Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Similarly we backed another great team out of MIT called GroveLabs that is building a company to allow you to grow fresh vegetables, herbs and some fruits in your kitchen with no pesticides, no transportation and greatly reduced water consumption.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 18, 2019

As drivers we look out for them, as pedestrians we might be annoyed if they steer in our way but the riders themselves have developed better norms as happens in all forms of transportation. They’re not new. They’re not novel. They’re invisible. And their usage is growing. Hats off to the teams that have done this.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 22, 2018

Alice Mann’s latest book, Future First: How Successful Leaders Turn Innovation Challenges into New Value Frontiers is an important read for any business leader or entrepreneur who wishes to embrace global challenges as innovation opportunities. Why did you write this book? This book tells their stories.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The public transport sector in Kenya is largely traditional and a majority of operators, especially those in road travel, still require their clients to physically book tickets at their offices even when making advance travel plans. Others do not have provisions for seat reservation.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 2, 2015

After all, entry price registration question aside, they are all expensive once you factor in airfare, hotels, ground transportation, booths (if you have one), meals and – especially – time away from your day jobs? To get much out of it you need to pre-book meetings. Let me be clear. I hate attending big conference.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 8, 2022

I enlisted in the Hawaii Air National Guard right after graduating high school and served for 20 years as a Cyber Transport Systems Technician. The EO Hawaii community introduced me to Gino Wichman’s book, Traction , and the Entrepreneurial Operating System (EOS). Here’s what she shared: Tell us about your entrepreneurial journey. .

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

A well-managed calendar needs constant attention and can get quickly out of hand: Double-booking yourself. Booking your own flights, hotels, transportation, meals, and meetings. Yes, scheduling apps help, but they don’t schedule for you. Work spilling over into personal time.

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OkDork

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Some books should be required reading, and The Psychology of Money book by Morgan Housel is one of them. And that’s what Morgan wrote this whole book about. They may not make sense outside the context of the book, so I encourage you to pick it up for yourself and give it a read. The Psychology of Money Book Key Takeaways.

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TechCrunch

MAY 31, 2021

Each year TechCrunch brings together founders, investors, CEOs and engineers who are working on all things transportation and mobility. This year’s agenda is filled with leaders in the mobility space who are shaping the future of transportation, from EV charging to autonomous vehicles to urban air taxis.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2021

Now, the agency is planning an all-in-one app — via third-party providers Transit and Masabi — where customers could plan and book end-to-end trips across trains, buses, bikes, scooters and taxis. According to the American Public Transportation Association (APTA), ridership and total miles traveled has declined since 2014, including a 2.5%

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 31, 2023

In other words, pay the commuting costs of your staff: IRS per diem for miles traveled, public transportation fees, etc. He wrote the first book on leading hybrid teams after the pandemic, his best-seller Returning to the Office and Leading Hybrid and Remote Teams , as well as seven other books. Pay for a nice catered lunch.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2021

Plentywaka , a Nigerian bus-booking platform, today announced that it has been accepted into the Techstars Toronto accelerator program. Due to the nature of its business, Plentywaka had to make a slight pivot and began transporting essential services across Lagos, especially food items. It also opened a logistics service.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

We love the productivity and independence that comes from oil powering our machinery & transportation but we hate enriching producers that we feel sometimes act against our best interests as consumers. If you haven’t read Ken Auletta’s brilliant book Googled , you should. So it is quite lofty to compare hulu with OPEC.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

He also collects old books, and once guessed that Chinese author Gao Xingjian would win the Nobel Prize in literature. The following interview, part of an ongoing series with founders who are building transportation companies, has been edited for length and clarity. ” Robert Falck.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Loadsmart offers booking for freight transportation across land, rail and through ports, all from a single online portal. Convoy raises $400 million to expand its on-demand trucking platform.

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TechCrunch

JULY 26, 2021

Freightify , a startup that refers to itself as the “Shopify for maritime freight,” provides white-label rate management and e-booking tools that freight forwarders can use to set up online stores, reducing the time they need to spend on administrative work. The startup announced today it has raised $2.5

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 15, 2020

We studied that very challenge while researching our new book, “The Entrepreneur’s Faces.” Below, we profile five of the 10 different types of entrepreneurs we discuss in our book, and why these are the key people you want on your side from the start. We found that new ventures require radically different talents and skills.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 17, 2010

Transportation scheduling and booking, distribution of presentations, speaker and event ratings, etc. How about a LinkedIn app to figure out all of the people who RSVP’d who have connections to you, or who meet a job title criteria that you’re trying to hire for.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

While Holoway would not disclose the book value of the loans transacted on the platform, he did say the company’s default and delinquency rates were lower than that of its competitors. “They’re looking to diversify their capital and deploy it to make returns.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

There are five main sectors in Africa’s startup landscape: financial services, commerce, transport, healthcare and education. Some examples highlighted in the report include M-Pesa in fintech, Yoco in commerce, Kobo360 in transport, Helium Health in healthcare and uLesson in education. Sectoral transformation.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Despite the uncertainty in the tourism sector from the Covid pandemic, the PEV team didn’t slow down but instead went on to launch two startups — Elephant Bookings, a software as a service (SaaS) product, and Nomad.Africa, a content-to-commerce magazine. Bookaway books $35M to scale up its ground transportation booking platform.

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Revolution

JANUARY 6, 2020

Over the last decade, there have been many innovations that have changed our lives by addressing long-standing pain points in age-old industries like transportation and financial services, and in so doing, raised complicated questions for policymakers and society. This week, I’ll plan to share?—?in in no particular order?—?two

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TechCrunch

APRIL 8, 2022

Launched in 1987, the company provides hundreds of transportation and hospitality providers with inventory management and booking services. If you can map every oasis in a desert, you’ve created a transportation network. Gogoro’s public debut could supercharge EV battery swapping across the globe.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2021

This results in operational cost reduction by eliminating the need to replace their existing fleet and yields a safer, more efficient and sustainable transportation system,” CEO Raghavender Sahdev tells TechCrunch. The Hurd Co. Image Credits: The Hurd Co. The Hurd Co.’s Serinus Labs. Image Credits: Serinus Labs.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Cities like San Antonio, Los Angeles and, most recently, Las Vegas, have used these capabilities to address access to first- and last-mile transportation, a common problem in most cities that are still mainly run by fixed-route transit systems. Cities have a new planning tool to fold ride-sharing into public transit systems.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2021

Formerly known as GoEuro, Omio lets you book train tickets, bus tickets and flights on a single platform. Thanks to BlaBlaCar’s reach, the French startup is uniquely positioned to connect two small cities through shared transportation. The startup will add train operators on its marketplace by the end of 2021 or early 2022.

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Continuations

AUGUST 19, 2022

I recently read Joseph Tainter’s outstanding book “The Collapse of Complex Civilizations,” which I recommend. For starters we can avoid the worst of the climate crisis by aggressively shifting to electrification of transportation, heating and cooling, production and so forth.

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abovethecrowd.com

JANUARY 30, 2015

In their seminal 1994 book Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies , Jim Collins and Jerry Poras coined the term BHAG (pronounced BEE-hag) — an acronym that stands for “ B ig H airy A udacious G oal.” Today, the company’s mission statement is “transportation as reliable as running water, everywhere for everyone.”

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2022

The trio started the company as a bus-hailing service in Egypt and other ride-sharing services in emerging markets with fragmented public transportation. Its bus-hailing services enable users to make intra-state journeys by booking seats on buses running a fixed route. Swvl offerings have expanded beyond bus-hailing services, though.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2021

Despite this fast growth, Schoenack said more than half of Kyte’s bookings come from recurring users. “The pandemic has accelerated the transformation of cities and consumer behavior with respect to transportation,” Schlenker said. ”

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

The precedents for standardization were in the classical Industrial Revolution, where there was an incentive for all parties to standardize on shared resources like transportation and shipping as well as on product specifications. I remember big debates about whether the public library should have digital records of the books you reserve.

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StartupNation

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

If any of these statements ring true, then this is the book for you and NOW is the time to take action as there will be many new business opportunities for female entrepreneurs resulting from morphing industries in the aftermath of COVID-19. I don’t blame you: you want to take care of them and give them the best. Perhaps you’ve heard of it?

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TechCrunch

JULY 28, 2021

The trio started the company as a bus-hailing service in Egypt and other ride-sharing services in emerging markets with fragmented public transportation. Its services, mainly bus-hailing, enables users to make intra-state journeys by booking seats on buses running a fixed route.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Calendly : The explosive growth of meeting-booking service Calendly was bound to attract competition. Transit security is big business : Flush with a $50 million Series B, Shift5 is working to build transportation security. Fantastical v. Expect to see more related competitors in time.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2022

He came to the United States and worked in transportation, including stints at both C.H. Using the data, customers can make freight bookings because we can predict what will happen up to 45 days in advance.”. Robinson and Flexport. He noted that $2.8 trillion worth of merchandise came into the U.S.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Stelman and Bersch worked on Bookbot, a sidewalk delivery robot that would deliver books from libraries. The following interview, part of an ongoing series with founders who are building transportation companies, has been edited for length and clarity.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2023

Yup, sustainability, a category that will combine transportation , climate tech , smart cities and renewables. Book your early-bird pass today and save $800 to the startup event of the year. Disrupt will have six industry tracks, each with its own stage, including AI , fintech , hardware , SaaS , security and sustainability.

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