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5 Reasons For Monetizing The Idle Resources Of Others

Startup Professionals Musings

The business tenants of the sharing economy, with alternative names including collaborative consumption, peer-to-peer economy, or “we-conomy,” always imply these five basic principles and assumptions: Sharing economy platforms create reciprocal economic value. Restaurants.

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10 Amazing Microfinance Success Stories

YoungUpstarts

Lopez and his family were living in a plastic tent in Barrio Nelson Mandela, Colombia, with $300 to his name. from Cuba despite speaking no English and being legally blind. SHARE Micro Finance Limited, India. After five years of being turned down by lenders, she approached the Kenya Women Finance Trust for a $680 loan.

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The Sharing Economy Is Changing The Rules Of Business

Startup Professionals Musings

The business tenants of the sharing economy, with alternative names including collaborative consumption, peer-to-peer economy, or “we-conomy,” always imply these five basic principles and assumptions: Sharing economy platforms create reciprocal economic value. Restaurants.

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A Startup Journey With GrubHub Founder Mike Evans

Duct Tape Marketing

Mike founded GrubHub in his spare bedroom and grew it into the multi-billion-dollar online food delivery colossus that is a household name. Colossus, that is a household name, probably be, became even more so the last couple years says leaving GrubHub. So I started in 2002 and in 2006 we took financing in.

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5 Principles That Drive The New Market For Sharing

Startup Professionals Musings

The business tenants of the sharing economy, with alternative names including collaborative consumption, peer-to-peer economy, or “we-conomy,” always imply these five basic principles and assumptions: Sharing economy platforms create reciprocal economic value. Restaurants.

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Be A Winning Entrepreneur In The New Sharing Economy

Startup Professionals Musings

The business tenants of the sharing economy, with alternative names including collaborative consumption, peer-to-peer economy, or “we-conomy,” always imply these five basic principles and assumptions: Sharing economy platforms create reciprocal economic value. Restaurants.

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Out of the Crisis #26: Brian Armstrong of Coinbase on cryptocurrency, being mission-oriented, and institution building

Startup Lessons Learned

Brian Armstrong : My name is Brian Armstrong. And of course, I wasn't really interested in the finance side of it to me. It's kind of like whoever discovered penicillin, you don't need to know their name. At one point we had to turn off all the hosts in Cuba, because US companies weren't allowed to work with Cuban citizens.

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