Travel Start-ups Still Fundraising Successfully Despite Gloomy Economy
Despite the steady diet of doom and gloom about: travel, online travel, start-ups and the economy in general, there is some good news for online travel start-ups. For good teams solving real problems...
View ArticleTravel trends: NorthStar’s Professional Travel Guide (“PTG”) will soon shut...
Sometimes start-ups fail because they can’t raise enough capital, but it’s usually because they either don’t execute or because demand and competition materializes (or doesn’t) differently than...
View ArticlePhoCusWright Conference 2009 – Summary of a Few Takeaways
Elliott Ng, co-founder of UpTake, wrote a great summary of PhoCusWright’s Travel Innovation Summit. Here’s my uptake on Wednesday and Thursday’s Center Stage presentations, hallway conversations, and...
View ArticleTravel Trends: Another online travel start-up shutting down?
On Feb 2, 2010, Tripology CEO and President John T. Peters had an important announcement to make - Tripology had stopped accepting travel agent payment for lead credits, and terminated the entire...
View ArticleGoldman Sachs: Investment Trends in Online Travel – I need your...
On Tuesday, I had been invited back to speak alongside Homeaway and Starwood at the Goldman Sachs Technology & Internet Conference about trends in online travel. I wanted to solicit your thoughts...
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