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“I wrote our business plan in the New Venture Creation class and recruited my co-founders from the class. I got more out of my classes by thinking about how I could immediately apply the concepts to our business.”– Matt Chasen, MBA ’04 Wasted Space Sparks Idea While they were still in their first year of… Read More

 By Stacey Higginbotham, March 4, 2010 Six years ago I attended a business plan competition where I watched a couple of guys explain how they wanted to streamline the process of shipping bulky items across the country by linking folks up via the Internet. The social web was starting to heat up, but I liked… Read More

Published February 24, 2010, 3:16 pm | by Greta Loder Freight has been a buyer’s market ever since the recession got in gear. Traditionally, the drastic decline in sellers—carriers—should lift prices, but that hasn’t happened because shippers are sitting on inventory until the Ultimate Buyer, the consumer, starts spending again. And as always, the little… Read More

By Omar L. Gallaga  | Saturday, February 21, 2010 Matt Chasen, the CEO and founder of Austin’s uShip Inc., has watched lots of flashy companies sail through South by Southwest Interactive on a wave of hype (but with no business plan). That’s good for some companies (cough – twitter – cough), but Chasen says that… Read More

BoatTrader.com and uShip.com, an online transport marketplace, announced that uShip’s “Shipping Price Estimator” is now incorporated into every Boat Trader boat detail listing page. The agreement enables boat buyers to get a better sense of expected shipping costs and more easily connect with reliable boat haulers within uShip’s network of transporters. People who find a… Read More

CNNMoney.com) — In 2001, Matt Chasen’s mother wanted to send an antique dresser from Ohio to Texas, but was staggered when she received a $1,000 shipping quote — far more than the dresser was worth. Unable to find a cheaper option, she never sent it. One year later, Chasen reserved a nine-foot truck to move… Read More

Read the post on TechDrawl When I first met Matt Chasen at the McCombs School of Business in 2004, uShip was a beta site with a lot of potential.  Today, uShip is probably the world’s biggest marketplaces for shippers – helping people move over $125 million in cars, freight, household goods, and other “hard to ship”… Read More

An Austin, Texas, company that operates a website connecting people with professional movers has made quite a move of its own. UShip Inc. has reached profitability and topped $125 million worth of transactions during its first five years of operation. This year, the company doubled its revenue compared with 2008 and now plans to expand… Read More

An Austin company that operates a Web site connecting people with professional movers has made quite a move of its own. UShip Inc. has reached profitability and topped $125 million worth of transactions during its first five years of operation. This year, the company doubled its revenue compared with 2008 and now plans to expand… Read More

uShip, the global online shipping marketplace, today announced it has surpassed $125M in business transacted in just five years, two-thirds of which has occurred during the recession. In 2009, uShip’s revenues doubled versus 2008 and the company also enhanced local settings for customers in the UK, EU, Canada, and Australia. uShip turned profitable in 2008,… Read More