AI (artificial intelligence) does work across dozens of industries. Just ask Amazon, Starbucks, Target, and Walmart. What do those four have in common? Years of operational data, the money to invest in such an initiative, and experts in the discipline who know how to balance…

[Note from editor: The “Mastermind Showcase” highlights companies and news from members of the Geek Estate Mastermind. Today’s showcase: Remzy] Remzy is a real estate data platform to help agents think outside the MLS by empowering off-market deals. They utilize geographic farming and intelligent filtering to…

In our latest real estate tech entrepreneur interview, we’re speaking with Mike Simonsen from Altos Research. He’s a longtime friend of mine from the RE.net / real estate blogosphere that I spent many a REBarCamp hanging out with. There’s few, if anyone, who knows more…

There news from Rate-My-Agent.com, a member of the Geek Estate Mastermind, that we’d like to share to a wider industry audience… The top real estate agents for 2018 have been announced by Rate-My-Agent.com. The review site compiled and published a list of the top agents…

In our latest real estate tech entrepreneur interview, we’re speaking with Karen Abram from dashCMA. Without further ado… Who are you and what do you do? In short, I help bring perspective to the pricing conversation. dashCMA is a modern pricing tool for the modern…

We live in a world where homeowners can turn on the AC, unlock and lock the front door, turn on the lights, and detect water leaks – all from the office, the airport, or across the country. Home automation systems have gained popularity due to…

I’m a perpetual skeptic of “real estate disrupters”. I believe that Redfin and the other discount brokerages pick at the ~5% margin of sellers who would rather save 1% than have a good experience selling their homes. The massive boom of iBuyers seem to pick…

In our latest real estate tech entrepreneur interview, we’re speaking with Pavel Stepanov from VirtuDesk. Without further ado… Who are you and what do you do? I started Virtudesk in 2016 in order to help agents scale their businesses with generating more leads and appointments…

There is a new indy brokerage in Seattle joining Geek Build II (an agent/broker website and marketing hackathon): Sea-Town Real Estate. Their broker, Christian Harris, has been a longtime member of the Geek Estate Mastermind. We originally connected due to his brokerage’s focus on philanthropy and social…

[Editor’s note: Originally published on Medium] Some Questions Industry Leaders Might Consider In August, 2011, venture capitalist Marc Andreessen coined the phrase “software is eating the world” in an iconic article published in the Wall Street Journal. In it, he put out a theory that we…