17 Pithy Insights for Startup Employees:
- If you’re just looking for a job, you’re probably better off looking elsewhere.
- Seeks signs of potential future success early. Working for a growing, thriving startup is much more fun.
- If the value of the education does not exceed the value of the salary, you’re doing something wrong.
Big announcements today at work.
The first home tour with a Redfin agent, up to three hours per household, is free. Future tours are $125 per home or $250 for a three-hour tour. To schedule a free home tour, send an e-mail to tours@redfin.com or call 1-877-973-3346.
We have refunded $1 million dollars to customers:
Redfin reached the million-dollar milestone in less than six months by refunding $1,011,985 in commissions, for an average refund of $9,825, to 103 home-buyers in California and Washington. In addition, 28 home sellers have used Redfin to sell their home saving $289,173 in commissions, for an average of $10,328.
And if you’re a Microsoftie or a Googler we refund even more than our usual 66%.
In a rush, I took the boat out over the weekend because Mark was vacating his apartment. In case you’re wondering, this is what a wakeboard boat costs:
$100/year for new fenders and lines
$120/year for registration
$120/year to put in the water and take it out
$500/year in required maintenance
$550/year for insurance
$900/year for trailer storage
$1200/year for moorage
Plus $40-50 every time you go wakeboarding.
Which I guess is probably like $85/hour not counting the expense of the boat, financing, depreciation and toys.
Needless to say I’m seriously reconsidering this sport since I went wakeboarding less than 10 times this year. But, don’t get me wrong, I love owning a wakeboard boat. Now if only there was a fractional boat ownership program out there. Or a web 2.0 site that manages both the cost sharing (ala Billmonk) and the time sharing of a shared asset like a boat, or sports car, or high end downhill mountain bike.
If you’re in Seattle and interested in fractional boat ownership drop me a line. Maybe I’ll put together something next spring.
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