Average Joe entrepreneurship and the sharing economy

On Tuesday, April 29 at 12:30 pm ET, we discussed: 

Chances are, you have stuff you don’t always use that others would pay to rent — a lawnmower, an extra car, an expensive purse. America’s sharing economy, born from the recent economic crisis, exploded into a $26 billion a year industry but not without its critics. Taxi nd hotel groups say they’re being robbed of business by people operating illegally, with some arguing it will even drive costs up.

On this episode of The Stream, we spoke with: 

Arun Sundararajan @digitalarun
Professor of Information, Operations and Management Sciences at New York University
oz.stern.nyu.edu

Noah Karesh @noahkaresh
Founder of Feastly
eatfeastly.com

Scott Smith @changeist
Founder of Changeist LLC
changeist.com