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A Better Idea for Branding Public Transit

Carol Pierson Holding | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: North by Northwest, Bus, Environmentalists, Angelina Joli, The Tourist, Subway, Brief Encounter, Stampede, Bound, Cars, Broadway Subway, New York, Dash, Hop, Bolt, Sex, Trains, San Francisco, Grand Central, Making Transit Fun, Boulder, Johnny Depp, Atlantic Cities, Jump, Zipcar, Skip, Business News
Carol Pierson Holding

So if a car's experience is so fundamentally different than riding transit, what parallel experience can we plumb for joyous attributes? I would propose we look for a model to long-distance trains and their sense of possibility and romance, not the raw sex of cars.

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Human Capital: The Doorway to Financial Capital (Part 3)

Kay Koplovitz | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: Southeast Ventures, Illuminate Ventures, KC Womens Captial Connection, BELLE Capital, Phenomenelle Angels, Ycombinator, Constant Contact, CB Insights, Texas Women Ventures, Investorcircle, Springboard Enterprises, Women's Venture Fund, Irobot, Zipcar, Human Capital, Techstars, Goldenseeds, Hatchpitch, Dreamit, Boldcap, 51job, Business News
Kay Koplovitz

What we all need to recognize is that capital is not based on meritocracy. It's based on relationships. Yes, the business has to be disruptive or at least scalable to attract venture capital. VC's invest in PEOPLE first, and businesses second.

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The Social Entrepreneur's Dilemma

Patrick FitzGerald | Posted 02.26.2012

Read More: Recycling, Terracycle, Small Business, Recycle, Car Sharing, Startup, Social Entrepreneurship, Startups, Entrepreneurs, Zipcar, Entrepreneurship, Small Business America, Mba, Small Business News
Patrick FitzGerald

In order to make a potentially game-changing idea a long-standing reality, it's highly recommended that social entrepreneurs look at their business model and ask a very simple question: Could my company be a profitable one?

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2011 Was the Year That Show Beat Tell

Aaron Shapiro | Posted 02.21.2012

Read More: Apple Stock, Friendfinder, Social Media, Apple Iphone, Groupon, Mobile Payments Square, Steve Jobs Apple, Netflix, Zipcar, Pandora, Groupon IPO, Business News
Aaron Shapiro

Looking back at 2011, I see a year where pragmatism replaced hype, where show beat tell, where consumers, the tech community and the marketing industry stepped away from preconceived notions and toward a new reality.

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Zipcar Debuts Brand-New Pilot Program -- Only In San Francisco

Aaron Sankin | Posted 11.30.2011

Read More: Zipcar San Francisco, Video, Zipcar Sf, Car Sharing, Zipvan, Car Sharing San Francisco, Truck Rental, Van Sharing, Zipcar, U-Haul, San Francisco, Van Rental, Zipvan San Franisco, Pilot Program, San Francisco News

Car sharing service Zipcar has already fundamentally changed the way hundreds of thousands of people across North America and the United Kingdom get a...

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The Future Starts With an "F"

Kyra Maya Phillips | Posted 01.23.2012

Read More: Success, Sir Ken Robinson, Sustainability, Twitter, Failure, Innovation, Dan Ariely, Zipcar, Dr. Brene Brown, Muhammad Yunus, Tim Harford, TED Talks, Culture News
Kyra Maya Phillips

As a society, we have been systematically wired and re-wired to abhor failure. But amongst all of this stigmatisation we have forgotten one fundamental fact: the greatest innovations arise from a process of trial and error.

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Auto Industry Market Leaders Validate Car Sharing

Carol Pierson Holding | Posted 12.27.2011

Read More: Gm, Car Sharing, City CarShare, Ford, Zipcar, Anti-Consumerist, Carsharing, Enterprise, San Francisco News
Carol Pierson Holding

As green pundits bemoan our consumer society, the culture is quietly morphing to slow the amount we buy.

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Zipcar Agitates Fragile Relations Between Bicyclists, Drivers

TBD | Posted 12.14.2011

Read More: Bicycling, Zipcar, DC News

D.C., you're a Zipcar town, with roughly 60,000 Zipsters give or take, so you should take a special interest in this....

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The War on Automobiles

Chuck Thies | Posted 11.14.2011

Read More: Taxis, Infrastructure, Mass Transit, Automobiles, Dc Job Growth, Busses, Cars, Job Growth, Dc Traffic, Beltway, Zipcar, Metro, DC News
Chuck Thies

If you live in the Washington metropolitan area, owning an automobile is a practical adventure well worth experiencing. And it does not have to be an environmental train wreck.

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A To-Do List For America

The Daily Beast | Posted 11.12.2011

Read More: Unemployment, Loews Corp, Great Recession, Microsoft, Ceos, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Jobs, Economic Recovery, u.s. Economic Policy, Zipcar, Caterpillar, Sony, Business News

14 corporate leaders on what America needs to do next to improve the economy....

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Could Well-Being Become Our New Currency?

Marc Stoiber | Posted 08.13.2011

Read More: Jules Peck, Happy Planet Index, Unilever, Bhutan, Tim Jackson, Gross National Happiness, Whipcar, Capitalism, Ted, Zipcar, Business News
Marc Stoiber

Combine the limitations of a finite planet and dubious correlation between wealth and happiness, and you see we're overdue for a bit of a recalibration.

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How 'Collaborative Consumption' Is Transforming Startups

MIT Entrepreneurship Review | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Small Business, Lendingclub, Lending, Collaborative Consumption, Entrepreneurs, Facebook, Consumption, Business Model, Demand, Small Business America, Thredup, Startups, Zopa, Getaround, Zipcar, Netflix, Entrepreneurship, Peer to Peer, Business News
MIT Entrepreneurship Review

Collaborative consumption market places are everywhere: media, car rental, lodging, staffing, textbooks, apparel, custom graphic design and even finance.

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Web Startups Want An Open Internet -- House Republicans Don't

Art Brodsky | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Verizon, Robin Chase, Fcc, Greg Walden, AT&T, Zipcar, Comcast, Net Neutrality, Small Business, Economy, Entrepreneurs, House Republicans, Internet, Open Internet, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Netflix, Entrepreneurship, Small Business America, Republicans, Technology News
Art Brodsky

In approving the resolution to nullify the FCC's open Internet rules, Republican members in the House show that they don't care if big companies impose unfavorable conditions on start-ups and entrepreneurs.

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Has the Business of Sharing Finally Reached the Tipping Point?

Micki Krimmel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sharing, Neighborgoods, Community, Saving Money, Economy, Couchsurfing, Zipcar, Green Living, Impact News
Micki Krimmel

We can't seem to open our browsers anymore without seeing a new article about how peer-to-peer sharing is changing our economy.

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Welcome To The World Wide Mesh: Where Access Trumps Ownership

Lisa Gansky | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lisa Gansky Mesh, Gansky Mesh, Lisa Gansky, The Mesh, Bike Sharing, swap.com, Profounder, Netflix, Zipcar, Velib, Books News
Lisa Gansky

With all of our ability to connect to each other and the physical world, this is the precise moment when sharing our things could be convenient, relatively inexpensive, and painless.

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Goodbye Hyper-Consumption, Hello Collaborative Consumption

Rachel Botsman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ebay, Groupon, Social Networking, Smart Grid, Collaborative Consumption, Real-Time-Web, Freecycle, Zipcar, Netflix, One Block Off the Grid, Books News
Rachel Botsman

The likes of Zipcar and Netflix have rapidly become household names. But what do the next generation of businesses based on shared resources and reinvented market behaviors look like?

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Zipcar Expands Harvard Cars Sharing Program

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Northeast, Zipcar Harvard, Zipcar, Harvard, Zipcar Harvard Case Study, College News

BOSTON — Zipcar will expand its car-sharing service at Harvard University to drivers under 21, a move the company and school said Wednesday will mak...

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PHOTOS: 9 Creative Ways To Not Own A Car

Huffington Post | Barbara Fenig | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Car Alternatives, Environment, Bike Culture, Green Transportation, Green Living, Bike, Green Living Tips, Green Zipcar, Walking Bus, Carpool, Green Delivery, Taxi Sharing, Car Sharing, Rollerblades, Slidepollajax, Zipcar, Metrocards, Smarter Ideas, Green News

Eco-friendly transportation is no longer merely a fad but now a necessity in greening our lives. Whether your green transportation of choice is your ...

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Best and Worst Summer Thrills of the Week: June 28-July 5

Alona Elkayam | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Stonington, Equinox, Aol, Fresnel Lens, Foursquare, Kitchen Little, Young Forever, Louis Vuitton, Zipcar, Ness, Bandanas, Style News
Alona Elkayam

Everyone's a hot mess in the city because when it gets hot in New York, people get nasty.

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A Day of Disruption, Minus the Disruption at the Wired Business Conference

Courtney Boyd Myers | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hunch, Twitter, Colin Powell, Chris Anderson, Facebook, Howard Schultz, Flickr, Caterina Fake, Steve Case, Starbucks, Jim Barksdale, Zipcar, Mark Pincus, Carly Fiorina, Wired, Health Care Reform, Zygna, Technology News
Courtney Boyd Myers

We've come to yet another crossroads where we have to ask, technology is awesome and we invented it, but what can it do for us? And more importantly, how can it make us better human beings?

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ZipCar Files For $75 Million IPO (POLL)

Huffington Post | Nathaniel Cahners Hindman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ipo, Venture Capital Ipo, Venture Capital, Zipcar, Poll, Business News

"It's comeback time for venture IPOs," the Wall Street Journal presciently declared in January. In the first quarter of 2010, the number of U.S. vent...

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In Praise of Sleeplessness

Lee Schneider | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Vladimir Nabokov, Shelter, Charity Focus, Lisa Russ Spaar, Insomnia, Michelle Kaufmann, Up All Night, Zipcar, Nipun Mehta, Sleep Deprivation, Karma Kitchen, Karmatube, Sleep, Healthy Living News
Lee Schneider

Way back when, night was dead calm if you wanted it that way. No emails, no phones; time to hug your pillow for an hour or two before work.

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HuffPost Game Changers: Who Is The Ultimate Game Changer In Business?

Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jeremy Stoppelman, Mena Trott, Huffington Post Business Game Changers, HuffPost Game Changers, Richard Barton, Tony Hsieh, Slidepoll, Rashad Tobaccowala, New Media, Fred Wilson, Zipcar, Bill McBride, Game Changers, John Delaney, Gregg Zehr, Business News

(VOTING IS NOW CLOSED) HuffPost's Game Changers celebrates 100 innovators, visionaries, and leaders in 10 categories who are harnessing the power o...

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Christmas Gifts 2009: 13 Great Gifts

Huffington Post | ThienVinh Nguyen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Slidepoll, Green Gifts, Holiday Season, New-Balance, Fairtrade, Ecostrip, Solar-Chargers, Green Living, Preserve, Holiday Gifts, Charities, Flashlight, Christmas, Fairtrade Coffee, Sun Oven, Zipcar, Solar Power, Holidays, Holiday Shopping, Holidays 2009, Green Holiday, Green News

With the holiday season upon us, gift-giving can get pretty ugly really fast. From the last-minute frantic purchasing to participating in the consume...

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Car Buying Behavior: The Case of Demotorization

Jenny Darroch | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Consumer Behavior, Cars, Social Media, Innovation, Marketing Research, Strategies for Growth, Marketing Strategy, Zipcar, Green News
Jenny Darroch

A couple of articles have caught my attention lately. In the October 9 issue of the Los Angeles Times, Martin Zimmerman reported the results of a JD ...

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