“It’ll never work. All your bikes will get stolen.” I remember the exchange well. We were revealing our first prototype years ago at Georgia Tech’s Business Plan Competition. One skeptical professor was challenging the very concept of our system, and seemed to want to crush my dream of improving urban transportation. I shifted uncomfortably in [...]

Cheaper rates We’re significantly lowering our fees! Prime customers can now check out bikes for free for up to two hours. Standard users will only pay $1.95 for the same time. The new rates offer up to a 60% reduction in price. Check out the new pricing plan. New bike locations Three new locations (see [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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?), [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

“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 [...]