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Harvard Business Review
JULY 26, 2018
On March 25 mighty Uber bowed out of Southeast Asia by selling its operation in several countries to local rival Grab. In 2016 the company sold its China operation to Didi Chuxing because of the fierce competitiveness of the local player. A year later, Uber admitted defeat in another region, selling its operation in Russia to Yandex.
Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 31, 2017
Since their founding less than a decade ago, Uber and Airbnb have wrangled with regulators, challenged the taxi and hotel industries, earned extraordinary valuations from venture capital investors — and fundamentally transformed the way people think about urban transportation and travel. The irony is many VCs just passed on them.
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Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 13, 2014
Shervin Pishevar, a venture capitalist and an investor in Couchsurfing, Getaround, Uber and other startups in this space, believes these services will have a major impact on the economics of cities; “This is a movement as important as when the web browser came out.”. Government Technology'
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 2, 2015
Successful UEs would be expected to become the next generation of local angel investors and venture capitalists. Although she was based in Manhattan, she traveled constantly and was a frequent keynote speaker. operations. Miami’s median income was 10 times that of most of the cities where Unamano operated.
Harvard Business Review
JULY 7, 2015
These well-intentioned professionals travel the world in pursuit of the secret sauce of innovation. Don’t just make a beeline to the entrepreneurs and venture capitalists; get a broad multi-disciplinary cross section. Talk to venture capitalists and they, too, will tell you how essential they are in leading the charge.
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