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  • justin 5:01 pm on January 27, 2010 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: Andrew Chen, ,   

    The naming of Pudget Sound & Bay Area 

    Well, I’m chilling here in Capitol Hill at Tea Cafe after attending a Seattle 2.0 Lunch. Currently, my laptop is out of batteries. So, coding is out, taking over Harold’s laptop is in, and the guy next to me needs to take a shower real bad.

    Nobody cares, I know.

    I promised, so I deliver. Where did the project names of Bay Area and Pudget Sound come from? They came from here:

    Why Andrew Chen Hates Seattle

    The short of it is, Mr. Chen left because he couldn’t stand how the Pudget Sound Area wasn’t innovative where all the startups in our area are transactional based, and therefore not cool, msft, amazon, expedia. He argues, the Bay Area has way more interesting and innovative companies like twitter, fb, box.net, meebo. Apparently, it’s only innovative when you aren’t quite sure of the revenue model but its still a cool idea.

    I’m not here to argue whether Mr. Andrew Chen is right. Though personally, Seattle startups are up and coming… and are going to kick the Bay’s ass.

    Project Bay Area is named this way because by its nature is innovative in the world of real estate. The revenue model is untried, untested. Now don’t misconstrue that, we know exactly how we will make money, but to say someone else has gone before us? No, there’s no one in this space. We’re to prove it. Doing a Bay Area ‘worthy’ project in Seattle.

    Project Pudget Sound by its nature is a transactional based idea. You pay for/buy a product/service done and done. There’s nothing nebulous about it.

    Except that I seemingly won’t give any details about either project.

    Justin, just tell me what the Bay Area and Pudget Sound project are! I say No, my friends! Otherwise, I will have nothing left to tell you.

    Next installment, the exact problem of real estate and how Bay Area was conceived.

     

  • harold 8:21 pm on January 14, 2010 Permalink | Reply  

    Incolo hits Ctrl+Alt+Delete? 

    Just, like Justin mentioned in his previous post Incolo has made some dramatic changes . Our goal with Incolo the brokerage side, was to generate leads through our website and service them. We started to see our efforts pay off with higher search engine rankings and generating new leads through the site, but we started to think what makes us different from any of the real estate agent websites? How are we leveraging the internet and being more innovative?

    This allowed our team to hunker down and examine the needs out there in the real estate market and where is the industry too fat or inefficient. I am excited for the new Incolo and how we plan on bringing more transparency to the real estate industry while leveraging technology. Stay tuned!

     

    • ColoradoHomeFinder 6:49 pm on January 25, 2010 Permalink

      I came across your blog via Real Estate Carnival. Good luck to you guys. I’m anxious to see how well you do. I’m a fellow real estate broker in Denver dealing with the same questions and issues. I hope you don’t mind if I subscribe to your blog so I can keep tabs on how things progress for you. Best of luck with everything!

    • harold 11:31 am on January 25, 2010 Permalink

      Hi ColoardoHomeFinder,

      Thanks for stopping by. I really like your website and seems like it would generate alot of traffic and leads. How is the site going? Please feel free to subscribe to our blog and we hope to have a beta version on our site up in a couple months and would love any feedback. What are some struggles you are seeing in the industry? How is the market in Denver?

      Best of luck!

      PS. my email is hhing(at)incolo.com

  • justin 11:05 pm on January 11, 2010 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: , Incolo changes,   

    What’s going on with Incolo!? 

    Many of you probably have wondered what is happening with Incolo? We’re going through a complete revamp-redesign.

    Our history, in few words, has been as real estate agents for the past year.  Our goal was to learn about the industry.

    Just before Thanksgiving, we had been looking at all the problem within the current real estate space and decided we wanted to tackle some of them. Well we found two… Enter: the Bay Area, and the Puget Sound project.

    The Nutshells:

    Bay Area, a market place to bring clients and agents together while cutting out a lot of the fat.  Our goal is for you, the client, to get more in your real estate dealings.

    Pudget Sound, giving you the ability to do more for yourself by yourself in this market where people don’t think they have the power to do so.

    Why are they named this? Stick around and we’ll show you what we’re cooking under the hood along with how the projects got their names (Hint: they came out of an angry blog post by a former UW student turned Bay Area convert).

    Justin

     

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