25 of the best Coolhunts - Fontys ACI

www.airbnb.com
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are two strong examples of this. I am convinced that more examples will follow. They will
“It’s a new way of traveling. It becomes an adventure because
you never know where you are going to sleep next night”
It turned out to be a success. This Cheski admitted was to his own surprise: who likes to
sleep in someone else’s bed? Apparently lots of people who like to travel low budget
make that decision. That is how Cheski became an entrepreneur of his own Cool idea.
To show that his idea could work he decided to give up his own house in 2010 and lived for
eight months in rooms he rented out via his own site.
These types of daring initiatives inspire.
Of course there is a downside to renting out your rooms via www.airbnd.com. Can the
other party be trusted? Thus the social web has created its own strategies to test that
trust. When the visitor of the site clicks on the room he would like to have, he can see
how many people rented the room before him and how they judged the room, the host,
the neighborhood. From friendliness to accessibility.
Just like Kickstarter, Airbnb was initially spotted being Cool by one student. However many
others agreed on his enthusiasm for this site and the idea lying behind it.
This gives quantitative momentum to the coolness of the example. Next we need to find
out what Airbnb stands for. Again we can primarily interpret the site as a sparkling
example of coolness and the innovative strength of the worldwide web.
The richness and the potential has not been exhausted yet. Airbnb as well as Kickstarter
enthuse, surprise and inspire us.
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