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How to Miss By a Mile: An Alternative Look at Uber’s Potential Market Size

abovethecrowd.com

For the market size, he states, “For my base case valuation, I’m going to assume that the primary market Uber is targeting is the global taxi and car-service market.” He then goes on to calculate a global estimate for the historical taxi and limousine market. Uber initially worked well primarily within the San Francisco city limits.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: 1M/1M and Incubators - What We Have Learned

ReadWriteStart

As for the pitches, first , Eddie Godshalk from San Jose, California, presented QuantGeo , a geospatial data service for real estate investors, property buyers, banks, etc., At today's session, we discussed some of them. You can listen to the recording to learn more, and also find further details here.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Spotlight On The Northwest

ReadWriteStart

Then Greg Snead, also from Tacoma, discussed Orbiter , an RFID venture that is moving along quite nicely, having clocked more than $700,000 in revenue last year. Orbiter expects to give its investors a 15 times return on investment based on their current pipeline and revenue forecast. Happy Grasshopper. Social Pulse.

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How Black People Leveraged Tech Bigotry to Boss the Blockchain Below the Radar

Austin Startup

The African-American community with a global movement known as the Afro-Tech quietly mastered blockchain/distributed ledger technology several years ago to benefit urban communities.

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Clusters, Class, Culture and Unfair Advantages

Steve Blank

Forty years later when the Internet has made knowledge global, we’ve run into the second barrier – just knowing about things is not the great equalizer we expected. We were so clueless about where San Jose was that at first the company admin got me tickets to San Jose Puerto Rico.).

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Urbanization of Startups ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

Note (1): For those not familiar with the geography of the SF Bay Area, the city of San Francisco proper sits at the north end of a peninsula that stretches down to the smaller city of San Jose. Just a minor nitpicky point: San Jose is actually much larger than SF, in both population and land area. link] Chris G.

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Clusters, Class, Culture and Unfair Advantages

Steve Blank

Forty years later when the Internet has made knowledge global, we’ve run into the second barrier – just knowing about things is not the great equalizer we expected. We were so clueless about where San Jose was that at first the company admin got me tickets to San Jose Puerto Rico.).

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