Linkage: Core Themes
The next few editions of Linkage are logging some key themes I’ve been tracking this summer, and now that I’m getting back to daily routine after a hiatus, I’ll dive deeper into these topics.
Fintech, Lending, and Real Estate Stuff
- Facebook to banks: give us your data and we'll give you our users(wsj.com)
- Consumer Debt Now $13.29 Trillion. Mortgage Quality Strong, Late Payers Highest In Student Loans(newyorkfed.org)
- NY Fed's consumer debt data tracker (newyorkfed.org)
- Goldman Sachs reason for making subprime loans: it's a good way to predict next crisis(businessinsider.com)
- Goldman Sachs presentation showing future aspirations of their Marcus consumer banking and lending division(crowdfundinsider.com)
- Goldman's Marcus poised to dominate(thestreet.com)
- Who needs a down payment when you can trade in your old home instead. Opendoor profile. (wsj.com)
- Homebuying fintech Opendoor raises $325m, bringing total to $645 in equity and $1.5b in debt. Buying homes at $2.5b annual run rate(bizjournals.com)
- 6 fintechs targeting seniors and their families(americanbanker.com)
- 3 traits of digital forward banks(bankinnovation.net)
- GreenSky raises $800m in IPO(forbes.com)
- GreenSky S-1(sec.gov)
Real Estate & Homeownership Stuff
- 6 Smart Ways To Build Home Equity - Julian Hebron on Zillow(zillow.com)
- Facebook partners with Home Advisor, Porch, and Handy to let users hire home services pros easy and fast(inman.com)
- Facebook announcement on providing home services(newsroom.fb.com)
- 9 startups focusing on shared housing, and how each is approaching the market(news.crunchbase.com)
- Hometap joins Unison and Point as latest shared equity home startup, co-owning your house with you. (xconomy.com)
- Zillow's first deal as an iBuyer(inman.com)
- Buying a home is less affordable than it's been in a decade(zillow.com)
Marketing, Media & Entrepreneurial Stuff
- How new startups help newsletter and email writers get rich. Newsletter infrastructure as a service. (news.crunchbase.com)
- How Vice was built on a lie. Lots of entrepreneurial lessons in here. (nymag.com)
- 24 things I learned publishing 3 books in only 6 months(writingcooperative.com)
- How to design your sales process in Hubspot CRM - good for marketers and small business owners(blog.hubspot.com)
- The categories of native advertising everyone needs to understand(nativeadvertisinginstitute.com)
- 24 essential learnings from native ad studios around the world(nativeadvertisinginstitute.com)
- How to succeed with paid on Instagram(nativeadvertisinginstitute.com)