Uber Medics and Uber Work: Limitless opportunities for Uber?
While ride-sharing faces a huge decline, Uber has managed to keep its head above water through innovating new services.
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Upwork: Can value creation spur value capture?
Upwork needs to create a stickier platform that participants are willing to pay a premium for in order to both create value and capture value over the long term.
TaskRabbit – IKEA Furniture Assembly on Demand
TaskRabbit – a poster child for platform disintermediation.
Checkr: Playing Chess in the Background Screening Industry
Checkr has built an AI-backed process to handle background checks. By automating the processing of digital records, Checkr has created a highly scalable business, which can lower the cost of verification on the gig economy.
Is Amazon’s Mechanical Turk breaking down?
Workers are disgruntled in Amazon’s MTurk marketplace, but can they successfully demand more rights?
Gimme Five: Fiverr in the Freelancing Economy
$5 gigs. Feel free to get weird.
TopTal.com: Growing a new marketplace platform in a competitive space.
Toptal is a two-sided marketplace that matches freelancers who are looking for work on one side, with companies looking to hire temporary workers on the other side. Even though it competed with established large platforms, the company managed to grow faster than the market and establish a successful platform by focusing on the ‘high-end’ part of the market.
Upwork: Changing the way we work!
Upwork: How the digital revolution is changing the way we work!