Tag: barcelona

Barcelona, the travel startup boom & the rise of peer-to-peer

  Photo credit: Timeout.com Guest post written by Natalie Batlle, Steven Douglas and Emily Elwes, Trip4Real Barcelona: A sharing city on the rise, Barcelona is the place to go if you want to share a taxi with a stranger, have dinner at a professional chef’s house or live like a local when you’re traveling. These…  Read more

Collaborative Pioneer Interview with Gloria Molins founder of Trip4Real

Gloria Molins is the founder of Trip4real, a travel experience platform. The year and a half old startup has had a colourful start-recently raising €1 million funding, calling Ferran Adria as one of its investing “godfathers”, and raising funds through IndieGoGo to go to San Francisco to meet with Airbnb, Pinterest, Twitter and Dropbox. In this interview,…  Read more

City Guide: Barcelona

Albert Cañigueral, our Global Curator based in Barcelona, shares with us a collaborative lifestyle guide for his city. Barcelona is quickly becoming a strong hub for collaborative consumption bringing it to the attention of mainstream media, regulators, business schools and government. Clothes Renova la teva roba is a yearly massive clothes swapping event organized by…  Read more

“Collaborative Consumption: Are you ready for a paradigm shift?” at ESADE Business School

The emerging model of collaborative consumption is now big and disruptive enough for regulators, companies, governments and business schools to have woken up to it. That is a sign of its immense potential. As The Economist wrote: “It is time to start caring about sharing”. It always helps to put things in perspective, and with…  Read more