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Students are using on-demand services like Uber and TaskRabbit to land summer jobs By ALINA DIZIK May 1, 2016 10:16 p.m. ET The on-demand gig economy is transforming another corner of the job market: the summer job for students. Recent high-school grads and college students are turning to startups like Uber, TaskRabbit, Instacart and Postmates

I meet many entrepreneurs with a real passion for their new idea, but unfortunately they don’t all realize that passion is necessary but not sufficient fuel to turn their idea into a successful business. The result is that far too few really great innovations ever get implemented — or last more than a moment in the