{"id":40,"date":"2011-11-10T00:38:14","date_gmt":"2011-11-10T07:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/angustodd\/?p=40"},"modified":"2011-11-10T08:32:36","modified_gmt":"2011-11-10T15:32:36","slug":"multimillion-dollar-cardboard-boxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/angustodd\/2011\/11\/10\/multimillion-dollar-cardboard-boxes\/","title":{"rendered":"Multimillion-dollar Cardboard Boxes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One day after seeing a moving company throw away cardboard boxes after unpacking them, Marty Metro was inspired to begin a business that connected people who had used boxes to people who needed boxes. In 2002 he left his job as an IT consultant and opened Boomerang Boxes, a retail store in L.A. that sold used boxes. Despite enthusiasm from many customers the company was loosing tens of thousands of dollars every month until Metro was $300,000 in debt. At this point Metro started working on the idea of selling boxes online and, in 2006 was given $300,000 by venture capitalists to develop an online business which Metro called\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/UsedCardboardBoxes.com\/\">UsedCardboardBoxes.com<\/a>. In 2008 the company had 1 million dollars in sales and was faced with a supply lower than the demand. Metro used his IT expertise to develop a computer system that matched companies and people in need of boxes with people and companies trying to get rid of boxes. The company&#8217;s sales are now approximately $10 million and still growing fast.<\/p>\n<p>UsedCardboardBoxes.com is extremely innovative and has, in a short frame of time, created large profits. Metro was able to take an object, cardboard boxes, and in a way never done before, turn them into a product out of which he was able to generate large profits.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One day after seeing a moving company throw away cardboard boxes after unpacking them, Marty Metro was inspired to begin a business that connected people who had used boxes to people who needed boxes. In 2002 he left his job as an IT consultant and opened Boomerang Boxes, a retail store in L.A. that sold [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8584,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/angustodd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/angustodd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/angustodd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/angustodd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8584"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/angustodd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/angustodd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/angustodd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions\/42"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/angustodd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/angustodd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/angustodd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}