I took a brief look at HomeTrackr today. It’s another shot at the history of a home opportunity looming out there for someone to capture. Is there enough there beyond what you can find on Zillow to engage consumers? What’s defensible about the product / business long…

I wrote about Slack well over a year ago — and been using it on a daily basis to communicate with my team ever since. Slack now has more than 2 million daily users, and released an app directory today (with 160 apps). If you’re…

1000Watt announced the Turn On Podcast today, and released the first version. Head on over and listen. One thought I come back to after listening to a few of Marc’s thoughts on a broker loving local, is the socially conscious broker/agent. A brokerage could really…

You is Now is a startup accelerator based in Berlin. I asked Sebastian Oehmigen to answer a few questions about the program to give founders more insight into the value proposition and what to expect. Why should real estate tech founders choose You is Now? Our biggest…

For the founders reading, I came across an interview on Entrepreneur Abroad with Brian Requarth that I thought worth sharing. Brian is a founder of Vivareal, the largest real estate portal in Brazil. ‘EP 0.15 VivaReal: The Next Billion Dollar Startup with Brian Requarth’ on #SoundCloud…

Are you looking for gift ideas for real estate agents (aka Realtors) this upcoming holiday season? Those who know me, know I’m not the biggest fan of consumerism (read this post I wrote on Christmas day in 2010). Thus, in 2015, please don’t spend money purchasing…

Congrats on Revaluate’s continued progress (see here for more details). Below is Chris Drayer’ Boomtown demo day presentation…

I know Geek Estate has are a fair number of international readers, but it’s not often we analyze/discuss international real estate. Today, I wanted to touch on the #3 real estate portal in Australia, Homely.com.au, and their most recent product release, Premier Agent. Homey’s primary differentiator is a faster, easier real estate search with no…

The answer is surprisingly simple. Start hustling and build one. Now, go read this, this, and this. (the question in the title, “How to Start in Real Estate Without a Sphere of Influence”,  is one which I found in this site’s analytics as a source of…

Arnold Waldstein wrote an interesting post the other day titled “Can you platform community?“. It’s a topic I think about non stop, given community is what I’m most passionate about enabling in this world. I KNOW community changes lives for the better, and if I…