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The Naked Truth: Watch It Live!
It’s not too late to head down to the Naked Truth at Olympic Sculpture Park here in Seattle! With the sun out we tore up
Why The Real Estate Market Isn't a Free Market
The folks at Redfin got into real estate to make the industry more efficient. But if anything, the market has just gotten less and less
The Naked Truth Returns!
Walking out at 2 a.m. from the paparazzi-lined Chateau Marmont last fall with a few of the world’s nerdiest people*, I was nearly run over
Advertising is an Emotional Art
Twitter’s Biz Stone blogged yesteray that Twitter wasn’t interested in banner ads. Undeterred, TechCrunch immediately reported that Twitter would still undoubtedly focus on ads, perhaps
Partner Agent Program Off to a Roaring Start
In February (has three months already gone by?) we launched our partner agent program giving home buyers and sellers the opportunity to see and make
Redfin By The Numbers: April Brokerage Numbers Are Up
Last week we released the latest round of the Redfin By The Numbers reports. With these posts, we’re trying to give some insight into what’s
School Reviews, a Mortgage Guide and Better Performance!
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,
Time to Get Our Hands Dirty
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
It’s Still Expensive to Build a Great Product
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
It's Still Expensive to Build a Great Product
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
“You Should Be Urinating Right Now” (A Real-Time Web Server)
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
HTML 5 vs. Native Applications
Every month or so, as part of a series of talks called Engineer-2-Engineer (E2E), one of the gods of software engineering descends into the San
