I’ve been evaluating Pipedrive, on Bryn’s recommendation. I logged in the other day for the first time, and was greeted at a uber clean interface. One simple pipeline. It’s clear the product is meant to do one thing — pipeline analysis — really, really well. Given…

I’m testing a “Zap” that automatically submits information from Gravity forms into Pipedrive (which I’m currently evaluating as a potential CRM for 360modern.com) as a deal in our pipeline. There are all sorts of integrations supported, from Gmail to GitHub to Stripe. Is anyone else…

For those in Seattle, there’s an event this week at General Assembly you may be interested in: Disrupting Real estate. When: Wednesday, 9 November — 6:30 – 8:30 pm PST Where: GA Seattle — 1218 Third Ave, 3rd Floor, Seattle , WA 98101 There are 5 panelists from the…

In our latest real estate tech interview, I’m talking to David Hermann from Sun Number (which I recently covered), a company that analyzes solar potential for homes around the country, based in Denver. What do you do? We have developed an automated process that accurately…

I always love seeing support for Giveback Homes… Well done Katie Maxwell and Intero Houston.

Every year (starting in 2011), I think someone is going to solve the real estate CRM problem. It’s certainly not an easy opportunity to execute on, for many reasons I’ve previously outlined. Years later, there’s still no clear dominant vendor. I’ve been consulting for 360modern.com,…

Elon Musk presented the Solar Roof with integrated batteries by Tesla the other day… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRqSkR4ENAg Wicked cool technology to help increase dependence on sustainable energy sources. I continue to be beyond impressed with Musk’s ambition and execution.

Zillow has an API that returns reviews for a specified screen name. They clearly want agents and brokers to use those reviews on their own websites (see their widget here). We all know a big percentage of agent and broker websites are built with WordPress….

I’m glad to see Zillow added Sun Number’s to property detail pages this last week. I hadn’t hadn’t heard of Sun Number until tonight. From their website, their mission: increasing the public’s awareness of the solar potential of buildings through our Sun Number™ Scores The company/product reminds me a…

I brought up the Future of Cities topic back in July as a result of attending the Unlikely Allies summit in Seattle (at Impact Hub). I happened to speak to two people who work for Microsoft’s Civic Tech team today, and came across an announcement…