When Sarah broke off her engagement with Will at the last minute, Will was understandably upset, and even a little angry. The last thing he wanted to do was spend hundreds of dollars shipping boxes of his ex-fiancée’s stuff across two states – but she...
Pot has a payments problem. Cannabis’ status as a schedule-one narcotic means the federally chartered banks, the card networks and the traditional payments ecosystem have made it clear that they’d like to steer clear. In turn, that means digital payment methods of all kinds have largely...
What will a person do to earn five dollars? Something of a random question, maybe even a slightly silly-sounding one – but for Fiverr founders Shai Wininger and Micha Kaufman, it was the query that, in 2010, launched a marketplace for skilled freelancer workers...
“There has to be a better way.” They’re the founding words of many entrepreneurs – in this case, Ethan Bernstein, who was just trying to get home after a ski trip while on break from business school. Bernstein was far from a travel novice: Before deciding to leave...
Every group of friends has a social director, Fevo CEO Ari Daie told Karen Webster in this week’s Matchmakers conversation – that one person who organizes the cats and gets a group of otherwise passive adults organized for a game, concert or weekend trip. This...
In a world where brand loyalty is fleeting, music and musicians seem immune. It’s easy enough to make fun of tweeny-boppers and their Bieber fever (feber?), but the truth is that music – and the musicians and bands who make it – stir a kind of dogged loyalty that most...
“In a world where everything can be delivered to my doorstep, why am I wandering around a Safeway at nine o’clock at night trying to buy milk — again?” It is a thought that has occurred to most parents in some form or another during the...
Snagajob was all about the gig economy before the gig economy was cool. Founded in 2000 as a marketplace to help hourly workers and employers find each other, Snagajob CEO, Peter Harrison, tells Karen Webster how the platform has grown to 83M hourly workers and...
Online dating, supply chains, charitable giving….there’s a matchmaking platform for almost any service or activity and so why not live music? Gigmor has a live music marketplace that seeks to streamline the way gigs are booked. And as David Baird, CEO of Gigmor, told economist...
