gig economy

Micro-businesses — event organizers, photographers, personal trainers or a repair person — often don’t have protection in the (common) event that their client cancels last minute. On the other side…

Though the “gig economy” is a trendy phenomenon to talk about these days, the underlying truth is that short-term contract labor is, well, not new. The Bureau of Labor Statistics…

On-demand workforce assistance startup Steady has raised $9 million in a Series A funding round led by San Francisco-based Propel Venture Partners with participation from Omidyar Network, the impact investing firm established…

Like a flock of pigeons on a stray piece of bread, they descended quickly and widely across Atlanta. Seemingly overnight, at the beginning of May, Bird’s dockless electric scooters appeared…

The “Uberization” of society is more than a catchy tagline for the sharing economy – it’s quickly becoming America’s economic go-to formula for startups. In fact, Intuit predicts that independent…