Prospering Amidst the Real Estate Meltdown: Trulia CEO Pete Flint (Part 5)

SM: How many consumers are you touching right now? PF: Over 5 million unique users monthly. Trulia is one of the largest real estate sites in the US and is growing very rapidly. We want to grow more.

Prospering Amidst the Real Estate Meltdown: Trulia CEO Pete Flint (Part 4)

SM: You were also providing information regarding the price surrounding properties had sold for. Where was that data coming from? PF: Initially it was coming from listing agents who said they sold a property. They were promoting the fact that they had sold the property, so we simply tagged the property as sold and gave

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Prospering Amidst the Real Estate Meltdown: Trulia CEO Pete Flint (Part 3)

SM: When you launched, what was your thesis regarding your ability to solve the various problems you identified? PF: Initially we were very focused on the consumer side. That was our perspective, and we felt it was the primary problem which needed to be solved. We approached the challenge from two key perspectives.

Prospering Amidst the Real Estate Meltdown: Trulia CEO Pete Flint (Part 2)

SM: What roles did you play when you took that journey with LastMinute.com? PF: I did a bit of everything. Initially it was business development.

Prospering Amidst the Real Estate Meltdown: Trulia CEO Pete Flint (Part 1)

SM: Take me back to where your story begins. What is your background? PF: I was born just outside of London. My father is a professor of chemistry and my mother is an ancient history high school teacher.

Healthcare Reform Through Entrepreneurship: Phytel CEO Steve Schelhammer (Part 7)

SM: How did you finance this company? Is it also a venture-funded company? SS: It was funded by a select few angel investors and a private equity firm.

Healthcare Reform Through Entrepreneurship: Phytel CEO Steve Schelhammer (Part 6)

SM: Your background is not in technology. Where does your company’s technology come from? What you are suggesting is not an easy problem to solve. SS: It is definitely not an easy problem to solve. Form follows function. The most important thing is to lay out and articulate our approach to the marketplace and show

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Healthcare Reform Through Entrepreneurship: Phytel CEO Steve Schelhammer (Part 5)

SM: It sounds as though physicians need to be on some form of EMR system to use Phytel. Is that correct? SS: No. If we had architected our solution to be dependent on EMR, then we would only have access to 5%-10% of the marketplace. We can access EMR data, and we will do more

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