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  • WeWork Expands Reach in DC Area

    The Commercial Observer – Commercial Real Estate

    WeWork, the New York City-based coworking giant, is opening its first-ever college location on the campus of University of Maryland in College Park, four miles from Washington, D.C. The company has subleased a 20,000-square-foot building at 7761 Greenhouse Road in the Maryland college’s Discovery District next to The Hotel at the University of Maryland. It will offer coworking and office space, more than 300 dedicated and hot desks, and several conference rooms. WeWork signed a sublease with Che…

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  • The Early Pitch Decks Of 13 Startups Before They Became Billion-Dollar Companies

    CBInsights

    See the early pitch decks of 13 unicorn companies (and exited unicorns), including LinkedIn (before it had a dime of revenue) and Buzzfeed when it had just 2.5M monthly page views. WHERE IS THIS DATA COMING FROM? Notching a billion-dollar valuation as a private tech company is hard, exiting at one is even harder. For nearly all the most valuable investor-backed companies in tech, nailing a pitch to early potential investors, recruits, and customers was a step on the journ…

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  • “Uber for trucking” startup grows to 60K sf in the Garment District

    The Real Deal – New York

    A tech startup that’s been described as Uber for the $676 billion trucking industry is doubling the size of its Garment District offices. Transfix, which has raised $78.5 million from investors since its founding in 2013, signed a lease for 60,000 square feet at George Comfort & Sons’ 498 Seventh Avenue, the landlord confirmed to The Real Deal. The five-year-old company currently occupies a full, 30,000-square-foot floor in the 25-story building at the corner of West 37th Street under a “sub…

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  • How to use a map to turn a deal into another deal

    Apto

    Closing a deal and cashing a commission check is such a good feeling, right? After months—sometimes years—of hard work, all your efforts finally pay off. If closing a deal is good news, the even better news is that you can easily keep up the momentum and use your recent success to drum up new business. Just think, you have relevant market intel that you can use with other owners in the market. Maybe they’re in a similar position to the deal you just closed. Apto Maps can help make th…

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  • Lyft Expands Subscription Ride-Hailing Test to Dozens of Cities

    Bloomberg

    Lyft co-founder John Zimmer discusses the company’s growth, Silicon Valley arrogance and the #DeleteUber campaign Lyft Inc. is testing a subscription service in more than two dozen cites, hoping to lock in customers as competition with Uber Technologies Inc. heats up in the U.S. …

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  • Women-Only Co-Working Operator To Expand Internationally

    Bisnow

    Women-only co-working provider The Wing is taking flight by opening six locations in five new cities. The startup, which opened its first location in Manhattan’s Flatiron neighborhood in 2016, will add spaces in San Francisco, Seattle, Los Angeles, Toronto and London, as well as one in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, the New York Post reports. The Wing The Wing, New York City No specific locations have been released, but the Williamsburg spot is slated for an opening later this year. …

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  • Axxerion: Facility Management Software for Higher Efficiency and Service Levels

    CRETech

    The Axxerion platform makes it easy for facility managers to record and organize relevant information. This includes property, inventory, document and asset management, as well as contract registration. Its software provides more insight into the typical processes of most of these tasks, and makes them more efficient. You structure it as you wish, from ready-made solutions to unique setups. Solutions include incident and work-order management, reservations and visitor registration. Axxer…

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  • As Business Leaks Away, And Amazon Go Threatens, Retailers Eager To Automate Stores

    Bisnow

    Alarm in the retail industry spurred by high vacancies and by Amazon’s automated foray into physical retailing is pushing brands to automate faster than ever before.  The race is on to install cost-cutting tech, such as cashierless checkout and automated inventories, to buttress retailers’ bleeding bottom lines. Kgbo/Wikimedia Retail vacancies are high, reports the Wall Street Journal, citing Reis data on 77 metro markets, with big mall vacancy standing at 8.4% in Q1, up from 8.3% in Q4 and the …

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  • This E-Commerce Giant Thinks Supermarkets And Department Stores Are The Future Of Logistics Property

    Bisnow

    The world’s biggest e-commerce firms are not really thinking about big-box logistics any more. They are firmly focused on how to best get their goods as quickly as possible into big, dense, urban environments. And that leads their thoughts to taking over space that is now not needed by retailers. Flickr IN 48 DAYS! DON’T MISS THE BISNOW’S BUILD TO RENT ANNUAL CONFERENCE — London 22.05.2018 That is according to Zalando Vice President of Corporate Real Estate Raimund Paetzmann. Berlin-based Zalan…

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  • The Self-Driving Car Industry’s Biggest Turning Point Yet

    NY Times

    Waymo said it would order up to 20,000 vehicles from Jaguar Land Rover in the next two years for its self-driving consumer ride service. Each week, Kevin Roose, technology columnist at The New York Times, discusses developments in the tech industry, offering analysis and maybe a joke or two. One perk — or hazard, I suppose — of being a technology writer for the past few years has been getting invited to ride in a bunch of autonomous vehicles. I’ve been shuttled arou…

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