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Groupon Teams Up With Redeam To Expand Worldwide Experiences

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Customers will gain the ability to easily find, book and redeem a wider range of activities wherever they happen to be. By integrating with their technology, we’re delivering more tools and capabilities for these merchants and operators to sell more tickets while delivering a great experience for our customers.”.

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Hertz And Avis Eye Uber Impact, With Rough Road Ahead

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In this case , “a bit” goes back as long ago as January 2016, when it came out that beginning in the third quarter of 2015, Uber began to displace rental cars, at that point only in Boston. And, as has been known for a while, Avis has a pact in place with Waymo, to help manage self-driving vehicles based and operating in Phoenix, Ariz.

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Wayfair’s Burgeoning Home Goods Ecosystem

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In fact, in its founding days back in 2002, Wayfair fit comfortably in the spare bedroom of Conine’s Boston-area home. As of now, the firm is looking to branch out from its Copley Place headquarters in downtown Boston and into a neighboring building that reportedly has enough space to accommodate it.

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The Top 20 Venture Capitalists

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15 of the top 20 operate in the Greater Bay Area. He received his MBA in 1993 from UT Austin before joining Credit Suisse First Boston as an Equity Research Analyst, where he focused on computer hardware and software. Operating Location: San Francisco, CA. Operating Location: San Francisco, CA. BILL GURLEY.

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Drizly: The Amazon of Alcohol

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And Boston-based D rizly ’s news yesterday of its $15 million in Series B funding was a noteworthy milestone, for sure. . Our system standardizes the information properly, which when you think about the variety of ways small shops around the nation list and manage their inventory, is a huge challenge ,” Rellas said.

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Most Platforms Can’t Scale, Will Fail

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Evans, with his long-time colleague Dick Schmalensee, spent last year putting a lot of what we know in a new Harvard Business Review Press book, “ Matchmakers: The New Economics of Multisided Platforms ,” that’s going to be rolling off the presses in a few weeks. Why New Mobile and IoT Operating Systems Will Mainly Fizzle.

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Wayfair’s Way Forward In A Crowded Field

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It’s a tall order for a Boston-based furniture company – but Wayfair has always thought big, even when it was very, very small. So small, in fact, that when it first started in 2002, the entire operation fit easily into the spare bedroom of Co-founder Steve Conine’s Boston home. ” Emory told The Globe.

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