Auckland entrepreneur gets a room
21-year-old Veronica Nobbs has released an iPhone app for hotel bookings.
Thursday, October 20 2011 || News || BY Jenny Keown, Businessday.co.nz
Nobbs has released a mobile application that allows people to book a last-minute hotel room on the run, aptly called Get a Room.
The iPhone app allows people to book after midday for rooms that night. And because the rooms are booked so late, Get a Room is able to negotiate discount rates.
Nobbs became interested in starting a business while a student of the business school at Onehunga High.
Tony Falkenstein, the businessman and former student who helped found the business school, shouted 15 students, including Nobbs, on a trip to New York.
There they got an insight in the Big Apple's bustling business district, through visiting large corporates including Goldman Sachs and Saatchi and Saatchi.
Her business potential was identified early on by the Auckland University of Technology which awarded her a scholarship to do a Bachelor of Business and Marketing.
While at university, she received another scholarship to study for six months in the Hungarian capital, Budapest.
The idea to start a last-minute booking service came to her when back in New Zealand while working as a market analyst at Jasons Travel.
Nobbs says her youth hasn't been a barrier to her entrepreneurial activity, if anything people were "incredibly enthusiastic and supportive" when told about her business venture.
Jucy Hotels chief executive Tim Alpe said it had signed up to the service because it liked using next generation technology to make things easier for the customer.
it's called get a room
Posted by G at 06:32 on October 20, 2011
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