I came across Skyrise today via a comment on AVC. You all know I’m a community guy (see Horizon). It appears Skyrise will enable (they are not live yet) community for commercial spaces. I definitely agree there is a compelling opportunity to help those who work in the same…

Earlier today, Benedict Evans wrote on the topic of Search, Discovery, and Marketing. Particularly if you are a broker or franchises who thinks constantly about syndication & marketing your firm’s listings, you should read it. I wanted to pull this quote out: where do you want…

Congrats to the Avenue team for winning the $25,000 prize for Realogy’s FWD startup pitch competition (via Inman). Avenue delivers “Professional Advice from Local Real Estate Experts”. I haven’t seen their actual product to know whether they’ve nailed the user experience or not, but I absolutely…

MetaProp NYC, an accelerator in New York City, is now open for business. I’ve long believed there is an opportunity to fill in the “real estate accelerator” market (see this post & this one), and MetaProp seems like they can execute on it. They have a…

From the list of TechStars Boulder companies, I found Trelora. Another startup going after cutting commissions. It seems Trelora has been around quite awhile in Denver, here’s an article from 2014. Sure, everyone will tell you they want a cheaper way to buy and sell…

I just came across this agent profile. Of course I get the concept of reviews/ratings on agents. What I don’t get is why a consumer would ever care about designations to the point an agent (or web platform) would want to highlight them? Accredited Greenagent –…

As I’ve said before, selling $10 agent websites isn’t a business that’s going to make much money, and certainly  not generate a 10x return for investors. I just took a look at Placester’s site again (after reading Greg’s post), and saw the “marketing solutions” section highlighting…

For the startup founders and employees out there curious about the state of the venture market, here’s some new data from Andreessen Horowitz… U.S. Technology Funding — What’s Going On? from a16z

Fair warning, this post has nothing at all to do with real estate technology. I read GothamGal’s post this morning about the 7 words you would use to describe yourself. Seems like a great exercise to go through. For me? How about… Loyal, driven, passionate,…

Many technologists who read this blog probably frequent Product Hunt at least weekly. Mark Suster, a venture capitalist in Los Angeles whose blog Both Sides of the Table I read regularly, recently interviewed Product Hunt’s founder, Ryan Hoover. The hour long video is below, and well worth watching:…