Rise and Shine is a regular morning roundup of links. Tips if you’ve got ‘em.
- Yes, you can walk Los Angeles.
- Mapping the 20 most entrepreneurial cities in the world.
- This ReadWrite piece on funding your startup via work as an UberX driver makes the point that so often gets lost: some Uber drivers are doing it for kicks, a few bucks, and “a wealth of contacts.”
- Bike share means more women ride bicycles, reports Sarah Goodyear, citing the “five 5Cs” that can otherwise keep female riders off the road: “Comfort, convenience, confidence, consumer products, and community.”
- The non-mobile restaurant industry is buzzing about a study that finds food trucks “poaching” customers from so-called fast casual restaurants.
- Of the many complaints about the realisticness of Elon Musk’s Hyperloop, one of the more tangible is that going that fast will make you sick.
- Crain’s New York finds that local hotels are rallying to oppose Airbnb.
- And businesses along Madison’s Sherman Avenue report that new bike lanes are driving business up, and also down.
Nancy Scola is a Washington, DC-based journalist whose work tends to focus on the intersections of technology, politics, and public policy. Shortly after returning from Havana she started as a tech reporter at POLITICO.