The startup of Daimler, the company that owns the luxury car brand Mercedes Benz, started operations in the capital on Monday Uber, Cabify and Didi have a new competition. This is the private transportation platform Beat, which on Monday, February 18, announced the start of its operations in Mexico City.…
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The two-year-old scooter startup Lime has a remarkable financial history: According to a report, it is now worth two billion US dollars. The company raised $ 70 million in early 2018 as part of its financing round. Thus, the total financing in the spring already amounted to 132 million US…
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The revolution of small vehicles in cities aims to solve in a sustainable way the problem of circulation. In various academic investigations, in books and even in a TED talk, the economist Sendhil Mullainathan popularized the concept of the “last mile problem” years ago. Mullainathan currently teaches in Chicago, went…
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Entrepreneurs who develop technology or services around the auto driving industry have the chance to win in Silicon Valley. Figures from the consulting firm specializing in entrepreneurship, CB Insights, reported that at the end of 2017 the startups focused on autonomous development captured 76% of the total investments made in…
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Uber is studying the possibility of expanding its VTC business (rental cars with driver) to short-haul transport with scooters and electric bicycles, as part of its long-term strategy. The inclusion of these two new means of transport in the Uber service would improve travel within large cities and, in the…
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Before being companies valued in billions of dollars, and serve as a taxi service for most users with a smartphone or be a hosting platform, firms such as Uber or Airbnb, had to sell boxes of cereal to survive . TINY SPECK (SLACK) Today one of the platforms that is…
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At the end of August, EL PAÍS published the tragic news of the murder of a passenger at the hands of a driver of the company DiDi Chuxing Technology (the equivalent and main competitor of Uber in China). In processing the implications, I asked the typical naive question: How had…
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After helping to found PayPal, he founded LinkedIn in 2002, which made him a billionaire. He was one of Facebook’s initial investors and is currently a partner in Greylock, a venture capital firm. He wrote two books, “The Start-Up of You” (with Ben Casnocha) and “The Alliance: Managing Talent in…
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