Learn to sell something, anything. You’ll never learn more about what it takes to run a business than when you put yourself out there and make an offering.

– Michael Kilkelly, Founder of ArchSmarter

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Be persistent and don’t give up on your dreams. Find the best team members to build your business with and, most importantly, – don’t be afraid to dare and enjoy what you do.

– Adi Biran & Lihi Gerstner, Founders of Splacer.co

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It’s all about surrounding yourself with the most talented people who can help you realize your vision and stay most true to your ideas.

– Natasha Case, Founder of Coolhaus

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Studying architecture is just the greatest thing there is. The skills learned are actually quite good for management. You learn to form a vision, present this vision or break it down to smaller tasks.

– Kaspar Helfrich, Co-Founder of Archilogic

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I hope that if architects and design minded people are impacting development and urbanism in a greater way, our buildings and our communities will only get better.

– Ari S. Heckman, Founder of ASH NYC

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Architects have a huge contribution to make to the world in the 21st century – particularly in shaping how we can live sustainably and happily within ever-denser cities and within the Earth’s resources.

– Will Hunter, Founder & Director LSA

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Just get started, and don’t be afraid because the people who are successful are willing to fail and so you should be too.

– David Belt, Founder of Macro Sea

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I would like to see architects be less passive in their roles and with their profession. For me that means real estate development. But it could mean any number of other variations on the trade. Architects are holistic thinkers. I am at my best when I use my right brain and my left brain equally. Architecture school hones both of these hemispheres in a way that’s not common in other professions.

– Kevin Cavenaugh, Founder of Guerrilla Development

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Start today…! I suffered from analysis paralysis for a long time, fearing I’d never be able to save enough working capital to make a run at starting a business. I was determined to spend as little as possible to make it work.

– Eric Reinhold, Founder of 30×40 Design Workshop

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In the architectural profession we mainly think about solutions, and we constantly challenge how things are normally done. I think that’s a rare quality.

– Jakob Lange, Partner at BIG (Bjarke Ingels Group) and Head of the BIG Ideas project unit

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I see a profession that is completely different from the one we know today. Traditional practice is broken – I yearn to see solutions that we can’t even imagine today.

– Marc Kushner, Founder of Architizer & HWKN Architects

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I think that the most important step is to just do it. It sounds bold but in the end you need to think about your business idea and how customers will use and pay for it. Finally, you need to implement it. Do not wait too long; make it a reality.

– Antje Kunze, Founder of SmartBetterCities

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My advice to architects who want to start their own business is to put creativity at the heart of their activity, and to try to invent new things that can be really useful for other people.

– Filippo Schiano di Pepe, Founder of CoContest

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As architects, we like to think that successful projects come because we have a great idea. But a project’s success is actually down to risk management by a practicing and experienced developer.

– Roger Zogolovitch, Founder of Solidspace

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Go for it. I think you just have to start small, and start with what you can do with your own hands and feet, and find a way to be innovative. I think the biggest trap that you can get into is borrowing a lot of money and then finding out that it doesn’t work.

– Matthew Griffin, Co-Founder of Deadline Architects

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Follow your heart and do what you love to do. However, if it’s business you want then you need to learn to take care not only of yourself but also your customers.

– Qi Su, Co-Founder Modelo.io

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Architects have to educate themselves a lot more in the areas of digitalization, programming, economics, and the invisible infrastructure of cities. It’s not enough to simply understand how a building is drawn and set up if you want to shape and think about the modern cities of tomorrow.

– Andreas Rauch, Co-Founder of CABIN SPACEY

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What are your favorite quotes that inspire you?

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Guerrilla Development is not your average real estate development company. The company’s founder Kevin Cavenaugh is an architect developer, who – as he told us in a recent interview – approaches each project differently. Either the design is experimental, as for The Zipper, or in the case of The Fair-Haired Dumbbell, the funding follows a new and progressive way to get people like you and me involved in real estate through crowdinvesting.

The Fair-Haired Dumbbell is a 5,200 sqm (56,000 SF) speculative office building with ground-floor retail in the heart of the Burnside Bridgehead in Portland, Oregon.

The project consists of two canted six-story towers decked in hand-painted original artwork on all eight of its elevations. At each level, sky bridges connect the 370 sqm (4,000 SF) office spaces, giving the creative companies who work there the ability to own their own floor (or two). At the ground floor, the Fair-Haired Dumbbell will compliment its neighborhood with unique retail offerings and creative landscaping.

In this video, you’ll meet Guerrilla Development and learn about their Regulation A Offering, and discover how you can invest (and gain a return!) in the Fair-Haired Dumbbell – that is if you are a resident of the U.S. states California, Oregon, Washington, Massachusetts, or Virginia.

If you are not, watch the video anyway and learn about new funding possibilities and last but not least about super cool marketing strategies!

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If you are interested in real estate development check out Archipreneur’s book on new business models for architects, “The Archipreneur Concept”. There is a whole chapter on Architect as Developers where we explore funding options and practical examples of exactly how successful archipreneurs have used bank loans, partnering and venture capital to develop their own buildings.

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We interviewed Kevin Cavenaugh, architect developer and founder of the real estate development company Guerrilla Development, last year. In the interview we learned that each of his projects has a different approach, that Kevin likes to experiment and that especially The Zipper is a design experiment.

Portland, Oregon is known for its great restaurants and food stands – most of them with local food – on every corner. Guerrilla Development has yet developed one more corner into a trending food court.

The one story commercial building occupying a former old car dealership was completed in September 2015. Kevin acknowledges the heavy traffic on the boulevard playfully: The undulating façade features vertical fins with lenticular artwork by three separate artists, grabbing attention from the 28,000 cars that roll up and down Sandy Boulevard every day.

The Zipper now houses four micro-restaurants, a whiskey-themed bar, one retail tenant, and a coffee shop. All tenants share an interior dining hall, which opens onto an outdoors patio with fire pits, bike parking and more during the warmer months.

Sandy Boulevard is destined to be one of Portland’s great streets. The street will not transform overnight. It will take adventurous catalysts like The Zipper to kick-start Sandy into its true potential.

Would the design experiment have turned out like this if Guerilla Development had to constantly seek compromises with the client?

Guerrilla Development – unlike most other real estate developers – shares their projects’ spreadsheet analyses.

So see for yourself and learn!

Location:
2705 NE Sandy Blvd., Portland, OR, USA

Project Data:

• Architect: Guerrilla Development
• Site area: 12,600 sq ft (1,170 m²)
• Gross floor area: 8,000 sq ft (743 m²)
• Net saleable/rentable area: 7,596 sq ft (706 m²)
• Hard Cost: $1.135 M.
• Total Costs: $2.534 M.
• NOI: $185K/p.a.

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