Greetings to a new year and a new semester. We have so many things to discuss, but we’ll try to keep it short! There are some important updates so please read: Pricing: Introducing Prime, viaCycle to class, and other changes For our regular users we recommend viaCycle Prime, with the first 30 minutes free and [...]
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January 29, 2012
viaCycle@GT Launch
We’re happy to announce our official launch for the viaCycle@GT program! We’ve been working hard to get the kinks ironed out, and understand many of you are excited to start using the program. Here’s a little bit about what you can expect as we roll it out. There are currently 10 bicycles in the fleet. [...]
September 20, 2011
Production shifts to high gear
Quick Announcement: GT Bike Week is coming! We will debut our bicycles to the public during GT Bike Week. Come on down and give the bikes a test spin, and talk to Kyle and Sid; two members of the viaCycle team! They will be available to answer questions. We’ll be manning a booth on the [...]
August 29, 2011
Soon…
The viaCycle team continues to make strides towards Beta testing the first of our bicycles on the campus of Georgia Tech. We’re excited to have people take our bikes out for a spin. All the team members of viaCycle, Inc. have sharpened their teeth at some of the most rigorous engineering colleges in the country (the world?), [...]
May 26, 2011
Selling smart bicycles: A delicate dance, Part 2
Intelligent bikes! Get yer intelligent bikes here! In a previous post, we covered some general aspects of trying to make a first sale as a startup. That advice applies fairly universally, but over time we’ve learned a few things about the bike sharing market that we think are worth, well, sharing. Public biking is expanding [...]
May 8, 2011
Let’s Discuss This Over Coffee
Arlington’s GOP has taken a stance against bike-sharing, citing the issue of lost parking spaces as a major issue. Eight parking spaces were removed in Rosslyn to make way for a bike rack for the Capital Bikeshare program. In a blog posting by the political group they claim that the loss of parking spaces is [...]
April 11, 2011
The Freedom of Choice
P.J. O’Rourke recently wrote an article featured in the New York Times titled “Dear Urban Cyclists: Go Play in Traffic”. In the article O’Rourke takes an aggressive stance against sharing the road with bicyclists, going as far as to claim that “bike lanes violate a fundamental principle of democracy.” That’s obviously a bit of a [...]
March 31, 2011
Selling smart bicycles (or any other product): A delicate dance
“How do I successfully sell my product?” Every entrepreneur must ask themselves this question at some point during their development cycle. Often, the issue of sales appears simple on the surface. Of course people will buy my product… it solves a problem, and it does it better (at least in some way) than any other [...]
March 6, 2011
Spring preview
Howdy! It’s been a while since the last blog update here at viaCycle… but that’s not because we have nothing to talk about. Life has been crazy recently, with a lot of progress on product development, business development, and ensuring that we’ll be able to operate and grow sustainability through 2011 and beyond. The team [...]
October 20, 2010
Lock hardware update
Mmm… delicious. No, that’s not the smell of your freshly-brewed morning coffee, but it is the intoxicating aroma of new viaCycle product development. We’re proud to officially announce the release of our third generation hardware prototype for the viaCycle automated bike lock. It introduces a number of new features, and facilitates our upgrade path as we implement additional improvements in electronics and software.