Structure3C | Crowd Economy News & Best Reads - Week Ending Dec 4, 2015

The capitalist era is passing… not quickly, but inevitably. A new economic paradigm – the Collaborative Commons – is rising in its wake that will transform our way of life.

Succinct overview of the current state (and definition) of “disruptive innovation”.

“It did not take technology to spur the on-demand economy. It took masses of poor people.” https://t.co/HUba3JLFxH

Growing old is costly. Take, for instance, the expense of health insurance and the costs of long-term care, housing, and chronic disease treatments. How will our economy withstand the rising overhead

Video from all sessions from the Platform Cooperativism Conference, held Nov 13-14 in NYC. Great sessions, most notably Douglas Rushkov’s. From the description: “The seeds are being planted for a new kind of online economy. For all the wonders the Internet brings us, it is dominated by an economics of monopoly, extraction, and surveillance.” 

Nearly two-thirds of American adults (65%) use social networking sites, up from 7% when Pew Research Center began tracking social media usage in 2005.

First Round Venture Capital interviewed over 500 startup CEOs. The results are informative - most think power is shifting from the Entrepreneur to the VC, Mobile is underrated and sharing is overhyped and much more. 

“Scaling Airbnb with Brian Chesky — Class 18 Notes of Stanford University’s CS183C” by @mccannatron https://t.co/0wYyOErY6f

How to engineer the rewarding roller coaster of frustration and satisfaction.

It’s easier than ever to create a new, innovative product, game, app or service. But most innovative projects never take off and reach their intended audienc…