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The Collaborative Economy is a complex ecosystem composed of many unique players. These many players are jostling about, partnering, competing, and disrupting each other. It’s key to understand the many players in this movement before blindly stumbling into this market. This post took weeks to … Continue readingEcosystem Guide: The 12 Players of the Collaborative Economy
Harvest a thousand ideas. Above photo from popular photographer, and my friend, Thomas Hawk. Crowdfunding is the highest form of loyalty, but only a few big companies have deployed this crowd strategy. Big companies can learn from Indiegogo, and Kickstarter. You’ve heard of Indiegogo, Kickstarter, and … Continue readingCrowdfunding is the Highest Form of Loyalty: Shared Destiny
Marketplaces. They’re all the rage. In fact, the media can’t stop talking about them, people can’t stop searching for them, and investors have deployed $2.4 billion in just the last seven months. So what’s a marketplace all about? First of all, it’s not a new concept. It predates … Continue readingCollaborative Economy Markets: Platforms, Providers, and Partakers
Continued analysis of market funding in the Collaborative Economy. Yesterday’s stunning news of European ridesharing company, BlaBlaCar prompted me to tally up the funding in 2014. Along with help from industry experts Lisa Gansky of Mesh Labs, Neal Gorenflo of Shareable, Mike Walsh of Structure VC and Michelle Regner … Continue readingWhy Investors are in Love with the Collaborative Economy
This post was originally posted on Shareable, the leading website on the growing movement. Top photo credit: Yusuke Kawasaki. The collaborative economy empowers ordinary people to share their unused resources, such as time and goods, often in a peer-to-peer commerce model. We tend to think of this model … Continue reading12 Collaborative Services for Success at Work
Yesterday, thousands of infuriated taxi drivers across dozens of European cities brought transportation services to a standstill. The taxis launched the “Escargot Protest” intended to stopped traffic in objection to Collaborative Economy startups Uber, Lyft and other similar startups. While they raised global attention, they … Continue readingDon’t Protest the Collaborative Economy –Lead It
Move over Klout. Move over Fico. The new score is the Collaborative Economy Customer Score. Today, a ground-breaking deal was struck between Uber and Amex (a few days ago, they received millions of dollars from Fidelity). You can use your Amex loyalty points to pay … Continue readingHere Comes the Collaborative Economy Customer Score
The Collaborative Economy, which includes the sharing economy, maker movement, crowd funding, and crowd lending, is perceived mainly as a peer-to-peer movement. Yet, it’s not limited to individuals helping each other alone. Companies, both large and small are replicating the same strategies and tactics to … Continue readingThe Collaborative Economy is for Business to Business
Can big brands learn from Uber, Kickstarter, Airbnb and the Maker Movement? Yes, they can. They’re using the same strategies as those startups to connect to their markets and they are doing it at a rapid pace. The Collaborative Economy is a movement. People are … Continue readingStudy: How Corporations are Deploying in the Collaborative Economy
Above picture: Attendees of the Spring 2014 Crowd Companies Summit hosted by Autodesk in SF included corporate business leaders, entrepreneurs from collaboartive startups and special guests. A few days ago, Crowd Companies reached its 6 month anniversary, so I felt that this would be a … Continue readingA Six Month Update: Crowd Companies Creating Collaborative Success
