Startups

Will Airbnb be the next dot-bomb or a sustainable disrupter? Venture capitalist Peter Thiel and others are betting on the latter.

Uber is definitely persistent but rather than blindly barreling through cities, the startup needs a breather to reassess how it can grow through preparation and collaboration with city officials.

Uber is moving fast for a company that’s run into some real roadblocks during its expansion, but depending on regulations might find success in a fresh market with fewer competitors.

While individual travel bloggers won’t have much luck putting their next trip on Kickstarter, projects such as Nowhere and this Bhutan documentary may be paving the way for more established and well-organized travel projects to get funded.

Uber’s haste to be the first to disrupt New York’s taxi scene resulted in its quick dismissal, but it looks to have indeed succeeded in prompting the TLC to adjust regulations in time for Hailo’s arrival.

This isn’t the first app to offer localized deals, but it likely has the largest user base to offer the coupons to after a surge of users turned to the app following Apple’s recommendations.

There's definitely a time and place for trip-planning, and while social networks help, they may not be the optimum forum.

Uber paved the way for Hailo in Boston when city officials cleared the way for similar apps, but it will need to go it alone in New York City now that Uber has retreated from the market.

These cities may not have as much easy access to capital that you'd find in Silicon Valley, but they are carving out specialties -- like Amsterdam’s creative services and and the hard tech coming out of Cambridge -- that give them distinctive identities.

Despite the backing of EasyJet, FastJet still has lots of homework to do before its ambitions match reality.