It's been more than a dozen years since I left Rent.com. Needless to say, I didn't expect to jump back in to the multifamily space. But after working pretty closely as an advisor with the team at ABODO, I'm excited to be joining their team as the VP, Marketing. The...
After a almost a year of product development, marketing and customer development, I'm excited to be launching CrowdStreet, a commercial real estate crowdfunding platform. The $254 billion commercial real estate financing market is ripe for disruption. CrowdStreet is a...
Last month, we quietly launched Cinephiled.com, a new film and pop culture site that delivers a mixture of commentary, community, creativity and conversation for people who love film and pop culture. Cinephiled features a staff of writers who have previously...
Check out the Engine Yard podcast "Cloud Out Loud" interview with Matt and Mike where we talk Aquo, how we work, Ruby on Ales, Bend, Oregon and lots more.
Ruby on Rails makes it easy to bootstrap a greenfield project. Unfortunately not all projects are greenfield, so sometimes you need to work with a legacy database schema. ActiveRecord is a great choice when you have a full control over your database from the very...
A well-deserved congratulations to the team at CiviData on the Beta launch of their new local government data aggregation and comparison tool. After several months of iteration, the product is being launched to invitees only. If you are an employee of a local or state...
Piotr Solnica, one of our team members, has just been added to the DataMapper Core Team. Dan Kubb, the team lead, wrote: "Piotr has been involved in DataMapper for several years now, and has been doing some amazing work on the DataMapper Property API, heading up our...
We're pretty stoked to be sponsoring RubyConf 2010. This is our first sponsorship and it kinda feels like we're all grown up... nah! But seriously, Matz's keynote should be fun and overall this should be a great event. Matt and Mike will be there. So if you're gonna...
Well it must have been a slow news day in Bend, because the Bulletin came through on their threat and actually published a piece on Aquo. Thanks to David Holley for letting us rant about everything but technology and writing a nice piece that covers a lot of ground....