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Here is Why Non-Obvious Startup Ideas Can Yield the Largest Results

Both Sides of the Table

These are hard things to initially comprehend until you see them in full force as local retailers get wiped out due to their albatross of high real estate costs leading to either higher prices to consumers or lower margins on their p&l statements. Today’s asset – real estate – is tomorrow’s albatross.

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End-to-end operators are the next generation of consumer business

TechCrunch

As consumers grew more comfortable with the web, marketplaces like eBay, Etsy, Expedia and Wayfair* emerged, enabling historically offline transactions to occur online. The key purpose of being end-to-end is to deliver an even better value proposition to consumers relative to incumbent alternatives.

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Keyway secures funding to buy property from small business owners and lease it back to them

TechCrunch

Founded in September 2020, the New York-based company – which was previously named Unlock – said it uses data science to “ identify, underwrite and close transactions 10x faster than incumbents.” commercial real estate value. ” It describes itself as a “managed marketplace.”

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Sila banks $13M to offer single API for developing financial products, services

TechCrunch

Its banking APIs enable developers to create their own digital wallets, replacing the need to integrate with legacy financial institutions. “In the process, you end up having to also be compliance experts just to be able to do it.”. Whereas it took Karkal three years to get bank processes set up for other companies, it took Sila 18 months.

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Proptech in Review: 3 investors explain how finance-focused proptech startups can survive the downturn

TechCrunch

Startups operating in the financial side of the real estate tech market suddenly faced a surge in demand, and many departed on hiring sprees to keep up. Predictably, home buyers made hay, taking full advantage of the favorable financial environment to pick up new homes and refinancing mortgages on their existing homes.

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Infogrid raises $90M for its AI-driven building monitoring tech

TechCrunch

“I set out to answer that problem and defeat the incumbent solution — the clipboard — and that’s the seed that became Infogrid today.” “There is a major transformation underway in real estate as people reduce their footprint and are forced to take sustainability seriously,” De Gruchy said.

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What goes up must come down

TechCrunch

Real estate fintech Redfin announced on November 9 that it was laying off 13% of its staff , or 862 people, in response to the continued slowing of the housing market. Interestingly, Kelman appears to be putting his own personal bets into real estate markets outside the U.S. But I digress. Pymnts has more here.