by Joe Stampone | May 17, 2014 | Entrepreneurship
Last week I published a post about the ideal time to start your own investment firm where I highlighted the importance of having the requisite skill-set, a trusted network, and some sort of a competitive advantage. However, sometimes there are outside influences which...
by Joe Stampone | May 3, 2014 | Entrepreneurship
One of the aspects that make real estate such a great career is that it is made up of so many entrepreneurial-minded professionals. Most professionals in the business want to eventually go off and do their own deals. However, the challenge every real estate...
by Joe Stampone | Apr 27, 2014 | Career
In my conversations with undergrads and business school students interested in real estate, the conversation always tends to cover whether to take the institutional route by working for a large organization or the entrepreneurial route by working with a small shop....
by Joe Stampone | Apr 12, 2014 | Entrepreneurship, Passive Investing
I was at a breakfast round-table discussion with a bunch of bigwig private equity fund managers and the conversation centered largely on the challenges of raising capital. While I don’t know much about the institutional fundraising process, I’m intimately familiar...
by Joe Stampone | Mar 7, 2014 | Entrepreneurship, Passive Investing
As a real estate investment firm, the ability to scale and grow your business comes down to a few things; access to good deals, efficiently managing the investor origination and reporting process, and the ability to broaden your investor base. The investor management...