{"id":38723,"date":"2023-10-20T14:58:33","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T14:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/startupsmart.test\/2023\/10\/20\/ship2anywhere-startupsmart\/"},"modified":"2023-10-20T14:58:33","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T14:58:33","slug":"ship2anywhere-startupsmart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/uncategorized\/ship2anywhere-startupsmart\/","title":{"rendered":"Ship2Anywhere &#8211; StartupSmart"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"90\" height=\"110\" itemprop=\"image\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/l_ship2anywhere_foundersblond.gif\" alt=\"Michael Teasdale\" title=\"Michael Teasdale\"\/><\/div>\n<p><strong>WINNER OF BEST ONLINE STRATEGY AND BEST YOUNG ENTREPRENEUR<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A chance meeting between Jack Fitzgerald and Michael Teasdale when they were at university and both working as lifeguards on the weekends was the impetus behind Ship2Anywhere.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Fitzgerald and Teasdale both studied logistics at university and drew on this background to identify a need in Australia for cheap and simple shipping for individuals and businesses.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The pair saw that the courier industry in Australia was lagging behind other countries\u2019 services in terms of its online offerings and so founded Ship2Anywhere as an online site with an emphasis on usability, price and customer service.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Fitzgerald admits it was tough going at first.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe both threw in our jobs and the accompanying income when we started Ship2Anywhere,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor the first few months we had to work really hard because we hadn\u2019t taken on any investors, and we weren\u2019t able to pay ourselves anything.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWorking so hard without a cent coming in was a big adjustment, and a lot of sacrifices had to be made.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The long hours have paid off with Ship2Anywhere on track to make $1.3 million this financial year.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For Fred Schebesta, judge of the Best Online Strategy award, Ship2Anywhere\u2019s entry stood out thanks to its innovation and \u201chuge growth potential\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt has a simple and brilliant online strategy and it\u2019s amazing no one else has done this,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Nicole Kersh, judge of the Best Young Entrepreneur award, said 25-year-old Fitzgerald stood out as an entrepreneur with a well thought out proposition and a desire to be socially and ethically aware in his business.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI love the fact that these guys are thinking big with their business, and not just thinking big but also thinking outside the box.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WINNER OF BEST ONLINE STRATEGY AND BEST YOUNG ENTREPRENEUR \u00a0 A chance meeting between Jack Fitzgerald and Michael Teasdale when<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61551,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38723"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}