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Dropbox founder and chief executive Drew Houston offered some details this afternoon about how he grew the company to more than 4 million users . In its early days, the document synchronization startup did all the things that startups are “supposed” to do, like buying ads on Google’s search results through AdWords and hiring a public relations firm. Houston said the results were “horrific”.
Dropbox CEO: Why search advertising failed us | VentureBeat
WhipCar (www.WhipCar.com), the world’s first neighbour-to-neighbour car rental service has just announced its 1,000th car on the service. Compared to leading UK car clubs which took approximately six years to achieve a similar scale, it has taken WhipCar only six months, making WhipCar the world’s fastest-growing car club. By enabling private car owners to rent out their cars for the first time, WhipCar has created the country’s only and broadest virtual rental car fleet with over 40 different makes of car available to rent across 450 towns and cities in the UK. In areas where WhipCar now has cars available, it tends to be the closest, lowest cost and most convenient option for anyone looking to rent a car. Vinay Gupta, Founder of WhipCar comments on the growth of the service: “We are very excited and encouraged by what we’ve seen so far. Cars should be things that are available when you need them whilst paying their own way when you don’t.
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Wednesday, 21st April 2010 WhipCar, the world's first neighbour-to-neighbour car rental service, has today announced that it is coming to the streets of London. For the first time, private car owners can rent out their cars for money to safe, eligible drivers looking for a close, convenient and affordable way to rent them. They will now be able to do so all through an easy-to-use simple online booking facility (www.whipcar.com).The Next-Gen Car Sharing Players: Spride, WhipCar, RelayRides
With Zipcar busy gobbling up car sharing competitors , a new generation of startups offering a peer-to-peer or distributed model of car sharing is taking shape. WhipCar, over in the UK, and RelayRides and Spride Share ( the most recent entry , with some big name backers) here in the U.S., aim to put together a service letting users rent out their personal vehicles to members.
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It's a time-sharing world - O'Reilly Radar
Lisa Gansky joined me at GNN in 1994, which was the early days of the Web, long before an ecosystem of interconnected services emerged. After the sale of GNN to AOL, Lisa went to work at AOL for several years before going on to run Ofoto, a photo-sharing service that was bought by Kodak She's had a broad variety of strategic roles in a number of startups as well as large companies. Lisa is energetic and enthusiastic, and she's known as a person who connects people and ideas.avec Covoiturage.fr - Le site du covoiturage en Europe
...pour le covoiturage ! Badges facebook funs et responsables cherchent covoitureuses et covoitureurs fiers de leur éco-geste citoyen pour longue histoire d'amitié :-) A l’occasion de la Semaine du développement durable, Covoiturage.fr préserve 10m² de forêt pour chaque nouveau covoitureur. C'est le moment d'en parler autour de vous ! Vous faites du covoiturage mais vos collègues n'ont jamais essayé :-( ? Créez une page covoiturage à l'occasion de la Semaine du développement durable !
Résumé : Quand on doit absolument partir, tous les moyens sont bons, y compris le co-voiturage. Les sites spécialisés n'ont jamais vu ça. Il faut dire que parfois il y a des rendez-vous qu'on n'a vraiment pas le droit de manquer, comme pour cette jeune fille...
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French carpooling platform Comuto profits from volcanic cloud
There have certainly been a lot of travelers who have not appreciated the transportation issues caused by the recent volcanic eruption in Iceland.
PARIS — Carpooling websites are experiencing a boom in popularity in Europe as commuters, fed up with rail strikes and as concerned about their pocketbooks as their carbon footprints, seek alternative methods of getting from Point A to Point B. In France, the popular site Covoiturage.fr has emerged as the dominant market force, seeing its membership more than double in the last two years. The site was founded in 2004 by Frederic Mazzella, a Stanford University graduate who had been impressed by both the carpool lanes and the pioneering startup spirit of the San Francisco Bay Area. His site, initially popular primarily among students and old-school hitchhikers, has 750,000 registered members and receives 12 million page views a month, accounting for 85 percent of the French carpooling market. “For the first four years nothing happened,” he says from the office 15 employees share with other tech startups in the quiet, residential north-west of Paris.
French Website Makes Euro-Carpooling A Snap | Autopia | Wired.com
Le fonds d'investissement initié par Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet, PDG et fondateur de Priceminister.com, effectue son premier investissement.
ISAI investit 1,1 million d'euros dans Covoiturage.fr - Journal
Alexia Tsotsis works for TechCrunch as a writer. She attended the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, CA, majoring in Writing and Art, and moved to New York City shortly after graduation to work in the Media industry. After four years of living in New York and attending courses at New York University, she returned to Los Angeles... → Learn More Social ride-sharing start-up and FBfund recipient Zimride announces today a round of seed funding led by FLOODGATE , K9 Ventures and a group of angels including Keith Rabois and Teddy Downey. Co-founded by Logan Green and John Zimmer, Zimride is a carpool startup that actually makes money , using the Facebook platform to allow people in the same networks to coordinate carpooling.
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Google-Backed RelayRides Lets Vehicle Owners Rent Cars for Cash - Bloomberg
RelayRides , a startup backed by Google Inc.’s venture arm and August Capital , is opening up shop in San Francisco today, letting the city’s residents make money from their cars by sharing them with strangers. The company is building on a trial run in Massachusetts, where 50 participants are renting out vehicles to 1,000 borrowers. The concept works like Zipcar Inc. and other services that use the Web to rent cars by the hour, except RelayRides doesn’t have to buy its own fleet. Enlarge image Enlarge image RelayRides started in June, joining the ranks of companies that help consumers turn their possessions into revenue producers.Robin Wauters is the European Editor of tech blog The Next Web and lead editor of Virtualization.com. He was a senior staff writer at TechCrunch until his departure in February 2012.