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Local Motors, the startup behind the Olli autonomous shuttle, has shut down

TechCrunch

.” Olli, the company’s shuttle, a cute rectangular pod with large windows and a rounded frame, was designed for campuses and low-speed environments, like hospitals, military bases and universities. The first generation of the shuttle debuted in 2016 in National Harbor, Maryland at a mixed-use development.

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Yes Is the Answer—and Other Ways to Succeed in Business

Entrepreneurs' Organization

How Faith In People and a Culture Of Hospitality Built a Modern American Restaurant Company, Mitchell shares the keys to his company’s 25 years of success: including a steadfast commitment to a nurturing culture, a “people first” philosophy, and the humility to recognize reckless and ego-driven decisions. In his book YES IS THE ANSWER.

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The Doom Loop

Entrepreneur's Handbook

The inflation is entrenched because a large number of jobs are now being done from home, and the wealthy computer desk jockeys working these jobs now require a different mix of goods. It is trivially easy to spot a policy that uses confidence intervals rather than outcomes at the extreme. More users, more owners, token number go up?—?wash,

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Zartico secures $20M to help tourism offices promote local destinations

TechCrunch

” To attempt to inject some data and digitization into tourism operations, Dunn and Kinghorn co-founded Zartico , a platform that provides analytics and visualizations to destination management organizations, or DMOs — government-affiliated tourism boards that promote locations as travel destinations. Image Credits: Zartico.

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Convoy: The Future of Truck Freight

Y Combinator

We have seen this play out across several business-to-consumer verticals over the past decade: Airbnb in hospitality, Instacart in grocery, DoorDash in food delivery, and Lyft in transportation. Truck freight is one of the largest industries in the US. No human with a spreadsheet can manually optimize all of these criteria.

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Extra Crunch roundup: Klaviyo EC-1, micromobility’s second wave, UiPath CFO interview, more

TechCrunch

. “Bootstrapping Klaviyo, it came out of this: ‘Hey, if we are super disciplined about finding a problem that someone will pay us to solve, we have a real company,'” said Hallen. Use discount code ECFriday to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription. Full Extra Crunch articles are only available to members.

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Hippocratic is building a large language model for healthcare

TechCrunch

Hippocratic — hatched out of General Catalyst — was founded by a group of physicians, hospital administrators, Medicare professionals and AI researchers from organizations including Johns Hopkins, Stanford, Google and Nvidia. ” AI in healthcare, historically, has been met with mixed success. .