‘The consumer has in recent years become increasingly powerful. The sharing economy is a huge opportunity. It just fits well with Amsterdam. That’s why we want to be known as a Sharing City’, says Alderman of Economic Affairs and vice-mayor of the City of Amsterdam, Kajsa Ollongren. On February 2nd, the capital of the Netherlands… Read more
Konnektid, the online knowledge-sharing community, was chosen as one of the ten first ‘EuropeanPioneers‘ and was awarded an EU subsidy of €175.000. With this European support, the fast-growing platform will implement open source FIWARE technology that will help grow its community. The goal is to make it easier and quicker for people to connect and… Read more
Vandebron is a startup based out of The Netherlands that enables people to buy their power directly from a sustainable producer. The company sees itself playing an important role in the transition to an autonomous energy supply. In this interview, Aart tells us more about the company and what he envisions for it in the… Read more
Good news from the Netherlands! Amsterdam-based local borrowing platform Peerby raises $2.1 million. The investment round is led by French XAnge Private Equity. Netherlands-based Sanoma Ventures invested for a second time. TechStars and angels from Canada and the United States also invested. Dutch founder Daan Weddepohl is going to use the funds for product development and and… Read more
Amsterdam is about to become Europe’s first Sharing City. The variety of entrepreneurs, organizations and communities already active within the sharing economy show that Amsterdam has it. Did you know that 84% of the city’s inhabitants are willing to take part in at least one of the examples of collaborative consumption? Recent research by shareNL shows Amsterdam… Read more
ParkFlyRent is a brand new concept in the Netherlands. The name of the company explains it all: park your car near the airport, for free. Get dropped off at the terminal of your convenience and fly to your (holiday) destination. In the meantime they wash your car and try to rent it out. Once you… Read more
This academic study by our Dutch Global Curator Pieter van de Glind identifies the motives of Dutch collaborative consumers & measures the consumer potential of Collaborative Consumption within the municipality of Amsterdam.
The success of any collaborative consumption (CC) platform or business depends on reaching a critical mass, at which point users can easily find the goods, food, or skills which they seek. To understand the potential for platforms to reach this critical mass, shareNL interviewed twenty users of Dutch collaborative consumption services: on-demand stuff sharing platform… Read more