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Even with Fair’s Job Cuts, Car-Sharing Keeps Racing Forward

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Founded in 2009, the San Francisco-based company has already received more than $400 million in total venture capital funding from investors including GV, Madrona Venture Group and actor Ashton Kutcher. Even with the recent news from Fair, companies are still driving toward the goal of more online and mobile car subscriptions.

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Even With Fair’s Job Cuts, Car-Sharing Keeps Racing Forward

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Founded in 2009, the San Francisco-based company has already received more than $400 million in total venture capital funding from investors including GV, Madrona Venture Group and actor Ashton Kutcher. The funding round brings the company’s total amount raised to $450 million since its inception in 2009, when it was called Relay Rides.

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Why Innovation Is Nothing Without Distribution

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Success is now defined by the ability to reach a critical mass of users – consumers or businesses – efficiently and effectively … where time is an important currency, as is the ability to influence and/or control that end user experience. For General Mills, the shift to online, even if tiny, has been a boon for their sales.

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Whatever Happened To…Kabbage

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The year was 2009, and it was rough for some, but a fertile ground for others. “I Our focus has always been on user experience and for them to get capital in less than ten minutes. Petralia remembers back to 2009 when the team was looking for a bank partnership. million to date, after five rounds and 17 investors.

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Facebook And Dating: It’s (Not) Complicated

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Before online matchmaking intermediaries like Match.com and Tinder tried their hand at increasing those odds, there was Frigyes Karinthy , SixDegrees, Friendster, not to mention village matchmakers. The basic idea occurred about seven decades before the first online social networks. That does make it seem kinda hard.

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M-Pesa’s Quiet Mobile Revolution 10 Years In

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When M-Pesa first went online in Afghanistan in 2009, police officers who agreed to be paid through a pilot program with the system thought they had all gotten a raise — according to BBC reports — because their salary appeared to have gone up 30 percent. He said it’s a priority to refine the user experience and offer new services.

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Who Will Disintermediate The Intermediaries?

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Traditional acquirers are being marginalized by technology players that provide solutions — not just payments processing — to software platforms who want more control over the end-to-end payments experience for the merchants with which they do business. To name but a few. Yes, they do. We have complied a pretty compelling story.

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