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The Web Is Becoming A Gigantic Lead-Generating Contraption for Business-As-Usual
The Wall Street Journal’s Rebecca Buckman published an article yesterday depicting Redfin as the oddball on an ad-crazed Sand Hill Road. Which is unfortunately true.
Will Work For Food: Why I Left Microsoft for a Startup
I’ve been asked by many of my friends and family why I decided to leave my position at Microsoft, where I was appreciated and rewarded,
Inman Conference: Online Real Estate Starts to Feel Frothy
A few Redfin folks went to last week’s Inman Conference in San Francisco; Inman is a big real estate and technology conference. Like all conferences,
Gary Robinson Died Hungry…
John Cook has always reminded me of Edna Buchanan*, the scoop-crazy crime reporter for the Miami Herald who once overheard a colleague grumble about his
The Naked Truth Goes Straight to Video…
The Naked Truth video is up, on Mixpo instead of YouTube, so we could stream the entire 56:53. This is your chance to hear five
We Had Such A Nice Time…
The Naked Truth party wasn’t the three-ring circus I had hoped it would be. No one arrived by camel. The police didn’t shut the party
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
