NYC Real Estate Startup RealDirect Adds Map Search And Compatibility Rankings. RealDirect.com was built around a compelling proposition for home sellers — instead of paying the 6 percent broker fee, let RealDirect handle the listings and offer advice from agents, while only paying $395 a month or a 1 or 2 percent commission (depending on the level of services). Now, however, the site is also trying to be useful for home buyers. Specifically, instead of expecting buyers to find the listings through various real estate databases, RealDirect is launching its own map-based interface. It’s pretty straightforward — you enter things like the neighborhoods you want to look at, the maximum price, and the number of bedrooms and bathrooms, then you get a map with all the houses that fit your criteria.
You can also draw a lasso around the area that you want to search in and browse data about different neighborhoods. “Every single buyer makes some sort of compromise,” says co-founder and CEO Doug Perlson puts it. For now, RealDirect is limited to Manhattan and Brooklyn. Kbs+p VENTURES. Kleiner Perkins Closes On $525 Million For Its 15th Venture Fund, ‘KPCB 15′ Silicon Valley venture capital stalwart Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers is announcing this evening that it has closed on a $525 million round for its fifteenth venture fund, dubbed ‘KPCB 15.’ The fund will be headed up by 10 managing members: Mike Abbott, Chi-Hua Chien, Amol Deshpande, John Doerr, Bing Gordon, Wen Hsieh, Randy Komisar, Matt Murphy, Beth Seidenberg, and Ted Schlein.
Longtime Kleiner Perkins investment partners Brook Byers, Ray Lane and Bill Joy are all notably off the list, which appears to confirm earlier reports that they will be declining their participation in future funds as part of a gradual general change in the partnership structure at the firm. Kleiner Perkins says it will focus the fund toward making investments in early-stage digital consumer and enterprise, green technology, and life sciences companies.
. $525 million is certainly big, but it’s not outsized given Kleiner Perkins’ history and the larger environment. Official Website: Press Room. April 25, 2013 Time Inc. today unveiled its third annual list of the 10 NYC Startups to Watch for 2013. The ten ventures will be recognized at Time Inc.’s Internet Week cocktail event on Wednesday, May 22nd. Each Spring, editors from Time Inc. brands, including TIME, FORTUNE, CNNMoney.com, PEOPLE, Sports Illustrated, Entertainment Weekly, and InStyle, comb New York's technology scene to discover the ten most promising startups of the past year. This year's diverse list spotlights New York City-based companies with the most potential to transform areas from shopping, personal health and dating to customer service, social media, and data analysis. “Each year, the temperature of NYC’s start-up scene seems to get turned up another five degrees, with 2013 yielding by far the largest number and widest spectrum of companies for our judging committee to consider,” says Time Inc.
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This Techcrunch contributor has invested his own money and Founder Collective’s, in companies like Skype, Invite Media, ScanScout, OMGPOP, BillShrink, SeatGeek, Posterous and About.me. Dixon blogs at and is active with his Twitter followers. Roger Ehrenberg, IA Ventures Short for Information Arbitrage, IA has a focus on digital media and fintech. Roger is personally an angel investor in 40 early stage companies and has served on the boards of Buddy Media, Invite Media (sold to Google), MyTrade (Sold to TD Ameritrade), Stocktwits, Tweetdeck and The Ladders. David Pakman, Venrock Stuart Ellman and Jim Robinson IV, RRE Ventures Ken and Ben Lerer. Supporting startup growth with the new recruiting ecosystem. NY Entrepreneurs Business Network (NYEBN) Find a Meetup Group Start a Meetup Group NY Entrepreneurs Business Network (NYEBN) Join us! NY Entrepreneurs Business Network (a.k.a NYEBN) runs the largest Meetup group for small business owners and startup entrepreneurs.
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