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Why One Startup Is Desperately Seeking Regulation

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These days, however, Uber is spending its time, increasingly, in court and has even managed to allow things to break down completely in Austin such that it doesn’t operate there anymore. Said charter will mean that Circle will face tighter scrutiny but great ease operating on a national scale.

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In Favor Of Delivery: The Growing Omnichannel Store-To-Door Ecosystem

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These programs — which include apps like GrubHub, Foodler, Favor, Seamless and DoorDash – operate independently of merchants, acting as middlemen between in-home consumers and various eateries. According to Duncan, Favor fields inquiries surrounding both its own operations and mishaps that are the restaurants’ responsibilities.

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121 Of The Biggest, Costliest Startup Failures Of All Time

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Indeed, co-founder Alejandro Resnik, the CEO, told the WSJ in 2015 that it was looking to raise a “monster round” of $300 million at a $2 billion valuation to fuel its national expansion. Australian music streaming company Guvera has reportedly stopped operating, with its co-founder and biggest financial backer walking away from the project.

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From AT&T To Xerox: 65 Corporate Innovation Labs

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From their humble, skunkworks-style origins in Palo Alto to their current offices in Sunnyvale, Cupertino, Seattle, and Boston, they’ve scaled up to attack new projects but keep the same focus on experimentation and innovation that helped them build the first Kindle. National Medal of Science, Turing Awards, Kyoto Prizes, and many others.

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242 Startup Failure Post-Mortems

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We are confident that to truly have the long-term impact we want to make, we need to focus on finding an acquirer with an existing national fresh food supply chain who can carry forward the Juicero mission. Most surprising was the sudden shutdown of Sprig, a startup in the beleaguered food-delivery space that first received funding in 2013.

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Why The Final Payday Lending Rules Are Far From The Last Word

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Even more surprising is that the editorial boards and writers at The Washington Post and The Boston Globe agree with them, given their historical pro-CFPB stance. There should be vying for the consumer’s business under the same rules and regulations that non-depository providers operate under,” Fulmer noted in an interview with PYMNTS.

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