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"We Were The Cool Guys."
Watching the credit crisis destroy Wall Street this week, it was hard not to think of the mortgage episode of “This American Life,” which aired many months ago. Clarence Nathan: I wouldn’t have loaned me the money. And nobody that I know would have loaned me the money. I know guys who are criminals who
TechCrunch Asks the $24,000 Question
A strange thing happened in online real estate last Friday. After three years of fierce competition and $100+ million in venture capital, TechCrunch’s Erick Schonfeld finally asked real estate websites the $24,000 question: who has the most homes for sale? “The most important success factor for these sites,” Erick writes, “is how comprehensive they are.”
Memo from Redfin Usability Studies: Software Works, Ads Don't
In a darkened, rank room the size of a windowless van, ten Redfin folks spent most of this week peering through one-way glass at people trying to search Redfin’s site. We expected to be embarrassed. And sure enough, I was often flushed at all the ways we could have made our software simpler. But what
"I Think I Just Had a Nerdgasm"
Redfin’s new neighborhoods release inspired all sorts of reactions. Many, like The Tim on SeattleBubbleBlog, lauded the new release as “a great resource for figuring out what’s going on in the hyper local real estate markets.” Some, such as Alex Coon after studying the price-reductions data for Boston’s South End, waxed poetic: “Like Icarus, the
More Real Estate Science! Finding the Sweetest Deals
Redfin’s real estate scientists published a big, glorious new report today on when homes will sell for a big discount and when they won’t, based on thousands of home sales across the country. We spent two months grinding through the data because every day, we see buyers with born-to-lose tattoos on their foreheads making lowball
We're All Just Link Farmers Now…
For a long time, we have all brooded and marveled at how the entire Internet has been deformed by the enormous mass of Google at its center. Just last Friday, Google seemed to conclude that the size of the Web is no larger than the size of its index. Websites aren’t built anymore for people
"We Were The Cool Guys."
Watching the credit crisis destroy Wall Street this week, it was hard not to think of the mortgage episode of “This American Life,” which aired many months ago. Clarence Nathan: I wouldn’t have loaned me the money. And nobody that I know would have loaned me the money. I know guys who are criminals who
TechCrunch Asks the $24,000 Question
A strange thing happened in online real estate last Friday. After three years of fierce competition and $100+ million in venture capital, TechCrunch’s Erick Schonfeld finally asked real estate websites the $24,000 question: who has the most homes for sale? “The most important success factor for these sites,” Erick writes, “is how comprehensive they are.”
Memo from Redfin Usability Studies: Software Works, Ads Don't
In a darkened, rank room the size of a windowless van, ten Redfin folks spent most of this week peering through one-way glass at people trying to search Redfin’s site. We expected to be embarrassed. And sure enough, I was often flushed at all the ways we could have made our software simpler. But what
"I Think I Just Had a Nerdgasm"
Redfin’s new neighborhoods release inspired all sorts of reactions. Many, like The Tim on SeattleBubbleBlog, lauded the new release as “a great resource for figuring out what’s going on in the hyper local real estate markets.” Some, such as Alex Coon after studying the price-reductions data for Boston’s South End, waxed poetic: “Like Icarus, the
More Real Estate Science! Finding the Sweetest Deals
Redfin’s real estate scientists published a big, glorious new report today on when homes will sell for a big discount and when they won’t, based on thousands of home sales across the country. We spent two months grinding through the data because every day, we see buyers with born-to-lose tattoos on their foreheads making lowball
We're All Just Link Farmers Now…
For a long time, we have all brooded and marveled at how the entire Internet has been deformed by the enormous mass of Google at its center. Just last Friday, Google seemed to conclude that the size of the Web is no larger than the size of its index. Websites aren’t built anymore for people
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