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How You Know You’ve Got the Right Startup Model?

Both Sides of the Table

” I’m sure you’ve all read about similar stories like Uber and Lyft being banned by cities for providing a transportation service consumers finally love or Airbnb for low-cost, more homey alternatives to hotels. Turkey or China? Even governments don’t like losing their monopoly – control of the media.

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The Truth About the Scooter Economy?—?An Insider’s Perspective

Both Sides of the Table

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. In the meantime we think we can build a globally complex, economically viable business that will be hard to disrupt. They’re not new.

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Out There Bets and Insider Games: The Social Barriers to Funding Big Ideas

This is going to be BIG.

Honestly, I didn’t take it that seriously—mostly because I was starting with no information. Even for VCs like myself that want to be accessible and inclusive, it’s hard to evaluate someone who doesn’t communicate with the same package of information that everyone else is sending you. They helped him refine his idea.

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Onboard Dynamics Is Leading the Transition to Next Generation Transportation Fuels, Reducing Emissions, and Driving Down Energy Costs

Angel Capital Association

To use natural gas as a transportation fuel, it must be compressed so that it has the same energy density as gasoline or diesel liquid fuel. The award money was dedicated to addressing the obstacles and barriers associated with adopting natural gas as a transportation fuel. In total, Onboard Dynamics has raised approximately $9.35

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FourKites Raises $100M in Series D

HPA

This latest funding round, following a year of record growth for FourKites, validates our vision of breaking down the barriers across today’s supply chains — between transportation, warehouses, stores and siloed technology systems,” said Mathew Elenjicka l, founder and CEO of FourKites. “We

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Why regulators love Nuro’s self-driving delivery vehicles

TechCrunch

Department of Transportation, The American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators (AAMVA) “[wondered] about the description of pedestrian ‘crumple zones,’ and whether this may impact the vehicle’s crash-worthiness in the event of a vehicle-to-vehicle crash. In a 2019 letter to the U.S.

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The motorcycle ride-hailing wars in Nigeria and Uganda is SafeBoda’s to lose

TechCrunch

The company, which first launched in Uganda, is disrupting the offline market of local motorcycles referred to as boda-bodas in Uganda and okadas in Nigeria. “Everyone thought Uber and Bolt would enter Africa to revolutionize the informal boda market,” Sussock told TechCrunch. Chinese and Japanese investors.