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Barcelona, the travel startup boom & the rise of peer-to-peer

Photo credit: Timeout.com Guest post written by Natalie Batlle, Steven Douglas and Emily Elwes, Trip4Real Barcelona: A sharing city on the rise, Barcelona is the place to go if you want to share a taxi with a stranger, have dinner at a professional chef’s house or live like a local when you’re traveling. These… Read more

The Sharing Economy in 3 U.S. Cities, Part 1: New York City

Lucy Gao, Canadian Global Curator, visited various companies in three U.S. cities as part of a Sharing Economy tour sponsored by The Washington Foreign Press Center,visiting New York, Las Vegas and San Francisco. This is part 1 of a 3-part series showcasing companies she visited in each city, featuring familiar incumbents and new startups to look… Read more

The Catalan Competition Authority issues the study “P2P transactions and competition”

In the middle of a complicated scenario for Airbnb and Uber in Catalunya, the Catalan Competition Authority (ACCO) issued the study “P2P transactions and competition” (.pdf) The document is an approach to the technology innovation of marketplaces (websites or mobile applications) that turn out to be a meeting point between supply and demand, and which… Read more

Will community gardeners replace community managers?

“What we have to do in an online community is the same as we would in a garden,” said Dave Neary at the OpenSource World Conference in Granada in 2012. “We have to create the circumstances for plants to grow healthy and strong.” The concept of community gardener was introduced by Cristóbal Gracia at the start… Read more

Barcelona, the travel startup boom & the rise of peer-to-peer

The Sharing Economy in 3 U.S. Cities, Part 1: New York City

The Catalan Competition Authority issues the study “P2P transactions and competition”

Will community gardeners replace community managers?

COLLABORATIVE PIONEER: AN INSIDE INTERVIEW WITH GUY MICHLIN OF EATWITH