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Re: Good News From Flag
« Reply #60 on: February 25, 2018, 09:18:12 am »
Don't forget Flag has access to some of Hail0's expertise.

What Hailo 'Expertise' exactly would that be ?

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Re: Good News From Flag
« Reply #61 on: February 25, 2018, 12:17:33 pm »
Explained briefly in the sentence following the sentence quoted.

Don't forget Flag has access to some of Hail0's expertise. Whatever about Dave's relationship with drivers, he will be well aware of how much Hail0 spent - it attracted investment totalling c.US$100,000,000 and hadn't a pot to piss in when it was rescued by Daimler/mytaxi - and, crucially, the effectiveness of various items of expenditure relative to both strategic and tactical objectives.

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Re: Good News From Flag
« Reply #62 on: February 26, 2018, 10:33:42 am »
Explained briefly in the sentence following the sentence quoted.

Don't forget Flag has access to some of Hail0's expertise. Whatever about Dave's relationship with drivers, he will be well aware of how much Hail0 spent - it attracted investment totalling c.US$100,000,000 and hadn't a pot to piss in when it was rescued by Daimler/mytaxi - and, crucially, the effectiveness of various items of expenditure relative to both strategic and tactical objectives.

So Hailo's expertise was how to get "c.US$100,000,000" in investment and end up without "A pot to piss in" just a few years later ?

That's hardly an impressive CV fer new Flag/Ex-Hailo to be presenting to new potential investors !

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Re: Good News From Flag
« Reply #63 on: February 26, 2018, 11:56:13 am »
I think Flag having Daves expertise is what RC is referring to....he's trying to be funny Ken!!

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Re: Good News From Flag
« Reply #64 on: February 26, 2018, 12:57:46 pm »
I'm not trying to be funny. You might not consider that to be impressive, Ken, but it was still attractive enough for Daimler to want to subsume it into it's mytaxi service. Furthermore, if you continue to the end of the sentence you will get to a, perhaps, more substantial point i.e. Dave's in-depth knowledge of the effectiveness of various items of expenditure relative to both strategic and tactical objectives:

Strategically, we know Hail0 was still attractive to Daimler despite not having a pot to piss in.

Tactically, we know Hail0 was successful (at least in terms of market penetration) in some jurisdictions, notably Ireland and Spain (rather like the Kinahan Crime Cartel!) and we know that mytaxi (pre-merger) was successful in a lot more jurisdictions. Knowledge of the relative pre-merger tactics of both firms is therefore invaluable.

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Re: Good News From Flag
« Reply #65 on: February 26, 2018, 06:13:57 pm »
Should stop signing off on "Dave and Ted" too much like the comedy priests, or the fast show, or Ant and Dec.
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Re: Good News From Flag
« Reply #66 on: February 26, 2018, 06:34:27 pm »
Maybe they are married?

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Re: Good News From Flag
« Reply #67 on: February 26, 2018, 07:10:25 pm »
Maybe they are married?

Could be plenty of fluid there alri!

 


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