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We learned this weekend that Seattle may be on the verge of closing its second newsaper, the Seattle PI. A few days earlier, Clay Shirky had compared journalists to old Russian hard-liners who had never lived under — or imagined — any other regime. First Henry Blodget and then The Atlantic Monthly began wondering aloud […]

Yesterday we talked about what Redfin achieved over the past year. Without thinking much about it, I promised a second post on our priorities for 2009. Without revealing our top-secret R&D projects, here is what we’re focused on so far… Fanatical customer service, and the industry’s happiest customers, by far: stay proud, Redfin. And run

At today’s all-hands meeting, Redfin surveyed our 2008 accomplishments alongside what we wanted to do better in 2009. It was a good exercise, both so we could put to rest our mistakes, but also see how far we’ve come. Here is what we accomplished in the past 12 months: Decreased the cost of bringing a

This is an essay arguing that some of the same forces driving Wall Street have affected Sand Hill Road, so that entrepreneurs try to make money without worrying about losing it. From the backseat’s darkness, the hedge fund manager wasn’t talking to anyone in particular, and didn’t seem to notice no one could understand much