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Shared housing startups are taking off

TechCrunch LA

In startup-land, however, the presumptions about where housing demand is going looks a bit different. Home sharing is on the rise, along with more temporary lease options, high-touch service and smaller spaces in sought-after urban locations. The early developers of the U.S. Seeking roommates and venture capital. Looking ahead.

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GM exits car-sharing business and shuts down Maven

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GM’s experiment with car sharing is over. The automaker Tuesday said its Maven car-sharing service, which launched in 2016, will shut down for good. The company sent an email to customers Tuesday that after examining the business, the car-sharing industry and COVID-19, it decided to shutter the service permanently.

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10 Sharing Principles Propel Many Current Businesses

Startup Professionals Musings

These are responding to the demands of this new world for collaboration, trust, and transparency. Here is my interpretation of the key focus points and requirements to be categorized as open: Shared beliefs (purpose). Shared risks (open capital). Shared clients and objectives (networked organization).

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CalAmp Enables Electric Scooter Sharing Market With Telematics Tech

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Irvine-based CalAmp , which develops telematics hardware and software used to track the location of assets and vehicles in real time, has jumped into the electric scooter sharing market, saying today that it is applying its technology to support the launch of scooter sharing services with partner Premier Wireless Solutions (PWS).

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6 Demands Of Today’s Me-Centric Customers On Startups

Startup Professionals Musings

I’m convinced you need to face reality – success with customers now requires developing a whole new relationship with your customers. A positive result of being a recognized category expert is that it gives you the credibility to broaden demand and start new trends, instead of waiting for outside influencers and other customers.

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7 Keys To A Winning Business As A Phone App Developer

Startup Professionals Musings

One of the quickest ways to become an entrepreneur these days is to develop and publish a smartphone app. According to Tim Cook at Apple, there are over 34 million registered developers in 2022. After this connection, you need not share the 30% of all revenue collected by the store platform. Make your app support all platforms.

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Demand Media Nets $77.2M From IPO

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Santa Monica-based Demand Media said this morning that it received approximately $77.2M Demand's IPO offering was for 10,235,000 shares of common stock at $17.00 per share, with 5,175,000 shares of the offering coming directly from Demand Media itself, and the rest from other shareholders. READ MORE>>.

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