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Seattle VC firm Madrona has a new home, with more room to incubate startups

Since 1995, Tom Alberg and the rest of the crew at Seattle venture capital firm Madrona have bankrolled startups from… Read More

The messy side of the JOBS Act, and the potential ‘death sentence’ for startups

The JOBS Act — or Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act — was supposed to have a very simple purpose when… Read More

Rich Barton and Bill Gurley Unplugged: The full GeekWire Summit session

I had a blast interviewing Zillow co-founder Rich Barton and Benchmark’s Bill Gurley on stage at the GeekWire Summit last… Read More

GeekWire Startup Day 2013: Tickets on sale for our biggest entrepreneurial event of the year

Everyone will tell you that “startups are hard.” And guess what? Having navigated the twists and turns at GeekWire for… Read More

Startup Spotlight: Circle helps parents monitor, manage their kids’ online activity

Once upon a time, families had one, maybe two Internet-connected devices in the home. The “family computer” made it easy… Read More

Meet Fork, an Instagram for food porn lovers to share their own meals

If you’re on Instagram or Facebook, you likely have those friends who just love posting pictures of food they eat. In… Read More

Business-intelligence tech company Extended Results acquired by Tibco Software

Redmond-based Extended Results, a privately held business-intelligence technology company known in part for its PushBI app for Windows 8, has… Read More

Nuiku raises $1.6M to build apps that act as voice-controlled virtual assistants

Sean Thompson was frustrated with how much time it took to work with a line-of-business system like Salesforce. This problem… Read More

Concur invests in Visage to help companies manage mobile devices

Concur is continuing to place bets in startup companies. The latest deal comes today as the Bellevue maker of travel… Read More

From the entrepreneurial playbook: Pivoting for the win

As the start of another football season kicks-off, and we’re inundated with the breakdown and analysis of X’s and O’s,… Read More

How Edward Snowden’s former email provider keeps conversations private now

One of the people directly impacted by the Edward Snowden controversy warned an audience in Seattle about the lasting impact… Read More

Portland mobile app-tester AppThwack partners with CIA venture capital arm

You know your startup is doing something right when the CIA’s investment arm decides to invest some money into the… Read More

Porch launches nationally, promising to bring radical transparency to home improvement market

How much did your neighbor pay for that kitchen remodel last year, and what does it look like? Which contractors… Read More

Next Big Thing: Jeremy Jaech, CEO of SNUPI Technologies

This week I sit down with Jeremy Jaech, the CEO and co-founder of SNUPI Technologies. He is a self-described serial… Read More

App of the Week: EventWith simplifies personal party planning

We’ve all been there: you’re trying to host a potluck, but managing all of the people coming on top of… Read More

Zillow’s Rich Barton on building big companies: It takes a little bit of ‘craziness’ (full video)

Rich Barton has helped build some of Seattle’s biggest tech brands, including Expedia (market value $7.6 billion) and Zillow (market… Read More

GoPro founder loves bootstrapping, excited to work with Google Glass

SAN FRANCISCO — While it may be getting easier to lock down VC funding, GoPro founder and CEO Nicholas Woodman… Read More

Vinod Khosla hates board meetings, says most VCs ‘add negative value’ to startups

SAN FRANCISCO — Vinod Khosla has had it with VCs. Today at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference, the Sun Microsystems co-founder said… Read More

Entrepreneur confidence level in future profitability is sky high, survey says

A recent survey showed that today’s entrepreneurs are either cocky or confident — perhaps both — but are definitely optimistic… Read More

Naval Academy grads raise $3.3M for business intelligence startup Easy Metrics

Easy Metrics, a Seattle startup founded by U.S. Naval Academy grads Dean Dorcas and Dan Keto, has pulled in $3.3… Read More

Fast-growing RealSelf gobbles up Zapd, names Kelly Smith chief experience officer

You could call this an “acquihire.” But, in this case, it’s really just about grabbing the talents of one person.… Read More

Meet the 9 startups from B2B incubator 9Mile Labs

The first annual 9Mile Labs demo day just concluded, and I had fun checking out the nine new startups emerging… Read More

Portland’s CPUsage raises $925K for high performance cloud computing platform

There’s no doubt that cloud computing has made life easier for thousands of businesses around the world. But sometimes setting… Read More

Cisco buys Ignition-backed flash storage startup Whiptail for $415M

Cisco today paid $415 million to acquire New Jersey-based Whiptail, an all-flash enterprise class storage startup bankrolled in part by… Read More

Q&A: Zillow’s Rich Barton on startups and what he’s looking for on the competition stage

SAN FRANCISCO–One of the judges for a round in today’s Startup Battlefield competition at TechCrunch Disrupt was none other than… Read More

Versium raises $2.5M to help marketers crunch data that predicts customer behavior

Businesses today want to know as much as they can about their customers in order to better serve them. Often… Read More

Brandlive reels in $1.6M to help Internet retailers stream live video with shoppers

Portland-based Brandlive, a video social commerce platform designed to help make the retailer-customer relationship more personal, today announced a completion of a… Read More

A dozen things I’ve learned from Bill Gurley about investing and business

Editor’s note: Tren Griffin has created a list of a dozen things he’s learned from Silicon Valley venture capitalist Bill… Read More

Scott Kveton on what makes Portland’s ‘boring’ startups special

Portland’s startup scene is flourishing, with a host of emerging venture-backed companies. Speaking at the TechFestNW conference, Urban Airship CEO… Read More

Spot, a short-term AirBnB for cars, matches drivers with spare spaces for ‘instant’ parking

As is the case in many large cities, trying to find a parking space in San Francisco is an exercise… Read More

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