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CRETech January 08, 2019
A new study from Harvard reveals that open-plan offices decrease rather than increase face-to-face collaboration.
CRETech January 08, 2019
The coworking industry is gobbling up the office market like the Cookie Monster on an Ambien-fueled eating binge. As coworking activity continues to increase in the U.S., including doubling inventory in the past couple of years in major markets, industry experts and asset owners are beginning to study what the future holds for this fast-growing segment.
CRETech January 08, 2019
Amazon Go is not only trying to out-convenience convenience stores, it could out-earn them, too. And that could mean a new, giant multi-billion dollar business for Amazon within just a few years. Amazon’s new cashless, cashierless stores — which allow customers to just grab items off shelves and automatically get charged upon exiting, thanks to a bevy of sensors and cameras — bring in abo...
CRETech January 07, 2019
This is always one of my favorite posts to write. It’s not only a great way to help founders navigate the best ways to get in front of their target investors, but internally the data shines light on the value of deal source channels and our time allocations.
CRETech January 07, 2019

In a new a16z podcast with the venture firm’s founders Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, there’s a lot to enjoy, from Andreessen’s TV show recommendations to Horowitz’s secret to excellent barbecue. (It’s pretty much just “time,” as you might imagine.)

More useful for our founder readers may be Andreessen’s predictions ...
CRETech January 07, 2019
We dive into initiatives for collecting and sharing accessible city data, as well as how organizations around the world are handling growing privacy concerns.
CRETech January 07, 2019
Wyze Labs, the Kirkland, Wash.-based makers of a low-cost, smart home security camera, has raised $20 million in new funding, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday. Wyze was founded by Amazon veterans Yun Zhang, Dave Crosby, Elana Fishman and Dongsheng Song in 2017. The startup launched its <...
CRETech January 07, 2019
As every software company knows, over time as code ages and workarounds build on work-arounds, the code base becomes bloated. It becomes ever more difficult to get around the technical debt that you’ve built up over time. It’s really impossible to avoid this phenomenon, but at some point, companies realize that the debt is so great that it’s limiting their ability to build new functionality....
CRETech January 07, 2019
Co-working spaces have quickly grown in demand and interest. According to a survey reported on by
CRETech January 07, 2019
Andrew Ross Sorkin, author of the book “Too Big To Fail,” recently wrote an opinion piece in the New York Times arguing that WeWork might be just that: too big to fail. In September, the co-working giant became Manhattan’s biggest offi...