The Age of Discovery

Is it time to rethink the site selection process?

Last year, I posted some ideas on how we, as an industry, could reinvent the space selection process. The gist of the post was that the current process in overly complicated and inefficient. (Surprise! its commercial real estate…) Jason Freedman recently touched on this inefficiency and how 42Floors had to rethink their own approach in order to improve their site’s accuracy: There may be a day when brokerages and landlords have all of their listings automatically exported into 42Floors, but th…

And the Future of Brands is…

Cycloramic: A hands-free panoramic app

If you watch Shark Tank, you’ve already seen this, but it has great potential for commercial real estate. The Cycloramic app removes need for a tripod for more professional 360° panos. This revolutionary, fully automated mode lets your phone do all the work. Just put your phone on a smooth, level surface and it will automatically rotates 360 degrees using the phone’s internal vibration feature. As it rotates, the phone takes multiple photos, instantaneously stitching them together, and generatin…

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Is social media helping or hurting networking?

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NPVio: Calculate NPVs and IRRs in your browser

When screening investment opportunities, the NPV or IRR is the go-to calculation for investors. And in order to do this, most investment professionals rely on an Excel worksheet in order to perform this calculation. NPV.io is a new NPV Calculator which allows investment professionals the ability to model investment assumptions in their browser in seconds, replacing the need to boot up that custom Excel workbook. NPV.io is simple, clean and easy for anyone to use. Simply input your revenue and ex…

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