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

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But the ventures launched in recent years with gobs of venture-capital funding and targeting niche markets have accelerated the movement with user-friendly designs and a tight knit to social networks Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter. Share your sewing machine at Zilok or trade it for an iPod at Swap.com. Thats real money."

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Is Your Start Up Idea Gold or Goop?

Austin Startup

That is roughly several gazillion dollars today (in Zimbabwe). You wrote on it, it recognized the handwriting if you used its funky letter system and it converted your writing to digital text. It was also expensive. It cost $699 when launched back in 1993.

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Is Your Start Up Idea Gold or Goop?

Austin Startup

That is roughly several gazillion dollars today (in Zimbabwe). You wrote on it, it recognized the handwriting if you used its funky letter system and it converted your writing to digital text. It was also expensive. It cost $699 when launched back in 1993.

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the world without altgate

Altgate

@altgate Startups, Venture Capital & Everything In Between Skip to content Home Furqan Nazeeri (fn@altgate.com) ← Microsoft Buys 37signals For $300 Million The Coming Venture Capital Boom → The World Without Altgate Posted on January 1, 2009 by fnazeeri No, this blog is not going anywhere.