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After having been watching closely the development of Zilok, the US.American and European market-leader for renting anything C2C, we have just come across a similar concept, which started in Japan, called Sharemo. Zilok is the first address for those people who don’t want to throw something away but would rather rent it to somebody instead.

Sharemo, a company of Enigmo, however has taken a different approach and created a mobile-site where people can just give away, rent, share for free and swap (Swap N’Go) anything that they don’t want to simply throw away until somebody wants to keep that product. The difference to Zilok is that on Sharemo everything is for free and this idealistic idea is what they call “Sharing Economy”. Don’t hesitate to enlighten us on the business model, which we haven’t been able to figure out yet.

According to the comments on Techcrunch this would not work everywhere because it demands a lot of trust but nobody could imagine either that in Scandinavia you find unmanned-stands of strawberries and you throw in money on good faith, similar to the newspaper boxes in Germany, where you put the money in a box and take the newspaper yourself. How about the fact that in Scandinavia and Germany you don’t have to pass machines to check your metro and subway tickets, which is also unimaginable in most other countries!!?? Very interesting and we definitely keep an eye out for those sites!

Source: Screenshot Sharemo

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After reading RSS-news nowadays my tag-cloud-looking mind, trained to memorize only important facts (My studying attitude– if I don’t remember something it was not important, which even worked somehow…) looks a little bit like this:

Bubble 2.0, 1998, expectations, overvalued, undervalued, Facebook value $10billion maybe even $100billion (expected 2007 sales $150 million), TechCrunch worth $100 million, RockYou value $500 million, Ebay write off 1.4 billion Skype, Microsoft $6 billion acquisition aQuantive, et cetera.

You can most definitely sympathize and we discussed this topic here for about 1min and we came up with the following scientific conclusion: “I don’t know, let the analysts do these interpretations. Let’s get back to work!”

1. These numbers are so big that nobody can actually relate to them or imagine them anyway. Just let the analysts talk about the money that others make! That’s their job!

2. Each mentioned company is based on a brilliant idea, brilliant team to realize them and luck. However each project is also based on bloody, hard work. So just work!

3. Get the basics right because now there are laws, rules and regulations that go with a website and e-commerce company!

4. Think before you click to send an email.

5. Facebook is great fun, an incredible market intelligence machine but an even greater waste of time during the day.

6. Going offline to work sometimes is very productive.

Good luck with all your projects because good ideas deserve success! Just dare to express and realize them.

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