Can video kill the email star?

In 1981, MTV debuted its first music video: the Buggles “Video Killed the Radio Star”¹. A recent twitter rant and followup blog post titled “Why I Hate Email CRE Marketing and Why it Won’t Stop” by Coy Davidson got me thinking… How can we, as a small group of progressive tech aficionados, convince the mainstream commercial real estate broker that there are more effective methods to marketing a property than mass email. In other words, how can we use new technology to kill off the old? First, i…

Move over big data, here comes the “content is king” wave!

Motionloft: Google Analytics for Sidewalks

For another incredible example of the HUGE potential data visualization has for commercial real estate, check out Motionloft, if you haven’t already. Demographic and traffic information which gets updated once a year by your friendly DOT and US Census Bureau is now obsolete. Motionloft provides “real-world analytics”,  similar to what Google Analytics provides for websites. A couple examples: Motionloft provides value across just about all of the CRE-industry covering the real world analytics…

YET ANOTHER COOL SITE TO CHECK OUT – RetailMLS.com

NYU’s Schack Institute: Big data can turn real estate industry on its head

As my CRE data visualization soap box theme continues, at an NYU Schack Institute of Real Estate Sustainable Real Estate Conference, several panelists made some great observations. The growing volume of data generated within cities presents an unprecedented opportunity for the real estate industry to better segment markets and products, target policies and investment, and capture value clouded by information asymmetries. When coupled with an understanding of human behavior and evidence-based dec…

Reach Gmail Zen

Inbox Zero Now that you have that shinny new Google Apps Gmail inbox set up for your corporate address, it’s now time to learn how to manage it properly. I doubt any of you leave unread (snail)mail in your mailbox because it would fill quickly and your post office couldn’t deliver any new mail. What you actually do is quickly sort through your mail – toss the junk mail right away, immediately open what seems to be important and put less important letters into bins or designated piles to be revi…

Another disruptive site for the commercial real estate industry

Data, data and more data

The Next Frontier: CRE Data Visualization

In my 2013 CRE tech predictions, I suggested that CRE Data Visualization would made major advancements in 2013. So, of course, I am going to point out examples to make myself look smart…. One of the best examples of this HUGE opportunity is 2nd City Zoning. From NextCity.org: In essence, the map allows residents to answer the question, “what can I build on this property?” Punch in an address to discover how a building is zoned, and see a human-readable description (written by us!) of what tha…

CompStak 500 Startups Demo Day Video and Slides

CompStak just made their final presentation at 500 Startups’ Demo Day. Here is the video. Their demo starts at 42:30. And here is their slide deck: [slideshare id=16370368&doc=compstak-130205173951-phpapp02] The RealDeal recently reported that “Compstak has also secured more than $1.1 million in funding from 26 investors including Expansion VC, the venture-capital arm of the Melohn family; Ryan Slack, co-founder of PropertyShark; and Berman Venture Capital, a wholly owned subsidiary of Rockvil…