The Crunchbase research tool I mentioned last week, is now live. You can play around with it at Crunchinator.com. Want to see only investment firms that have invested in “real estate” startups? Check this link. Go ahead. Add as many filters as needed to get…

You’ve got the next breakthrough in the real estate industry. The product idea has been bubbling around in your head for months. You’ve validated it with customers. You’re 75% SURE (nothing is ever 100%) it will work. Maybe you’ve even built a MVP (minimum viable…

Move/NAR filed a lawsuit against Zillow & Samuelson today. And then…Zillow named Curt Beardsley Vice President, Industry Development. For those who don’t know, Curt was just named as the successor to Errol Samuelson (whom Zillow just recruited). Not even sure what to say. Other than “WOW”….

What do you think? Does it will resonate with you? More importantly, will it resonate with home buyers?

You all should read Fred Wilson’s post about Revitalizing Urban Cores. Real estate agents and brokers obviously have a vested interest in increased economic activity in your local area; more economic activity = increased likelihood residents will buy and sell more homes. This topic comes…

A few weeks ago, I got a sneak peak of a new Crunchbase Visualization Tool built by the team at Cloudspace (same folks that brought you MyBlogLog). Here is a short video demo… For the entrepreneurs planning to raise money in the future, is this a tool…

A few links for you related to Errol’s recent move… Rob Hahn – In Which I Speak to Steve Berkowitz, CEO of Move, Inc. Greg Robertson – Errol Samuelson leaves for Zillow & Errol Errol Samuelson – I’m Joining Zillow. Here’s Why.

For the geeks who know what GitHub is, and use it…you should watch this Pando Monthly video with its founder, Tom Preston-Werner… There is a real estate angle in there — Tom bought a house while in debt and without any sort of proof he was…

Today, I’ll leave you with Marc Andreessen’s recent talk at Stanford Business School: At about the 26 minute mark in the video, Marc Andreessen says… There are No Silver Bullets, There are Only Lead Bullets So true, in blogging, and everything else.

Identifying the problem you seek to solve is the first step to building a startup. In real estate, or any other industry. Often times, that “problem” or “pain point” is one you’ve experienced in your own life and you want to solve. If you are…