Learning! I was on my way to visit my buddy the other day (of a mature age like myself) and when I got close to his house, I heard loud music blasting. As a big music guy myself, I thought that this was way cool. When I walked inside his house, I saw my friend jamming out with an electric guitar and a huge smile on his face. When I told him I didn’t know he played guitar and how great he soun...
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I heard this expression a long time ago about "playing long ball". The person who used the expression was speaking to me about how important it was to build a company or career that you can sustain over the long term. I was a young guy at the time, in my early twenties and the advice really hit home. I never forgot it.
Around the same time, another really successful entrepreneur said to ...
The one who builds THE portal! As someone who has spent the past five years focused on the commercial real estate tech sector (www.thenewsfunnel.com), I have had a front row seat on the extraordinary explosion of activity in the industry. What initially felt like a ghost town with a few of us thinking, hoping and planning our dreams, n...
Anyone who follows my blog knows that I am obsessed with all things media and content. I built my new startup specifically to be able to provide a platform for content in the real estate industry. I also have been preaching to anyone that w...
To the tech industry, I am clearly an outsider.
I don’t look the part. I am old by tech standards. I don’t come from tech. I don’t live in a tech hub. And my startup, The News Funnel, is be...
What a year in the real estate tech sector! Amazing, amazing, amazing. As someone who was perhaps one of the early entrants to the industry, it's been an incredible experience to be given a front row seat on the explosive growth in real estate tech.
I remember when I fir...