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How This NYC Startup Uses Tech to Bring Dry Cleaning into the Digital Age
Like numerous enterprise concepts, the conceit for Juliette, a tech-enabled laundry services in New York Town, started out out as a way to solve a particular suffering point for its founder. It was 2013 and Rechelle Balanzat, then a advertising and marketing exec at a startup, could get her supper sent to her door but she couldn’t get her dry cleansing as easily. “I would connect with my cleaners and inquire if I could get my laundry and dry cleansing picked up and sent,” recalls the now 35-12 months-old entrepreneur. “Sometimes they would, in some cases they would not. That was a lightbulb second.” A calendar year afterwards, she had established the boutique dry…
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East Hill Home Services offers cleaning, organization services
Ready or not, the holidays are here. Amid the hustle and bustle that comes with every holiday season, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed. According to the National Retail Federation, holiday sales during November and December are expected to reach up to $859 billion, a 10.5{3e92bdb61ecc35f2999ee2a63f1e687c788772421b16b0136989bbb6b4e89b73} increase from last year. And as the boxes pile up and you can’t seem to close the refrigerator door, ask Theresa Rawley at East Hill Home Services to lend a helping hand. “I always felt like this was my calling in life,” Rawley said. “To serve others. I’ve always loved helping and serving others.” Starting a business, on the other hand, was a different story.…