The Crowd

Vango is a marketplace that connects art lovers with artists selling original works of art.

Freelancers Union is helping the diverse self-employed community build a powerful voice – in politics and in markets. They connect freelancers to group-rate benefits (insurance), resources, community, and political action to improve their lives – and their bottom lines.

Borrowing Magnolia is a white glove service that allows brides to wear their dream designer dress at a fraction of the cost by either borrowing or buying it.

Founded by four busy parents, UrbanSitter is an online resource where parents go to find and book babysitters recommended by people they know. In this episode, we sit down with Lynn Perkins, the CEO and Co-founder of UrbanSitter.

Arun Sundararajan is Professor and NEC Faculty Fellow at New York University's Leonard N. Stern School of Business. Professor Sundararajan's research program studies how digital technologies transform business and society. Some of his current and recent research focuses on the governance of digital spaces, collaborative consumption and the sharing economy, social media and cities, digital institutions, contagion in networks, privacy strategy, pricing in digital markets and managing online piracy.

Listia is a mobile marketplace where you get rid of things you don't need and get stuff you want in return, for FREE. Earn credits by giving stuff away, and use those credits to get free stuff you really want from other users. The more you give away, the more free things you can get.

In Episode 20 of The Crowd, we connect with Lita Soza, a PR engineer at AirPR. AirPR is a technology platform that measures outgoing communications to ensure alignment and uses data to make better decisions around what messages should be pushed.

In Episode 18, we talk with Kate Kendall, co-founder and CEO of Cloudpeeps, about her journey into the collaborative economy. Cloudpeeps is a network of professional social media, marketing, content and community freelancers.

In Episode 18, we connect with James Slezak. James is the co-founder of Peers, an organization that helps make it "easier for workers to find, compare and manage work in the sharing economy."

In episode 17 of the Crowd, we connect with Maren Donovan, CEO of Zirtual. Zirtual is marketplace that connects busy people with personal assistants, virtually :)