[quote=markmax33][quote=sdrealtor]My example makes all the sense in the world. There is some guy on this board crying because he is in deep shit. Every transaction is different and skill levels of agents are different. you seem to think that its just a few papers and away we go which isnt reality. Take the case of the unpermitted issue guy. Most agents wouldnt know what to do with that and honestly I dont know that i would have either (though anytime I see additions I make sure my client goes to city hall to check permits). The point is there are agents who would have known how to deal with that properly and having the right one would have made all the difference in the world. You can automate trades of stock because a share of GE is a share of GE. Houses are unique and automating everything would be cost prohibitive. Could it be done? Possibly but doing so would be more expensive than the return and who do you think is capable of doing that? It would have to be your GOV. Not for profit entity could make that work profitably.[/quote]
You could have easily prevented it for that guy with software and the right business plan. The software would pull all permits to a guy walking around in the field verifying that stuff on a full time basis. Problem solved. Like I said, the hurdles won’t be around for long. There’s lots of money at stake, somebody will figure it out.
Groupon figured it out on a local level, somebody will solve RE on a local level and get all the documents accessible.[/quote]
Groupon is deep and red. It will end up like webvan.
The only company i see viable commanding huge valuation for the long term is facebook.
Dude, you’re like reliving the .dot.com era…You were probably too young to catch any of that first two waves of action, but like I said, been there done that.
And i can tell you having lived in L.A., San Diego, Bay Area…If the entire mobile commerce, social media, high flyer internet company is where you want to be, or where you want to get funding…You are living in the wrong part of California.
San Diego is dominated by wireless tech, biotech, and to a lesser extent small pockets mobile apps shops…
If you want to do anything related to the interet/social media/etc… Bay Area….
If you want to do anything related to IT/media… L.A.
You’re in the wrong part of town…
Take it from a veteran, that’s been through 1 small telecom in 1996 (then little qualcomm), 1 IPO of a wireless telco eventually bought by an Israeli company, 1 startup/confounder comparison shopping engine (which unfortunately mySimon beat us to it), 1 startup at a B2B company that was bought out by Irish company, 1 IPO of another B2B/EAI company that IPOed at $325/share and subsequently cratered to $150 before being bought out, 1 startup/quad-co-founder of a cloud business analytics company (didn’t go anywhere since Salesforce got in our way)… 1 stint at a security software firm (well it was bought about by the larger one), two terms at a online tax softwear company here (boring as hell, but paid really well since I was an architect), 1 bad experience at *cough* Yahoo (well, Yahoo bought the company, what a disaster). And now part full time gig at wireless company and part time self gigs as mobile apps corp…
Trust me, you’re in the wrong part of town if you want to do anything significant online.
