Linkage: Topics & Companies We’re Keeping An Eye On
We’ve had a good run getting the team sped up here, but it’s caused me to fall behind on some topics stacking up in my files, so below is a big download. We’ll get to these themes as we move forward in our daily flow. Thanks to all you new readers who have started to check in. We’ll keep it coming.
Lending & Housing Stuff
- Buy land in smart areas before climate changes too much(nytimes.com)
- How much do you make flipping a house?(prnewswire.com)
- 24m Americans think it's OK to use home equity to pay bills(bankrate.com)
- More than one-third of homeowners using credit cards to make home improvements(realtor.com)
- Consumer Lending Discrimination In The Era of Fintech (faculty.haas.berkeley.edu)
- Global trends in real estate tech(slideshare.net)
- New Experian & Finicity credit score allowing better scores for more people rolling out soon(experianplc.com)
- Zillow's strategic shift(seekingalpha.com)
- Homeownership delay hurts long-term financial health(mortgagenewsdaily.com)
- 5 Lending AI Things To Watch For In 2019(housingwire.com)
- How SoFi is revamping ailing mortgage unit(bloomberg.com)
- Remember when Fannie Mae raised DTI to 50%?(urban.org)
- Jumbo vs. conforming rates (1 of 5)(thebasispoint.com)
- Jumbo vs. conforming rates (2 of 5)(thebasispoint.com)
- Jumbo vs. conforming rates (3 of 5)(thebasispoint.com)
- Jumbo vs. conforming rates (4 of 5)(thebasispoint.com)
- Jumbo vs. conforming rates (5 of 4)(instagram.com)
Fintech & Startup Stuff
- CB Insights Q3 Fintech Report(cbinsights.com)
- CB Insights Q2 Fintech Report(cbinsights.com)
- How Blockchain Could Disrupt Banking(cbinsights.com)
- Disruption of the Bloomberg terminal(cbinsights.com)
- Top 250 Fintech Startups of 2018(cbinsights.com)
- Top 20 Reasons Startups Fail(cbinsights.com)
- 90 Startups Automating the Bank(cbinsights.com)
- The Golden Age of Fintech(prezi.com)
Marketing & Sales Stuff
- Digital Marketing Critical, But So Is Redefining What Success Looks Like(insider-inc.com)
- Replacing the sales funnel with the flywheel(hbr.org)
- The marketing funnel is now a flywheel(youtube.com)
- How digital revolution changed role of CMO(ama.org)
- What will role of CMO be like in 5 years?(forbes.com)
- The return of direct mail. Millennials like it. (forbes.com)
- Jazon Zweig on Writing Better(jasonzweig.com)
- 3 Reasons Nobody Is Ever Satisfied(thereformedbroker.com)
- The Psychology of Money(collaborativefund.com)
Media & Pop Culture Stuff
- Monopoly for millennials - OMFG(cnn.com)
- Why monopoly for millennials being savaged on twitter(refinery29.com)
- State of big VC backed media not great(vanityfair.com)
- Fate of VC backed media company Mic after fire sale(cnn.com)
- Digital media vet Jon Miller is on a media shopping spree(recode.net)
- The media long game for Gary Vaynerchuk(nytimes.com)