Fred Wilson talked the other day about the importance of choosing a group of venture capitalists who like working together. It reminded me of how much I like our investors: Paul Goodrich from Madrona Capital, Marc Singer from BEV, Emily Melton from DFJ and Steve Hall from Vulcan. When I first got involved in raising […]
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The folks at Redfin have been thinking a lot lately about how the world will look when the recession is over. Last Tuesday, we said that the Internet will shift toward applications that consumers will pay for rather than media content. Yesterday, we looked at startup economics, and speculated that most of the carnage is
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As part of our recent release, we added every survey submitted about our agents to our agent profiles. To prep for this, we needed to do a mail merge with each survey response, which we exported from a Postgres database. The problem was, when our users submitted their answers, they used the skills their grade
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At BloodhoundBlog Unchained last Thursday, Greg Swann hosted Redfin for a debate on whether all the venture capital that has been poured into real estate is driving out the little guy. Greg maintained that small brokers could flourish without having to spend millions on a website, because what counts in real estate is the personal connection
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Redfin launched its 2009 brown-bag lunch program last Friday, where employees and guests speak on how we can broaden our horizons beyond our little startup and develop our careers. I addressed the first topic, public speaking, mostly because in 2002 I had attended part of a road-show boot camp that Sequoia Capital put its executives
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On Wednesday, Redfin announced a partner program in which a small group of agents committed to our principles of technological efficiency, customer service and openness would serve clients who had browsed their profile and requested their service, in outlying areas of our markets where less than 10% of our audience now looks for homes. TechFlash
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