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Archive for July, 2008
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Cuil.com - Houses for rent in Denver - No Results
Monday, July 28th, 2008Cuil.com, pronounced "cool", is a new search engine started by a couple of Ex-Googlers, says they are the world's largest search engine in terms of pages crawled (120 billion web pages). The relevancy factor is quite not there yet but considering this is a day old search engine they have a ...
The Last Lecture - Dr. Randy Pausch Dies at Age 47
Friday, July 25th, 2008A remarkable man and a true inspiration to all of us died today after a long battle with pancreatic cancer. You may have seen or heard about Dr. Randy Pausch on 60 minutes and other sources. He recently wrote a book called The Last Lecture. He offers some important advice: Be good ...
Trump VS Rosie Real Estate Video Game
Friday, July 25th, 2008For those of you who are concerned about the fight that has been going on between Rosie and Donald Trump, you can now take sides in this interactive video game. Waste endless hours of your life. Go ahead, you know you want to....
Virgin Home Loan Financing - Be the Bank
Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008The Virgin Group, a conglomerate of separately owned companies that use the Virgin brand, is getting into the Peer 2 Peer lending market. They recently released a loan program that can help your loved one buy a home. Nothing like the awkward silence at Dinner. "Um, Jimmy, you are 6 months ...
10 Ways You Play Golf Can Kill or Improve your Business
Saturday, July 19th, 2008I believe strongly in how we approach sports, especially golf, and the way we play it can help grow successful businesses or kill them. Tim Moynihan and I recently got back from 36 holes of golf in Rhode Island and then in Denver and it sparked a conversation on how ...
Zilok - Rent Anything Online
Wednesday, July 16th, 2008Zilok is a company that offers a marketplace for renters to find and rent anything online. They entered into the US in 2007 and US traffic seems to be growing nicely. You can rent anything from a scruffy basketball to a Lamborghini Gallardo Spyder. More on Zilok below: [youtube]aLko8E-PEzs[/youtube]
Summize Acquired by Twitter for $15 million in Cash and Stock
Tuesday, July 15th, 2008Summize, the twitter search engine we recently wrote about was acquired by Twitter for $15 million in cash and stock. Summize raised $750,000 in June 07 and has been on a rocket ship trajectory ever since. It is rumored that summize was trying to outsource their twitter search to a large ...
RentPredict.com - Rental Credit History to Screen out DeadBeats
Tuesday, July 15th, 2008One of the worst things for a real estate investor is getting a deadbeat tenant who doesn't pay their bills. There also tends to be a positive correlation between deadbeats and distruction of property. I wish I heard of this tool prior to my last tenant I had to evict. RentBureau ...
1 Million More Rental Homes on the Market
Monday, July 14th, 2008Goldman Sachs’ U.S. Economic Research Group recently released data that says over the past 2 years there have been over 1 million for sale units that have been converted into rentals. This is one of the reasons why we are not seeing rent inflation because although demand is increasing for rentals, ...
GlassDoor.com Breaks Through the Glass Roof
Friday, July 11th, 2008A couple of months ago we wrote about a new start-up in stealth mode called GlassDoor. We originally thought this site was going to be something related to real estate because of the name and the fact that Rich Barton, the CEO of Zillow was on the board. We were ...
Trulia Raises $15 million in Additional Funding
Friday, July 11th, 2008Inman wrote today that Trulia.com, the vertical search engine for real estate listings raised another $15 million in funding. Total raised capital so far totals $33 million. Some think Trulia is currently valued at $100 - $150 million. "The housing slump has permanently altered how people search for real estate and their ...
Landmark Communications to Sell Weather Channel to NBC
Sunday, July 6th, 2008In January we wrote that Landmark Communications was looking to sell their assets. Landmark owns The Weather Channel and runs Dominion Enterprises which owns sites like ForRent.com, Homes.com, CorporateHousing.com and many other sites. Landmark announced on Sunday that they will sell The Weather Channel Cos. to a consortium of NBC Universal ...
10 Commandments of Fake Steve Jobs
Thursday, July 3rd, 2008We have written how the iPhone and mobile applications will change the way we find and search for real estate. We wanted to show how Steve Job is able to develop such great products. Below are the 10 commandments from the fake Steve Jobs. This is hilarious: 10 Commandments of Fake Steve ...
Twitter me This, Twitter me That
Thursday, July 3rd, 2008If you think Twitter, (the communication platform for nerds), is simply a place to write about "what you are doing right now", you are missing the proverbial boat. NikNik of MyTechOpinion, wrote 22 reasons to use Twitter for business and Pleasure: FOR BUSINESS Gain exposure for my blogs… and gain potential readers Build my ...
