Currently building the Travel Massive community platform — you're using it now 😀
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)
East Coast, Tasmania
East Africa
I wrote a booking engine for a small airline.
The most remote places in the world
Travel with purpose
Hi everyone, I am excited to share that I will be visiting Ljubljana this week (all the way from Tasmania) for the first time. I will be attending the Travel Massive meetup tomorrow (Thursday) at Tektonik Kraft Pivovarna organised by @rudi-medved. Link... show more
Slovenia Travel Massive yesterday
Hi Philip, thanks for inviting me to the MVP and well done on what you've created! The answer to your question depends on whether your product is a "vitamin" or a "painkiller" (stealing someone else's saying!) If people need your product to solve a cr... show more
Have you looked into DIDLogic? This is one of the best VOIP networks I've used in previous businesses. They may be able to support you with local numbers in Argentina. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/did-logic_didlogic-argentina-globalexpansion-activit... show more
That link (after signing in) gives me "To get started you need to select a space or wait for approval." I can't see a space to join.
Catherine, thanks so much for attending and for sharing all these wonderful insights from the panel discussion! I agree with all you points (especially about improving the customer experience), although I am sceptical of the "democratisation" angle fro... show more