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PropTech: A Massive Opportunity We’re Seeing

PropTech: A Massive Opportunity We’re Seeing

[Note from Editor: Originally published on NFX] Real estate touches everything we do. It’s the economics of the physical space — it literally shapes our lives by defining the environment in which we live and do business. Tech has done a lot in the last…

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Two Questions Worth Asking for Founders/VCs

Two Questions Worth Asking for Founders/VCs

I agree with Fred Wilson… the startup and VC community alike should start asking the following two questions: Who are our investors and can we be proud of them? And do we want to work for them? More founders and VCs can, and should, be…

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FWD 2018 Finalists

FWD 2018 Finalists

Congrats to those real estate startups selected to the latest Realogy’s 2018 FWD Innovation Summit. From Inman, The 10 finalists are: Amarki, a Texas-based digital marketing startup with a suite of tools for real estate franchises, brokers, teams and agents. ByteGain, an artificial intelligence-powered predictive analytics and customer engagement tool from…

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How Seattle can become a global leader in Real Estate and Construction Tech (+ Seattle Proptech Market Map)

How Seattle can become a global leader in Real Estate and Construction Tech (+ Seattle Proptech Market Map)

Last night, I spoke as a panelist on one of the real estate tech tracks as part of Seattle Startup Week. The topic was how Seattle can emerge as the global leader at the intersection of Fintech, Real Estate Tech and Digital Construction. It’s no…

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2018/2019 MetaProp Accelerator at Columbia University – Applications Close in 2 Days

2018/2019 MetaProp Accelerator at Columbia University – Applications Close in 2 Days

Founders, there’s only two days left to apply to MetaProp’s Accelerator at Columbia University. Benefits include: Up to $250,000 in financing 22-week program focused on driving business growth and accelerated market penetration Participation in exclusive Pilot Days and Demo Days, as well as discounted or…

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Market Map, Part Two: 170+ Technology Companies Reshaping Commercial Real Estate

Market Map, Part Two: 170+ Technology Companies Reshaping Commercial Real Estate

[Note from editor: Originally published on Thomvest’s Blog] We recently published a real estate market map, which includes hundreds of technology companies that are transforming how residential real estate is bought and sold. Today, we’re following that post up with a new market map focused on commercial real estate (the map is…

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Geek Estate Mastermind Newsletter #38 – RE BarCamp, and a Few Takeaways from San Francisco

Geek Estate Mastermind Newsletter #38 – RE BarCamp, and a Few Takeaways from San Francisco

I was in San Francisco last week, attending RE BarCamp X and Hacker Connect, and, most importantly, socializing. Thus, the mastermind newsletter didn’t dive deep on one topic (like we did two weeks ago with IDX). Instead, I summarized the week’s takeaways. RE BarCamp X…

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Market Map: 140+ Real Estate Tech Companies Transforming the $32 Trillion Housing Market

Market Map: 140+ Real Estate Tech Companies Transforming the $32 Trillion Housing Market

[Note from editor: Originally published on Thomvest’s Blog] Residential real estate has proven to be a strong driver of economic growth and individual wealth, representing more than 15% of our nation’s GDP. The combined value of housing in the United States reached a record-high $31.8 trillion in 2017,…

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3.5 Months into Our Startup ~ Lessons, Learnings, Commentary, and All Sorts of Thoughts

3.5 Months into Our Startup ~ Lessons, Learnings, Commentary, and All Sorts of Thoughts

It’s now been 3.5 months since we launched our company Grid Consulting, it’s been an awesome whirlwind of successes, new challenges, and emotional peaks and valleys. We’ve created a fairly large network to distribute our content to in a short period of time and have…

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Why Does Horizon Still Exist?

Why Does Horizon Still Exist?

Below is an update we sent this morning to all users of Horizon and our previous product, Oh Hey World (which failed). I know some of you are on that list. Bottom line: Yes, startups are hard. Why Does Horizon Still Exist? Hi again, Drew here, co-founder of…

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