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Excerpt from Forbes -- "Creative people have been pooling and exchanging resources for generations. Now, the emerging Internet-enabled sharing economy makes it easier than ever to swap, say, legal advice for lumber. That’s the kind of transaction that OurGoods, a new resource-sharing platform for artists, actually facilitates. OurGoods also serves 'designers, technologists, makers, farmers, and activists,' said co-founder and activist Caroline Woolard when we talked to her at the recent Sharing Economy Summit at NYU’s Stern School of Business. 'Artists have a lot of skills and also education, but don’t necessarily have money to pay each other to get their work done,' said Woolard."

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