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Airbnb S-1 (Part 1): So How Profitable Is This Thing Really?

View from Seed

Airbnb convinced travelers to part with 100% of their booking cost up front and then they pay out the required amount to hosts when the stay actually occurs. The straight cost of revenue line is only ~25% of revenue implying a 75% gross margin, assuming you were looking at this in a simplistic revenue / COGS / gross profit manner.

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25 Entrepreneurs Explain Their Major Accomplishments in 2019

Hearpreneur

2019 may have been a bad year for some and to others, it was a great year. In the last few days of 2019, we took some time to ask a few entrepreneurs and business what their biggest business accomplishments were. #1- 2019 has been a year of growth for my business! 2019 was full of transformative development for Intellifluence.

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5 Promising Israeli Startups In 2020

YoungUpstarts

Drivenets is aiming high, with the strategic objective of creating infrastructure for managing a huge portion of global data in the coming decades. By disrupting the Service Provider space, DriveNets effectively offers operators many more solutions to cost effectively scale up and achieve organizational goals.

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Tech Industry Hiring In Canada Continues To Grow

YoungUpstarts

According to tech recruiters , 2019 has brought a handful of tech jobs to the forefront, such as cyber security engineering, AI/machine learning and data scientists, to name a few. Global interest in Canadian tech jobs has increased by 58%. Experts believe the global interest has made these jobs easier to fill. of all business.

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The Resilience Of American Business: How One Business Has Grown And Adapted During The Pandemic

YoungUpstarts

Doing so also closed their doors to a source of revenue they relied heavily on to keep their business alive and operating. The company has made impressive changes to adapt to this global pandemic in the following ways: Offering a new approach to their existing customer base. Expanding into new segments of the market.

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

Both Sides of the Table

The key is being able to dial back variable costs during these period. We’re at a new watermark because there are now global assets deployed and as the sun peeks out so to do the riders and the revenue. It’s truly staggering to realize that just a year ago we really hadn’t begun nationalizing let along globalizing. Simply put?—?there

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10 Realities Today Cause Startups To Bypass An IPO

Startup Professionals Musings

According to a recent Ernst & Young global report , the first half 2019 global IPO activity slowdown continued, following an unusually quiet Q1 2019 as ongoing geopolitical tensions and trade issues dampened IPO sentiment. In addition, most ordinary investors are convinced that IPO rewards only go to insiders.

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