Media Coverage

The latest series of Shipping Wars UK ran in February and has seen an explosion of buyers picking up unusual auction wins on eBay and then turning to carriers like uShip.com (Tag line: “Get Ship Done”) to get them delivered. The programme follows a group of delivery trucks and vans as they criss-cross Britain, competing… Read More

By: Benjamin Gordon, Managing Partner, BG Strategic Advisors February 05, 2015 “An army marches on its stomach,” Napoleon famously said. While the high-technology sector captures the headlines, the supply chain sector is responsible for the heavy lifting, behind the scenes. The books, clothing, and goods that we purchase are increasingly made in Asia or Mexico;… Read More

  There’s more to the Austin startup scene than South by Southwest. During the rest of the year when the city isn’t awash with visitors and entertainment and tech moguls, Austin possesses a thriving startup scene that has launched a number of tech IPOs, including HomeAway and Bazaarvoice. Mashable spoke with Austin tech players, from… Read More

  AutoRemarketing Magazine, the preeminent publication in the after-market vehicle industry, has recognized uShip in its ‘The Power 300’ rankings. The results were recently published in the magazine’s annual report. As described by AutoRemarketing, The Power 300 is a compilation and listing of the most influential, innovative, impactful, and, of course, powerful companies doing business… Read More

CFOs Say Efforts Can Help Attract Young Job Candidates By Noelle Knox and Maxwell Murphy Curran McCready worked sunup to sunset in a remote Nicaraguan village with no electricity for a week last summer to help build a school. He volunteered as a member ofGeneral Electric Co. GE -0.52% ‘s fast-track financial-management program. And despite the bugs—both flying and… Read More

  For the past four years, Hannah Casparian has been whipping up dishes like broiled salmon and kale salad and African stew with couscous for employees at Austin-based Internet company uShip. But now, Casparian is ready to do what uShip’s founders did back in 2004: Strike out on her own. With financial backing from two… Read More

Less-than-truckload (LTL) carriers are parking on freight portals to offer extra capacity to small shippers surfing for low-cost transportation. Less-than-truckload (LTL) powerhouses Con-way Freight, Old Dominion Freight Line, and YRC Freight made headlines when they committed to uShip‘s shipper-direct spot rate marketplace. The U.S. national and regional LTL carriers that are either live or coming online… Read More

uShip and ShipWorks today announced they have teamed together. ShipWorks customers selling oversized, palletized goods on multi-platform e-commerce channels such as Amazon, eBay, Magento, Shopify, Etsy and others, or moving inventory between warehouses, can now use uShip to access bookable rates directly from the nation’s top less-than-truckload (LTL) carriers. This addresses the problem many sellers… Read More

Third-party logistics (3PL) providers play an essential role in hooking up shippers with the right kind of transportation service. But their numbers are shrinking. The trend is toward fewer, larger players. A recent example was the acquisition of One Stop Logistics byEcho Global Logistics, Inc. Chicago-based Echo earned $884 million in revenue in 2013, drawing on a… Read More

Austin investors may not be keeping the city weird, but they’re sure keeping its startup scene humming. Like the rest of the country, venture capitalists in the Capital City are riding a wave of exits to big new numbers in startups financed and capital committed over the past few quarters.With the TechCrunch Meetup circus in town,… Read More