by Nithin Coca | Apr 6, 2014 | Features, Travel
Last October, news broke that Couchsurfing CEO Tony Espinosa suddenly stepped down, the latest in a long line of setbacks for the newly private company. In this article, originally published in Bootsnall, I explore how an idea with so much promise lost its foundation...
by Nithin Coca | Jun 25, 2013 | Features, Travel
Guest post by Beatrice Cinnirella A new way to learn more about own culture and to discover others! Couchsurfing is not just a travel network but it is much more. When I first joined, I knew very little or nothing about it. I thought Couchsurfing was a typical social...
by Nithin Coca | May 22, 2013 | Features, Travel
You may not have even noticed it happened, but last week Couchsurfing officially hit six million members. To some, a milestone, to others, another sign of how mass media popularity is ruining a good idea. It should come as no surprise that there is widespread...