We scour the internet to find the most interesting news on the collaborative consumption front. Here are our picks for the week: Sharing’s Not Just for Start-Ups Rachel Botsman, Harvard Business Review Marriott is just one example of an established company that’s starting to take a serious interest in the collaborative economy. Many observers associate… Read more
Airtasker has joined forces with another Australian task outsourcing platform, Occasional Butler. Occasional Butler co-founders Erz and Jodie Imam (who also founded Prahan, Melbourne co-working space depo8) will join Airtasker as Community Advisors. Read more about the acquisition on the Airtasker blog.
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
Under a new partnership, CareerOne’s 1.3 million monthly job seekers will be paired up with Airtasker’s relevant task-based employment opportunities while searching for full-time jobs on CareerOne. This signals an emerging opportunity for more flexible, task-based employment for Australians seeking additional work. The Australian Bureau of Statistics recently revealed that 13.1 per cent of the workforce were… Read more
Mila has raised just south of 2.5 million euros (approximately $3.2 million) in its first round of funding. Based out of Zurich, Mila aims to offer a Web-based and mobile-optimized location-based marketplace for small tasks and errands. Read more on The Next Web
The easiest way to explain Zaarly is … a tool to find amazing people around you that can help you with anything you need or want. Bakers, handymen (and handywomen), master gardeners, and yoga instructors are just a few of the things people use Zaarly to find. The founding story… Read more
TaskRabbit aims to…connect people and get things done. The idea came …while waiting for a cab on a cold night in Boston – my husband, Kevin, and I realized our 100 pound Labrador retriever, Kobe, was out of food and we thought, “wouldn’t it be nice if there was an online place we could go… Read more