It has now been just over two weeks since I was at the Ouishare Love party sharing dance moves with the likes of Alex Stephany, who certainly did not spend the night ‘just parked’ in one of the Cabaret Sauvage’s old-fashioned booths. Many of the Ouishare Fest’s attendees had on that last night redefined…

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We often associate good organisation with the Germans, politeness with the British and romance with the French. Italians are typically thought of as passionate and Norwegians are commonly considered..uh..tall? The propensity to share, however, is not usually linked to a single culture. Similarly, the fast-growing sharing economy is not usually associated to a single country. Instead, it is…

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My experience of the Financial Times Sharing Economy European Summit felt like an intense but exciting ‘call to action’. Two days before the summit, I was about to sign a contract for a new job that I wasn’t really going to enjoy, when Ali Clabburn offered me a job at Liftshare, the UK’s most…

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