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

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By Todd Plitt, USA TODAY Neville Clubwala, a Taskrabbit worker in New York City, delivers cupcakes from Butter Lane bakery and champagne, to a recipient who received a promotion. Julianna Iran, a tax consultant from Pasadena, Calif., Include name, phone number, city and state for verification. Posted | Updated.

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Start Up Nation - Trip Report

Seeing Both Sides

A recent report named Tel Aviv the second most vibrant start up ecosystem in the world , behind only Silicon Valley. I spent last week visiting Israel with a group of fellow venture capitalists touring Start Up Nation - a trip sponsored and organized by CJP. A bright future, indeed.'

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Out of the Crisis #21: Tomas Pueyo on the hammer and the dance, political polarization, and how the pandemic will affect the way we live and work

Startup Lessons Learned

His name is Tomas Pueyo. And one of the first things that you saw is that you had daily cases being exported from Italy, especially from Italy but also from Iran but especially from Italy, to all the corners of the Earth. We saw that in New York, for example, very connected to Italy and a lot of cases very early on.