I saw the news that NAR is launching the .realestate top-level domain later this year, which is a result of winning the rights to do so back in 2014. Domain names are not valuable by themselves. They aren’t going rank in Google without great content and backlinks, both of…

In our latest real estate tech entrepreneur interview, we’re speaking with Jatinder Singh, founder of Botplan. Without further ado… What do you do? I am the founder and CEO of Botplan. Botplan is a Real Estate Chatbot company. Our software is a white label chatbot…

We’ve now published seven Geek Estate founding member interviews; Jennifer Kjellgren, Sep Niakan, Eileen Romito, Ryan Coon, Caroline Pinal, Joel Leslie, David Marc Harris, and Seth Siegler. The interviews are meant to give you a taste of current business priorities, products and trends to watch in 2018, and what they enjoy about being a Geek Estate mastermind…

The purpose of Geek Estate’s mastermind community is two fold: Curate the most incredible and diverse membership of real estate innovators, creatives, doers, and creators in the world. Make our members wildly successful in their careers building real estate companies. This week’s member newsletter (#29) touched…

I’ve honestly never been a big fan of Uber as a company (I’m long Lyft), but the following video about urban mobility got my excited about the future of transportation (and cities): Slowly, but surely, Uber is changing their public perception and positioning themselves as a…

The latest edition of the Inside Intercom Podcast is with Andrew Chen (a partner at Andreessen Horowitz). Andrew worked in Growth for Uber for several years, and has been writing about growth strategies for many years. One of his popular articles is the law of shitty…

In our latest real estate tech founder interview, we’re speaking with Amit Haller, co-founder of Reali. Without further ado… What do you do? As CEO of Reali, I’m the number one salesman of the company. I sell all day long. I sell our product and value…

Greg Howes (a Geek Estate Mastermind founding member) organized a “Smart Digital Cities” meetup here in Seattle a couple weeks ago that I attended. Below is the full video of the presentations:

Those who know me well, know I’ve never exactly been a fan of Klout’s product. Not even a little bit. I’m not the only one (see here and here). Today I heard the news that Lithium, which purchased Klout back in 2014, decided to close down…

CoreLogic is now offering consumer search sites powered by Homes.com to their MLS clients. I honestly don’t get understand why any MLS would spend time and money on a consumer search website. From CoreLogic, Homes.com, or any other provider. My core question is are MLS’ playing…