The Economist recently interviewed Trend Hunter founder Jeremy Gutsche for “The Year in 2008” issue and one of his observations made it into their “Six of The Best” feature. Jeremy was also quoted last week in Canadian Business. In fact, we haven’t posted too much about press recently, but TrendHunter.com was cited in Financial Times (more than 20 times), The Free Post, The Gazette, Canadian Business, The Business Journal, FT.com, Economist.com, The Globe and Mail, MTV and thousands of online publications.
As well, several Trend Hunters have been profiled in the media, including: the BBC (Em Rocks), BBC World Service (Emre), BBC Culture Shock (Hernando), Girlfriend Magazine (Angela), Financial Times (Bianca).
Here’s my trend for 2008: the Trend Hunter community is going to take off! Thanks to everyone for all the great contributions.
Person-to-person lending will flourish in 2008, predicts Jeremy Gutsche, the Toronto-based head of TrendHunter.com. Borrowers and lenders come together directly on the web and cut out the banks. Some of these lending operations use an auction like eBay in which the lender willing to provide the lowest interest rate gets the borrower’s loan; others (like CircleLending, an American firm) are for people who already know one another but who want someone to help formalise the loan arrangement. “Peer-to-peer” lending is working its way into the charitable sector, too: Kiva.org puts potential “social investors” in touch with small businesses in the developing world, which promise to send e-mail updates on how the business is developing.
(economist)
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