Tag: Le Web

2013: The Year of Collaborative Consumption

While it’s hard to believe that yet another year is over, it has certainly been an amazing one for collaborative consumption! The Sharing Economy has received a lot of buzz and energy from both the press and the global community since the early months of 2013 and it hasn’t stopped since. Since the launch of…  Read more

Regulations Reveal Darker Side of Collaborative Consumption

We all know about the upside of collaborative consumption — more efficient use of excess capacity, closer-knit communities, reduced costs, increased sustainability, and a more hopeful economic and social future. However, collaborative consumption models have recently raised flags against regulations designed to ensure safety and fairness for service providers and consumers alike. For example, different…  Read more

Business Insider: Where the Collaborative Consumption Market Might Head Next

“I spoke this past week at the LeWeb conference in London, which was a superbly well run event with a very quality production team. As I outlined in my talk, I believe the greatest Internet companies created over the past 15 years have been “deflationary” meaning they are driving down the prices or goods & services. They are…  Read more

The Next Web: Here’s what’s wrong with the sharing economy

“Milo Yiannopoulos is the founder and editor-in-chief of The Kernel and yesterday he gave a talk at LeWeb London entitled “Why the Sharing Economy is Bollocks.” It certainly proved a divisive argument and today he’s summed it up in this politically-charged post. The sharing economy sounds alarmingly like a cult. As with so many buzzwords and movements in technology…  Read more

Fast Company: The Sharing Economy Comes of Age at Le Web

The LeWeb conference in London, which begins today with a theme of the “Collaborative Economy,” should be a wake-up call to corporations, brands, and everyone in the advertising ecosystem. Your lives are about to change. The market has once again spoken, and if you think you’ve already been disrupted by social media, think again. You…  Read more