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Almost Famous
After Redfin’s layoff last week, the CEO of a startup down the street emailed to say “at least we’re not public!” Which made me wonder
URL Query Parameters and HTML Entities: The Case of the Missing Semicolon
What’s the difference between this HTML snippet: <a href=”http://www.google.com/search?q=html&foo=0″>foo=0</a> and this? <a href=”http://www.google.com/search?q=html©=0″>copy=0</a> Both of them look like simple Google searches (though they could have
A Very Tough Day
Today Redfin laid off roughly 20% of our employees. Unlike other startups, our industry’s recession started a year ago, when home prices first plunged. Since
"It's Only Going to Get Better for Me"
This is the first in a series of real-time, agent-off-the-record blog posts on what Redfin agents and market managers are seeing in different markets. We promise
"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
“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
Paradise Found: Redfin for Android
What was unnerving about the career of English poet John Milton was his unshakable conviction beginning in adolescence that he would write Christianity’s great poem,
Are We In A Bubble? Just Ask The Customers
Everybody knows the story: in the first Internet boom, new companies rode high on staggering losses only to face bankruptcy once the music stopped. At
Memo to Amazon: Pay the Sales Tax & Put Everyone Else in E-Commerce Six Feet Under
We revere Amazon, and generally try not to give other companies advice. But does anyone know why Amazon doesn’t give up the state sales-tax fight
Memo to Amazon: Pay the Sales Tax & Put Everyone Else in E-Commerce Six Feet Under
We revere Amazon, and generally try not to give other companies advice. But does anyone know why Amazon doesn’t give up the state sales-tax fight
The American Dream, Before and After
Here, from a Google Street View photo take just a few years ago, is a portrait of the American dream: And here, after eight re-financings,
Home Prices Stabilize, And the Whole Market Grinds to a Halt
Every month, Redfin publishes two newsletters on real estate prices. One, usually published on the last Tuesday of every month, is a Redfin Roundup, which
