“With a still small, but growing, market around people that want to rent out their personal cars to their neighbors, some consolidation seemed inevitable. On Tuesday startup RelayRides, which was one of the first companies to jump into the neighborhood car sharing market, announced that it has acquired Wheelz, a startup that had originally focused… Read more
Braintree-Venmo is launching an easier way for collaborative consumption startups — which could include Braintree’s best-known clients like Uber and Airbnb — to pay their contractors or users. Basically, the headache is this: these companies work with hundreds or thousands of drivers, TaskRabbits or users on their platforms and paying them with checks can make accounting… Read more
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.
Here we talk to two experts, Antonio Kaplan, CEO of Innovent and Dori Graff, founder of Itizen about how location-based media will transform our relationship to stuff, facilitate the sharing of real-world experiences and enhance Collaborative Consumption marketplaces.
Over the past two years we have noticed a shift in the work of design students at the Royal College of Art. In their concern for the environment many young designers find themselves trapped between being trained to design yet more “stuff” and not wanting to contribute to ever expanding landfills. Who wants to design… Read more