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What's Mine Is Yours: The Rise of Collaborative Consumption is a groundbreaking original book that includes dozens of stories of how entrepreneurs and businesses are innovating in the space of Collaborative Consumption.
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Start-Ups
New York City launches bikeshare scheme in partnership with Citibank; starts with 10,000 bikes
Threadflip launches with $1.6M investment, turns your closet into a boutique
Zimride nabs LinkedIn design lead and launches its mobile ridesharing service
Ridesharing startup BlaBlaCar acquires PostoinAuto to expand into Italy
Guidehop and iStopOver team up to match P2P rentals and unique travel experiences
TaskRabbit acquires service provider SkillSlate
NeighborFavor enables students to earn cash by running errands
Indian carpooling startup OliveTrips matches rides and reports on savings
Wheelz launches campus-specific P2P car-sharing platform
Qraft launches as the ‘Airbnb for grown-up toys’ - plane, car and boat sharing platform
Textbook rental platform Chegg now offering digital textbooks
Zimride goes ‘public’, launching its first public promoted route between SF and LA
Service network TaskRabbit launches in fifth location - New York City
Kickstarter celebrates 10,000th successful project and $75m in pledges
Community workspace marketplace Loosecubes relaunches with new social features
Carpool start-up Zimride hits 100M miles shared and 100th client network
Boutique baby clothing platform Plum launches as the ‘Netflix of baby clothes’
The state of the e-book lending market: 4 hot e-lending start-ups
Kids clothing exchange marketplace thredUP celebrates its millionth item swapped
Mobile car-pooling app Avego go520 launches in Seattle
P2P car-sharing start-up Getaround wins TechCrunch Disrupt
Social dining service Grubwithus raises a $1.6 million round
Rentcycle’s Tim Hyer on building the bridge to P2P
Chegg moves beyond textbook rental to include homework help and course selection
Lending Club Accelerates Growth and Passes $200 million in Personal Loans
Airbnb experiences 800% growth in 2010
What is the average carpooler like? Carpooling.com has shared their great infographic profiling their members. MORE
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