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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
Cleaning Whitespace in Postgres
As part of our recent release, we added every survey submitted about our agents to our agent profiles. To prep for this, we needed to
Scarlet Letters and Dying by the Sword
At BloodhoundBlog Unchained last Thursday, Greg Swann hosted Redfin for a debate on whether all the venture capital that has been poured into real estate
Brown-Bag on Public Speaking: 25 Tips
Redfin launched its 2009 brown-bag lunch program last Friday, where employees and guests speak on how we can broaden our horizons beyond our little startup
We're No Sell-Outs
On Wednesday, Redfin announced a partner program in which a small group of agents committed to our principles of technological efficiency, customer service and openness
We’re No Sell-Outs
On Wednesday, Redfin announced a partner program in which a small group of agents committed to our principles of technological efficiency, customer service and openness
Redfin Creates a Marketplace for Agents
Redfin released a sprawling, glorious update to our website last night that changes Redfin in two fundamental ways: We built data-driven agent profiles, showing every
