If you’re an early stage real estate startup looking for an accelerator with real estate expertise/focus to help get you get to market, pilabs in London is one option currently taking applications. They provide £40,000 British pounds in exchange for 7% stake in your company. Of…

If you’re a founder working on a network startup, chances are pretty good, if given the choice, you’d choose Union Square Ventures. If you’re a travel founder, you’d want one of these angels. What about for a real estate startup founder — who tops your list? Brad…

I took a brief look at HomeTrackr today. It’s another shot at the history of a home opportunity looming out there for someone to capture. Is there enough there beyond what you can find on Zillow to engage consumers? What’s defensible about the product / business long…

You is Now is a startup accelerator based in Berlin. I asked Sebastian Oehmigen to answer a few questions about the program to give founders more insight into the value proposition and what to expect. Why should real estate tech founders choose You is Now? Our biggest…

Congrats on Revaluate’s continued progress (see here for more details). Below is Chris Drayer’ Boomtown demo day presentation…

Arnold Waldstein wrote an interesting post the other day titled “Can you platform community?“. It’s a topic I think about non stop, given community is what I’m most passionate about enabling in this world. I KNOW community changes lives for the better, and if I…

Building marketplaces is a tough, tough game. It’s virtually always a massive chicken and egg problem. I know from experience — Horizon is a marketplace for hospitality exchange (though we aren’t technically involved in a transaction element yet). VersionOne, a VC firm, recently produced a fairly advanced…

PocketList launched today (see here). Pocket listings is a topic I’ve written about several times, and think about “off market” dynamics on a daily basis since Horizon is essentially a marketplace for off the market hospitality exchange. A few thoughts after playing with the app this morning:…

For some background on the topic of the universal property ID (UPID), read Rob’s post as well as Michael Wurzer’s post that Rob responded to. First, let me be clear: I 100% agree there is value to be had with a universal identifier of properties. Not having…

Given real estate and travel are the two industries I know best (if “community” is an industry, that would be in the list too), I’m quite intrigued with Breather. It’s value proposition is to book a peaceful, convenient room whenever you need it. Especially as…