Redfin went bananas today, announcing $8 million in funding, expansion to the Bay Area, and over 40 pending or closed transactions. Best of all, there is our brand-new site, with a gorgeous new orange interface, time-on-market queries, and map-driven averages for past sales alongside new listings. The engineers and designers who worked through the night… Read More
Seattle TechCrunch is turning into a deranged mob scene, with over 250 people signed up after only a day. When was the last time a party like this came together? You’d have to go back to P. Diddy’s 2004 birthday, as covered by no less than three reporters from The Gray Lady, back when Harold… Read More
We’ve heard from quite a few folks that it’s been hard to RSVP to the TechCrunch event — the wiki keeps getting locked by multiple editors — please just be patient. The attendee list is shaping up nicely, with Robert Scoble, some Google folks and all sorts of start-ups piling on to the list. Read More
A few weeks ago, we heard that TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington was coming to town, and decided to throw a party for all the Web 2.0 companies in Seattle to meet one another and talk about what they’re doing. The PI’s John Cook and NPR’s John Moe immediately signed up for the project, a few mystery… Read More
Guy Kawasaki posted another stunning entry today on all the ways a start-up can screw up in its execution (“After the Honeymoon“). It has pitch-perfect advice on how to handle everything from crappy PR agencies to slipped product schedules. But oftentimes execution is the second, not the first problem. The first problem is that nobody… Read More
John Cook blogged earlier today on the beginnings of a Web 2.0 backlash, in which some venture capitalists grumbled that Web 2.0 is a sham. We saw the same phenomenon in the 1990′s, in which every dumb idea in software was redeemed by its use of Java. In 1996, Kleiner Perkins started a $100 million… Read More
We continue to get great responses from our call for real estate war stories. The following, from Betsy, of West Seattle certainly ranks as the strangest one that we’ve received. While it might be strange, its certainly interesting, and Betsy makes an excellent point about how a good connection with the seller can sometimes be… Read More
The most clicked-on Redfin property today is a tiny U-District place on a big lot: $360,000, 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 730 square feet on a 4,000-square foot lot, built in 1947. The pictures show some depth-of-field and even a little flair: The backyard seems especially lush and rustic: It makes me think how pretty Seattle… Read More
In case you missed it, there was an excellent article by Lisa Chiu in last Sunday’s Seattle Times detailing the WA State Mortgage Credit Certificate (MCC) Program for first-time home buyers. This program helps first-time home buyers get a chip in the game by giving them a federal tax credit of 20% of the interest… Read More
Tune into KUOW’s The Power of Voice tonight for a lively discussion about the Seattle real estate market. The show airs tonight at 8:00PM and the audio is supposed to be available on the web about an hour later. If you have time, please call in and discuss your War Story. Read More