Sami, coo & co-founder

Not all listings are created equal (or, how to game Trulia search results)

Thursday, October 29, 2009

Earlier this week, a real estate broker asked me, ”Can you game the Trulia search results ranking?” The answer is simple: Yes - the more interesting you make your listings to consumers, the more exposure and home buyer inquiries your listings will get. Everyone has heard about the Google Page Rank and algorithms that Google uses to [...]

Forty Years Worth of Milestones

Monday, September 28, 2009

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Two days ago, last Friday, Trulia officially turned four years. That is, our site has been available to general public since September 25th, 2005. Of course, prior to that we spent at least a year planning and coding long nights before the big day. But that’s a minor detail when these last four action packed Internet years alone compare [...]

Employee Happiness can be Reduced to a Single Number…No?

Tuesday, January 13, 2009

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I’m a sucker for statistics. Typically anything that can be reduced to numbers, dashboards or charts, will do. How about weekly running distance for the past six years? Sure, I have a spreadsheet and chart for that. Distance scale omitted on purpose. Given both of the Trulia founders have strong backgrounds in Physics, it may not [...]

Happy Birthday Trulia - And who would have thought

Friday, September 26, 2008

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September continues to be a very special month for us at Trulia. Three years ago we released the first beta version of Trulia.com in California as a five (yes, 5!) person start-up and two years ago we launched nationwide. Wow – time has flown and a lot of things both internally and externally have changed in [...]

How Can I Reach out to International Home Buyers?

Wednesday, September 24, 2008

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I’ve increasingly heard questions from our various industry clients and partners like, “How can I reach out to International buyers?” or “Are you planning to do something internationally?” Not only that, my European friends have started bombarding me with questions like, “Can you help me understand the local real estate market in the U.S.? and [...]

12 Chefs in the Kitchen – What’s that Soup Going to Be Like?

Friday, June 13, 2008

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We had some excellent Mediterranean food for lunch yesterday here at Trulia’s San Francisco offices. But the really interesting Soup that our 12 C-level executive guests and our internal team were cooking all day turned out to be even better! Here’s what we were cooking all day: Our Trulia Industry advisory board met for the fourth [...]

Back to basics: Trulia was built to help improve your ROI

Thursday, May 15, 2008

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Whether you define ROI as Return on Investment or Realtor on Internet, Trulia’s business was built on the premise of helping agents and brokers improve their ROI. “You do this out of the goodness of your heart?” You might ask. The answer: We have good hearts, but the bottom line [...]

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Not all listings are created equal (or, how to game Trulia search results)

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Employee Happiness can be Reduced to a Single Number…No?

Happy Birthday Trulia - And who would have thought

How Can I Reach out to International Home Buyers?

12 Chefs in the Kitchen – What’s that Soup Going to Be Like?

Back to basics: Trulia was built to help improve your ROI

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