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Interesting thought about the e-mails. It seems like salesforce or zoho would also be perfectly adequate for scaling customer service. Have you tried those?

Would love anyone's thoughts on this post!

I somewhat agree here, but when a company is small it could be awkward to have a policy where you buy computers for some and not for others, right?

This is specifically for early-stage founders. If you haven't raised much yet, how do you deal with new employees coming in? Do you buy them new laptops? Buy refurbished macs?

You make an interesting point. One of the issues, however, is that all of the data is created within the industry. Because brokers create and control the data, companies must work …

Spot on there. Selling to the broker franchises in a B2B play is much easier than selling to individual agents in a B2C play. You have to prove to brokers that they are going to ma…

Interesting - at what price point do you think people would need to see it in person first? Certainly some sites have proven people will buy ever-more-expensive goods online, but r…

Suitey - New York City - Full time Suitey is a software-powered real estate brokerage changing the way that people buy homes. We are growing our team significantly as we look to ta…

It could be difficult for them to sustain revenue growth once they've sold to a critical mass of brokers... https://ycharts.com/companies/Z/revenue_growth

I wonder if Zillow and Trulia would ever consider hiring brokers to grow their revenue...

Yes, that is an assumption I make in the article. A 20% downpayment is going to be the minimum that you would need for any bank to approve you for a mortgage. Many readers either h…

That's a valid point and I'll follow up with a future post about the economics of buying, but to realize a return on a home you need a time horizon of 5 years. With the shift to mo…