Stephen Bedikian (Stephen Bedikian)


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Author Bio: Stephen Bedikian is a partner at market analysis firm Real IQ and has extensive experience in the real estate and mortgage industries. He has consulted for leading companies including Experian, CarsDirect.com, First American, Bank of America, Yahoo! and others. Before joining Real IQ, he was the vice president of marketing at SmartClose, a transaction management systems provider that was acquired by an affiliate of Fidelity National Financial, Inc. Prior to that he served as an executive-in-residence at Rustic Canyon Ventures, then the largest venture capital firm in Southern California with $550 million under management. He evaluated potential investments for the firm which invested in HomeGain, a real estate lead generation service that was acquired in 2005 by Classified Ventures, an alliance of the New York Times, Washington Post, Tribune Company and more than 130 other newspapers. Previously, he was the vice president of marketing and strategic planning at ListingLink.com, an ASP hosting provider for real estate agents, brokers and homebuilders. ListingLink was acquired by Classified Ventures in 1999. Prior to ListingLink, Bedikian served as general manager for the online real estate and automotive businesses of the Los Angeles Times. Mr. Bedikian graduated from the University of Texas at Austin. He holds an M.A. from George Washington University in Telecommunications Policy and an M.B.A. from UCLA's Anderson School of Management.