When thinking about team building, one can conjure up an image of people seating in a circle and sharing too much personal information on someone else’s orders. Corporate team building strays no more. Stray Boots wants to save the corporate world, or more precisely corporate employees, from just that. About Stray Boots Stray Boots started…
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Routehappy by ATPCO provides rich content to the airline industry. According to thefreedictionary.com, rich content “is a highly progressive technology which enables airlines to more effectively control how their fares and ancillaries are visually presented and described on travel agency screens.” Airline passengers don’t have to go on a scavenger hunt to find information on…
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Most online travel and hospitality site cater to the vacation crowd, and Traxo, a Dallas-based software startup, started out in the same area. However, its primary customer base now is corporate clientele. Andres Fabris came up with an idea for Traxo while at Harvard Business School and launched his company in 2008. What is Traxo?…
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Online hospitality booking sites are getting more crowded and more competitive. Any newcomer has to find that one unique niche spot that will make them stand out and stay in business. There are many ways: providing access to hundreds of hotels, travel guides and information on local attractions, booking unique tours, or advertising vacation rentals….
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Online travel agencies really took off around 1996 with an introduction of Expedia. Today, the online travel booking agency is a mature industry, but still, it is in a state of constant evolution. New startups are carving their own niches in this competitive space. Arrivedo is one such startup. What is Arrivedo? Arrivedo, a proprietary…
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MyVR solves a problem in property management that previously had no solution. It was created in 2010 by co-founders Jonathan Murray and Michael Stachowiak, who realized that it was difficult for them to manage vacation rental properties while also holding their full-time jobs. They had just sold their previous startup, and they didn’t know what…
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Dosh is an app that gives its customers cash back for living their normal lives and making purchases. It’s both an iOS and Android app, and it’s currently in public beta and is named after a European term for money that has picked up as a slang term for cash in America. It was founded…
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Lyft, an on-demand transportation company, is currently valued at $11.5 billion and is growing as more people discover the company, which is a serious competitor with Uber. It was initially launched in 2012 as a project of Zimride, a long-distance rideshare company focusing mainly on college campuses. Since then, it has expanded both to major…
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Headout is the new mobile app for getting fun travel destinations at cheap prices, ASAP. It has had over one million customers and is currently live in eighteen cities. It’s available on iOS and Android, and the purpose of the app is to help its customers rediscover the fun of travel without stress. The experiences…
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30SecondsToFly is a new travel management solution founded by CEO Felicia Schneiderhan and Riccardo Vittoria, two innovative NYU students who met during their Fulbright year at the university. It has a new solution to business travel: its automated travel assistant, Claire. Usually, small and medium-sized businesses cannot fund a travel team or a contract with…
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