The sharing economy has gained some high-profile backers recently. A female UX expert offers tips on how to design for it. By Jessica Stillman (Editor, Women 2.0) The sharing economy may sound like an idea out of a hippie commune, but since the runaway success of Zipcar and Airbnb, the movement towards collaborative consumption has [...]
Posts Tagged "AirBnB"
So You Want to Be the Next Zipcar? Principles of Design for the Sharing Economy
May 7, 2013 – 7:00 am
New Urban Ventures Accelerator Launches Applications for its First Cohort
April 2, 2013 – 7:00 am
Are you an urban innovator (think Uber and Airbnb) trying to get your idea off the ground? A new nonprofit accelerator wants to help. By Clara Brenner and Julie Lein (Co-Founders, Tumml) Our company was born out of a women’s conference (no joke!). We founded Tumml in 2012 after working as co-directors of the MIT [...]
Women 2.0: My Best Valentine’s Day In Silicon Valley!
February 19, 2013 – 6:00 am
Entrepreneur Thuy Truong flew in from Ho Chi Minh City to officially release her Smartboard app on Valentine’s Day and pitch her company at the Women 2.0 Conference in front of a thousand people! By Thuy Truong (Co-Founder & CEO, Greengar) I learned more about entrepreneurship in the last two weeks than I have my [...]
