At Zillow we just released a completely re-conceived Zillow on iPad. It was fantastic fun to develop and even more fun to use. Here is my launch post about it on Zillow’s blog and below is a video for those of you who don’t yet have an iPad. Zilllow has only had “mobile” apps (iPhone, Android, and now iPad) for less than a year, yet well …
A quick post to say how pleased I am at the formation of what, for now, we are calling NewTravelco.com. I’ve helped form this company with Expedia veterans Greg Slyngstad, Simon Breakwell, and Sunil Shah. I remain CEO of Zillow.com, but will serve as non-executive Chairman of New Travelco, which means I am on the board, but don’t work there. I want to thank Joel Cutler at General …
In email I just asked a good friend who lives in San Francisco:
“Where should a group of 12 price insensitive, wine-loving conference go-ers go for a dinner where we can get great wine, and maybe bring a few of our own bottles?”
Erik came back with the following that I thought I would share for fun:
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Marcelo Calbucci of the Seattle 2.0 blog hosted a terrific conference in Bellevue a few weeks ago called Startup 2.0. It was attended by ~300 engaged and switched on folks who are in the process of or thinking about starting up companies. Marcelo asked me to keynote and has recently posted a video of my speech as well as those from several other accomplished Seattle entreprenuers, including Kelly Smith, Alex …
The Completely Ownable, “Made-Up” Consumer Brand Wins Long Term
I wrote this as a private email in 2006 and just refreshed for the blog
“Should we call our site something literal or should we make up a new word?” This is a question I often get asked by consumer product/service entrepreneurs. In light of Microsoft’s re-launch of Microsoft MSN Live Search as “Bing”, I thought it timely to re-fresh some …
