Archive for the ‘zillow’ Category
Friday, June 20th, 2008
Michael Dougherty, who co-founded Redfin and was then at Zillow, will be launching a new start-up called Fridge Door. SeattlePI.com says the start-up will not be in the real estate space but rather the "personal communications space."
I am also guessing that Fridge Door will not be the name used for ...
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Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
First off. What is Twitter? Twitter is a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing?
I just started getting into twittering and to be honest I think it is stupid. I barely ...
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Saturday, April 26th, 2008
I just got done listening to a great radio interview with Rich Barton, the CEO of Zillow and Founder of Expedia.com. The interview can be found on MadeFromScratch.
Rich talks about his days at Microsoft where he founded Expedia at the age of 25 as well as his reasons for founding ...
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Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
This morning, Google announced their recent acquisition of both Zillow and Trulia for $4.4 Billion. The terms were $2 billion in cash and the remaining in Google stock options.
I had the opportunity to interview Eric Schmidt, Google's Chairman and Chief Executive Officer on the Google Plane.
The Google Plane has been ...
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Thursday, March 20th, 2008
If you are familiar with the site, hotornot.com, then you know that people can vote on who is the hottest man or woman from a showing of two photos.
Zillow just launched a similar tool called Zillow Dueling Digs. Instead of voting on people, you can vote on the best kitchens, ...
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Thursday, March 6th, 2008
When Larry and Sergey of Google were trying to come up with a name for the company, they thought they were spelling Googol ( 1 googol = 1.0 × 10 to the power of 100) correctly when they spelled it Google.
This misspelling was a good thing for the company since ...
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Friday, November 16th, 2007
Vanessa Fox, an old Google Colleague , has left Zillow to work for Ignition Partners. She was with Zillow for a total of 5 months.
My other passion is helping to build the web and working with start ups on innovative, kick-ass ideas. I’ll be doing more of that, particularly as ...
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