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The Future of Hospitality is Here

Revolution

Image courtesy of Mint House Real estate lies at the core of our everyday lives?—?it Yet, technology adoption within the real estate community as a means to fundamentally disrupt how physical assets behave and how transactions occur was lagging up until the last couple of years.

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What To Do When Your Competitor Gets Funded?

Both Sides of the Table

announced they raised $9 million from Sequoia , arguably the best venture capital firm that exists. We will have two well-funded companies educating the market on why this market opportunity for the $24 billion US storage market is ripe for disruption. ” In summary: The competitors are the incumbents. This morning Clutter.io

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End-to-end operators are the next generation of consumer business

TechCrunch

The key purpose of being end-to-end is to deliver an even better value proposition to consumers relative to incumbent alternatives. It’s worth noting that these end-to-end models typically require more capital to reach scale, as greater upfront investment is necessary to get them off the ground than other, more narrowly focused marketplaces.

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MakeSpace Raises an Additional $17.5 million and Unveils Strategy to Make Public Storage the Next Blockbuster Video

Both Sides of the Table

We raised this capital in what has increasingly become a difficult market for fund raising so I’d like to share with you some details on how we get it done. Fragmented markets can be a great target for disruption. It’s no wonder incumbents don’t want us to exist. Public Storage does about $2.4 Little old us.

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Q3 outlook forecasts cloudy days ahead for fintech M&A

TechCrunch

In announcing the deal, they said: “DeFi-enabled B2B payment networks that are on chain can unlock transformative working capital efficiencies, and make financial services more fair and open, especially in developing markets like LATAM.”. and Mexico. Today the U.S. As a result, they may have to sell.”. from the previous quarter” to $24.1

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Varo’s bank charter milestone, more corporate cards and BNPL under a microscope

TechCrunch

This is particularly interesting because many of the existing corporate card players often point to Concur as an incumbent that they are trying to replace. Residential real estate marketplace Sundae last week conducted its second layoff this year. These companies, of course, join a plethora of others in the U.S. xoxoxo Mary Ann.

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The Metric that Matters for Startups in 2016

Tomasz Tunguz

” This change in investor mentality is catalyzed by the increasing cost of startup capital. Starting in 2014, and perhaps even a bit before, startups have been able to raise capital at better terms than at any time since 2000. And would might happen if the company didn’t spend all this capital? Market fragmentation.