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How VCs, Accelerators, and Coworking Spaces Put Communities in Buildings vs. Buildings in Communities

This is going to be BIG.

I'll bet you don't know where the Center of NY's Tech Community and Center of Creativity is. In fact, it is "well-known internationally as the original home of New York's technology community.". Back in the late 90's, a lot of money and real estate brokering went into trying to make it so, however. So why didn't it work?

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TechCrunch+ roundup: CEO pregnancy checklist, decision-tree planning, reassessing valuations

TechCrunch

Property technology has radically impacted the way we live and travel, but the real estate industry has successfully resisted most attempts to innovate. “What you want as an entrepreneur is funders nodding in agreement with your pitch before you even have a chance to finish it,” write Fingert and Foster.

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Angels Confront the Apocalypse: How Angels Reacted to the Great Market Inversion of 2022

Angel Capital Association

The great bull market of 2010 – 2021, fueled by cheap capital, caused a nearly unprecedented rise in the valuations of speculative assets, from real estate to angel and venture equity. By mid-2022 the index had quickly reversed from a founder to investor friendly investing climate. Did angels pull back from investing?

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Regulators appear to be growing increasingly wary of banks and fintech startups getting too cozy

TechCrunch

Instead, as TC+ editor Alex Wilhelm reported , UBS “invested $69.7 The pitches range from building the Square for micro-merchants in Latin America to creating a way to angel invest in your favorite athlete.” billion was scrapped. million in the company at a valuation that Wealthfront described as $1.4 You can read more on that here.

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How do you attract family offices and other large investors to your direct investing platform?

David Teten VC

One of the best business models ever is creating a marketplace between investors and investment opportunities. I’ve been meeting lately with more and more family offices interested in investing directly into companies, in lieu of via funds. Investors there are outsourcing the decision-making about individual investments to the GPs.).

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