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Weekly Radar #260 - Wear Green To Your Next Job Interview & Walking to a Friendly Face

EDITOR'S CORNER We have big news: We’re switching to a new platform (Ghost) to make the GEM Crystal better than ever! To view this week’s radar, you can go ahead and view it at the link below (you'll have to login w/ your email

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Weekly Radar #259- Carbon Concrete, Touch of Green, Another VC STR in the Closet...

EDITOR'S CORNER In a deviation from our normal residential and commercial tech, Stephen Del Percio deep dives on agriculture tech, exploring the impact of vertical farming. In this week's Radar, we cover the power of insurtech/proptech companies to respond to climate change, manufactured concrete, plants

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An Agricultural Crisis of Green Proportions (Newsletter #261)

BY: STEPHEN DEL PERCIO [Adapted from infrastruttura, a new newsletter covering innovation in the design, development, and delivery of global civil infrastructure.] High-tech hydroponic vertical farms were once viewed as an elegant solution to deforestation and climate change-driven food insecurity, and a leafy green oasis within the food deserts that

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Weekly Radar #258 - Biden's Rental "Junk Fees", Barbie and the Built Genius

EDITOR'S CORNER After a relaxing week at the beach, I'm back in Seattle from North Carolina's Outer Banks. Digging back in this week to get ready for the upcoming conference season. -DM CLIMATE THE CLIMATE THREAT NO ONE SAW COMING By: Logan Nagel It’

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Weekly Radar #257 - Bright Chip for Compression, A Bay Portal to Affordable Housing...

EDITOR'S CORNER I'm in the Outer Banks of North Carolina this week, a beautiful part of the country I've never explored before. What topics are you curious to learn more about? And, as always, any/all general feedback is appreciated. Email us. -DM REAL

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Transparency Rules, Secrecy Drools (Newsletter #260)

There are few who would argue against the benefits of transparency in business. In the wake of the Enron scandal, increasing transparency was the driving factor behind passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act in 2002, which penalized destroying, altering, or fabricating financial records. Public companies are forced to disclose pretty much

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Weekly Radar #256 - Wild West to Green West, Tax Credit Cliff Looms, Elon To the Rescue

EDITOR'S CORNER Summer vacations continue and the fall GEM events lineup continues to take shape. Without further ado...on to this week's curated stories. -DM PS: For the tennis fans out there, the Alcaraz vs Djokovic Wimbledon final between was epic. -DM TRANSMISSION RECAP Last week,

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The Best Possible Housing Deal (Newsletter #259)

I’m a pyro. Always have been. Guilty as charged. Bonfires are my jam. Growing up on a lake, bonfires were an occurrence multiple times per week throughout spring and summer. It shouldn’t come as a surprise that a love for fire means the 4th of July was a

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Weekly Radar #255 - Timber in the Neighborhood, Perfection in Evicts, Leapfrogging from Bricks to Bytes

EDITOR'S CORNER With summer in full swing, I've spent the last few weeks mostly at our family lake house, playing tennis, and watching a slew of action-packed Wimbledon matches. While the tranquility is magical for now, I am gearing up for a travel-laced fall schedule hitting

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Weekly Radar #254 - Pulling the IDX Plug, Closing ZG's Closing Shop, One Less Peer ...

EDITOR'S CORNER Welcome to the first edition of the GEM Crystal Weekly Radar! Our mission is to deliver intellectual stimulation for established and aspiring proptech minds—an exclusive, objective lens into the trends, companies, people, and ideas shaping the future of real estate and the broader built world.

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(Still) Untapped Opportunity in Fractions (Transmission #241)

By: Andrei Zverev Real estate crowdfunding (aka fractional ownership) has been around for about a decade. During that time, individual investors have poured more money into it compared to other crowdfunding opportunities, such as equity investments in start-ups and small businesses. Ironically, crowdfunding laws were initially designed for these two

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A GEM of a Personal Jam (Newsletter #247)

Failure’s a real bitch isn’t it? And it’s a topic we don’t talk about nearly enough. I experienced my first jolting failure in 2017: the end of the road for my travel startup. That moment served as a critical stepping stone on my personal journey. Five

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Stock in Down Payments (Transmission #245)

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Banking Real Estate in the Clouds (Newsletter #242)

The benefits of customer loyalty are well documented. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that people like earning something for their time, effort, and attention. A full 37% of consumers “are willing to pay a fee for access to enhanced loyalty program benefits,” according to 2018

State of the GEM Diamond 2023

[Editor’s Note: Below is the full text of our 239th Weekly Transmission, originally delivered direct to the inbox of more than 600 GEM Diamond members on January 11th, 2023.] Collectively, the GEM Diamond is a diverse community of proptech innovators spanning every role, sector, and geography. While the biz

Looking Forward to 2023: Slow and Steady Wins the Race

[Editor’s Note: Below is the full text of our 238th Weekly Transmission, originally delivered direct to the inbox of more than 600 GEM Diamond members on January 4th, 2023. Please note that some links are GEM Diamond Exclusives] For two straight years our central prediction theme was climate (2021

The Sexy Tortoise

[Editor’s Note: Below is the full text of Part I of our 238th Weekly Transmission, originally delivered direct to the inbox of more than 600 GEM Diamond members on January 4th, 2023.] It’s 2023, and founders need to be ready to answer a question seemingly nobody has cared

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Burn the Boats

WRITTEN BY: BEN RUBENSTEIN In 1519, Hernán Cortés arrived on the beaches of present-day Veracruz in Eastern Mexico with 600 men set on plundering unimaginable treasure from the Aztec Empire. Before embarking on the inland journey, he said something remarkable. “Burn the boats.” The takeaway was obvious: There is no

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Proptech’s Leader Has Been Crashing on Our Couch This Whole Time (Newsletter #232)

GEM Diamond July 2022 Radar

Below is a wrap-up for the month of July with the most interesting analysis & commentary from the GEM Diamond. Beyond the content side of our business, we curate proptech dinners, lunches, walks, and happy hours around the country. Member gatherings are taking place at Blueprint (Las Vegas), iOi (Los

Blueprinting Proptech: Foxy AI (Series II, Part VI)

Editor’s Note: The GEM Diamond is a real estate tech think-tank comprised of 500+ founders, executives, VCs, and practitioners. Our mission is to attract the 1,500 most forward-thinking, and diverse, innovators. Below is a sample of one of the in-depth startup briefings from our Blueprinting Proptech series that

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The Topic No One Will Touch with a Ten Foot Pole (Transmission #200)

As always, links surrounded by the ❇️ emoji indicate exclusive GEM Diamond content. If you would like to have access to all links, please consider GEM Diamond membership. For our 200th Transmission (wow…that’s a lot), I thought I’d reach for a blast from the past and modernize the

Filling the Emerging iBuyer Vacuum

[Note from editor: We publish a Weekly Transmission for GEM members, a series of long-form articles covering the spectrum from shipping container co-living spaces to the battle for listing acquisition in the first iBuyer world war. Below is this month’s sample Transmission.] NOVEMBER MONTHLY TRANSMISSION BY DREW MEYERS Originally

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Corporate Property Rights Bonanza (Newsletter #182)

💡CRYSTAL TRANSMISSION: Thought-provoking long-form articles covering a wide spectrum from innovative shipping container co-living spaces to the battle for listing acquisition in the first iBuyer world war to the implications of floating cities seen from beaches far and wide. Curious? Additional examples. Proptech's Leader has Been Crashing Our

The Future Prop-Aquapreneur Paradise (Transmission #180)

Many of you have no doubt seen Waterworld, the classic post-apocalyptic Kevin Costner film in which most of Earth’s land is submerged due to the polar ice caps melting. It was the most expensive movie ever filmed at the time. I loved the film as a kid, partly due