I’ve been busy connecting the dots, and the rumors are flying.
Tune in Monday, when I blow the lid off The Realty Alliance’s batshit crazy plan, who wrote it, what it means to MLS providers, brokers, vendors and the industry at large.
Glenn Kelman’s post gives insight to latest financing round.
In my opinion Redfin is the only true disruptor in the industry.
Slideshow? This time, it was different: Redfin’s $50 million financing all about customer value
Glenn Kelman:
“But software entrepreneurs have mostly gone only halfway. We have sometimes been like the medieval monks who were once so committed to the celestial sphere that they had to confess to any acts of manual labor.
The result of this cloistering has been breathtaking virtual worlds. But from the perspective of a new generation of entrepreneurs who are using our software expertise to build, say, electric cars, these worlds can sometimes seem like a high school science fair project, with a limited impact on the real world. Just look at what is happening now that the people who make 1′s and 0′s are also trying their hand at physical goods and services:
-Uber is an iPhone app for ordering a ride, but it’s worth 100 times more than Taxi Magic because it has built its own transportation system.
Spot on.
TREND selects CoreLogic’s Matrix as primary MLS platform in multiyear deal.
25,000 members (per month) is a huge win. Switching from TREND MLS’ home grown system was a big decision. As everyone knows Tom Phillips and his team at TREND MLS are a careful bunch and I can imagine the process that Corelogic went through to get this business was, to say the least, involved. Congrats to Brian and CoreLogic.
Here’s the full press release.
