To the tech founders reading, applications are now open for the Moderne Passport 2019 Class… The Moderne Passport Program is a industry immersion program which connects cutting edge technology companies to multi-trillion dollar industries: real estate, finance, insurance and home services. Moderne Ventures operates the Moderne Passport program and…

[Note from Editor: Originally published on NFX] Real estate touches everything we do. It’s the economics of the physical space — it literally shapes our lives by defining the environment in which we live and do business. Tech has done a lot in the last…

Have you ever walked a home the second time with a client and it just all clicks? Perhaps on the first showing day you all liked the home, it struck a chord but your client hadn’t really let themselves fall just yet. Tense, nervous energy…

Last night, I spoke as a panelist on one of the real estate tech tracks as part of Seattle Startup Week. The topic was how Seattle can emerge as the global leader at the intersection of Fintech, Real Estate Tech and Digital Construction. It’s no…

Last week, I investigated category kings further. On the residential side of real estate, the unwavering category king is Zillow Group. In addition to their flagship brand, they own Trulia, StreetEasy, and even power Yahoo! Real Estate. Realtor.com is a distant second, with no legitimate…

Last week, Greg dove into the topic of Zillow and referrals with his piece called Buying Leads on Layover. Just a week after Move announced the acquisition of Opcity, Zillow announced a new additional Premier Broker pricing product based on a “performance advertising expense” or, more plainly,…

I had a crappy ending to my Labor Day weekend. Tipped a small motorcycle, and broke my collarbone and cracked 5 ribs. So I’m working from home for a few weeks with limited mobility while I recover. Typing is slow and painful at the moment….

Businesses avoid innovation from fear of not understanding how to effectively manage the unknown. The leaders of these organizations see the value of being innovative, but are disincentivized by the uncertainty and by their lack of expertise and commitments in time and resources to make…

The Geek Estate Mastermind was originally a combination of an email list, and a private Facebook group. A few weeks ago, I finally made the decision to migrate from a Facebook group to the community platform Mighty Networks. Why? A few key reasons. First, Mighty Networks’…

Caffeine Interactive, the development firm that handled the recent facelift for Geek Estate Blog, has re-designed their own homepage. I’m a huge, huge fan of the rustic/graffiti design aesthetics (they are based in Austin). You can look at their portfolio of work here. If you’re looking…