Netscape founder (and successful venture capitalist) Marc Andreessen once observed that software was “eating the world” in the sense that technology was moving into industries that once seemed immune from disruption, changing them forever.
Gone are newspapers, record stores, bookstores, video stores and Radio Shacks.
Change is in the air. Amazon is swallowing up Main Street. Uber is transforming transportation. Apple and Google are heralding the age of mobile, data-driven computing.
Whether you are in Retail, Commercial or Residential Real Estate, an essential truth surrounds you: you are either riding this wave...or getting swept up by it.
This article presents a new approach to real estate portfolio management called Real Estate Intelligence that embraces this new wave. Real Estate Intelligence is built on three cornerstones.
Read the full article, which I wrote for RealcommEDGE, the leading publication for real estate technology, HERE.
Disclosure: Datex Property Solutions, one of the portfolio companies of BrightStreet Ventures, which I am Managing Director of, is featured in this article.
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