{"id":2230,"date":"2007-11-16T13:08:06","date_gmt":"2007-11-16T20:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=2230"},"modified":"2007-11-16T13:09:25","modified_gmt":"2007-11-16T20:09:25","slug":"call-it-by-its-right-name-its-friday-afternoon-real-estate-gossip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/2230\/call-it-by-its-right-name-its-friday-afternoon-real-estate-gossip\/","title":{"rendered":"Call it by its right name: It&#8217;s Friday-afternoon real estate gossip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.techcrunch.com\/2007\/11\/14\/entrepreneur-20\/\" target=\"_blank\">Glenn Kelman wonders a little too self-revealing about the hype motivating serial entrepreneurs<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.guykawasaki.com\/2007\/11\/in-search-of-in.html\" target=\"_blank\">Guy Kawasaki jumps to exactly the wrong conclusion, asserting that VC funds are wasted if a start-up&#8217;s founders have conquered their acne<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/360digest.com\/2007\/11\/16\/job-search-30\/\" target=\"_blank\">And Marlow Harris wonders if the whole thing is simply Kelman campaigning for his next job<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.futureofrealestatetechnology.com\/general-real-estate-technology\/an-interesting-observation-overheard-at-nar-2007\/\" target=\"_blank\">Loren Nason asks an excellent question: Why the hell isn&#8217;t Apple pushing product at the NAR Convention?<\/a> At a minimum, the smart folks from the Apple Store at the Fashion Show Mall could be selling iPhones by the dozens.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/11\/16\/business\/media\/16adco.html?adxnnl=1&#38;adxnnlx=1195240735-ArRMtLOfk4mL3wH4Gyp4ww\" target=\"_blank\">The <i>New York Times<\/i> notes that TV is losing viewership to on-line alternatives<\/a>. Ya think? Everything that exists exists in finite quantity. The more of my leisure time I spent on the nets, the less I will have to spend on other pursuits. The more my work time and leisure time blend together, the more everything looks like a nail. If you&#8217;re not selling nails, precisely what do you think you have to sell me?<\/p>\n<p>Finally, in more jobs news, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com\/venture\/archives\/125976.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Vanessa we hardly knew ye<\/a>. I didn&#8217;t think this was big news on the way in, so I&#8217;m less that whelmed on the way out. Much more interesting, a little bug in my ear intimates, is this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But Fox isn&#8217;t the only one who has departed the heavily-funded company in recent months. She said there have been a few people who have left to pursue early-stage opportunities, while one Zillow employee recently set sail for Facebook. Still, she said there is by no means a &#8220;revolving door&#8221; at the company.<\/p>\n<p>However, some former Zillow engineers &#8212; Logan Bowers, Sameer Rayachoti and Greg Whelan &#8212; left to create a Seattle startup called Fridge Door. I have been tracking the stealthy startup for the past few days, but have yet to uncover a Web site or contact details. (Shoot me an e-mail if you know it or if you work at the company and are reading this.) I am told that others have left, though not sure if the churn rate is unusually high for a company of that size.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I know nothing about the world of start-up companies, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/2230\/call-it-by-its-right-name-its-friday-afternoon-real-estate-gossip\/#more-2230\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Glenn Kelman wonders a little too self-revealing about the hype motivating serial entrepreneurs. Guy Kawasaki jumps to exactly the wrong conclusion, asserting that VC funds are wasted if a start-up&#8217;s founders have conquered their acne. And Marlow Harris wonders if the whole thing is simply Kelman campaigning for his next job. Loren Nason asks an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6,5,19,25],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2230","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-disintermediation","7":"category-marketing","8":"category-real-estate","9":"category-technology","10":"category-zillowcom","12":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6907,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/6907\/video-clips-of-redfincom-ceo-glenn-kelman-from-the-bloodhoundblog-unchained-preview-event-in-seattle\/","url_meta":{"origin":2230,"position":0},"title":"Video clips of Redfin.com CEO Glenn Kelman from the BloodhoundBlog Unchained preview event in Seattle","author":"Greg Swann","date":"February 15, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Marlow Harris of 360Digest.com took these clips of Redfin's Glenn Kelman as he spoke with us Thursday afternoon at Zillow.com headquarters in Seattle: Technorati Tags: BloodhoundBlog Unchained, disintermediation, real estate, real estate marketing, Redfin.com","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Disintermediation&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Disintermediation","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/disintermediation\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3154,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/3154\/what-happens-when-a-lion-of-the-industry-sticks-his-head-in-the-lions-own-mouth-glenn-kelman-joins-bloodhoundblog-as-a-contributor\/","url_meta":{"origin":2230,"position":1},"title":"What happens when a lion of the industry sticks his head in the lion&#8217;s own mouth? 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