How-Tos: Host a Great Event
Shareable interviewed leading collaborative consumption community organisers to get their feedback on what makes a fantastic event. Check out their pro-tips and advice here.
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How-Tos: Shareable’s ‘How To Share’ Guides
Shareable’s growing collection of posts on how to live a more shareable life, covering topics from food to travel to cities to education. Explore the ‘How to Share’ guides here.
How-Tos: Business Model Canvas
The Business Model Canvas, is a strategic management and entrepreneurial tool. It allows you to describe, design, challenge, invent, and pivot your business model. Download the Business Model Canvas here.
How-Tos: The Lean Startup
The Lean Startup Methodology has dominated the technology space for the last few years, and its principles are a handy guide for anyone starting a new business, whether or not in the technology space. Read the Lean Startup Principles here.
Trust and User Experience
This article was originally published on the Nesta UK blog. Design and user experience are absolutely critical in building a successful and distinctive Collaborative Consumption platform and strong community of early-ambassadors, yet it is often overlooked in favour of optimum functionality or speed-to-market. Here are my key takeaways (and insights shared by Jonathan Simmons from… Read more
Critical mass and scale
This article was originally published on the Nesta UK blog. Many Collaborative Consumption ideas are pioneering new spaces, and changing users’ behaviour in some shape or form so their biggest initial barrier is typically inertia. Quite simply, getting people to try an idea that might be perceived as ‘risky'(e.g. sharing your home with a stranger)… Read more