Tag: real estate investing

  • How to Get Started as a Real Estate Developer

    How to Get Started as a Real Estate Developer

    Toward the end of a previous post, I briefly mentioned the concept of the minimum viable developer and first projects. I want to focus and expand on that concept for any who are looking to get started as a real estate developer. Every developer or investor I have heard or read about started as some…

  • Should We Save Your City? Minimum Viable Urbanism

    Should We Save Your City? Minimum Viable Urbanism

    Many cities around the world are experiencing migration from smaller rural towns to larger cities. That’s not new. What makes a town or a city enough of a city to focus our efforts on? What predicts the difference between a strong town, a quaint tourist destination, or a blighted or even ghost town? In entrepreneur…

  • Professional Perspectives on the Built Environment

    Professional Perspectives on the Built Environment

    During my research, I proposed using a social game as part of the public participation process. The hypothesis was that a mobile game would be a more interactive experience than sticking dots on a board. What I found was that to do that, I would need a model of how the built environment works. That’s…