in which the founders sold Barack Obama and John McCain cereal to sustain the business (seriously), the company received $20,000 in seed funding from Y Combinator and Sequoia Capital. The next year, ...

A Statistical Model to predict the optimal Airbnb Listing price in NYC given listing information (e.g. bedrooms, type of bed, location, ratings) and taking into ...

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Nightmare guests are the bane of hotel and Airbnb owners' existence. Whether it be leaving the space filthy, having thunderous parties or even breaking furniture, they always seem to up the ante.

Airbnb's revenue growth rates appear to have moderated down a lot quicker than many would have expected. For a business that many view as the leading platform for listing their properties or for ...

That’s where Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia’s company ... “I saw this great, blank canvas to design something beautiful and intentional: a new, flexible living space that could evolve with ...

Airbnb benefits from an asset-light business model, and its hosts do the hard work of receiving and accommodating guests. Its model allows the business to collect commissions as long as it keeps ...

Our investment management business generates asset-based fees, which are calculated as a percentage of assets under management. We also sell both admissions and sponsorship packages for our ...

This means that thousands of properties in Greece currently listed for rental, mostly for tourists, are automatically being excluded from Airbnb-type rentals. The move affects thousands of property ...