mykuya goes behind the scenes — Published on March 11, 2022 In December 2019, over 40% of mykuya’s booking were for cleaning services. In March 2020, no one wanted someone coming into their homes. But share of Personal Shoppers went from about 10% of bookings in Dec’19 to almost entirely all about it in May’20. By…

The true cost of aggressive sales campaigns like 11.11 in struggling markets is a lot more than we think. — This article was originally published on Shahab’s Blog. Sales Campaigns “Usually” a Win-Win Every year consumers and businesses anticipate common sales campaigns like 11.11’s Singles Day, Black Friday or the common holiday ones like Christmas or start of summer. Usually they come as win-win opportunities.

COVID-19 is just a slice of it & the rest is about us. This is our mindset at Machine Ventures. — The Equations Have Changed Our world is ruled with a series of equations. They make things possible & to make things happen you have to change the equations. This process is extremely challenging as seen by startups in business or revolutionaries in our societies that want to change things. Pandemic is a Catalyst

To celebrate that, we are giving ₱50 for every time we can’t serve you under 2 minutes! — We are tired of the way services have worked & with your help, we want to change that! We are sorry for the way your experience with local apps have been; but worry no more because it doesn’t have to be that way! Are you in? To take the first…

The No-Longer-Beta Version is Coming... — 4 — MyKuya’s Magic Number. It took 4 major iterations to get to this point where we can confidently say this is what we have been building all along. 2 Years of Beta — Because it Matters to Get it Right. Took a lot of patience to not remove the beta label since MyKuya’s inception. The truth is all our previous versions were experimental. …

Bring MyKuya to your city & make life better for everyone around you! — Oh Manila… People have a lot of negative opinions about Metro Manila. Look to social media and conversations are dominated by complaints about endless traffic, slow internet and poor service. We are swamped by these inconveniences all the time, stopping us from progressing as a nation. …

The new version of MyKuya was built upon the foundation of collaboration. #RoadToOneMillionJobs is calling you! — How it All Started On September 1, 2017 we launched the most bare-bone version of our app that was built in just 2 months. It wasn’t the most perfect app and it hardly had any major features but it was enough to get us going. Our goal was to understand the things you cared…

8 years of being in Manila, on planning and strategy, a word to parents and on facing typhoon Mangkhut. — 8 Years in Manila Last week marked my 8th year in the Philippines. It has been quite a journey so far and reflecting on what I have been up to in these years has been very rewarding. Today I am quite happy to experience a real Sunday. Not that TGIF is my motto, no…

We face a lot of challenges so I constantly ask myself: Why are you doing this? — It has been around 10 months since we started MyKuya on beta and 2 months since it was publicly announced and I have to admit, it has been rewarding but super tough. Oh The Entrepreneurial Drama… It is common knowledge that launching any to-be-scalable concept like MyKuya is not easy but as an entrepreneur…