This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 30, 2020

Imagine telling everyone from bike commuters to people who work from home to “Move next to public transportation”. When you read fundraising advice to founders, think about how much blanket statements would make sense for real estate.

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Revolution

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Interstate System : Atlanta is a nexus for major interstates like I-20, I-75, and I-85, allowing for efficient road transport. Rail Network : Atlanta offers access to both Norfolk Southern and CSX Transportation. Inland Ports : The availability of inland ports like the Appalachian Regional Port provides intermodal transfer options.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

Who else but an extreme optimist and entrepreneur could have imagined and then publicly spoken about “The Hyperloop” – a system of transport that envisages transporting people from LA to San Francisco in 35 minutes. Of course the naysayers are out again. I’d love even 0.5%

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A Smart Bear

AUGUST 22, 2017

Although not called SLC, there’s a popular meme in product circles that neatly encapsulates the idea of SLC in a diagram: The Modes of Transportation example from the Spotify product team: A skateboard is a SLC product. Zooming into one of our examples above, Snapchat took an SLC progression similar to the transportation metaphor.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

The hardest relationships to establish have been with the biggest product companies (auto makers, consumer product companies), retailers (Walmart, Kroger) and big transportation (UPS, FedEx), logistics, energy, healthcare, shipping & telecommunications companies. None of us are derivatives of Silicon Valley.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

APRIL 8, 2022

Whether by land or air, transportation accounts for over a quarter of total yearly greenhouse gas emissions. Consider partnering with local vendors, a method called “near-sourcing,” which reduces emissions caused by transporting resources to your door. Minimize business travel. When establishing partnerships for your business (i.e.,

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Source Link

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Distance and transportation. The quality and connectivity of a community’s transportation system influences economic success and overall quality of life and often factors into an entrepreneur’s decision on where to set up shop.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2021

SafeBoda said the investment from Google’s Africa Investment Fund will help “drive its growth in Uganda and Nigeria, scaling its transportation-led app to offer new payment and financial services solutions for its expanding set of customers: passengers, drivers and merchants.”.

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Dream It

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Uber’s market was not just the size of black car services; the company’s market would span taxis, public transport, and black car services, and it would expand the market by bringing in more customers with the product’s ease of use and simplicity. As all investors know from the case of Uber, you cannot size a market based on an incumbent.

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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

MAY 6, 2020

a publicly-traded social service and transportation firm. That’s the message about COVID-19 from Warren Rustand. Rustand has run more than a dozen companies during this career, most recently Providence Service Corp., He’s taken at least one through bankruptcy, and he’s lived through every crisis in the past 70 years.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

They need to be focused on housing cost, transportation crime, and the kind of zoning that enables a critical mass of interesting local businesses to thrive. What I would say isn’t as important—for one, government intervention directly into the startup community. Mayors don’t build startup cities. They can’t make a place a “bitcoin city”.

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This is going to be BIG.

JULY 28, 2016

Google Apps enabled e-mail on demand without a server, Uber enables transportation on demand, and WeWork offers space on demand. As we've seen, the "business stack" of a variety of services entrepreneurs run on everyday has changed dramatically over the last few years. It was about support--how could they make your work life easier?

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 4, 2021

He has the idea that he believes, knows rather, can be a gamechanger in the transportation space, pitches it in a way that a Creative Director would, with imagery meant to impress and inspire, and I was like “Dude, what the heck is this?” I took a step back and tried to consider things from his point of view. And then I disappeared.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Register Pangyo Techno Valley , located in Seongnam City, Gyeonggi Province, has surpassed the 10,000 passenger mark in just four months since the launch of the autonomous public transportation service, ‘ PanTa-G Bus ,’ equipped with autonomous driving technology. As of 5:00 p.m. kilometers. to 7:00 p.m.

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Revolution

MAY 11, 2023

Roads, bridges, and transport will make or break a city’s ability to grow its startup ecosystem and talent pool. Infrastructure touches everything. The soundbite: “The way to go fishing is by going where the fish are — we need to open source where federal funding is headed and how to get a piece of the clean energy and infrastructure pie.”

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

These are the attributes that sustain and make a person’s leadership strong in both triumph and crisis, as well as transportable and transferrable in different environments. I call these leadership attributes The Big 4. The Big 4 Leadership Attributes. Curiosity: The desire to continuously learn, discover, and grow intellectually.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

DECEMBER 31, 2020

And that makes sense, particularly in a dense urban region where transportation options are crowded and time consuming. In USV’s year end review process, we asked our team if there was anything about the work model we adopted in the pandemic they want to keep.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 19, 2021

MAX ) is planning to enter more markets across Africa as it races towards formalizing the continent’s transportation sector after securing $31 million in Series B funding. Njoya said the startup is working towards becoming the go-to vehicle subscription and financial services platform for millions of transport operators across the continent.

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Revolution

OCTOBER 4, 2022

At the turn of the 20th century, any number of American municipalities with similar access to talent, materials, investment, and transportation might have emerged as the beating heart of the automobile industry. Hill Street Studios/Getty Images There was never a guarantee that Detroit would become the Motor City.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 11, 2022

Members are tapping into their networks to arrange donations, transportation and delivery of critical supplies and re-settlement options for refugees. We are seeing this unique skillset activate across Eastern Europe, and all of the EO world.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JANUARY 10, 2024

The Partnership for NYC, alongside its partners at the MTA, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, NJ TRANSIT, and NYC Department of Transportation, launched a call for applications for the 6th annual Transit Tech Lab this week.

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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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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Its strategic proximity, coupled with the ease of trade due to various international agreements, a skilled workforce, and efficient transportation infrastructure, make it an appealing choice. Amidst the strained relations between the United States and China, Mexico emerges as an attractive option for American businesses.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

The needs were overwhelming, from medical care to shelters, food, and transportation. It’s a lot of money, but when you apply it to a million refugees, you quickly realize that you have to make difficult choices on how to spend it. I had never worked under so much stress before.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

Could you imagine trying to measure the equity of transportation by measuring the price of the car purchased? If they want to do that, we need to make sure that market is available to them—but sometimes these rounds feel a little bit like buying a Ferrari. A Ferrari is a completely impractical and overpriced car for what it does.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 4, 2019

The problem stemmed from the curse of knowledge, with most of the leaders in the department of transportation forgetting the difficulties they had in developing their own leadership skills. Then, newly promoted supervisors were expected to pick up the skills on the job, without training in leadership.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The increasing need to reduce carbon emissions drives many industries, including airlines and transportation, to seek sustainable alternatives to meet emission reduction targets and fulfill corporate social responsibility commitments.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2015

We were discussing whether they were going to attend one of the biggest conferences in the video sector this year where many of our industry’s startups spend tens of thousands in attendance fees, sponsorships, parties and transportation. They simply said, with shrugged shoulders and without trying to make a big deal about it.

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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? Let me be clear. I hate attending big conference. I find them to be a distraction from my daily routine.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Rightbot, a startup developing suction-based robots that can unload truck-transported freight in a range of sizes, has raised $6.25 million in a funding round led by Amazon’s Industrial Innovation Fund (IIF) with participation from SOSV and Entrepreneur First.

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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. Here’s what she shared: Tell us about your entrepreneurial journey. . I was raised by my single mother in Honolulu, Hawaii.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 29, 2021

We sell to consumers who want to reduce the carbon intensity of the fuel they use, either because they’re required to or because they know it’s the right thing.”. • “The transportation sector is one of the largest emitters of greenhouse gases. Using biofuel reduces carbon emissions by 80% compared with petroleum.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Another question followed: “What are you transporting?” Li Hua provided details, including pictures of the goods being transported. Within seconds, he received a prompt: “What is the brand and model of your vehicle?” Li Hua stepped out of his truck, took a photo, and uploaded it.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 6, 2020

If your company is in dire straits (let’s say you’re a transportation company or a hospitality company) then you’re likely to find an amenable investor. It’s slightly harder if you’ve only done an A-round and therefore have just one VC around the table who owns more than a majority of the preferred stock.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

JULY 10, 2024

Second place of $4,500 went to Workforce Consolidation Solutions , founded by Ronnie Tillman-Hill and Alex Steele (Dauphin County): Providing eco-friendly employee transportation solutions, WCS optimizes routes and reduces commute times, enhancing employee experience and workforce management.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 19, 2023

Individuals reduce their carbon footprints through actions like minimizing air travel, eating less meat, driving a more eco-friendly vehicle, using public transportation, and running their homes on as much renewable energy as possible. Companies have to focus on these choices and more to reduce their footprint.

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