Portable entrepreneurship has become popular in the new “food truck” era, but mobile vending has been around for a very long time and taken on new forms. A box on wheels can contain businesses, libraries, gardens, roving studios and museum exhibits. My guest this week, Lauren Cannon, who runs the Institute for Mobile Research, gives us the background and current status of world of mobile vending. The popularity in movable businesses has risen with gourmet food trucks, but the term “mobile” is not just directed at carts and trucks, as new ideas are turning boxy wheeled vehicles into project spaces and community hubs. For more information go to upended.net
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