LuggageHero

LuggageHero Update: How We Grew Our Operation To 46 Major Cities [$100K/Month]

Jannik Lawaetz
Founder, LuggageHero
$100K
revenue/mo
2
Founders
12
Employees
LuggageHero
from Copenhagen, Danmark
started April 2016
$100,000
revenue/mo
2
Founders
12
Employees
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Hello again! Remind us who you are and what business you started.

I’m Jannik Lawertz, 36 years old entrepreneur from Denmark. I am married and have three kids - all boys.

I started LuggageHero back in 2016 creating a network of short-term luggage storage locations found inside local shops, cafes and hotels. And now, scrolling time ahead to 2021 we live in 46 major cities.

The idea came to me during a visit to the beautiful city of Barcelona. My family and I were struggling with our own luggage, as so many other travelers often do. One day I simply had enough, I approached a local store in Barcelona and asked them politely to store our bags while we would explore the city before flying home to Denmark. They agreed, and the experience went as smoothly as I was hoping it would.

When I came back from holiday, I started the process of developing a business plan. I thought the name for a company like this could be “Drop n Local” and since then, it all started to make sense to me.

The next step would have been to pitch the idea to local shops, hotels etc. I was running around Copenhagen trying to get shops onboard offering them a 50/50 split, showing how our...

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