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I guess this is disrupting KidCab[1] :-) It seems like it should be a giant warning sign if you can't facilitate taking your kids to activities, either you, or they, are over scheduling :-) For the occasional pick up from a football game or a play or something, I think its great though.

I can imagine a birthday invitation that asks for RSVP's so that the van could come by and pick up your child (the guest), that is when it gets weird for me.

[1] http://kidskab.com/

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I'm so sick of the "disruption" meme. Back in the day this used to be plain, old-fashioned competition. Gmail disrupted webmail. AirBnB attempts to disrupt hotels.

There is no paradigm shift here that threatens the status quo of the market for transportation for first world kids in wealthy neighbourhoods. The only thing being "disrupted" is probably KidsCab's bottom line.

"Disruption" is just another MBA buzzword with little to no meaning.

> The only thing being "disrupted" is probably KidsCab's bottom line.

That's exactly the origin of the word "disruption." It was industry lingo for a dominant player facing fundamental changes to the market (and their balance sheets) from innovative competitors.

Those aren't the same things. A competitor eating into your profits isn't necessarily making fundamental changes to anything.

WestJet no doubt eats into Air Canada's profits. Have either of them distrupted anything?

Your smiley face notwithstanding, suggesting that kids and or families are over scheduling is passing an unnecessary judgement. There are many, many deadlocks in scheduling children that cannot be easily resolved.

If anything, the deadlocks are resolved by "over" scheduling. By placing the child in a supervised activity, the parental units are freeing up time to allocate into other needs. The simplest example is kids in different schools.

By placing the child in a supervised activity, the parental units are freeing up time to allocate into other needs.

this is really the key to the gordian knot here

Or you could just, you know, let them do what they want at home/in the neighborhood and trust them not to spontaneously combust if they're alone for 5 minutes.

I wonder how they picked the term "concierge". It brings to mind a functionary at an upscale hotel, a gentleman of a certain age, dispensing discerning advice about the local bars and call girls.

It sounds a bit off for a service designed for kids.

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