The topic of Geek Estate Mastermind Newsletter #35 was Car Buying, and the VIP Buyer/Seller Real Estate Experience. For the first time since 2012, I’m a car owner again. I shared some observations from the car buying process, and added a real estate lens to the topic. At the end of the day, I believe the
In our latest real estate tech entrepreneur interview, we’re speaking with Tyler Forte from Felix Homes. Without further ado… What do you do? I’m the CEO and Co-Founder of Felix Homes. We’re based in New York City and will be launching in Nashville, Tennessee within the next two weeks! At Felix we don’t want to
Places, a new social network, got written up in Inman. Have a look at their home page: Notice anything? I did. There is no primary value proposition. What problem would I use this product to alleviate, and why? I’m left wondering on both questions. Was this a premature product launch? I’d say so. https://geekestateblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/places-socialplatform-homepage.png Source
I’ve written about category kings before: it’s what every startup should be striving for. There’s one unquestioned “Category King” in real estate. Among real estate portals (in the US), the clear, runaway king is Zillow Group. There will be “Category Kings” of various segments of the industry, and I think we’re seeing one of them emerge.
Since Geek Estate Mastermind Newsletter #32, which was about Hello Alfred, there have been two editions published. The topic of #33 was AccorHotels’ potential investment in Air France-KLM, while #34 talked about how the best locations move people somewhere else (written by Greg Fischer). #33: Some of you know AccorHotels is the largest hotel group
Implementing new technology in the real estate and mortgage industries has been a relatively slow process when compared to other industries. In recent years, however, things have started to change with the move toward online listings coupled with mobile technology that is speeding up the home-purchase process. Yet, even with this there is still so
In our latest real estate tech entrepreneur interview, we’re speaking with Tom Owen, co-founder of Home Bay. He has a long industry track record, and we’re glad to have him as a recent addition to the Geek Estate Mastermind. Without further ado… What do you do? I am the co-founder of Home Bay. I mostly work on
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 successfully launched an Instagram, Facebook Biz Page, Facebook Private Group for
As you know, Fifth Wall held a portfolio event a couple months ago in Venice. There were three panels held at their office, each covering a category Fifth Wall has made big bets on (the majority of panelists were from portfolio companies): Future of Cities Real Estate-as-a-Service Fintech and The Built World Economy Today I wanted to share a few
[Note from editor: originally published on AEC Labs] A recent article in the UK’s Construction News publication (also picked up nationally here in the US by Bisnow) suggests that Amazon is “reinventing” the construction and real estate development markets thanks to its incredible growth, both in the US and abroad. But what, specifically, does that mean? And should construction industry