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Facebook Twitter Linkedin In 2011 WeWork ran an accelerator-like program, WeWork Labs, which was left unattended while the company focused on building its portfolio. This week, the program has been relaunched in New York City with plans to open a further 27 labs in 2018. WeWork Labs hopes to provide access to a “great educational network” for startups. Over the past few years, WeWork has const...
betaworks, the 10-year-old startup studio out of NYC, is today introducing a brand new business in the form of betaworks Studios. Think of betaworks Studios as a membership club for builders, offering entrepreneurs, artists, enginneers/developers, and creatives the space to work on their projects and get to know one another. Builders is the word that betaworks uses to describe its core demographic...
“To me, disruption is the result of taking a problem, standing it on its head and then solving it but with complete disregard for feasibility,” said Beekman Advisors Managing Partner Shekar Narasimhan. He said, in the old days, the best way to figure out how a car worked was to dismantle it and then put it back together—working backward, he called it. He said that over time this same model h...
If you have purchased a drone in the last year or two, there’s a high likelihood that it only emerges from your gadget closet a few times per year, if that. That probably doesn’t leave you feeling too great about your purchase, but it also leaves an expensive piece of professional equipment lying dormant that a lot of people could use. DroneBase is a startup that connects drone users with comm...
By Urvaksh Karkaria – Staff Writer, Atlanta Business Chronicle Updated Feb 14, 2018, 10:03pm EST Co-working giant WeWork’s voracious appetite for Atlanta marketshare shows no sign of being satiated. The New York-based “unicorn” is expected to occupy 50,000 square feet at Coda, a high-profile office tower rising in the shadow of Tech Square, according to a source. A lease could be sig...
Homesnap is a productivity and marketing app for real estate agents. The startup just announced a $14M Series B led by Updata Partners. The startup claims that around 75% of the real estate agents in the United States are using the Homesnap product. The startup is one of the leaders in the real estate industry trend toward verticalized software solutions for brokers. For consumers, Homesnap offe...
Our friends at 43North are looking to invest up to $1M in promising startups that are willing to relocate to Buffalo, NY. 43North has crowned 37 winners of their startup competition since coming on the scene as part of Governor Andrew Cuomo’s Buffalo Billion initiative in 2014, and alumni of the program have gone on to raise more than $70 million in follow-on funding. See their portfolio here....
SAN BRUNO/SUNNYVALE, Calif. (Reuters)- One of Walmart Inc’s best chances at taking on Amazon.com Inc in e-commerce lies with six giant server farms, each larger than ten football fields. These facilities, which cost Walmart millions of dollars and took nearly five years to build, are starting to pay off. The retailer’s online sales have been on a tear for the last three consecutive quarters, f...
UAE plans to colonize Mars: what that means for CRE on the red planet In late November 2017, the United Arab Emirates released a virtual reality tour of “the City of Wisdom,” which gives the world a detailed glimpse into how they envision humanity’s first settlement on Mars. In conjunction with this release, the UAE also announced that they intend to establish the first colony on Mars by 211...
Technology innovators integrate platforms to deliver continuous valuation transparency to the commercial real estate industry for the first time ever. New York, February 12, 2018 – The power of cloud-based technology took a step forward today as FUEL Valuation, the next generation asset valuation and forecasting platform, announced on-demand connectivity with VTS, the leading leasing and asset m...