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The Future of the Workplace is Flexible

Revolution

Pandemic-induced office closures led to nearly impossible circumstances for a startup focused on events and coworking spaces. Particularly, as employers have re-evaluated their need for serious real estate. Their advice and support helped guide me through one of the most challenging times I’ve faced as an entrepreneur and CEO.

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Why coming out as a gay entrepreneur is a privilege and an investment

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Contributed by Mike Stephenson, an EO Vancouver member who is co-founder and CEO of addy , which uses the principles of crowdfunding to make real estate investing accessible to everyone, including Black, indigenous, people of color, LGBTQ2S+ and other underrepresented groups. It’s about carving a path for generations to come.

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Bitwise Industries lands $80M to expand its sprawling software dev business

TechCrunch

Olguin and Soberal’s latest venture through Bitwise is commercial real estate — the two develop and turn previously blighted buildings into coworking spaces, restaurants, theaters and more. Historically, female founders have received just 12% of venture capital investment for their businesses.

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Remote Work, Not Taxes, Threatens Cities: Why That Threat has Peaked but Others Remain

This is going to be BIG.

The wealthy are also more likely to own mortgaged real estate—so they get tax write-offs on their interest payments and real estate taxes that renters do not, additionally padding their bottom line. You are gone and never coming back. So yes, we are going to see a shift—most likely of young and wealthy Manhattan families.

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Bill DeBlasio's Uber targeting is in danger of making NYC a tech joke

This is going to be BIG.

It's also hard to argue that anyone who supports NYC's tech community wouldn't have rather had Uber build their company here versus in San Francisco. Regardless of how you feel about Uber as a company or their management, it's really hard to argue that New Yorkers don't want this service. Has Via, the new bus service come under fire?

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

This is going to be BIG.

Back in the late 90's, a lot of money and real estate brokering went into trying to make it so, however. These are people whose business it is to support startups. It's not quite the same when you're putting government money to work supporting new companies. I'll bet you didn't know that--mostly because it never was.

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Colabs gets $3 million seed to expand across Pakistan, launch back-office SaaS solution

TechCrunch

Lahore-based coworking space startup, Colabs , is set to roll-out a SaaS product to enable businesses meet back-office needs including company registration, talent sourcing and management, payroll processing and legal and tax compliance. The family-owned real estate firm develops Colabs spaces. Planned national expansion.

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