In the past six months, as valuations for many of the biggest on-demand companies have stalled or backslid, it’s become painfully clear that there’s a world of difference between a service that’s ...

Leah Busque was raised in a town so small that it had no streetlights. When she was 18, she left home in Massachusetts for rural Virginia, to study at a tiny women’s college where dairy cows roamed ...

Leah Busque imagines a workforce where employees are less reliant on traditional jobs and embrace what she calls "micro-entrepreneurship." Busque's company, TaskRabbit, is among several companies ...

Uber is exploring the idea of launching a service similar to TaskRabbit where folks can call on someone to carry out everyday tasks that they themselves don’t want to do, according to a recent ...