Do You Need a CTO?

Adding a new executive team member significantly impacts a nascent tech company’s budget. For some, hiring a Chief Technical Officer (CTO) makes sense. Today every commercial real estate brokerage is a tech company. Time and time again, we see brokerages leading technological innovations in the CRE industry. Some sources claim companies can wait to hire a CTO. What do you consider when looking at the CTO’s role in your brand? What Should Your CTO Do? A Chief Technical Officer oversees internal…

Record Breaking Attendance With Over 300 Turnout To CREtech Los Angeles on September 13

CREtech Returned To Los Angeles For Its 3rd year With Record Setting Turnout New York, NY (September 17, 2018) — CREtech (cretech.com), the leading commercial real estate tech event and content platform in the industry returned to Los Angeles September 13th, 2018 with a record breaking turnout.  The event was held at the California Market Center (CMC), the hub of LA’s fashion & creative communities located in the heart of Downtown LA. Brookfield Properties was the host of the event. “We …

PROPTECH PITCHES THAT ARE PAST THEIR EXPIRATION DATE

Coming off another successful recruiting for our 3rd Dreamit UrbanTech cohort, we had the pleasure to meet quite a few truly incredible startups. This piece is not about those startups. This is about the other ones, the startups that, like milk past its expiration date in a coworking space refrigerator, we’d really like to quietly disappear and be replaced with something fresher. So, after canvassing a few of my colleagues, I’ve compiled this list of startup pitches that, absent extenuatin…

Amazon Go could be 200x bigger in a decade: Joe Sitt

Amazon Go, the mega retailer’s cashierless store, already has half a dozen locations either open or in the works – including one coming to New York City.

PERE: Fifth Wall: Meet the venture capitalists funding the future of real estate

Major investment managers are opening their checkbooks, and portfolios, to a two-year-old firm set on finding startups that will reshape the asset class.

Scooter Startup Yellow Raises $63M To Take Over The Congested Streets Of Latin America

São Paolo-based dockless bicycle and scooter startup Yellow has raised a $63 million Series A on the heels of its $12.3 million seed round closed in April.

Starbucks Commits to 10,000 ‘Greener Stores’ by 2025

SAN FRANCISCO—Starbucks Coffee Co. took the opportunity at the Global Action Summit on Thursday to announce a “Starbucks Greener Stores” framework and a commitment to design, build and operate 10,000 “Greener Stores” globally by 2025.

Amazon’s HQ2 location will be announced this year

Things have been pretty quiet on the Amazon HQ2 front. Earlier this year, the online retail giant announced that it had whittled the list of potential host cities for a second headquarters down to 20, but beyond that, the company hasn’t shared much. Looks like we’ll be getting an answer before end of year, however.

CRETECH MID-YEAR REPORT: WHAT IT MEANS

I’ve been waiting. I’ve been asking. Frankly, I wasn’t that patient. Finally, CRETech released its 2018 Mid-Year Report earlier this week.

India Real Estate leaders host U.S. Real Estate tech giant | Built World Technology Alliance India

Built World Technology Alliance is pleased to welcome Brendan Wallace, Co-Founder of California-based PropTech investor Fifth Wall, as a keynote speaker at India’s first major PropTech event.