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Taking A Sharing Economy Approach To Hotel Booking

PYMNTS

It started as a simple online form: Users would fill out their destinations, the number of travelers in their group, their dates of travel and a bit of information on what they are like. The company’s target market includes Gen Z and millennials. Their profiles will display a blue checkmark once they are verified.

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Belle Cares’ Unusual Approach To Beauty On Demand

PYMNTS

Which can make Belle Cares, an on-demand firm that offers professional beauticians who make house calls, seem like something of a surprise on first glance because the Nashville-based startup’s customers are not young by any definition. These days, the only way to access Belle Cares would be as a Nashville or Tennessee resident.

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Just _ Me: Venmo Launches New Branding Campaign

PYMNTS

Just _ for everything else,” reads the side of a bus in Nashville. Venmo has established such a niche in millennial culture that, somewhere along the way, it organically rooted itself into their vernacular as a verb, the same way that people now use “Google it” or “Facebook me” as verbs. The Southern hospitality is free.

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Uber Of X: The Speed Stable, Motorcycles On-Demand

PYMNTS

The sharing economy platform is first rolling out in Nashville and then Atlanta. Sharp spoke to PYMNTS about the impetus of the business, as well as some bumps in the road, and whether millennials or baby boomers are the first to hit the road on the motorcycle sharing economy. Everything is done online via credit card.

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From ACH To IoT: Looking Back On A Year Of Trackers

PYMNTS

Winding down the year, the most recent Trackers examined just what it takes to get all those Christmas presents ordered online to loved ones across borders. Prpic noted that these virtual stores could improve on current online shopping setups, which allow customers to easily sort by price and overlook higher-end goods.

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12 Industries That Will Thrive Thanks To Millennials

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Popular media coverage of millennials often fixates on the industries the generation is allegedly killing and their supposed fiscal irresponsibility. Some industries benefiting from millennials’ increased spending power, such as travel, reflect well-worn Gen Y tropes like the general preference for “experiences” over things.

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The 2019 GonzoBanker Awards

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And now, the GonzoBanker team salutes some other troublemakers in each individual Smarter Bank category: The Strategy Award – Goes to Studio Bank in Nashville, Tenn. The Talent Award – Goes to Pinnacle Financial Partners , Nashville, Tenn., Sorry Millennials, you are now so yesterday like GenX and the OK Boomers.

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