Blaine Harden of the The Washington Post today put Seattle on notice that a gigantic earthquake could liquify the southern half of the city, destroying homes built before 1975 and killing as many as 1,600 people. No one even noticed the fault that could cause such a quake until 1992. Monster quakes happen every 1,000… Read More
Breathe a sigh of relief, the first-ever Startupalooza career fair has come to a smashing conclusion (we hope it’s not the last). Led by our fearless recruiter, Aimee Cook, who ordered the entire Redfin workforce to dress in Socialist red, we came prepared to convert the legions of job-seekers to the sexy world of high-tech… Read More
Over the past few months, we’ve had the opportunity to hear from a lot of our customers both via email and focus groups. One of the most common requests that we get is from customers who want the opportunity to meet our agents in person. While you can talk to one of our incredibly dedicated… Read More
When we agreed to host last spring’s first Techcrunch here in Seattle, we had no idea that we were satisfying a previously unrecognized need for Puget Sound geeks to get together to talk shop and to show each other their new project, gadget, or site. Now that we’re a few more months into the game… Read More
Sitting in the passenger seat of a minivan we just rented at SFO cruising north on 101 at 65 mph (Eric drives too slow) heading to set up our booth at the Trump Expo I realized that we have a limited number of extra tickets for the show. In the hopes of meeting some of… Read More
Inman’s big Connect conference kicked off today in San Francisco. It isn’t raining here, but the city was pretty all the same: For starters, TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington threw Molotov cocktails for an opening keynote at the new geek side of the conference, Inman’s Connect Tech, bringing in a dump-truck of ideas about everything that is… Read More
Is there a more bizarre and depressing circus than a tradeshow? The absolutely sexless hotel. The Tote Bag of Crapola. The inflatable enthusiasm. My first trip to an Inman real estate conference was last summer in New York. I slept on a friend’s couch. I got drunk with a Dostoevsky scholar who admitted at the… Read More
TechCrunch Seattle is in the books, and we still haven’t recovered. For a moment there, we thought we were going to screw it up. When we got to ConWorks at five, TripHub and Farecast had their brochures stacked in neat piles and their demo looping on big monitors. It was a tragic reminder of a… 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
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