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CRETECH December 29, 2017
Holy hell, it’s been a year for Amazon. Jeff Bezos’ former-online-bookstore dumped $13.7 billion to buy a bunch of grocery stores, that speaker you talk to in your living room that Amazon makes is really popular and a bunch of server farms Amazon runs generate more than $10 billion in revenue annually. The confluence of all these things has led to an incredible rise in its stock on the year ...
CRETECH December 28, 2017
We projected 2017 would be a “good, but not great year” for merger and acquisition (M&A) activity in the real estate space, and what unfolded was quite significant, including the biggest brokerage acquisition in decades, an ongoing fight for California market share and a busy stint for large regional independent firms … Inman
CRETECH December 27, 2017
Amazon's search for a second headquarters outside Seattle is just the beginning of tech exodus from expensive coastal cities to cheaper inland locations, Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman said Wednesday. "Silicon Valley is going to leave Silicon Valley — that's already happened," Kelman told CNBC's "Power Lunch." "The technology companies, the Wall Street companies,...
CRETECH December 27, 2017
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...
CRETECH December 26, 2017
Some developers continue to build more retail space, in spite of a glut of the property type in the U.S., the Wall Street Journal reports. A Forbes contributor details the top rental property markets located in colder climates. These are among today’s must reads for the commercial real estate industry. Where the New Retail Space Is Being Built (Hint: It’s Not in Malls) “Despite a glut in U.S...
CRETECH December 26, 2017
So far, 2017 hasn't been a feverish year for commercial real estate leasing, especially compared to busy 2015 and 2016, but analysts agree that it has been a good, stable year with plenty of important moves. Among them are WeWork's largest ever lease that just happens to be in a brand-new development in Mountain View. Meanwhile, Menlo Park-based social media giant Facebook is rapidly gro...
CRETECH December 24, 2017
Trends in Seed Stage Venture Capital: Across all areas of venture capital, more capital is being invested in funding rounds than ever before, but the number of companies receiving investment has dropped. This suggests that fewer deals are getting funded at the seed stage and investors are focusing more on later rounds of funding.  Via Axios The number of angel investors in the United States is ...
CRETECH December 23, 2017
Is there a trick to getting application programming interfaces (APIs) right? Jess Martin, co-founder and chief technology officer (CTO) at First says you should always save optimization for later: you want to make wise decisions as you're developing, but don't obsess over performance until you actually see how things perform. Listen in as moderator Tom Flanagan (CTO, The Group Inc) and s...
CRETECH December 22, 2017
The room is a raw warehouse space that is partitioned off with curtains, hiding the bulk of it from view. I’m at the back of a group of girls who is..
CRETECH December 21, 2017
Though property prices came back down to earth in 2017, real estate tech valuations shot into the stratosphere. WeWork is now worth $20 billion. Compass is valued at $2.2 billion following a December funding round. Have you heard of Placester? Well, investors think it’s worth $202 million. The Jared Kushner-backed real estate crowdfunding startup Cadre now has a $800 million price tag. Big valua...