Pete Flint, CEO
Founder & CEO, Trulia
Understanding the Government Takeover of Freddie and Fannie
I posted this on my blog, but wanted to share with our community on Trulia Blog as well. For those that follow the mortgage crisis, I’m sure everyone saw the news. Here is the summary of the discussions appearing on Trulia and across the web. Email me or in the comment section, tell me about [...]
Why does the world need another blogging platform?
Earlier this week was a big step for me as I’ve started blogging on our new blogging platform. You can read my first post here. Two posts so far this week and many more to come – I’m delighted to become a blogger! In the post, I explain why I’ve started blogging and also why [...]
Trulia Secures More Funding
Today marks another exciting day in our history – we closed a $15 million round of funding, bringing our total amount raised to $33 million. Deep Fork Capital LLC led the financing along with our existing prior lead investors Sequoia Capital, Accel Partners and Fayez Sarofim and Co. also participating. You can read the press [...]
Search Engines, Trulia and Googlygook
Search engines are where most people start their web search and being ranked highly in search engines is a big deal. For any website, it is important to be highly ranked in search engines as this helps to drive more users. Recently, there has been some confusion or misunderstanding about Trulia in the blogosphere in [...]
Is the housing market the final nail in the coffin for newspapers?
The Newspaper Association of America released some data last week on the decline in advertising revenue in Newspapers. At Trulia we monitor these trends closely as our business model is in a large part based on capturing a portion of the advertising dollars as they shift from less efficient offline media to online media, which [...]
New Year’s Resolutions for Online Real Estate and Trulia
2007 was a certainly the hangover year from the excess in the housing economy from the first half of the decade. Mortgage crisis, credit crunch, subprime, foreclosures, housing bust were frequent headlines throughout the year. Tough times for many and well covered in many other posts. With 2008 around the corner, here are some New [...]
Feeling lonely? Find someone on Trulia Voices.
We are very excited to announce the addition of Member Search BETA to help you search and discover members within the Trulia Voices community. We recently asked the community for feedback on upcoming changes to Trulia Voices. The ‘Top Voices’ feature is a useful tool to find the most active Trulia Voices members in different locations, but [...]
Cyber Monday, Christmas Trees, homes for sale and other shopping trends
According to an article in today’s New York Times, 2007 marks the year that “CyberMonday” — the promotion initiated in 2005 by online retail trade organization Shop.org to create an online counterpart to the brick-and-mortar “Black Friday” — moves from gimmick to genuine trend. The phrase “genuine trend” immediately got me thinking about online real [...]
National Open House Day is November 4
When everyone turns back their clocks for daylight savings time this Sunday, I’m sure many home buyers will be wishing they could turn their clocks back a little further – perhaps to 2005 or 2006 when the housing boom was still in full swing, interest rates were at an all-time low and every purchase seemed [...]
Me and Maggie at Real Trends
As frequent Truliablog readers know, we regularly attend real estate and technology conferences around the country. More and more, I am being invited to speak at these conferences and being on that side of the microphone is rather interesting. While many participants offer advice or insights on your presentations, you never really know if anyone [...]
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