Every month, Redfin publishes two newsletters on real estate prices. One, usually published on the last Tuesday of every month, is a Redfin Roundup, which synthesizes data collected by economists, government agencies and others to provide a complete portrait of what happened in the market over the past month. The other is Redfin Insider, usually… Read More
I have sometimes been a critic of Steve Jobs: for outsourcing manufacturing, overlooking charities, diverting idealists, sidestepping the web or simply demanding the best. But long before that, Steve Jobs was a critic of me. I hear him whenever I do something mediocre or make a business decision that has no soul. I hear him whenever I… Read More
Everything I’ve read about the American economy argues that our most serious problem is the number of able-bodied men and women who in previous generations would be working but now haven’t worked in years. Such articles evoke the ghetto’s despair, the laid-off factory worker, the aging salaryman left behind by a digital economy. But my… Read More
Bridget Frey, Redfin’s newest engineering director, recently joined us from Lithium, the software provider for our for-consumers-and-by-consumers online discussion site, Redfin Forums. Bridget hosted a brown-bag talk at Redfin yesterday about how to build online communities like Redfin Forums, and especially about how to get the most out of a software-provider like Lithium. We aren’t… Read More
The party, we are told, is over. Or maybe it isn’t. Or maybe it is. A week ago, Redfin was racking our brains over how we could possibly spend more money to drive higher revenue growth. When capital is plentiful, profits become less important to any business. You make hay while the sun shines. You… Read More
Big news! If a little red number just popped up beside your iPhone’s App Store icon, it’s because Redfin just upgraded its top-rated iPhone App! The new app is like chocolate ice cream — deeper and richer! — especially for the real-estate aficionados who log-in as Redfin customers. The local Multiple Listing Services we rely… Read More
The New York Times called over the weekend, for a front-page story about how consumers are reacting to Standard & Poor’s downgrading of U.S. debt and a bear run on the stock market. I was alone with my kids who were going bananas all around me. The story was going to print in ten minutes,… Read More
With America’s economy in crisis, Silicon Valley has emerged as a new authority on how to create jobs. Mary Meeker at Kleiner Perkins has analyzed the U.S. government as if it were a high-tech business, arguing convincingly for a reduction in spending, while mostly restricting her comments on revenue increases to the less-helpful claim that… Read More