by Joe Stampone | Feb 13, 2012 | Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Market News, Technology
Throughout my brief career in commercial real estate, I’ve seen a lot of innovation. From 3D mapping, mobile, and retail tech, to the data space, tech-related start-ups are proliferating. I was lucky enough to be part of a test group for Compstak, a new...
by Joe Stampone | Feb 8, 2012 | Career, Entrepreneurship
Sam Zell is heralded as one of the most successful real estate professionals of his time. However, he doesn’t proclaim to have any complicated strategy when it comes to his deals. In fact, if you go to Equity Group Investments website you’ll find a page...
by Joe Stampone | Jan 29, 2012 | Entrepreneurship
Reading the January edition of Bloomberg Magazine, I came across an interesting quote from a segment titled “Advice from Billionaires” When asked “what’s the best advice you’ve received”, one billionaire replied, “good deals are like bus stops; there is one on every...
by Joe Stampone | Jan 2, 2012 | Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Multifamily
It only takes two things to turn a group of people into a strong community; a shared interested and a way to communicate. Peter Slaugh, the founder of of Su Casa Properties, harnesses this through his Urban Village concept which rethinks how tenants interact within an...
by Joe Stampone | Dec 11, 2011 | Entrepreneurship
I spent one morning last week at my old stomping grounds, the 10th floor of NYU Schack, where I attended a lively boutique entrepreneurs panel. The panel featured four successful real estate entrepreneurs and the conversation centered around how they got started, how...
by Joe Stampone | Jul 27, 2011 | Career, Entrepreneurship
There was a blog post over on Six Pixels of Separation last week, a must-read digital marketing blog, that really resonated with me. The post discussed how social media has created a plethora false experts: If an individual with no followers on Twitter has decades of...