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Naming Your Real Estate Startup

Naming Your Real Estate Startup

You’ve got the next breakthrough in the real estate industry. The product idea has been bubbling around in your head for months. You’ve validated it with customers. You’re 75% SURE (nothing is ever 100%) it will work. Maybe you’ve even built a MVP (minimum viable…

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Do You Research Using Crunchbase? Would you Use this Tool?

Do You Research Using Crunchbase? Would you Use this Tool?

A few weeks ago, I got a sneak peak of a new Crunchbase Visualization Tool built by the team at Cloudspace (same folks that brought you MyBlogLog). Here is a short video demo… For the entrepreneurs planning to raise money in the future, is this a tool…

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The First Crucial Step in Building a Startup: Problem Identification

The First Crucial Step in Building a Startup: Problem Identification

Identifying the problem you seek to solve is the first step to building a startup. In real estate, or any other industry. Often times, that “problem” or “pain point” is one you’ve experienced in your own life and you want to solve. If you are…

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Philippines Real Estate and Technology

Philippines Real Estate and Technology

Philippines Condo’s on the Rise 50 story glass skyscrapers. Bad Traffic. Starbucks on every corner. A massive urban sprawl by the Pacific Ocean millions call home. You may think I’m talking about Los Angeles, but I’m not. This is Manila, the capital city of the…

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Proto.io – A Rapid Prototyping Tool for Mobile Product Validation

Proto.io – A Rapid Prototyping Tool for Mobile Product Validation

The first step in building any technology product is to wireframe the product, and validate the concept with real people. There are a wide range of software options to handle the wireframe stage. Personally, I’m a huge fan of Proto.io, one of the crucial web…

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The Required Hook for Every Consumer Real Estate Startup

The Required Hook for Every Consumer Real Estate Startup

The listing. Buyers won’t come without them. Sellers won’t come if you don’t have buyers. Buyers pay everyone’s bills. The elusive listing, the hook every consumer real estate startup must focus on. If you are focused on one market, just grab an IDX or RETS…

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