How To Fund a Real Estate Startup

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1. Hawaii Real Estate | Sep 10, 2007 | Reply

   Web 2.0 is a broad term to capture the idea of the Internet as a platform for user generated content. Viral marketing, social capital, etc… should be a priority for all professionals involved with real estate marketing.

2. Joe from VideoHomes | Sep 10, 2007 | Reply

   ….”bringing the offline society of homes and real estate online”…

   How does one do that? Where does the heart of that statement exist? There are only two options: Create a new process for how people communicate OR tap into the existing process of how people communicate.

   I love Elvis(who doesn’t.. :), but web2.0 reminds me of the 1950’s where a handful of big fish dominate because there is yet to be a large scale disbursement of core technology. Apply some trickle down economics to the Elvis era and you’ve got Elvis Costello.

   But ‘checking-out’ on the thrown is beside the point.(sorry big guy). What I mean is: online real estate is heading down the same path as everything else online. U2 was the last of the rock gods. I see the word “splinter” in my magic 8-ball. Splinter into an online-offline convergence of that leverages the existing process of how people already communicate. Online will adhere to how people are built not vice versa. Yes, it seems sorta vice versa right now…but this too shall pass.

   I admit we may live in the online Elvis world today. ‘National’ is soaring though it maybe closer to U2 than we know. There is a perfect storm brewing which is going to combine both ‘media convergence’ and ‘trickle down technology’. Media Convergence will take place on the local scale where ‘flexibility’ is more readily available. It is the local level that also contains the highest potential for customization. People are finally starting to understand that it’s about harmony rather than a forced choice of one of two worlds.

   The trickle down of technology is fact. Many critics of this concept say “there will always be something new”. Not really. Not going into history but ‘discovery’ happens in clumps. Horse to car is a big bump. Ford to Ferrari is pretty minor actually.

   Real estate is about location and ‘online real estate’ is about local synergies. Community above cyberspace. The future of real estate is about Einstein and Shopping carts. http://blog.sellsiusrealestate.com/sellsius-real-estate-blog/the-act-of-nonaction-an-awakening/2007/09/07/#comment-123421

3. Julien Cheyssial | Sep 11, 2007 | Reply

   Nice interview, but a little bit too conventional

   Rich Barton mentionned Real Estate was one of the very best applications for mobile devices & communications. What kind of usage scenario do you think he has in mind ?

   Julien

4. Mark Schacknies | Sep 11, 2007 | Reply

   Please send me your thoughts on this site that I launched on Thursday.

5. Andrew | Sep 11, 2007 | Reply

   Rich is on-point about mobile and real estate. It’s kind of obvious since you are always on the go when searching for homes. The big question is… who will create the best mobile real estate search?

6. Hawaii Life | Sep 12, 2007 | Reply

   I like what Rich has to say about the future of real estate. Like Andrew says, being able to search homes when driving around in the field would be very valuable. Both to an agent and a consumer.

7. Hawaii Real Estate | Sep 13, 2007 | Reply

   I like what you said.

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