A social network for renting and borrowing aims to bring the concept of "sharing" back into the real world.
NeighborGoods, the SXSW Accelerator winner for Best Bootstrapped Startup, wants to revitalize neighborly sharing by offering communities a brilliantly practical incentive to interact: everyone else's unused stuff.
"We have tons of excess inventory," says Paige Craig, one of SXSW's Accelerator judges and a venture capitalist. "Why not create an environment where we can very quickly share it?"
The Craigslist-like platform allows neighborhoods and organizations to create exchange networks for the borrowing and renting of underutilized items, such as books, backpacks, or even cars. NeighborGoods has ambitious plans to scale up, and Silicon Valley's already signed on to its larger vision.
[vimeo 19846300]
At is core, NeighboorGoods feels like a more robust and polished version of Craigslist. A graphical user interface keeps track of activity (items shared, money saved), alerts members to wishlisted items,...
NeighborGoods, the SXSW Accelerator winner for Best Bootstrapped Startup, wants to revitalize neighborly sharing by offering communities a brilliantly practical incentive to interact: everyone else's unused stuff.
"We have tons of excess inventory," says Paige Craig, one of SXSW's Accelerator judges and a venture capitalist. "Why not create an environment where we can very quickly share it?"
The Craigslist-like platform allows neighborhoods and organizations to create exchange networks for the borrowing and renting of underutilized items, such as books, backpacks, or even cars. NeighborGoods has ambitious plans to scale up, and Silicon Valley's already signed on to its larger vision.
[vimeo 19846300]
At is core, NeighboorGoods feels like a more robust and polished version of Craigslist. A graphical user interface keeps track of activity (items shared, money saved), alerts members to wishlisted items,...
- 6/2/2011
- by Gregory Ferenstein
- Fast Company
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