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Fast Company
Austin Carr |
Airbnb Unveils A Major Rebranding Effort That Paves The Way For Sharing More Than Homes Brian Chesky is unveiling a brand overhaul that impacts everything at Airbnb, from its advertising and product messaging to its community outreach and web and mobile services.   |
Fast Company
Daniel Terdiman |
Airbnb Gets Personal With New Tools For Hosts And Hints At Better Search In The Future They intend to improve the search experience for those who rely on the service to find short-term lodging, mainly through making it more personal and responsive to users' individual needs. |
Fast Company
Austin Carr |
What Hotel Operators Really Think Of Airbnb Airbnb, the online service which enables hosts to rent out their homes or spare bedrooms, has become a threat to the traditional hotel companies, which are now trying to figure out ways to compete in the sharing economy. |
Fast Company
April 2014
Austin Carr |
Inside Airbnb's Grand Hotel Plans Counting beds on offer, Airbnb is already the fifth-largest hotelier in the world, with unparalleled global reach. The startup, whose prices are at least one-sixth cheaper than its traditional rivals, expects to have 1 million listings by the end of 2014. |
Fast Company
Sarah Kessler |
How Airbnb Adapted For China Airbnb announced new strategic partners in China on Tuesday that it hopes will, as CEO Brian Chesky said in a statement, "create a truly localized platform." |
Fast Company
Austin Carr |
The Secret To Airbnb's Freakishly Rapid Orgy Response: "Scenario Planning" "Because we're a high-profile company, there are things that will go wrong," Airbnb hospitality chief Chip Conley told me recently. "So how do we deal with the aftermath of things that don't go well?" |
Fast Company
April 2009
Kate Bonamici Flaim |
Startup School Trains Early-Stage Tech Companies Jessica Livingston, along with Trevor Blackwell, Paul Graham, and Robert Morris, cofounded Y Combinator, which trains early-stage tech startups for a "semester" to help them navigate companyhood. Alumni include leaders of social news site Reddit, acquired by Conde Nast in 2006. |
Fast Company
Alice Truong |
Airbnb Says It Will Pay Hotel Taxes In San Francisco Cooperating with local regulators, home rental website Airbnb has agreed to pay San Francisco's 14% hotel tax, a week after the company said it would begin collecting hotel taxes in Portland. |
Entrepreneur
November 2007
Sara Wilson |
Win Your Startup Capital A business contest lets wannabe tech entrepreneurs get in the startup game. |
BusinessWeek
July 2, 2009
Spencer E. Ante |
Andreessen Readies a New Venture Capital Firm The Silicon Valley star's company has attracted lots of interest, and $300 million. Can he deliver with his innovative approach? |
BusinessWeek
February 24, 2011
Brad Stone |
Paul Graham's Search for the Next Facebook Graham's Y Combinator is an early-stage investment firm and boot camp for entrepreneurs that uses "mass production techniques" in its search for and development of promising startups. |
Fast Company
Max Chafkin |
"Guys, Let's Grow The Hell Out Of This Company": How Y Combinator Startups Go Big Liz Wessel has a number in mind: a jaw-dropping digit that she believes will be significant enough to convince even the most skeptical audience that she's onto something big. |
Fast Company
Neal Ungerleider |
Harvard Study Finds Oakland's Asian Airbnb Hosts Earn Less Than White Hosts The research paper found that Asian hosts on average earn $90 less per week or 20% less than white hosts for similar rentals. |
Fast Company
Sarah Kessler |
Peers Says Its New Focus Is Helping Sharing Economy Workers Peers.org fits very squarely in the marketplace bucket -- it's about what workers can do or buy to make their work as non-employees better, not how the system could be changed to make that work better. |
Fast Company
February 2015
Butler & Tischler |
The Startup Revolution Is About To Surge Again What would it look like if big companies opened up their assets -- their brands, relationships, and distribution channels -- and partnered with founders to monetize them in new ways? |
Fast Company
May 2015
Max Chafkin |
Y Combinator President Sam Altman Is Dreaming Big The Silicon Valley startup factory that birthed Airbnb and Dropbox has grown even more ambitious under its new leader. |
Fast Company
February 2016
Max Chafkin |
Can Airbnb Unite The World? Airbnb, which offers travelers an experience that is more unique and localized has benefited from the shift in consumer preferences to smaller, more localized ideas and products. |
Fast Company
John Paul Titlow |
Is Airbnb About To Become A $24 Billion Company? Just two months after Uber announced its quest for a $1.5 billion round of funding that would value the company at $50 billion, Airbnb appears to be on a similar track |
Fast Company
Max Chafkin |
The difference between a joke and a billion dollar company isn't as big as you'd think Startup stories are often told in which the founders stumble into a big idea, but the Y Combinator model is different. At YC, founders are encouraged to find sometimes laughably small ideas that work well. |
Fast Company
April 2013
Farhad Manjoo |
When It Comes To Tech Investing, VCS Are Venturing Forth Cautiously Growing uncertainty in tech is creating chaos for startups, consumers, and investors. |
Fast Company
Max Chafkin |
This Prosthetics Startup Shows How Software is Eating the World At Y Combinator there are more than a dozen startups developing sophisticated hardware products, biotech technologies, and even medical devices. |
Fast Company
October 19, 2011
Dan Macsai |
The Anxieties Of Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky charts his anxiety level since his rent-a-stranger's-apartment service began. |
The Motley Fool
August 2, 2011
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
This Is Not My Beautiful HomeAway A ransacked home has vandalized shares of HomeAway. |
Fast Company
April 18, 2011
Danielle Sacks |
The Sharing Economy Thanks to the social web, you can now share anything with anyone anywhere in the world. Is this the end of hyperconsumption? |
CIO
January 30, 2013 |
CIOs See Risks and Rewards in Startup Mania Investing in cutting-edge technologies could lead to big rewards, but it also brings incredible risk for CIOs, says Michael Friedenberg |
Fast Company
Pavithra Mohan |
Airbnb Hosts Discriminate Against Black Renters, Study Finds A new study from Harvard Business School finds that Airbnb hosts are more likely to book reservations with users who have "distinctly white" names, according to Bloomberg. |
Fast Company
Sarah Kessler |
Airbnb Is The Latest Tech Company To Hire Big-Name Political Talent Airbnb announced on Thursday that it had hired Chris Lehane, a former advisor to President Clinton, as its new head of global policy and public affairs. |
Fast Company
Pavithra Mohan |
Tesla Is Offering Electric Car Charging Stations To Airbnb Hosts In California Tesla's chargers, which normally cost $750, will be free for hosts. The only expense on their end will be the installation fee, which can run anywhere from $200 to $900. |
Inc.
June 2009
Max Chafkin |
The Start-up Guru: Y Combinator's Paul Graham Paul Graham's business school and investment fund, Y Combinator, has launched 145 companies -- for a lot less money than you would think. |
BusinessWeek
November 3, 2010
Brad Stone |
The New New Andreessen With Andreessen Horowitz, visionary entrepreneur Marc Andreessen is trying to reinvent himself as a top-tier venture capitalist and world-class power broker. |
CRM
December 2015
Oren Smilansky |
Required Reading: Making Common Cause with Customers Brands need to embrace more collaborative business models |
Fast Company
Neal Ungerleider |
Y Combinator Is Touring Colleges This Fall Partners at the firm and Y Combinator alumni are visiting six different universities in cities across North America starting this week, to scout for promising startups. |
Fast Company
Drake Baer |
How Airbnb Solved The Mystery Of Predictive Pricing Rather than force users to summon their inner real estate agent, Airbnb set to crafting an algorithm to create predictive pricing. |
Fast Company
June 2014
Max Chafkin |
The Ugly Truth About Silicon Valley's Diversity Problem Study after study has shown that startups with diverse teams fail less often and generate higher rates of return than companies managed by men alone. |
Fast Company
August 8, 2011
Dan Macsai |
Update | Dude, Where's my Startup? Ashton Kutcher in May poured a sizable amount into Airbnb, the crowdsourced room-rental website, for which he'll also serve as a strategic adviser. |
