I am working on my Real Estate Handbook to be published in 2015. Here’s my dedication so far– I dedicate this Real Estate Handbook to everyone on this planet who does not have a government-sponsored, defined benefit pension plan. It is written for those people who have to provide for themselves and their families, and […]

If you can create a 1-minute 10-second promo video this good (with 3,932,846 views to date), you too may have a pre-IPO valuation of $13 billion, https://www.cnbc.com/id/102117120.  [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dA2F0qScxrI] @ profbruce @ quantum_entity Postscript: it’s worth going behind the scenes on how this video was made–30 uber-talented people working for 5 weeks straight, and on the […]

Does it ever strike you that brilliant young people may be wasting their time creating yet another useless meme? I just read a New Yorker piece on a 27-year old genius–Chicago-based, Internet-media entrepreneur, Emerson Spartz. He is a virologist. At least The New Yorker describes him that way. So naturally I thought he was a […]

“Give all of us gathered here tonight the strength to remember that life is so very fragile. We are all vulnerable, and we will all, at some point in our lives… fall. We will all fall. We must carry this in our hearts… that what we have is special. That it can be taken from […]

I’ve discussed a shortage of real estate entrepreneurs elsewhere, https://www.eqjournal.org/?p=4349. Now I want to deal with the fact that there is also a shortage of land for high end development of industrial and business uses despite the city of Ottawa having a study that says otherwise. In fact, the city says they have enough land […]

There’s no doubt in my mind that this is one of the most conservative industries anywhere. It’s hard to bring about significant change. I’ve spoken extensively about it, in front of generally receptive audiences I might add, but still change has been hard to come by. It might be that the development business and the […]

Sens founder Bruce M Firestone talks with the CBC’s Hallie Cotnam about the possibility of a new arena downtown Ottawa… at Lebreton Flats, Thursday Dec 11, 2014: https://www.cbc.ca/video/swf/UberPlayer.swf?state=shareaudio&clipId=2634262240&width=512&height=126 Link, https://www.cbc.ca/video/player.html?clipid=2634262240&position=1044&site=cbc.news.ca

Germany Trumps that with Headis When I was teaching in Stockholm, my students introduced me to Swedish ping pong, known locally as Pingis. It’s the ping pong equivalent of drinking brännvin (alcohol distilled from fermented potatoes or grain) while eating a Swede favorite, maybe pickled herring, and dancing around a flowered maypole at Midsommar. It’s loopy, […]