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SpotHero Parks $10.1M From Prior Investors To Extend Series C

Anything can be delivered on-demand, even if you can’t pick up and move that thing. Take the parking spot, as a $10M example. SpotHero announced an additional Series C investment this week, bringing its total raised to $67.6M. On Wednesday, SpotHero filed paperwork with the SEC revealing it has raised approximately $10 million in a […]

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The Cryptocoin Boom Could Choke Off On-Demand Services

Jon Evans at TechCrunch raises a troubling issue with cryptocurrencies: They are so popular that the underlying blockchain technology has failed to deliver low-cost transactions at scale.  The coins that have generated vast fortunes, such as the $59 billion in wealth Ripple XRP co-founder Chris Larsen realized on the rapid run-up of the currency he […]

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Changes to the Notebook in 2018

After three years of local on-demand research, including a year’s work launching Gig Economy Group, I’m making some changes to The Notebook.  First, as noted, I am now writing from the position of a co-founder of a funded on-demand economy company. As such, I’ll be sharing the GEG team’s ongoing assessment of local on-demand opportunities […]