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…

March is one of my favorite months. Spring real estate is revving up, it’s almost sailing season and my Jayhawks frequently make long NCAA Tournament runs. Last night, DePaul and Georgetown fought it out, with DePaul narrowly winning 60-56. However, neither team is likely to…

Does your Real Estate Website have outbound links? The typical authority sites Zillow, Walkscore, and GreatSchools offer some great data and insight for your users. But to use that data, you have to link to the source. What is the ranking cost – if any?…

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…

I wrote a piece a while back about some new technology products coming out in the next year like Tile and Coin. The ability to pack more and more tech into tinier objects with data transmission capability to interact with your smartphone is really interesting….

I’ve mentioned the idea of a hired real estate CTO twice over the past few months (here & here)…and it’s now officially available. We are currently working with 1 beta client to iron out the concept, and will only take 1 brokerage client per market. Click…