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 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...
by Joe Stampone | Feb 23, 2014 | Entrepreneurship, Market News
The past Friday I represented Atlas at the Columbia Business School Real Estate Career Forum. The Columbia Club was packed with blue chip firms. Our table was sandwiched between the behemoths of Blackrock and Clarion Partners, so in an attempt to stand out and engage...
by Joe Stampone | Feb 11, 2014 | Entrepreneurship
Last week, Atlas Real Estate Partners co-founders, Arvind Chary and Alex Foster spoke to a packed room of Columbia University MSRED and Business School students. I have a slight bias, but I thought it was one of the more engaging real estate talks that I’ve...
by Joe Stampone | Jan 5, 2014 | Development, Entrepreneurship, Innovation
When people talk about real estate investment they often discuss things like the basis, deal capitalization, and asset management. However, a major aspect of value creation is about conceptualizing a space that fits the evolving needs of the target end user and...