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  • Startups Must Make Board Diversity a Priority

    Pulse – Matt Ellis

    I have six wonderful Directors and three Observers on my board, plus myself. All are white and only one female. Here’s how we recognized the need to change and went about making it happen. Board diversity, or the lack thereof on my board, should have been obvious – I run an ESG company after all so am well acquainted with data proving diverse companies deliver superior performance. In recognition of this fact, our company put diversity targets in place early on and funded programs supporting wom…

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  • WATCH NOW: In Case You Missed It, View Giraffe’s FULL Tech Demo from Reimagining Real Estate

    Giraffe

    Giraffe – What’s Broken With Property Development? Giraffe is the development prototyping platform. Development projects are complicated and need many eyes to validate & de-risk the investment. Coordinating all these sets of eyes is painstaking, error-prone and slow. Imagine if all those parties (development managers, designers, finance guys, sales people, investors & city planners) had a single source of truth to keep the project moving fast, minimise data translation errors and eradica…

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  • New Tech Company Provides Off-Market Rental Deals

    GlobeSt

    A new real estate tech company is providing off-market listings to renters. Southern California-based PocketList is an apartment rental platform that provides rental listings before they are widely marketed, giving the renters a leg up on snagging the best housing. But, it isn’t only renters that are benefitting. Landlords will see vacancies fill faster, creating more stable occupancy and cash flow.

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  • This week only get 15% off (use code REIMAGINE2020) for On Demand Content from Reimagining Real Estate Global Virtual Summit

    CREtech

    Missed the virtual summit or want to rewatch a session? Watch over 75 interviews and sessions featuring C-Suite thought leaders who took the stage at the world’s largest real estate tech summit on demand now.

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  • Technology Could Open Path for Investments in CRE Distressed Properties

    GlobeSt

    A record $300 billion in funds designated to buy distressed commercial real estate assets remains on the sidelines despite plunging commercial real estate values tied to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to New York-based Enertiv.

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  • Remote Work Isn’t Working? Maybe Your Company Is Doing It Wrong

    The New York Times

    Companies that have changed the ways they work have had more success — and in some cases, discovered new routines that they want to continue when they return to offices. These companies have a few things in common: They have fewer meetings that are long or large or back-to-back. They designate meeting-free time for focused work; offer flexible work hours; and find ways for colleagues to socialize when they’re not seeing one another in person. …

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  • Propertyshe Perspectives: Retail news and turnover rents, from Fifth Wall to The Fifth Space via the Reimagining Real Estate Virtual Summit, and the climate change emergency

    Property Week

    Going forward, Sharon White, the relatively new CEO, expects John Lewis department stores to generate 60% of business from online compared to the pre-coronavirus level of 40%. Retail floor area will shrink but they want to ‘put excess space to good social use’. Warning that retail margins are too thin, the business is looking at expanding its financial services offering and venturing into new mixed-use affordable housing and horticulture. Shops will remain crucial to the brand but in support of …

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  • Paris mayor unveils ’15-minute city’ plan in re-election campaign

    The Guardian

    The Paris mayor, Anne Hidalgo, has made phasing out vehicles and creating a “15-minute city” a key pillar of her offering at the launch of her re-election campaign. The Socialist politician wants to encourage more self-sufficient communities within each arrondissement of the French capital, with grocery shops, parks, cafes, sports facilities, health centres, schools and even workplaces just a walk or bike ride away.

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  • What is founder-market fit and what to do if you don’t have one? And how to find a lead investor? By Daniel Fetner.

    Fundraising Radio

    Daniel Fetner, principal at Corigin Ventures in this episode explains what does it mean to have a founder-market fit, who can claim that they are the perfect founder for a company and what to do if you realise that you don’t have a founder-market fit. We also talk about how founders can find the lead investor and what the term “lead investor” mean?

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  • WATCH NOW: In Case You Missed It, View Enertiv’s FULL Tech Demo from Reimagining Real Estate

    Enertiv

    Enertiv 360 Launch: We Transform Building Data into Asset Value. Enertiv creates asset value for commercial real estate portfolios by improving productivity and directly decreasing operating and capital expenses related to maintenance & repairs, utilities, tenant submetering and the indoor environment. We have a unique approach – the Enertiv App is a software-only solution that can be deployed immediately portfolio-wide to digitize your building data and workflows. From there, we provide a w…

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