'... "Does a price that ends in -000, like $490,000 seem casual? Is $499,999 too blue-light special?" I stared into my salad. Little did I know that Redfin's mad scientist, Mose Andre, was working on that very problem, crunching statistics on the data-set we pulled to calculate the Redfin Advantage. ...' [0]
great article. what made it better was reading the blog [1] ~ hilarious. The first thing I read is company blog(s). You can tell a lot from the blog (SWOT) [2]. The company hierarchy, culture, toolset used, market. If a blog is boring, doesn't contain at least some sort of technical (even if it's just a hint), I mark that down as a 'old skool' software company who's roots are shipping executables or companies without leaders who understand 'transparency'.
Reference
[0] Redfin blog, 'Pricing Advice: Make the Last 3 Digits -500'
great article. what made it better was reading the blog [1] ~ hilarious. The first thing I read is company blog(s). You can tell a lot from the blog (SWOT) [2]. The company hierarchy, culture, toolset used, market. If a blog is boring, doesn't contain at least some sort of technical (even if it's just a hint), I mark that down as a 'old skool' software company who's roots are shipping executables or companies without leaders who understand 'transparency'.
Reference
[0] Redfin blog, 'Pricing Advice: Make the Last 3 Digits -500'
http://blog.redfin.com/redfin/2007/03/pricing_advice_make_the_last_3.html
[1] Redfin, 'Redfin blog mentioned in article'
http://blog.redfin.com
[2] SWOT is an analysis tool and stands for Strength, Weakness, Opportunity & Threat