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Five tips on starting your own venture that uses business as a force for good
For The Venture's global report, Redefining Success in a Changing World, we surveyed more than 550 social entrepreneurs from around the world and talked to some of the most successful to get their personal learnings and tips to help you get your business off the ground. Your business idea stands a Read More...
Social enterprise start-up rates boom in the UK
UK social enterprises are outperforming mainstream businesses on a number of accounts including start-up rates, job creation and in the promotion of diversity in the workforce, finds a new report by Social Enterprise UK (SEUK). The State of Social Enterprise Survey 2015, which was launched Read More...
Lyft is partnering with Didi Kuaidi, Uber's biggest mompetitor in China
Bad news for Uber: Didi Kuaidi, China's top ride-sharing service, has joined forces with Lyft and invested $100 million in the company. Less than a day after Chinese ride-hailing giant Didi Kuaidi made public a $100 million investment in Lyft, the two companies held a press conference announcing a Read More...
In Boston, a mobile food truck serves food deserts
Low-income communities can’t derive a lot of benefits from nutrition education if there aren’t any grocery stores in the area selling healthy food. But starting and running a supermarket is a capital intensive, low-margin business. The solution: mobile food markets that travel to Read More...
Mercedes eyes driverless on-demand limousine service as potential market
German carmaker Mercedes-Benz sees business potential in offering on-demand limousine services using driverless cars, Daimler Chief Executive Dieter Zetsche said, in what amounts to a direct challenge to Uber. Germany's oldest carmaker is considering setting up large fleets of autonomous cars to Read More...
An Uber for bicycles? The grand ambitions of Danish startup AirDonkey
When you’re launching a new business, having big aspirations is usually the done thing. For the distinctively-named AirDonkey the ambitions are bigger than most: to be something of a combination of Uber and Airbnb, but for bicycles. If that wasn’t enough, the Copenhagen-based startup, which is Read More...
Uber is even bigger than you realize
Uber now serves 2 million rides per day. Just five years in, Uber is the most valuable startup in the world, worth more than $50 billion after its most recent round of funding. It's arguably the quickest to scale as well, and the ride-hailing company doesn't show signs of slowing down: An exclusive Read More...
Uber closes on $1.2 billion in funding for China
Ride sharing giant Uber has raised $1.2 billion in new funding to invest in its business in China. The round was led by Chinese search giant Baidu, and Uber’s China subsidiary was valued at $8 billion, according to Chinese news site Sina. Uber was valued at $50 billion in its last round of Read More...
How to reinvent the organization man in the Uber-age
Uber suffered a legal blow this week when a California judge granted class action status to a lawsuit claiming the car-hailing service treats its drivers like employees, without providing the necessary benefits. Up to 160,000 Uber chauffeurs, or “driver-partners” in company-speak, are now Read More...
While Starting Carpool Services, Uber And Lyft Should Study Cuba's System
Cuba is often derided, appropriately, as a backwards nation that has failed to modernize its houses, cars and overall economic policies. I got to visit its capital city of Havana this summer, and found this perception evident from the moment I stepped into José Martí airport. But there was one Read More...