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WiGo Trips™ is the premier search and booking platform for shared group travel. Since 2016 WiGo Trips™ has been on a mission to bring connection back into our digital world through travel. Today travelers in 9 countries use WiGo Trips™ to connect with other travelers and share real time experiences with one another. Comprised of a "Trip-Sharing" marketplace, payment processing services, and travel community WiGo Trips™ gives travelers the tools and resources they need to travel for a living or just for fun!

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4/9/2019

Coastless interview with Jaqui McCarthy

Coastless KC interview with Jaqui McCarthy.

When traveling in a group, who you travel with is more important than the destination. Listen to the podcast to learn more about WiGo trips and how we connect like-minded travelers.

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What is your travel style? That’s the question we’re answering this week on the pod. Melissa and Boyce welcome Jaqui McCarthy, the CEO and co-founder of WiGo Trips.

WiGo is an app to assist you in finding and leading trips based on your travel style. Jaqui discusses how the app works as well as the different travel profiles — from early risers to avid partiers. She discusses the types of trips you’ll find on the app as well as how you can lead a trip of your own.

COASTLESS is hosted by Midwest natives and world travelers Melissa Yeager and Boyce Richardson. Both Melissa and Boyce have traveled to more than 30 countries, as well as been the beneficiaries of fellowships that have allowed them to live overseas.

In May of 2018, Boyce came to Melissa with an idea. What if there was a podcast especially for Midwesterners who love travel – those who have to “connect” to get where they’re going? What if it could also connect Midwesterners heading out on adventures around the world — to share advice and even, perhaps, meet up along the way?

Their excitement about the idea grew as they spoke to those connected to the travel industry and realized the extent of the gaps in travel information from the Midwest. In August 2018, they launched COASTLESS: A travel podcast for those living a connection-based lifestyle.

3/28/2019

DAVE-ALBERT Interview with Adam Coulon, WiGo Cofounder and CTO

In this episode I get to talk to Adam about travel, working in a bootstrapped startup, and hear a few amazing perls of wisdom about life in general.

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2/18/2019

WIGO TRIPS EXPLAINER VIDEO

WIGO TRIPS EXPLAINER VIDEO

WiGo Trips is a trip sharing platform that allows travelers to find and book trips all over the world. It connects travelers like me with people who just want to show up and do cool shit. If you have interesting get early access to the app check out my What is WIGo Trips and Why You Should Care blog.

2/7/2019

WHAT IS WIGO TRIPS AND WHY YOU SHOULD CARE

WHAT IS WIGO TRIPS AND WHY YOU SHOULD CARE

Two years ago I had a meeting that changed my life and it’s about to change yours. For those who don’t know, by day I help run Lifted Logic, a web design company in Kansas City, and one of the best parts of the gig is getting to meet with different companies and business owners all day, every day. Some of the meetings are with large corporations with thousands of employees and others are with a single person just starting out, too crazy to know that success isn’t a guarantee and that as a business owner they are signing up for years of long hours, high stress, and countless sacrifices. Jaqui, WiGo Founder and CEO, came into meet with Adam about an idea she’d been working on. Thirty minutes into the meeting Adam came to grab me, saying ‘Todd, I need you to hear this idea this girl has, it’s a travel thing.” It’s no secret around the office that anything travel related is right in my wheelhouse. I sit down and Jaqui starts explaining her idea to me. I was sold within the first 5 minutes. As she explained it, I couldn’t stop thinking ‘how is this not already a thing’? It was one of those ideas that you know the world needs and can’t believe no one had done it yet.

2/6/2019

WiGo Trips, Kansas City, and why they matter to you.

"As ambassadors we were invited to Kansas City where Jaqui, the founder and CEO, had curated our first trip. It was an experience I won't soon forget."

WiGo Trips, Kansas City, and why they matter to you.

How does one describe a weekend like this. It's really one of those you had to be there kind of experiences. The best part? You can be there. Let me backup. Back in October I happened across a job post. It advertised a job that was unique. A start up company called WiGo Trips was offering jobs creating and leading group trips. As a travel enthusiast I was obviously intrigued. I applied, interviewed, asked to plan an "audition" trip, passed a background check, and finally hired. You can imagine how many people applied to this job. After all it offered not only free travel but paid travel as well. I tell you this not to brag that I made the cut but to let you know the quality of the ambassadors WiGo hired. Out of the hundreds of applicants here are 30 of us left. I've met most of them and let me tell you, if you take any of the trips offered you will have the best people in the world leading your trip. But enough information, Let me tell you about the first trip.

1/7/2019

WiGo trips isolated travel in its tracks, connecting like-minded journeys through years-in-the-works app

"WiGo Trips takes the isolation out of globetrotting, said Jaqui McCarthy, connecting people on a “LinkedIn for travelers” social networking app set to launch Saturday."

WiGo trips isolated travel in its tracks, connecting like-minded journeys through years-in-the-works app

WiGo Trips takes the isolation out of globetrotting, said Jaqui McCarthy, connecting people on a “LinkedIn for travellers” social networking app set to launch Saturday. WiGo Jaqui McCarthy, WiGo Trips Soon to be available on iOS and Android, WiGo is expected to feature a marketplace through which users can display and discuss travel plans, CEO and co-founder McCarthy said. Selected friends — grouped together by a personality-based algorithm — are expected to be able to pay for a traveller to join them on trips, she noted.

1/26/2018

It's more than travel, it's a lifestyle - Jaqui McCarthy

As a VERY mission driven startup founder, one of the most difficult challenges I’ve encountered has been explaining “What is WiGo?” and “What does WiGo Trips do?”.

It’s that WiGo is more than a product. I mean sure, it’s something you can download on the app store. Yes, WiGo is somewhere you can go and meet cool people to travel with, and yep, you can even make money as you travel the world by creating your own adventures you share with other travelers, and sure you can even use it to find the coolest places to go, travel advice, and follow your favorite travelers and watch their journey… but none of that really explains what WiGo is.

WiGo is so much more than a platform, WiGo is a movement. A movement to break away from convention, and start living life the way it’s meant to be lived, while having a sense of belonging as you connect with like-minded people, and accessing the world through travel.

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It's more than travel, it's a lifestyle - Jaqui McCarthy - Medium

As a VERY mission driven startup founder, one of the most difficult challenges I've encountered has been explaining "What is WiGo?" and "What does WiGo Trips do?". It's that WiGo is more than a product. I mean sure, it's something you can download on the app store.

11/7/2017

Amber Grants for Women in Business

What an honor to have been selected by the WomensNet group to be the recipient of their October 2017 women's grant.
The WomensNet group was created to help women entrepreneurs live out their dreams by providing them with funding resources. Each month they select one female entrepreneur for their award, and on October 2017 that recipient was Jaqui McCarthy, Founder or WiGo Trips!

"What an honor it has been to be selected by this national group of women. Not only did they invest in a women startup entrepreneur, they invested in a single mother, a minority, and a foreigner. I'm feeling very proud to have received this award and am looking forward to giving them a shout out when we reach the top of this journey. Thank you Womens Net for recognizing the vision we are laying out and investing in me to execute it and make it come to life." - Jaqui McCarthy

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OCTOBER AMBER GRANT AWARDED TO WIGO TRIPS

Congratulations to our October Qualification Grant finalists. Once again, this community has made our monthly decisions extremely difficult. And we’re so appreciative. A special congratulations to the recipient of the October Qualification Grant, Jaqui McCarthy, Founder/CEO of WiGo Trips. Jaqui took some time to respond to our interview via video. Her responses are available in text form as well.

10/15/2017

PODCAST WITH DAVID SEAMAN & JAQUI MCCARTHY: BITCOIN, ETHEREUM, APPS & FUTURISM

Creating a new new kind of social currency through travel.

Listen to Jaqui McCarthy share with David Seaman, Founder of FULCRUM NEWS, what WiGo Trips is and where we want to go.

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9/12/2017

KC business leaders unite to support entrepreneurs during pitch rally

On Monday September 11, 2017 WiGoTrips founder and CEO, Jaqui McCarthy, pitched their travel startup to a panel of 20 investors, and was awarded two startup grants at the Pure Pitch Rally from Scott Hedrick, CEO of Pro Athlete, INC and Erik Wullschleger of WeWorks. Next, the WiGo team will be attending Denver Start-up Week at the end of September.

“There aren’t many events in the local community that offer grants. Not only does Pure Pitch Rally offer grants, but it brought together influential business leaders from several industries. It was a tremendous room filled with dreamers, doers and achievers that brought serious light to the KC start-up scene.Receiving these grants helps WiGo establish a local presence and share what we are looking to accomplish,” Jaqui McCarthy, CEO/Founder of WiGoTrips.

About WiGo Trips

For the last 11 months Jaqui McCarthy and the WiGoTrips team have been working create the next big thing in the sharing economy. Airbnb introduced “home sharing”, Uber introduced “ride sharing”, and now WiGo Trips introduces “trip sharing”. After creating and testing two prototypes, releasing hundreds of surveys, and starting a Kickstarter campaign this last weekend, they are proud to announce that they have finally started their development on their first version mobile app which is due to release via iOS this November.

"We are more connected now that ever before, but somewhere along the way we have lost our actual connection. The team at WiGo Trips is working to solve this problem and bring connection into our digital world through travel via a trip sharing app. The app connects travelers to each other while enabling travelers to plan and share trips to share with one another for split cost or for profit." - Jaqui McCarthy

Travel is a $1.2T industry, the sharing economy, which consist of companies such as Uber, Airbnb, and now WiGo Trips, is projected to hit $335B in revenue in the next ten years. With a millennial target market that is all too familiar with traveling in groups, WiGoTrips, has the opportunity to astronomically scale and disrupt travel in a way that will positively impact and enrich peoples lives.

Join the mission today and help WiGo Trips bring connection into our digital world.

KC business leaders unite to support entrepreneurs during pitch rally

Twenty-seven business leaders, the "Land Sharks," also stood on the second level, surrounding the entrepreneurs on both sides. Each shark came armed with a $1,000 check and had to decide which entrepreneur to support at the end of the evening. More than 150 business leaders and investors packed the room to hear from the eight startups competing for funding: PlanIT Impact, Prestio, Audiios LLC, WiGo Trips, Premier Elder Solutions, Pennez, H3 Enterprise and TicketRX LLC.

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WiGo Trips™ Mentions

Coastless interview with Jaqui McCarthy

DAVE-ALBERT Interview with Adam Coulon, WiGo Cofounder and CTO

WIGO TRIPS EXPLAINER VIDEO

WIGO TRIPS EXPLAINER VIDEO

WHAT IS WIGO TRIPS AND WHY YOU SHOULD CARE

WHAT IS WIGO TRIPS AND WHY YOU SHOULD CARE

WiGo Trips, Kansas City, and why they matter to you.

WiGo Trips, Kansas City, and why they matter to you.

WiGo trips isolated travel in its tracks, connecting like-minded journeys through years-in-the-works app

WiGo trips isolated travel in its tracks, connecting like-minded journeys through years-in-the-works app

It's more than travel, it's a lifestyle - Jaqui McCarthy

It's more than travel, it's a lifestyle - Jaqui McCarthy - Medium

Amber Grants for Women in Business

OCTOBER AMBER GRANT AWARDED TO WIGO TRIPS

PODCAST WITH DAVID SEAMAN & JAQUI MCCARTHY: BITCOIN, ETHEREUM, APPS & FUTURISM

KC business leaders unite to support entrepreneurs during pitch rally

KC business leaders unite to support entrepreneurs during pitch rally

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