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Monthly archive for October 2014

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Kickstarter is the way to go?

What is Crowdfunding

I know many crowdfunding platforms, and everyday a new one is born. However, Kickstarter is the one with more users by far, and it is the most successful platform— not only for number of users, but also for projects funded.

I will be frank. I don’t like their model. I understand why they are are successful, and I will explain in this post: why I prefer other platforms instead and why I personally find little value in using it from an investor point-of-view.

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Scan Me Reputation Management

Reputation Management - thumbs up with speech bubbles

This week all our studies were concentrated on online reputation and its effect on every aspect of a career and business, but also its effect on personal lives.

I have not been very active on the Web. I am an investor, and I usually find deals around the world buying shares in companies and installing new management that can produce profits.

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Zillow’s App: a Real Estate App

Zillow Trulia Logo

Being in the Real Estate Industry, I downloaded Zillow’s app.

Zillow is the biggest real estate portal in America. Through the Zillow app, there many options to find useful real estate information from decorating your home to renting an apartment or finding professional help.

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The Dreadful Word: VACANCY

vacancy

The concept of vacancy, which I touched on in the last post, is one of the most important factors when investing in real estate for cash flow / income purposes.

People lose money or make bad investments primarily because they do not understand how to calculate it correctly.

Obviously, calculating vacancy is terribly difficult. What most investors seem to do is simply discount 10%, sometimes even only 5% from the gross value of the rent that they are supposed to get…and then they just hope that it works.

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