Life on a Short Street
On the empty sidewalk opposite my house, I was toodling along on my bike recently — and yes, I was also talking on a cell phone with my brother — when I heard a driver yell, “HEY BUDDY, WHY DON’T YOU WATCH WHERE YOU’RE GOING?” Before even looking up, I responded: “WHY DON’T YOU GO… Read More
The more complicated a business gets, the more of a math problem it becomes. Running a lemonade stand, you don’t need to analyze gross margins or survey customers because you squeeze the lemonade yourself, and hand it to every customer. But once you have employees and customers you’ve barely met, numbers become more important. For… Read More
We’ve talked before about forceful personalities and humility, artistic endeavors and healthy organizations, so we’re posting this letter from my mild-mannered twin brother in Massachusetts, on the Weinstein Brothers’ gruesome creative process… *~*~*~* In the laundry room, I picked up Peter Biskind’s book on Miramax and the Weinstein brothers. The dust jacket has a blurb from… Read More
Just a reminder that Redfin’s brown-bag program this week features Michelle Broderick, a savvy, new-generation marketeer who understands guerilla warfare, social marketing and viral programs better than your average bear. I think she was the one who came up with the “People Love Us on Yelp” stickers that you see in restaurant windows all over… Read More
As part of our brown-bag lunch program on management best practices, the legendary Brian McAndrews visited Redfin Friday. Brian took aQuantive through the highs and lows, leading the company out of the dot-com bust and building it into the juggernaut that sold to Microsoft in 2007 for $6 billion. His talk on how to manage… Read More