Most of us have worked many open houses with sign in sheets and then after the open house go home and add everything to your CRM or spreadsheet so you can make sure to follow up with everyone.  This process stinks.  Typically I try to…

In our latest real estate tech interview, I’m talking to Stefan Martinovic, founder of Create. Essentially, a “SimCity for the real world”. Without further adieu, here’s a bit more from his own mouth… What do you do? I’m Founder & CEO of Create, a real…

You probably already know we’ve been working on a new hospitality exchange app called Horizon. Who is it for? Millenials (18-34) who want to stay with trusted connections wherever they go (& save money in the process). Most of that millenial crowd can’t even afford…

There’s been much talk and hype about the latest entrant in real estate OpenDoor, which just closed $9.5 million. While they have publicly stated they aim to enable home owners to sell their home online in 3 days. They have not publicly said how they plan…

OpenDoor just closed a $9.5 million round. The list of angel investors involved, is literally quite insane: Paypal co-founder Max Levchin Former YouTube and Facebook CFO Gideon Yu Eventbrite co-founder Kevin Hartz Y Combinator’s Sam Altman Quora CEO Adam D’Angelo Yammer co-founder David Sacks Angelist’s…

This is somewhat old news now (announcement was July 1st), but I thought I’d briefly mention the fact that Zillow won the MSN deal that was opened up when Realtor.com decided to abandon the strategy of partnering with portals (which I covered here). A win…

I read the article on Inman that Ben Kinney is coming out with a Zillow killer. Blossor. As I read through the positive comments from hundreds of Realtors, I could see that Zillow is not very popular in the Realtor community. It seems anything that…

Those running teams (particularly real estate tech startup founders) should certainly take a look at Slack for your teams communication. It’s real-time messaging, archiving and search brought into one. Prior to switching to Slack about a month ago, our team was primarily using group Skype chats to…

I’m impressed with the NuOffer website. Clearly, they have some design talent. [via Vendor Alley]

HomeCanvasr recently relaunched with a focus of enabling buyers in New Jersey to find pocket (& coming soon) listings. Smart to go after one small geographic area, in a quest to build marketplace liquidity. This startup spotlight video is a little dated (late last year),…