Have you noticed how many churches are for sale these days? In almost every major American city, from Chicago to Seattle to Atlanta to Los Angeles to Brookline, Massachusetts you can buy a church. In fact, everywhere I looked, I found a church for sale. What’s the story here? Are churches under financial distress? Maybe churchgoers […]
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Big news! After a long hiatus in which all our software development was focused on tools for our agents to schedule tours and monitor deals, some nifty features cropped up on Redfin’s site today, including ratings and reviews of schools, and the first chapter of a home-buying guide, on mortgages. We’re also now including foreclosures in
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Have you read Andy Grove’s magnificent essay on Silicon Valley’s ability to create jobs? A reaction to Tom Friedman’s column “Startups, Not Bailouts,” it’s much better than what we wrote on the same topic a few weeks ago. Grove argues that Silicon Valley can’t create jobs because we out-source most of our manufacturing abroad. His startling
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It has become commonplace to claim that the cost of starting a company has declined by an order of magnitude; just this morning Dave McClure took this claim as the starting point for his dazzling essay, Moneyball for Startups. I think the claim is partially true, but overstated. And I wish we had data, not
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It has become commonplace to claim that the cost of starting a company has declined by an order of magnitude; just this morning Dave McClure took this claim as the starting point for his dazzling essay, Moneyball for Startups. I think the claim is partially true, but overstated. And I wish we had data, not
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As part of our Engineer-to-Engineer series of talks on topics such as Hadoop, Scala, HTML5, Cassandra and Clusto, Redfin invited Ryan Dahl to speak last Wednesday on Node.JS, a web server he created using JavaScript. It was a stupendous talk. Now, I know what you’re thinking. For a core back-end technology like a web server, why use JavaScript, a technology
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