Verni founder, Robin Greenwood, realised that there’s a treasure trove of art pieces locked away in artists’ studios and basements unseen by the public. Artists, talented as they are, need help making their presence known to prospective buyers. And that’s what Robin set out to do-create a location-based platform that allows artists to connect with… Read more
Megan Mulrooney is the Business Development Manager at the London, U.K. based online valuations platform ValueMyStuff. Benefiting from high profile start-up exposure on Dragon’s Den in 2010, the platform recently started offering extended customer services. Accepting only 200,000 GBP funding to date, Megan (pictured with platform founder Patrick van der Vorst) tells us how ValueMyStuff… Read more
The online learning marketplace Udemy is set to open a European headquarters in Dublin, Ireland. Recruiting for key positions, including product managers, senior software engineers and a country manager for Ireland, is currently underway. Udemy also expects to eventually add multilingual instructors to its current roster of 10,000 instructors teaching 18,000 courses. Founded by Gagan… Read more
There are numerous peer-to-peer collaborative economy services. However, there are also opportunities arising for companies and Floow2 is doing just that. Sharing of company assets isn’t that new. Particular companies in the agricultural sector, have been buying production equipment together and have been using it when the other had no need of it, for decades. However,… Read more
This is the last in a six-part series of posts about online/mobile marketplaces brought to you by codeforoakland.org and our content partner Balanced. Read parts one, two, three, four, and five. It’s been a pleasure sharing these ideas with you. Why My Sister Doesn’t Have a (Normal) Job My twin sister has lived in 5… Read more
This is the fifth in a six-part series of posts about online/mobile marketplaces brought to you by codeforoakland.org and our content partner Balanced. Read parts one, two, three, and four. Why Marketplaces Tend to Do Payments In my last post about fighting marketplace fraud, I mentioned that “marketplaces with payments functionality are lightning rods for… Read more
This is the fourth in a six-part series of posts about online/mobile marketplaces brought to you by codeforoakland.org and our content partner Balanced. Read parts one, two, and three. Fraudsters Gonna Fraud Fraudsters armed with stolen credit card numbers want nothing more than to turn those numbers into cash. Many will buy highly desirable items… Read more
The current economic model of hyper-consumerism encourages each hospital to spend $300,000 or more on a device that they will only use a small fraction of the time. Collaborative business models, however, can create a new source of supply chain management for the consumption of medical devices, by turning every hospital into a liquid marketplace. A… Read more