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Inside Apartment List April 17, 2013 posted by jhavel

CEO Takeover

For those who don’t know, we issued a challenge back in February for people to tweet their best ideas to our CEO, @JohnKobs, for the chance to spend the day…

Featured March 11, 2013 posted by Kera Zacuto

FoosBrawl: A Game of Strategy, Determination and Quick Wrists

Separating the Foosers from the Losers This week kicks off FOOSBRAWL, the second annual foosball competition that brings together start-ups from around the Bay. Sponsored by Apartment List, Homefry’s and…

Inside Apartment List March 8, 2013 posted by Kera Zacuto

Think You’ve Got What It Takes To Run Apartment List?

You Say You Want To Be a CEO…. Our bold and fearless leader and CEO, John Kobs, has been a little sluggish lately. We’re trying to keep him on…

Inside Apartment List January 11, 2013 posted by John Kobs

Introducing “A-List Concierge”

Wouldn’t it be great if there were an answer to your San Francisco apartment hunting woes? If there really were an easy way to land an apartment in San Francisco? Well, it…

Inside Apartment List January 2, 2013 posted by John Kobs

New Years Resolutions

If ever there was a time for self-reflection, it’s as one year winds down and another begins. We’re two days into 2013 and people are buzzing about their resolutions. Eating…

Inside Apartment List December 21, 2012 posted by Lillian Smith

A Very Merry Holiday Party

Well folks, looks like we’ve made it through the week. The countdown til 5 o’clock is officially on, and in the meantime I thought I’d take this time to not…

Inside Apartment List December 11, 2012 posted by Lillian Smith

Apartment List’s Zero Waste Training

What do aluminum foil, hard plastics, and old CDs have in common? All should be thrown in the blue bin when it comes time to toss. Apartment List was fortunate…

Featured November 29, 2012 posted by Lillian Smith

New Year, New Blog!

So long, Pinterest-style blog. You were beautiful, with your responsive design and your animated gif friendly layout. You were good to me, you were good to all of us, but…

Inside Apartment List November 20, 2012 posted by Jon Snitow

More Ruby/Rails Lightning Talks

The Apartment List server runs on a Ruby/Rails stack, and one of the best aspects of Ruby and Rails is the community. Here at AL we appreciate the community’s great…

Featured November 13, 2012 posted by John Kobs

Welcoming Simon Rothman

A start up owes its successes to its team – and at Apartment List our team includes not just the 34 employees that show up to work every day, but our advisory…

Inside Apartment List November 10, 2012 posted by Lillian Smith

Our Supporters

Apartment List would like to give a shout out to some of the fine establishments that have found our site useful enough to share it with others. The following is just…

Inside Apartment List November 7, 2012 posted by Lillian Smith

The Organic Search Chronicles – October Edition

Some of you may have tuned in last month for our first ever “Organic Search Chronicles” blog post. This was our fun way of combing through the thousands of monthly Google…

Featured November 1, 2012 posted by John Kobs

Apartment List 3rd Fastest Growing Company in the Bay Area – Thanks SF Business Times!

Last week Apartment List was honored to be named #3 on the San Francisco Business Times list of the Fastest-Growing Private Companies of 2012. Here’s a quick video of my co-founder, Chris Herndon, and…

Inside Apartment List October 31, 2012 posted by Lillian Smith

Apartment List’s Haunted Housewarming

What a smashing success! Thank you to everyone who came out to our Haunted Housewarming party this past Friday, and a huge thanks to our very own Kera Zacuto for…

Inside Apartment List October 22, 2012 posted by Lillian Smith

Hacktoberfest

This past Friday, Apartment List held it’s second ever Hackathon, or “Hacktoberfest”. For us, a Hackathon is a day where engineers, designers, and business folk alike drop what they’re doing…

Inside Apartment List October 12, 2012 posted by Lillian Smith

Design Talks – Christina Brodbeck on Emotional Design

Yesterday at Apartment List we had the pleasure of welcoming Christina Brodbeck, YouTube’s first UI Designer, for the first ever installment of our Design Talk series. Christina (an angel investor…

Inside Apartment List October 9, 2012 posted by Lillian Smith

Haunted Housewarming 2012 – Costume Ideas

Halloween is my favorite holiday, and I don’t take it lightly. That’s why for Apartment List’s Haunted Housewarming, I’d like to provide ya’ll with a list of costume ideas and…

Inside Apartment List October 2, 2012 posted by Lillian Smith

Movin’ On Up (Our New Digs)

From a one bedroom apartment in Palo Alto to the confines of John Kobs’ work-live loft on 4th and Brannon (1 bathroom for 10 people, heyooo!) to the 2nd floor…

Inside Apartment List October 2, 2012 posted by Lillian Smith

Apartment List Does Tough Mudder

This past Saturday while most of us were enjoying a moderately hot but still absolutely pleasant 78 degree San Francisco day, 8 members of Apartment List and their cohort, James…

Inside Apartment List September 28, 2012 posted by John Kobs

We Won Vator Splash SF!

Yesterday afternoon my co-founder Chris Herndon and I had the chance to present Apartment List to an audience of several hundred at Vator Splash, a start-up competition here in…

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