Insurance startup Lemonade raises $300M funding round

Lemonade, a tech-centric insurance startup that uses artificial intelligence, announced Thursday it had raised $300 million in a new round of funding. Continue reading

RE/MAX Results arms agents with buyer insights

RE/MAX Results, the nation’s largest RE/MAX franchise by transaction sides is arming its agents with a new tool to provide its agents and customers with buyer demand insight through real estate data and analytics startup Buyside.  Continue reading

Sam DeBord named CEO of Real Estate Standards Organization

The trade association that creates the standards for getting real estate data where it needs to go has chosen a new chief. Continue reading

iBuyers riding a wave of change as they disrupt real estate

The iBuyers are going to improve their algorithms. They’re going to push their prices closer to market rates. And they’re going to get better and better as they eat up more of the real estate industry. Continue reading

Jean Chatzky’s Money Tips for Women Over 50

“There’s no stopping this train,” Jean Chatzky, financial editor of NBC’s The Today Show, writes in her excellent new book, Women with Money: The Judgment-Free Guide to Creating the Joyful, Less Stressed, Purposeful (and, Yes, Rich) Life You Deserve. (… Continue reading

Dry Eye Syndrome? Drops Are Not the Only Option

Your eyes are dry, itching, burning. It seems like a pretty straightforward diagnosis: dry eye syndrome. But it’s a little more complicated than that. Dry eye syndrome actually is an umbrella term for a number of different conditions that can diminish … Continue reading

Your Second Half of Life Should Be Filled With These 4-Letter Words

The second half of life (I’ll optimistically call it the 50-to-100 phase) is rife with both opportunity and challenge. It’s a time when social expectations expect us to begin to “wind down” rather than “rewind;” to “land” and not “take off;” to retire … Continue reading

The Ethical Will: Life Is About More Than Your Possessions

When people find out Debby Mycroft helps people write ethical wills, she always gets a predictable response: The Lament. “They say, ‘Oh, I wish I had a letter from my dad or grandmother or great aunt,’ whoever that person was. I have not come across a … Continue reading