First (Public) Milestone: An Office Move
Well, it's official. We're coming upon our first milestone of which any new start-up should be proud: our first office move. Well, technically second if you count that John (CEO and employee #1) moved out of his home office on one end of San Francisco to 607 Market Street on the other. This technically did force Ken (VP of Technology and employee #2) to have to commute across the Bay. Well…let's not diminish the importance of this milestone to the rest of us…. We're outgrowing our little nook. Oh, it's little in all respects–even our building is a dwarf compared to our Financial District neighbors! Just look:
Official move date is April 1 (no joke! Or, joke on us? Guess we'll see how the move goes!). Now that we're approaching 20 people in the office, it's become a little cramped…and hot…and loud…and lets not even talk about the single bathroom shared by all (I'm taking sign ups now for your place in the queue)–that practically requires a post of its own. Ok, it at least deserves a paragraph…. Ladies, there are only two of us women in this office–Mandy and myself. You do the math. Need I say more? In any event, on April 1 we move to 425 Bush Street. Did I mention that we're in the middle of doing all of the heavy lifting (no pun intended) to create v1.0 of our service that is launching later this spring? No stress here.
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March 23rd, 2006 at 2:29 pm
Hi Guys — Just found your site. Real estate is definitely hot on the web!! But with all the competition, especially sites like Rent.com, how are you planning to differentiate yourselves?
March 23rd, 2006 at 5:25 pm
Ted,
Yes, real estate is definitely hot on the web. Rent.com is the most like us in the respect that we are both pay-for-performance–i.e. the landlords only pay when we send them a lease and renters receive a rebate when we get paid. As Rent.com grows we cheer them on as the bigger Rent.com gets only further validates the pay-for-performance model for apartment rentals and grows the market for the both of us.
I hope you will stay tuned to see the cool stuff we have later thing spring…and keep reading. Thanks for the comment.