The healthcare industry is a massive, fragmented and — above all — necessary force in American life. Complicating matters is that there’s a growing shortage of clinicians in the United States. “There has been a widening gap between the demand for healthcare services and the...
Can the platform model help companies relocate employees — and help employees find affordable housing? Bundle Founder Joe Cucchiara contends that a fragmented process — of finding apartments and houses, booking the move — and getting discounts on services — can be streamlined it's all brought...
Good waiters are hard to find. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, they are even harder to keep, as the restaurant worker turnover rate is 73 percent every single year. This was a problem that Ron McCulloch, executive chairman and co-founder at Jitjatjo, decided he wanted to solve...
While there any number of specific reasons to start a business, for most of the founders we talk to it always comes down to a similar story. They identified a problem in their lives, tried to find a solution on the open market and when...
The home-selling season is upon us — and will be for the next several months. Roughly 40 percent of the homes sold in the U.S. sell between March and August each year, and, by early April, the market is beginning its big, annual ramp-up. The year 2019...
In the U.K., says Labour Xchange Co-Founder Jonathan Key in the latest Matchmakers podcast, millions of people are underemployed. Matching ad hoc employees to work they want to do with employers who need them right away can help create sustainable career paths, he said, while paying...
Human wrists deserve a break when it comes to payments, commerce and even authentication, right? To put it another way: Is there a better way to do wearables, to appeal to consumers who, for various reasons, might not like wearing web-connected devices on that part...
Matchmaking businesses aren’t exactly a new idea — though the breathless enthusiasm of the tech press might lead one to mistakenly believe that the concept sprang into existence in 2009 with Uber. But in fact commerce intermediaries that bring groups of shareholders together to interact...
By almost any measure, John Gossart, COO and Co-founder of fundraising resource Goodworld, has done more than his fair share of public service. He served two decades in the military and government, eventually working in a Department of Defense counter-terrorism post that took him to Pakistan,...
