Joel MacIntosh's guest appearances

Joel MacIntosh

Listing Bits

The Journey

David Chang

Shawn Achor

Gretchen Rubin

Austen Allred

Amanda Bradford

Rachel Carlson

Frederic Kerrest

Ryan Smith

Michael Chernow

Rick Nucci

Amy Nelson

Ellen Bennett

Tero Isokauppila

Liz Wiseman

A.J. Jacobs

OwlTail

We’ve all had that moment. Maybe it was at your wedding, or during the birth of your first child, or when you happened upon that ‘revolutionary’ business idea. It’s that moment when your mind and heart fall into sync and something just clicks - you know without a doubt what you need to do and who you need to be. It’s this spectacular moment of clarity… that leaves you completely unprepared to face reality. Marriage is hard, parenting even harder, and building a business is a struggle every step of the way. It’s easy to be excited about the start of something new. But as Joel MacIntosh will tell you, there’s a BIG difference between starting something and following through. “When we hire new people, I still take them through the training and ask them, ‘Hey, have you ever lived paycheck? Because this business at one point lived payroll to payroll.’” Joel is the founder and CEO of WolfNet. He’s ridden the rollercoaster of entrepreneurship and knows that while there are countless paths to success, all of them are built on passion, focus, and a fierce drive to follow through. ---  Learn more about The Journey at mission.org/thejourney. The Journey is sponsored by our friends at Salesforce Essentials. We use Salesforce Essentials every day and it’s part of our own business journey. Essentials combines sales and service tools in a single app to help small businesses win customers and keep them happy. See how Salesforce Essentials can help you be your best business at salesforce.com/thejourney

We’ve all had that moment. Maybe it was at your wedding, or during the birth of your first child, or when you happened upon that ‘revolutionary’ business idea. It’s that moment when your mind and heart fall into sync and something just clicks - you know without a doubt what you need to do and who you need to be. It’s this spectacular moment of clarity… that leaves you completely unprepared to face reality. Marriage is hard, parenting even harder, and building a business is a struggle every step of the way. It’s easy to be excited about the start of something new. But as Joel MacIntosh will tell you, there’s a BIG difference between starting something and following through. “When we hire new people, I still take them through the training and ask them, ‘Hey, have you ever lived paycheck? Because this business at one point lived payroll to payroll.’” Joel is the founder and CEO of WolfNet. He’s ridden the rollercoaster of entrepreneurship and knows that while there are countless paths to success, all of them are built on passion, focus, and a fierce drive to follow through. ---  Learn more about The Journey at <a href="http://bit.ly/2Sytqsv" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">mission.org/thejourney</a>. The Journey is sponsored by our friends at Salesforce Essentials. We use Salesforce Essentials every day and it’s part of our own business journey. Essentials combines sales and service tools in a single app to help small businesses win customers and keep them happy. See how Salesforce Essentials can help you be your best business at <a href="http://salesforce.com/TheJourney" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">salesforce.com/thejourney</a>

Following Through with Joel MacIntosh, CEO of WolfNet Technologies

Pioneering Innovation in Real Estate Tech with WolfNet CEO Joel MacIntosh LIVE from the RESP Spring Conference 2017! Talk about being at the forefront of new technologies… Today’s guest was working to develop ecommerce in the mid-1990s, streaming video in 1998, and consolidating MLS data in 2000. Joel MacIntosh is the CEO of WolfNet Technologies, a real estate tech pioneer offering highly configurable IDX and VOW property search applications, MLS data standardization services, and property search API services. WolfNet accesses data from 600-plus MLSs in North America, offering the most accurate and up-to-date MLS data in the business, and the company serves national franchises, brokers, agents and MLSs. After graduating from the University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of Management with a BS in Entrepreneurship and Business Management, MacIntosh founded WolfNet in 1996 as a work-for-hire web development company. WolfNet moved into the real estate space in 2000 when a broker approached the firm with an interest in "Broker Reciprocity", and they have been developing groundbreaking products and services for the industry ever since. MacIntosh was recently named one of the 200 Most Powerful People in Real Estate for a reason, and today he shares how WolfNet stays on the cutting-edge of real estate software innovation. Listen and learn about their flagship products and services as well as projects in the works around photo image categorization and AI.    What’s Discussed:    WolfNet’s journey from work-for-hire web development to real estate tech WolfNet’s flagship products Why MacIntosh favors the consulting aspect of his work in the data space How WolfNet pioneered data sharing among MLS systems  Up and running in Minnesota since 2001 Big growth from 2008-2012 Just added 635th MLS  Why most bigger players prefer direct database access over RETS The benefits for WolfNet of building their own API The two main WolfNet customer profiles  Established companies who want the data Newer ‘bootstrap’ firms who want a transactional API  The ‘magic number’ of MLS markets at which point a company benefits from aggregating the data itself How the numbers validate the concept of consolidation  Fewer than 10 MLSs have more than 100,000 active listings 118 MLSs have 25,000-plus active listings It takes 234 MLSs to get to 90% of the listing inventory 500 MLSs comprise roughly 8.6% of the inventory and just 3,000 listings  WolfNet’s client base How the data services component of WolfNet was conceived and productized The built-in permissioning WolfNet offers How WolfNet’s additional features connect data points to add significant value  Photo processing to generate thumbnails Address data processing Acquiring public records data  What is involved in WolfNet’s image categorization and tagging project  Identifies the category of room pictured in a photo (i.e.: kitchen, mudroom) Distinguishes specific attributes (e.g.: white kitchen with stainless steel appliances) Utilizes technology trained via neural network and human tools 100,000,000 photos processed MacIntosh anticipates release at the end of next quarter  WolfNet’s new data loader product Vendors introducing AI in the real estate software space that impress MacIntosh   Connect with Joel MacIntosh:   WolfNet Website

Pioneering Innovation in Real Estate Tech with WolfNet CEO Joel MacIntosh LIVE from the RESP Spring Conference 2017! Talk about being at the forefront of new technologies… Today’s guest was working to develop ecommerce in the mid-1990s, streaming video in 1998, and consolidating MLS data in 2000. Joel MacIntosh is the CEO of WolfNet Technologies, a real estate tech pioneer offering highly configurable IDX and VOW property search applications, MLS data standardization services, and property search API services. WolfNet accesses data from 600-plus MLSs in North America, offering the most accurate and up-to-date MLS data in the business, and the company serves national franchises, brokers, agents and MLSs. After graduating from the University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of Management with a BS in Entrepreneurship and Business Management, MacIntosh founded WolfNet in 1996 as a work-for-hire web development company. WolfNet moved into the real estate space in 2000 when a broker approached the firm with an interest in "Broker Reciprocity", and they have been developing groundbreaking products and services for the industry ever since. MacIntosh was recently named one of the 200 Most Powerful People in Real Estate for a reason, and today he shares how WolfNet stays on the cutting-edge of real estate software innovation. Listen and learn about their flagship products and services as well as projects in the works around photo image categorization and AI. What’s Discussed:  WolfNet’s journey from work-for-hire web development to real estate tech WolfNet’s flagship products Why MacIntosh favors the consulting aspect of his work in the data space How WolfNet pioneered data sharing among MLS systems <ul> <li>Up and running in Minnesota since 2001</li> <li>Big growth from 2008-2012</li> <li>Just added 635th MLS</li> </ul> Why most bigger players prefer direct database access over RETS The benefits for WolfNet of building their own API The two main WolfNet customer profiles <ul> <li>Established companies who want the data</li> <li>Newer ‘bootstrap’ firms who want a transactional API</li> </ul> The ‘magic number’ of MLS markets at which point a company benefits from aggregating the data itself How the numbers validate the concept of consolidation <ul> <li>Fewer than 10 MLSs have more than 100,000 active listings</li> <li>118 MLSs have 25,000-plus active listings</li> <li>It takes 234 MLSs to get to 90% of the listing inventory</li> <li>500 MLSs comprise roughly 8.6% of the inventory and just 3,000 listings</li> </ul> WolfNet’s client base How the data services component of WolfNet was conceived and productized The built-in permissioning WolfNet offers How WolfNet’s additional features connect data points to add significant value <ul> <li>Photo processing to generate thumbnails</li> <li>Address data processing</li> <li>Acquiring public records data</li> </ul> What is involved in WolfNet’s image categorization and tagging project <ul> <li>Identifies the category of room pictured in a photo (i.e.: kitchen, mudroom)</li> <li>Distinguishes specific attributes (e.g.: white kitchen with stainless steel appliances)</li> <li>Utilizes technology trained via neural network and human tools</li> <li>100,000,000 photos processed</li> <li>MacIntosh anticipates release at the end of next quarter</li> </ul> WolfNet’s new data loader product Vendors introducing AI in the real estate software space that impress MacIntosh Connect with Joel MacIntosh: <a href="http://wolfnet.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">WolfNet Website</a>

Joel MacIntosh, CEO of WolfNet talks pioneering innovation in real estate tech