In our special section on Community Entrepreneurs, we focus on makers, store owners, food enthusiasts, do-gooders, connectors, online communities, renters, lenders and educators who build and strengthen communities while making excellent goods and services. Spinlister This Santa Monica–based enterprise has made bicycle sharing more accessible for many happy cyclists. When peer-to-peer bike rental start-up Spinlister shut down six months after launching in 2011, no one expected it to be revived months later revitalized and rebranded. “I had no idea how to run a company, but I knew that having a unique name like Spinlister was a valuable asset, ” says Marcelo Loureiro, the driving force behind the revamp. The founders’ initial idea This story is from Kinfolk Issue Fifteen Buy Now Related Stories Arts & Culture Issue 22 Personality Tests: A Brief History From warfare to psych wards to the workplace, Harriet Fitch Little uncovers our long-standing fascination with personality tests. Arts & Culture Entrepreneur Issue 22 Tips: Brainstorming and Contracts Whether you're brainstorming with colleagues or hammering out a contract, taking everyone's viewpoint into consideration leads to the best outcome. Arts & Culture Issue 22 Pattern & Repetition Science writer Philip Ball speaks on the intertwined relations of our brains and the patterns they perceive. Arts & Culture Issue 22 At Work With: Laurent Martin A little more than a decade ago, Laurent Martin defected from the advertising world and retreated into an artist's life in rural Catalonia. Arts & Culture Issue 22 This Woman’s Work In his latest book, The Kate Inside, photographer Guido Harari presents the audacious spirit and restless creativity of iconic singer Kate Bush. Arts & Culture Issue 22 Hans Ulrich Obrist Kinfolk’s contributing editor Hans Ulrich Obrist has turned curatorial work into a work of art in itself.
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