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10 “big data” travel startups on Angel List, living large and making big promises
DigitalIf you want to attract some investors with clout, then slap your travel startup’s profile onto AngelList, insert some Big Data promises, and wait for some huge funding to roll in. Or, at least that’s the hope. Shake a travel startup on AngelList these days, and you are likely to see a reference to Big [...]
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Startup shorthands: “Tripadvisor of…” startups on AngelList
DigitalEarlier in January we did a story about startups that were marketing themselves as the “Airbnb of…” in their profiles on AngelList, all 75 of them, and it proved to be a popular one. Airbnb being one of the hottest startups and the “collaborative consumption” sector being an investor favorite these days, it is understandable [...]
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Airbnb, the coolest lingo for startup descriptions on AngelList
DigitalThat Airbnb is the poster-child of the sharing economy — or collaborative consumption if you want to be hipper — is now a given, so much so that a fuddy-duddy business magazine like Forbes put the company and its CEO Brian Chesky on its latest cover. But before a company becomes the zeitgeist in the larger pop culture, [...]
