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Here’s What’s Driving Collaborative Consumption and Where the Market May Head Next

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You can of course view the presentation in SlideShare above or download it directly for free here. Network Up. Why is Collaborative Consumption Becoming a Hot Trend for Startup Companies? Prices down. But what else? In the US that number is 17%, which is still too high. Add unemployment to debt. An obvious example of this is oDesk.

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Entrepreneurial Networks are Driving Global Change, According to Impact Hub Network’s 2019 Global Impact Report

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Ahead of this year’s Global Climate Strike (20-27 September) and the Global Goals Week (21-30 September), the Impact Hub network is launching its 2019 Global Impact Report. The members surveyed said that being part of such a network had helped them to: Feel part of a larger community: 84%. Strengthen their motivation: 77%. Startarium.

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A Deep Dive into What Has Really Changed in Venture Capital

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Every year I try to answer the question of “what has changed in the Venture Capital industry” and this year my colleague Chang Xu and I took a deep dive through the data and called many of our peers for confirmation. Others believe that new business models are emerging that could replace venture capital all together. More on that later.

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The Most Interesting Online Video Trend

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It will enable the naturally creative but geographically and socially disenfranchised to make money doing what they love – participating. By now many of you know the Harlem Shake but what you may not appreciate is the broader trend behind the video and it has mirrored my general views on how TV will work in the future. Why would it?

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Matter raises $7 million Series A to build a better reading app

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The app enters a space where technologies for saving articles to read later, like Instapaper and Pocket, have lagged behind how people are now consuming online reading — through newsletters, personalized recommendations in other apps or through suggestions from peers on social platforms, for example. This is what Matter is aiming to do.

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What Is Peer-To-Peer?

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The IT world witnesses two significant types of network architectures: the client server-network and the peer-to-peer network. The internet revolves around the client-server network where a single central computer acts as a server, stores all data, and handles all the interaction with the internet users.

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Pear hosted its invite-only demo day online this year; here’s what you might have missed

TechCrunch

-based seed-stage venture firm that has, from its outset, attracted the attention of VCs who think the firm has an eye for nascent talent , staged its seventh annual demo day earlier this week, and while it was virtual, one of the startups has already signed a term sheet from a top-tier venture firm. Website: accessbell.com. billion by 2027.