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Transforming Corporate Mobility with Car Sharing Software

The Startup Magazine

With the increasing demand for car sharing services, there arose a need to monitor the usage of vehicles. With corporate usage, all these tasks are managed by the company offering vehicles for short-term rentals. Founded in 2000, by 2010, the company’s fleet already had 8,000 cars.

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Money Out of Nowhere: How Internet Marketplaces Unlock Economic Wealth

abovethecrowd.com

Fortunately, the rise of the Internet, and specifically Internet marketplace models, act as accelerants to the productivity benefits of the division of labour AND comparative advantage by reducing information asymmetry and increasing the likelihood of a perfect match with regard to the exchange of goods or services.

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The public invisibility of running mid-stage successful companies

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

My daily life consists of (a) setting the strategy and rationale of the Engineering & Innovation department, based on a mixture of vision, data, and the needs of the rest of the company, (b) participate in doing the same for the whole company, (c) hire, (d) manage the managers whose teams execute the real work.

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What we can learn from the evolution of Content Management Systems

The Next Web

Accessing the Internet on a phone was doable, but the experience was pretty bad. 2 nd decade (early 2000): The First Content Management Systems (CMS). A new revolution began when high-speed Internet connections became available to most of the developed world. More businesses needed a website and they needed it quickly.

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Don’t Sleep on Lightning

Version One Ventures

Up until late August, Lightning Labs had capped the channel capacity and payment size for users of their popular implementation of the network to ~$2000 USD and ~$500 respectively to better protect user funds with experimental software. . Instant: all settlement on Lightning happens instantly. At least not yet.

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10 Companies Want To Show You The Money

YoungUpstarts

An on-demand ride sharing service. Lyft requires you to be at least 23 years old and have your own four-door car (2000 or newer) in good working condition. An on-demand mobile marketplace allowing busy people to outsource their errands and tasks for a fee. Here are 10 online platforms that want you to show you the money: 1.

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On Going Public: SPACs, Direct Listings, Public Offerings, and Access to Private Markets

Ben's Blog

Editor’s Note: This testimony was delivered by a16z managing partner Scott Kupor to the U.S. By way of background, I am the Managing Partner for Andreessen Horowitz, a $16.5 Second, by better matching supply and demand, direct listings have generally mitigated the magnitude of IPO Pops, thus engendering better overall price discovery.

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