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From Airbnb to TaskRabbit to Zimride, sharing is becoming big business

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Weve had people from Australia and Singapore. The dot-com boom of early 2000 saw a proliferation of similar anything-at-your-service start-ups. Entrepreneurs have also tapped sharing platforms to directly market their goods and services, somewhat blurring the line between unadulterated peer-to-peer co-ops and direct sales channels.

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Which Are More Legible: Serif or Sans Serif Typefaces?

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2000-2001 , Tullis et al., Publications (in German) were: Wendt, Dirk (1970): Zur Lesbarkeit von Druckschriften (On the legibility of print), Umschau in Wissenschaft und Technik 70 (13), p 417-418, and in more detail: Wendt, Dirk (2000): Lesbarkeit von Druckschriften. 2000-2001 , Tullis et al., 1998 , Bernard et al., Bernard, M.,

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Transcript And MP3 Of My $180,000 Website Flipping Presentation

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

I got out of the university in early 2000 and I never went on to a full-time job, so it’s always been an online business for me. I haven’t been to the desert in Australia, but it’s about the equivalent of that. I have a house in Brisbane, Australia, and I own my car, etc. I don’t know if you’ve been there before.