Joshua Donkin
Australia
At 24 years old, Young serial Entrepreneur, tech geek and founder/CTO of several #Tech companies @Website-Quotes, GetCab, SayTaxi, NearbyRide and Chauffy - #Financial Start-ups @Express Pay, @Cabpos and @SwipePass
Starting his career leaving school at 16 as a junior sales manager for a telecommunications company and worked hard up the chain to start his first call centre in 2009 winning the contract for Telco, Energy and Government campaigns.
Joshua is a growth hacking, techcrunching blogspotting marketing genius and shows an interest in subjects @Technology Apps, Transportation Apps and social apps that change the way we use our smart devices, hail a cab use a courier or even answer the door when out.
In 2010, Joshua attempted to start a hosting company but after learning it costs 1% of what he was paying for several domains. Today, owning more than 152 domains and managing a portfolio of 2500+ premium online real estate.
In 2012 - "There is a need for a PayPal alternative and something other than waiting a very long time for banking facilities; In particular for start-ups and mobile businesses and call centres that are a niche market.
Plan - start a PayPal alternative and provide ACH to start-up businesses, 2 years later Stripe.com is a USA based start-up worth 35.5million USD has launched in Australia utilizing Joshua's marketing and business development skills.
2 years later; Express Pay was born; A service that provides payment clearance services for customers without the need for the use of a bank merchant account overseas.
In 2013, Express Pay teamed up with USA based company Stripe.com; with josh's vision deployed; stripe is worth 35.5USD million in type a seed funding.
October 2013 josh visioned a need while in the USA trying to hail a taxi. After learning his vision is in fact in the making; josh quickly send out a release for potential investment.
The App start-up has not come cheap and easy; with challenges of tech companies and developers not seeing the vision; Josh went through 20 teams in less than 1 week trying to convince the app is worth investment.
When asked what was his most challenging element; He said; "The main thing is no one seen my vision for a need for on demand ride apps and couldn't understand the risk without the high $500,000 development costs; Eventually I found someone who has the exact same vision and had already bee