TiE Boston RE SIG: Franchising & Real Estate

TiE Boston’s Real Estate SIG puts Franchising & Real Estate: Building Assets That Scale on Tuesday, November 10, 2026, from 6:00 to 8:00 PM at Grand View Farm, 55 Center Street in Burlington. The host question is practical: how do you leave an IT or software paycheck, build a multi-unit franchise, and either exit or keep scaling with real estate under the brand. Food and beverages are provided. Admission is free for TiE Boston members. Open the live registration flow for any non-member price before you commit to a Route 128 drive.

Manny Arora and Ranga Narasimhan sit on the panel; Aseem Juneja moderates. Arora founded IM Wireless in 2001, grew it to 34 wireless retail locations with more than a hundred employees and about $40 million in annual revenue, and exited in 2021. He now holds multifamily and short-term rental properties around Boston and Fort Lauderdale, plus a Lake Winnipesaukee resort, and invests as a TiE charter member. Narasimhan’s franchise book spans Subway and AFC Urgent Care. TiE Boston is the New England Indus-entrepreneur chapter—operator nights like this are why people keep the membership.

Franchise operators, CRE investors, and career-switchers testing multi-unit ownership belong in Burlington. Downtown’s AALAM government-litigator panel starts at 7:00 the same night; you cannot honestly do both. Member-free is not a walk-up pass—register on the TiE link and bring the confirmation.

Grand View Farm sits off the 128 corridor in Burlington. Budget evening traffic from Cambridge or the Financial District. Keep your ticket email. TiE’s December drug-discovery listing is still venue TBD; do not paste that address onto this farm night.