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Self-Driving Vehicles: The Future Always Takes Longer to Arrive (Part 1)

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Subsequent challenges in 2005 and 2007 had better results, and the 2007 event was the first actually staged on roads… albeit an abandoned military base in California. None of the entrants could complete the 150 mile course, in fact the best vehicle (developed by CMU team) only went about 7 miles before it got stuck like the others.

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Cliff Notes S-1: Kayak ? AGILEVC

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Kayak was started here in my backyard of Boston… co-founder & CTO Paul English and the product/engineering team is based here in Concord MA. What They Do: Travel search engine. round closed Feb 2005. Last week ZipCar began trading and has a market cap of about $1 billion. Series B Preferred. Series B-1 Preferred.

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Urbanization of Startups ? AGILEVC

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The kinds of places where you have to sign an NDA when you walk in the lobby… When I lived and worked in the bay area (2000-2005) virtually all the startups were down on the peninsula somewhere.