Chicago-based ShipBob plans to expand into Brooklyn, N.Y.
At 9 a.m. every morning, Dhruv Saxena arrived at the United States Post Office in Chicago’s iconic Willis Tower, and stood at the entrance. The entrepreneur asked people who appeared to be small business owners if he could ship their packages.
“After two months I stopped standing outside the post office, and started driving to do direct pickups at company offices,” Saxena says. “The number of ‘Yeses-’ I got just started going up and up.”
In July 2014, those yeses inspired Saxena to start ShipBob, a delivery service for small-and medium-sized online businesses that picks up, packages and mails clients’ items.
