I participated in Gridley & Company’s 10th Annual Marketing -Inernet-Financial Technology Conference in New York yesterday. This post to share some reflections about the conference, attendees and information that was shared.
- Linda Gridley knows how to bring out some of the best private companies within the digital and financial technology industries. The roster of companies and executives [...]
Success with consumer products comes to those companies that have an unrelenting focus about their customers needs, solutions and experience.
Achieving that success is part art and science. The art is the creative energy and execution to understand and solve a consumers need. The science is a quantitative approach to studying acceptance and usage. You have [...]
Swap.com has emerged as a leader in this global movement that Rachel Botsman calls “Collaborative Consumption.” We were honored to be featured in Rachel’s book that she released this year titled “What’s Mine Is Yours: The Rise of Collaborative Consumption.”
An early Christmas present today with Swap.com’s inclusion in Time Magazine’s “The Top Ten Everything Of [...]
Tim Hyer is the Founder and CEO of RentCycle. I have got to know Tim through the mentor program of MassChallenge. We share a focus on an emerging market space that is focused on sharing, swapping and renting. It has been great to work with Tim and his team. I invited Tim to participate in [...]
I am pleased to host a summit on the topic of Collaborative Consumption, this evening, 6-8pm at Bentley University. The details for the event can be found on this post.
Collaborative Consumption is an important movement in this day and age across the globe. We as the citizens of this world must rationalize our consumption patterns [...]
I remember as a kid always hearing about the “big” hurricanes that hit New England back in 1938 and 1954. There was no sophisticated forecasting and monitoring to prepare the citizenry. No matter those were monster storms that were both Category 3 when they hit land, making them the most powerful hurricanes to hit New [...]
Last month I posted that Swaptree had acquired Swap.com. This is a big deal for a young company operating in a developing category. Our goal is to lead this category. What better name and domain for the company other than the category name itself. Today we made the switch of the domain and we updated [...]
I realize that taking a vacation is a time to “recreate” and “relax.” Spend time with family and friends. Slow down to reflect and recharge. I know all of this. I practice this.
Some of the ways that I accent this is listening to some good music. Actually reading the paper or a book…not just links [...]
Swapping featured in Entrepreneur’s Daily Dose today. As I always say, swapping is a very natural behavior. People have been swapping things for thousands of years. The evolution of the social web and matching technology enables the expansion of swapping on the Internet. Great to see Swaptree front and center in this post on Entrepreneur. [...]
Swaptree was featured in a segment on saving money this morning. The advent of swapping on the Internet is reinventing this age old way of exchanging things. Check out the video here: Swapping On The Internet
