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What you hope to have in your opinion to solve the problem?

Instead of comparing what chinese have to what westerns have today, try to compare what chinese have without Google to what chinese will have with Google.

Thanks for the insight. Though every startup wants to get the best advisors in theory. They might also be OK to get good enough advisor based on their stage. For example, a pre-seed startup might find valuable to get advice from an A-round founder. Any thoughts on that?

Thanks for the info. I am aware of clarity.fm. I am thinking more a packaged advisor service like a group of advisors (e.g. one marketing, one product, one legal etc) to provide on-going very tactic advisors based on startups' context. Something like YC is offering in their core program but to every startup.

Based on the numbers we have, the average earnings per mile is close to $0.545, but the medium profit of $3.37 seems quite off.

in emergency situations like hurricane or earthquake, the current ridesharing system might provide very limited mobility when you need the most. Keep your options open at any time might be priceless sometimes.

As a startup founder, I wish every startup can be part of YC. But at the same time, I hope YC does not end up investing ALL promising startups (which become big later) -- because if that is the case, it will be a disaster for any other startups that fail to get in YC, the unfundable signal is way too strong to investors.

In that sense, I appreciate companies like Buffer, Uber/Lyft etc.

it will be great to see some cohort analysis for each batch.

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We at Sherpa has collected around 1M trips from Uber and Lyft. The average hourly rate of Uber driver is around $15 -- varies among cities. If you work 8 hours a day for 365 days, you will earn around $43,800. Of course, if you drive for 24 hours a day, you will earn as much as $131,400.

According to wiki: sharing economy is socio-economic system built around the sharing of human and physical resources. For ridesharing industry, the resources are drivers and their personal resources. Uber/Lyft/... are intent to become the gateway or dispatch or distribution layer to some extent. They are competing to "own" these resources and become monopoly. But for the drivers and the customers, it will always be in their interest to keep it a more "perfect competition" situation. Some third party shall come in to facilitate the conflict of interest -- maybe government, union or others.