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  • Brookfield and Onex eyeing takeover of WeWork rival

    The Real Deal – New York

    Shares of IWG, formerly known as Regus, climbed 30 percent Wednesday after the company confirmed that Brookfield Asset Management and Onex made an “indicative proposal” to take the company over. IWG said there was “no certainty” that the two Canadian private equity firms would make an offer, nor what their terms would be, the Financial Times reported. But the company’s shares soared on Wednesday in London, a substantial turnaround for a company that lost almost a third of its value on a single d…

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  • Is the Convergence of EB-5 Capital with Traditional Private Equity the Next Big Thing?

    NREI – National

    EB-5’s success as an economic driver has been widely recognized and use of EB-5 funding in major commercial real estate projects is now mainstream. Sponsored by NES Financial By Reid Thomas Whether in the news or in real estate development circles, you’ve probably heard about the EB-5 program. Also known as the “immigrant investor” program, EB-5 was launched in 1990 to encourage foreign investment into projects that stimulate U.S. job growth. Though the process gets rather complicated in the det…

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  • SalesLoft’s Addresses The Do’s and Don’ts of the Automated Sales Process

    CRETECH

    The influx of sales automation tools has worked wonders for the modern sales team, but despite its advances and benefits, human contact is still king. Automating the sale process can streamline team activity and reduce the danger of missed details, but it should never replace the value of reaching out with an actual hand.Of course, the best solution is a bit of both:  automation helps best when it enhances the sales process that is already in place.SalesLoft’s website includes a “do/don’t” …

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  • This Morning’s Technical Outlook on Biotech Stocks– Alnylam Pharma, Celldex Therapeutics, Aduro BioTech, and Zosano Pharma

    PR Newswire – Commercial Real Estate

    NEW YORK, Dec. 27, 2017 /PRNewswire/– WallStEquities.com strives to bring the best free research to the investment community.  Today we are offering reports on ALNY, CLDX, ADRO, and ZSAN which can be accessed for free by signing up to http://www.wallstequities.com/registration. Wall Street is holding its breath for the rekindling of mergers and acquisitions across the Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical sector after 2017 led to a pause in deal-making, reported Bloomberg. Tax reform, particularly a…

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  • Bitcoin is seen as ‘a store of value’, says CEO

    CNBC – VCPS Prod Global

    London Block Exchange CEO and Founder Ben Dives takes a look at the challenges that cryptocurrencies may face in real world scenarios.

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  • The next threat to real estate prices: demographics

    The Real Deal – New York

    Real estate executives are keeping an anxious eye on the Federal Reserve, but maybe they shouldn’t. Conventional wisdom holds that when the central bank raises short-term rates, long-term rates also rise, which pushes up the cost of mortgages and puts downward pressure on property prices. But recently this didn’t seem to hold true, the Wall Street Journal reported. The Fed raised its short-term benchmark rate, the federal funds rate, three times in 2017, but long-term rates remained low. The cen…

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  • World’s Wealthiest Became $1 Trillion Richer in 2017

    Bloomberg

    The richest people on earth became $1 trillion richer in 2017, more than four times last year's gain, as stock markets shrugged off economic, social and political divisions to reach record highs. The 23 percent increase on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, a daily ranking of the world's 500 richest people, compares with an almost 20 percent increase for both the MSCI World Index and Standard & Poor's 500 Index. Amazon.com Inc. founder Jeff Bezos added the most in 2017, a $34,2…

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  • What exactly are venture capitalists looking for?

    Inman News – Features

    The team, burn rates, cash flow, efficiency in the market– these are all things venture capitalists (VCs) look at when separating the good deals from the bad. Moderator Constance Freedman (Moderne Ventures) and the session panel (Dave Garland of Second Century Ventures, Rich Boyle of Canaan Partners, Colleen Poynton of Core Innovation Capital, Angela Strange of Andreessen Horowitz, Zak Schwarzman of MetaProp) took the ICSF 2017 stage to go over the process of getting a VC to invest in a company…

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  • Leisure Acquisition Corp. Announces the Separate Trading of its Common Stock and Warrants Commencing December 28, 2017

    PR Newswire – Commercial Real Estate

    NEW YORK, Dec. 26, 2017 /PRNewswire/– Leisure Acquisition Corp. (NASDAQ: LACQU) (the "Company") announced that, commencing December 28, 2017, holders of the units sold in the Company's initial public offering of 20,000,000 units completed on December 5, 2017 may elect to separately trade the shares of common stock and warrants included in the units. No fractional warrants will be issued upon separation of the units and only whole warrants will trade. Those units not separated wil…

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  • The global blockchain market size is expected to grow to USD 7,683.7 million by 2022

    PR Newswire – Commercial Real Estate

    LONDON, Dec. 26, 2017 /PRNewswire/– Download the full report: https://www.reportbuyer.com/product/4226790 The global blockchain market size is expected to grow from USD 411.5 million in 2017 to USD 7,683.7 million by 2022, at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 79.6%. The demand for distributed ledger technology, reduced total cost of ownership, rising cryptocurrencies market cap and initial coin offerings, increasing demand for simplified business processes, transparency and immutability, …

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