What is it really like to be a real estate agent, and what does it take to become one? We interviewed six Redfin Agents to find out why they chose real estate as a career and how they came to work at Redfin. Yesterday we profiled Liane Parness, who got her real estate license after […]
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Viewing the World Through Red-Colored Glasses If you’re a frequent visitor to our site, you may have noticed something different about the page today. After years of living with a blue color scheme we affectionately called “cadaver blue”, we’ve finally gone and put the “red” into Redfin. The new look is just the latest —
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Well, look at that! The Redfin design team made our site red! This morning we launched a site completely redesigned to be more spacious and lively. Last December, we re-designed the Redfin property pages so pictures are 35% bigger, and pages load 31% faster. That effort got into the guts of the page, organizing details
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Now that the real estate market is on the upswing, there’s a huge opportunity for people to get back into the industry as a real estate agent, or to enter it for the first time. But what is it really like to be an agent, and what does it take to become one? We spoke with six Redfin Agents from very different backgrounds to get an inside look at real estate as a career option.
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Silicon Valley has always showered so much money on the deserving and undeserving that it would be hard for any one of us to say which group we ourselves belonged to. But one crucial difference between this boom and the last is that the folks in the last boom had to ship or starve. Today, not shipping pays pretty well.
A few weeks ago, I flew to Chicago for a Tedx presentation on my favorite subject, how software entrepreneurs can build real-world companies. If you’re a coder looking for ideas to start a company, we have a few suggestions for you at 8:45: If you’re just wondering what happens when a software CEO attends an
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