This year there’s been some chatter about CREtech reaching market saturation and with that a lot of buyer confusion among decision...
A Brief History of CRETech
Anthony
Popularized by the Lean Startup movement, fledgling tech startups release minimal viable products (MVP) to test product market fit. I was curious if CRETech companies were launching MVP’s and landing pages or full products when they got their start. After taking inventory, the result was a brief history of CRE startups and how they looked at launch.
Using the Wayback Machine, here are the earliest screenshots at the given dates.
Loopnet – Nov 9, 1996
Yardi – Dec 23, 1996
Argus – Dec 26, 1996
CityFeet – May 10, 2000
CoStar – May 31, 2002
Xceligent – Dec 1, 2002
PropertyShark – Aug 19, 2004
REIS – Sep 20, 2004
Auction – Nov 3, 2009
HonestBuildings – Nov 12, 2009
MRI Software – Feb 9, 2010
Money360 – Jun 28, 2010
LiquidSpace – May 15, 2011
MatterPort – Sep 30, 2011
Fundrise (Originally Popularise) – Jan 4, 2011
Apto – Jan 16, 2012
LendInvest – Feb 25, 2013
RealtyMogul – Apr 3, 2013
CompStak – Aug 15, 2013
VTS – Dec 16, 2013
Hightower – Dec 30, 2013
Love this!
Thanks Davey!
Great post Anthony!