Consumer attitudes and behaviors surrounding renting, borrowing, and leasing items, versus ownership, are shifting around the country, according to a study conducted by Sunrun and Harris Interactive.
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Rewarder launches its social marketplace for unique tasks and announces $7 million in funding.
There were some familiar names appearing in the deals channel today. Mashery exhibited as much spirit as Rocky by returning to the ring for a fifth round, and Asana-the-app continued to outshine Asana-the-yoga-pose in terms of productivity promotion (I know, …
Task outsourcing marketplace TaskRabbit has raised another $13 million.
TaskRabbit allows users to outsource tasks and errands to local pre-approved TaskRabbits, who get paid for their work. The service is offered in nine cities, including New York, Boston, and, unsurprisingly, …
Justin.tv founder Justin Kan is moving onto his next project: Exec, a web and iPhone app that will let you throw up your hands and delegate your first-world problems to someone else, such as a starving artist who’s grateful for …
Local-labor locating service TaskRabbit is opening up its tools and network to developers with a new API (application programming interface), the company announced on its blog Friday. This will allow third-party developers to integrate TaskRabbit features directly into their own …
The concept of “Collaborative Consumption” is not new in the West, but it is in the East and especially in China. The term collaborative consumption basically means sharing things with other people — via barter, trade, or rental — and …
TaskRabbit, a San Francisco-based startup that lets you hire people to do simple tasks like wait in line to pick up your dry cleaning, has acquired SkillSlate, a New York-based startup that lets you auction your skills, services and time.…
Task outsourcing startup TaskRabbit has closed a new $17.8 million round of funding, the company announced today.
TaskRabbit lets people outsource errands, commitments and tasks to other people. TaskRabbit users then make bids for each of those tasks and the …
Loosecubes, a website that lets companies sublet empty office spaces by the day or week, launched new ranking features today aimed at gathering detailed review information from renters. That data will be used by the office-sharing startup to make its …
Leah Busque, founder of TaskRabbit, is passionate about creating a community of “micro-entrepreneurs” — people who work autonomously on a part-time or full-time basis.
Her company, which only operates in a limited number of geographic areas so far, has already …
Early stage venture firm Shasta Ventures raised $200 million dollars, according to a form D filed with the SEC. This is a growth fund intended to support start-ups.
This is a pooled investment fund, with the form citing Rob Coneybeer, …
