicTrips with the Travel Massive community! It's a nice no-fuss implementation that's easy to use. Perhaps you could expose the filters below the search field when the user starts to type, or prompt them when they click th... show more
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