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Airbnb S-1 (Part 1): So How Profitable Is This Thing Really?

View from Seed

Airbnb’s bookings have rebounded to roughly 70-80% of what they were in 2019 pre-COVID whereas global hotel companies like Marriott and Hilton are operating at roughly 35-40% of where they were in fall 2019. America in 2019) though in terms of nights booked Europe was 43% and N.

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Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition – Class 7 – Space

Steve Blank

led liberal international order and replace it with its own neo-totalitarian model where China emerges as the dominant regional and global power. Tim Harford, “ The CubeSat Revolution Changing the Way We See the World ” BBC News, July 17, 2019. The Space Force was born as a separate service in December 2019.

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25 Entrepreneurs Explain Their Major Accomplishments in 2019

Hearpreneur

2019 may have been a bad year for some and to others, it was a great year. In the last few days of 2019, we took some time to ask a few entrepreneurs and business what their biggest business accomplishments were. #1- 2019 has been a year of growth for my business! 2019 was full of transformative development for Intellifluence.

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The Midas List Then and Now

View from Seed

Since I’m mainly doing this for my own interest and this isn’t supposed to be a scientific analysis, I’m going to instead look at the 2019 list and compare it to the 2009 list. 2009 was the nadir of the global economic crisis, followed up an unprecedented bull market. In 2009, white males made up about 70% of the list vs. 56% in 2019.

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How To Survive The Loss Of A Main Customer

YoungUpstarts

Zain Jaffer is a serial entrepreneur and the Founder and CEO of Zain Ventures , an investment firm that invests globally in start-ups, real estate, stocks, fixed income, hedge funds, and private equity. Vungle’s remarkable success attracted The Blackstone Group, which acquired the business in 2019 for a lofty $780 million. .

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5 Promising Israeli Startups In 2020

YoungUpstarts

Drivenets is aiming high, with the strategic objective of creating infrastructure for managing a huge portion of global data in the coming decades. This company has received multiple awards, including Cyber Security Excellence Awards Winner for 2019, Cyber Defense Global Awards 2019 Winner, and SC 2019 Awards Finalist.

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Riding The Digital Nomadism Wave In 2019

YoungUpstarts

It’s the 14 th of July, 2019 today. Do you know what was one of the biggest headlines – globally – just a few days ago? All told, globally, there were 18,000 jobs lost. And due to a variety of reasons, I believe that most of these are permanent cuts.