Serenity Hill and Kirsten Larsen are co-founders of the Open Food Network, a free, open source, scalable e-commerce marketplace and logistics platform that enables communities and producers to connect, trade and co-ordinate the movement of food. What inspired you to start the Open Food Network? We had both done lots of work in policy and research… Read more
Elina Furman is the co-founder of Pley, a lego-rental company which has now expanded into supplying toy sets for over 15,000 families. Pley has just announced a Series A financing round of $6.75 million led by Allegro Venture Partners. New York curator, Melissa O’Young, was intrigued by this relatively unheard of sharing economy platform and asked Elina a… Read more
Tal Siach is the Co-Founder and Chief Marketing Officer of Visually, a leading marketplace for visual content. They are popularly known for creating brilliant infographics and have now expanded into the collaborative economy by allowing designers, journalists, animators, and developers to collaborate on design projects for clients together on their platform. They have announced today that… Read more
Tim Fung is the founder and CEO of Airtasker, a peer-to-peer task outsourcing platform that has over 65,000 users across Australia. East Coast Global Curator, Melissa O’Young, interviewed Tim when she visited Australia in November. 1. How is Airtasker disrupting the Australian job market? When you look at the structure of the job market today, it’s really… Read more
Eric Ho is the founder of miLES, opening underused storefronts to new possibilities, with classes, events, co-working, and short-term space rentals. 1. We see that your background is in architecture. What draws you to collaborative consumption? It’s very much directly related to architecture. To me, there is so much creative potential for architects if they decide… Read more
Sheila Karaszewski is a Community Manager at Airbnb. 1. Pre-Airbnb you were a marketing consultant—different but not unlike many of the free-agents who benefit from the likes of TaskRabbit, Skillshare, Lyft and Airbnb. What creative solutions would you like to see for free-agent income in the collaborative consumption space? I’d love to see a way… Read more
1. The easiest way to explain Storefront is … Storefront is easiest way to open a brick and mortar store. We are a marketplace for short-term retail space, helping merchants identify and secure short-term spaces in their city. 2. I believe it is the right moment for Storefront to take off because … There are a… Read more
1. The easiest way to explain Maestro Market is… I like to say that Maestro Market is a unique and first-of-its-kind platform that connects people with their ideal experts, or even their heroes. Our site facilitates a variety of engagements, whether in-person, over Skype, via telephone, etc., between talented experts and anyone interested in learning… Read more