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A Media Company Mating with an E-Commerce Company
Josh Kopelman observed Friday that e-commerce has changed very little since he founded Half.com: more than half the top-15 media companies did not exist in
The World According to Slavet
The Great James Slavet kicked off Redfin’s brown-bag lunch program today, talking about the management best practices he’d rounded up from his salad days of
Brown-Bag Lunches at Redfin
A startup can be its own strange little place, which is good if you’re a little lonely or intense or if you need a sense
Why CEOs Are So Boring
Henry James once wrote that a novelist has only one obligation, “to be interesting.” I’ve sometimes approached being a CEO in the same way, straining when
How to Be
I just had lunch with a retired airline CEO, as part of a personal-training program Madrona’s Paul Goodrich put together to ensure Redfin folks learn
Redfin Expands to Oregon, First of Nine States That Outlaw Our Business Model
Spread the word! Redfin’s finally expanding to Portland, and offering search for most of Western Oregon, which will increase the number of listings on our
Start Spreading the News… Redfin Comes to New York and Sacramento!
Start spreading the news! The Redfin spaceship landed yesterday in Long Island and Westchester County in New York as well as California’s Central Valley, including
How We Roll…
**April 29, 2009 Ride Canceled Due to Rain** First there were the Redfin cycling jerseys. Then the chatty rides around Mercer Island on Wednesday mornings,
Big Redfin Survey: Even More Than Service, Real Estate Consumers Want Transparency
Every few months, Redfin surveys the folks using our site to try to understand how real estate consumers move between online and offline worlds, so
Mortgage Brokers or Lenders? Depends on Whom You Ask…
If Redfin is going to offer the best service in our markets, our agents have to know more about real estate, which means we have
Begging and Choosing
Fred Wilson talked the other day about the importance of choosing a group of venture capitalists who like working together. It reminded me of how
After the Great Recession: The End of Funny Business
The folks at Redfin have been thinking a lot lately about how the world will look when the recession is over. Last Tuesday, we said