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Redfin on NPR’s Morning Edition
Redfin got a nice plug on the national version of NPR’s Morning Edition & the phones have been ringing off the hook all day ever
Cue Dave Eraker, Redfin Founder!
Our irrepressible founder, Dave Eraker, is headlining a panel discussion on online real estate at the MIT Enterprise Forum tonight at the Bellevue Hyatt. He’s
Big Map!
Thanks in part to suggestions from some of our blogging friends, Redfin has published a new version of our site, with a larger map, and
Consumers Win Round II In Kentucky
Under pressure from the Department of Justice, the Kentucky legislature this week abandoned a bill that would have given the state’s real estate commission the
College recruiting
Redfin has quadrupled in size over the past few months, which isn’t hard to do when you start small. Now we’re hitting the college campuses
Redfin & Zillow
Redfin appeared today in the New York Times. The article was the 2nd-most e-mailed article on the New York Times’s site. The article also discussed
Guest Post from My Twin Brother: So Long, World Cup
My twin brother is an old-school letter writer with a Symbian phone. Here’s a note he just sent me about the World Cup, which has
Introducing MultiMarker: The fastest way to add many hundreds or thousands of markers on Google Maps
At Google IO 2009, our fearless leader Sasha Aickin (my boss) demonstrated our high-performance Google Maps utility library to the world; we provided directions explaining
DeeJayOh Argues that the Problem is Still Inventory, not Demand
Every month, Redfin publishes a newsletter about real estate prices out to a few hundred thousand people. A few hundred write back. The tone of
The Rise of the Quants
My favorite anecdote in Michael Lewis’s The Big Short is about one of the first people to make big bets against mortgage bonds, a Deutsche
What the Government Could Really Do to Support Entrepreneurs
Innovation and entrepreneurship are becoming my two least-favorite words, mostly because they are being appropriated in ways that are neither innovative nor entrepreneurial. Like in
Jeff Hammerbacher on Hadoop, Facebook and a Surprising Bit About Microsoft
As part of our engineer-to-engineer series of technical talks, Cloudera co-founder Jeff “The Hammer” Hammerbacher visited Redfin’s San Francisco office last week to explain why
