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The Future of Hospitality is Here

Revolution

Image courtesy of Mint House Real estate lies at the core of our everyday lives?—?it Yet, technology adoption within the real estate community as a means to fundamentally disrupt how physical assets behave and how transactions occur was lagging up until the last couple of years.

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What To Do When Your Competitor Gets Funded?

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years it was hard to get other investors to see this unsexy market as ripe for innovation. And our competitors are not really each other but the incumbent businesses that have 99.9% ” In summary: The competitors are the incumbents. When we funded Sam , Rahul and team at MakeSpace > 2.5

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Singapore wealth management platform Endowus raises $35M

TechCrunch

This time it’s $35 million with new investors, including Citi Ventures and MUFG Innovation Partners, bringing the company’s total raised so far to $95 million. Co-founder and chairman Samuel Rhee told TechCrunch that Endowus is now “multiple times the size of the next player and now competing with large banks and incumbent players.”

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

TechCrunch

The key purpose of being end-to-end is to deliver an even better value proposition to consumers relative to incumbent alternatives. In the graphic above, notice that most of these companies play in the largest, but notoriously archaic industries like banking, insurance, real estate, healthcare, etc.

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Why the startup sector should keep its eye on the SEC

TechCrunch

Anthony Cimino Contributor Share on Twitter Anthony Cimino , head of policy at Carta , works with policymakers and innovators to drive economic opportunity through expanding equity ownership and private market liquidity. And the scale of the SEC’s proposed reforms should alarm entrepreneurs, investors and employees in the innovation economy.

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MakeSpace Raises an Additional $17.5 million and Unveils Strategy to Make Public Storage the Next Blockbuster Video

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They are the classic case of the Innovator’s Dilemma because they fundamentally can’t innovate on their product and can’t lower costs or their business craters. They have high-priced property and zero innovation. It’s no wonder incumbents don’t want us to exist. Public Storage does about $2.4

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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. Weekly News.