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Sascha Haselmayer

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Hey Mayors! Here is what your city did for entrepreneurs, diversity & innovation.

How friendly was your government to small business? Cities look to innovative solutions to face urgent issues like social cohesion, economic development, transportation and climate change. Mayors and city leaders have pledged to both innovate and buy more from small business, but are they walking the walk? To answer this, Citymart has tracked procurements in 318 cities in…

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Hey Mayors! Here is what your city did for entrepreneurs, diversity & innovation.
Hey Mayors! Here is what your city did for entrepreneurs, diversity & innovation.

Sascha Haselmayer

Sascha Haselmayer

·Apr 11

About Citymart

Every procurement is an opportunity! We founded Citymart in 2010 to raise the world’s expectations on city procurement. Our mission was to help city leaders treat very procurement as an opportunity: to innovate, to save money, win contracts and improve life for city workers and residents. We helped cities and businesses unlock these opportunities through high-quality methodologies, information and advice, wherever they were in the procurement process.

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About Citymart
About Citymart

Sascha Haselmayer

Sascha Haselmayer

·Apr 11

Citymart BidSpark in Numbers

Citymart BidSpark was an innovative market engagement technology and methodology to deliver transformative results. In essence, it matched procurement against a global database of hundreds of thousands of vendors using natural language processing, to trigger curated notification workflows to help potential vendors easily opt in and out of opportunities. Here are some results, in numbers. — Nashville

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Citymart BidSpark in Numbers
Citymart BidSpark in Numbers

Sascha Haselmayer

Sascha Haselmayer

·Apr 11

Market Insights: Last Mile Delivery

The Problem Urban environments continue to be transformed by economic growth and technological advancement. The advent of online retail has led to a massive increase in deliveries in cities all over the world. In city centers, this positive development has also had negative consequences. The uptick in delivery activity has led to…

Market Insights

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Market Insights: Last Mile Delivery
Market Insights: Last Mile Delivery

Sascha Haselmayer

Sascha Haselmayer

·Apr 11

Opportunity Report: Waste Management

The Problem As urban centers around the world increase in population and density, the waste produced in each city has also increased. Cities regularly encounter challenges related to their ability to scale waste collection, recycling and composting. Increased interest in sustainability has led cities to wonder how waste can be effectively diverted…

Market Insights

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Opportunity Report: Waste Management
Opportunity Report: Waste Management

Sascha Haselmayer

Sascha Haselmayer

·Apr 11

Market Insights: Community Care

The Problem The issues facing disadvantaged communities in a modern city are complex. Poverty, health, education, employment and crime are interrelated, but in many municipalities, responsibility for programs that address these issues is spread across multiple public and private stakeholders. The atomization of public services has led cities like Dallas, Texas to…

Market Insights

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Market Insights: Community Care
Market Insights: Community Care

Sascha Haselmayer

Sascha Haselmayer

·Apr 11

In the News

Aaron M. Renn, Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, talks to us about re-inventing city procurement.

City Procurement

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In the News

Aaron M. Renn, Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, talks to us about re-inventing city procurement.

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Sascha Haselmayer

Sascha Haselmayer

·Mar 13, 2020

Revisiting ‘Connected Cities’ (2010) urgent questions about meaningful innovation in 20/20

10 years ago we published a handbook on technology-enabled service innovation in cities and a frustration shared across the field that meaningful things just weren’t taking off. Here is what happened to some of our key ideas. Why, have highly valued services like mobile parking, tourism, or solutions for…

Cities

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Revisiting ‘Connected Cities’ (2010) urgent questions about meaningful innovation in 20/20
Revisiting ‘Connected Cities’ (2010) urgent questions about meaningful innovation in 20/20

Sascha Haselmayer

Sascha Haselmayer

·Feb 21, 2020

How government procurement hurts startups

This post was first published on Citymart in March 2018 by Shaun Abrahamson, Managing Partner for Urban Us. Lots of government officials want to work with startups. Lots of startup founders want to work with local governments. But very few venture capitalists want to fund startups to work with local…

Startup

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How Government Procurement hurts Startups
How Government Procurement hurts Startups

Sascha Haselmayer

Sascha Haselmayer

·Feb 5, 2020

Hey Mayors! Five things on what your city did for entrepreneurs, diversity & innovation in 2019

We know almost nothing about how our city halls spend trillions of dollars every year on the services that shape our lives — like our health, education, environment, transport and culture. What we do know is that things aren’t all great — critical problems like homelessness, air quality and inequities…

Cities

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Hey Mayors! Five things on what your city did for entrepreneurs, diversity & innovation in 2019
Hey Mayors! Five things on what your city did for entrepreneurs, diversity & innovation in 2019
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Sascha Haselmayer

Sascha Haselmayer

Passionate about social + city innovation, delightful procurement, connecting social entrepreneurs and governments. Fellow @ New America | Founder/CEO Citymart

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