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The Future of Hospitality is Here

Revolution

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. The connective thread here is the use of technology. It is about building and recreating communities.

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The business model of the future

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Companies that embrace this new model, called interaction field companies, generate, facilitate and benefit from interactions and data exchanges among multiple people and groups—from customers and stakeholders, but also from those you wouldn’t expect to be in the mix, like suppliers, software developers, regulators and even competitors. .

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SoftBank-backed Oyo files for $1.16 billion IPO

TechCrunch

Much like every other hospitality and travel firm, Oyo was also severely disrupted by the pandemic. That deal immediately proved to be a success, which then propelled Agarwal to explore broadening his offering — now using technology — to focus on what were the neglected segments of the market. Oyo’s offerings.

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How the Gig Economy is Transforming Entrepreneurship

StartupNation

The common thread linking all three experiences is that, chances are, you used an app that relies on workers in the gig economy. The gig economy isn’t just limited to the service and hospitality industries, either. By embracing the gig economy, you might even gather the resources to introduce the next big disruption yourself.

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Check out these startups from Pear’s Demo Day (there’s usually a breakout or two in the bunch)

TechCrunch

As notably, despite introducing a far smaller number of teams to investors than Y Combinator and more renowned accelerator programs, there always seem to be at least one or two projects in Pear’s Demo Day mix that turn into actual, sustainable and, sometimes, sizable companies. ” Bonfire. ” Transcera.

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Daily Crunch: ‘For a limited time,’ Coinbase’s new NFT marketplace will waive transaction fees

TechCrunch

Waymo co-CEO Dmitri Dolgov will join us for a fireside chat. And while you’re procuring tickets, grab one for October’s TechCrunch Disrupt. Ad-specially for you : Mutiny is using AI tech to optimize ads and landing pages based on customer behavior , which got investors all excited to the tune of a $50 million Series B.

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Deliverect raises $150M at a $1.4B+ valuation to streamline online and offline food orders

TechCrunch

It now has its software in use in 20,000 locations across 40 markets, with the number of locations doubling in less than a year. “We are preparing to scale to meet all of the digital opportunities in the food hospitality industry.” It’s fast heading to processing some 100 million orders globally, he added.