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October 27, 2007

Free falling costs and website funding

The trend towards small, efficient startups like Menuism, 37Signals, and the Robot Co-op and a host of other small, unfunded or minimally funded startups is forcing venture capitalists to scrounge for non-traditional investments (halfway down the page). ALTERNATIVE INVESTMENTS The blog VentureBeat has been following the venture capitalists scrounging for alternatives to technology investments as free-falling costs have drastically cut...

Funding/Startups

October 26, 2007

Note to New Yorkers: Seattle condos are half off

For those wincing at the cost of Seattle homes that cost an average of $374 per square foot, I’d like to point out that they are a relative deal when placed next to New York’s approximate $1,000 per square foot prices (!!!). Seattle per square foot condo prices are higher – $521 per square foot ($540,556 average price, 1,037 sqft...

Real estate

October 17, 2007

Schooling the competition

You might think this is in reference to the positive reviews that greeted our low profile release last week or maybe a post about Tacoma schools but no, this is a post about your browser. Firefox, a free web browser you can download here, “schooled” the competition when it came out November 9th, 2004 (so recently!). Why? Because it loaded...

Estately

October 12, 2007

Maps demand more screen real estate

If you have a big screen, Estately is one of the only real estate search sites that will fill it up with real estate search goodness. Small screen? We shrink to your level unless it’s tiny. Seriously: go to Estately’s Seattle real estate page now and try resizing your browser – see how everything scales to fit your needs? Regardless,...

Features/Maps/Real estate

October 10, 2007

More (better) neighborhood and city information

Isn’t there a word for something that’s both more and better? Mobetta? If so, we are today launching mobetta neighborhood and city information pages to give potential home buyers a real feel for the neighborhood and to give sellers marketing points they didn’t know existed. I’ll just jump to what’s both more and better: Best and worst schools for every...

Estately/Neighborhoods/New Features/News

September 20, 2007

Apparently we should be an MLS takeover target

No firm plans to sell out to an MLS or the National Association of Realtors as of today. We are always flattered when we’re lumped into a group of companies that have invested exponentially more money than us and have exponentially more employees working for them. Before we get started in earnest, I want you to take a look at...

Features/Press