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Fast-growing Solavei scores fresh cash, aims to top $100M in revenue

Solavei, which rewards customers for signing up friends, family and co-workers for its wireless service, has scored $2 million in fresh… Read More

Dave McClure’s 500 Startups backs online presentation upstart 9Slides

9Slides, the maker of online presentation software that syncs video with slides, has raised capital from Dave McClure’s 500 Startups… Read More

Appature’s Kabir Shahani: Startups are 95% luck, 4% timing and 1% hard work

Appature CEO Kabir Shahani is one of the most energetic and charismatic young entrepreneurs in Seattle. He’s also wise beyond… Read More

Glympse CEO Bryan Trussel: You really don’t want to take the startup leap, do you?

I’ve seen a lot of entrepreneurs over the years talk about what it’s like to create a startup, explaining in… Read More

Meet the clean water startup that just won 1st place in the UW biz plan competition

When you think about innovation, water usually isn’t the first thing that comes to mind. But there’s a big problem… Read More

Startup lesson #3: Don’t make up a brand, be yourself

[Editor’s note: Seattle entrepreneurs Barry Chu and Dave Cotter share some of their startup lessons in starting the new mobile app… Read More

Commentary: 3 important tips for young entrepreneurs

[Editor’s note: Gravity Payments CEO Dan Price was the winner of the “Young Entrepreneur of the Year” category at the… Read More

Ride sharing service Lyft zooms forward with $60M from Andreessen Horowitz

Lyft, the ride sharing service known for the distinctive pink mustaches that drivers attach to their vehicles, has raised $60… Read More

Calling all entrepreneurs: Startup Weekend and Startup America launch UP Global

Startup Weekend is joining forces with Startup America to launch UP Global, a new program designed to help entrepreneurs through… Read More

Card-counting startup founders look to place a bet on Google Glass

Colin Jones and Ben Crawford have a tremendous story to tell, and one that you may have already read about or… Read More

Startup lesson #2: Don’t ignore the enablers

[Editor’s note: Seattle entrepreneurs Barry Chu and Dave Cotter share some of their startup lessons in starting the new mobile app… Read More

Bruce Montgomery biotech startup Cardeas Pharma raises $34 million

It has been a good week for the Seattle life sciences community. On Monday, Seattle genomics tool maker NanoString Technologies… Read More

Microsoft vets raise cash for productivity startup Tipbit, backed by Ignition and Andreessen Horowitz

A startup by the name of Tipbit — backed by Ignition Partners and Andreessen Horowitz —wants to make you more… Read More

From shopping advice to walking devices, startups with UW ties show off their successful ideas

The entrepreneurial talent coming out of the University of Washington was on full display Tuesday evening at the Paul G. Allen Center… Read More

Chart: The top 10 biggest private tech buyouts (and where Tumblr ranks)

In the wake of Yahoo’s blockbuster $1.1 billion purchase of Tumblr, Bloomberg News has produced a pretty nifty chart of… Read More

SEO guru Vanessa Fox sells search analytics startup Nine by Blue to RKG

Seattle entrepreneur Vanessa Fox has been bootstrapping her search analytics business, Nine by Blue, for the past six years. Today,… Read More

These sensor-infused socks track your steps and ID injury-prone running styles

In the past few years, you’ve heard of smartphones, smart-watches and most recently, smart-glasses. Now, courtesy of a Redmond-based startup,… Read More

Startup lesson #1: Reid Hoffman is wrong

[Editor’s note: Seattle entrepreneurs Barry Chu and Dave Cotter share some of their startup lessons in starting the new mobile… Read More

Startup Spotlight: Stride taps user feedback to build a CRM product with ‘love’

It took just 24 hours for the self-described “startup junkies” at Stride to get their new customer relationship management service… Read More

Commencement speech showdown: Advice to recent grads from Redfin’s Kelman and Zillow’s Rascoff

It’s that time of year when commencement speeches ring out across the nation, with everyone from President Barack Obama to… Read More

5 things I learned while working on the original Xbox

[Editor’s Note: With Microsoft preparing to unveil the third generation of the Xbox on Tuesday, we asked GeekWire Chairman Jonathan… Read More

Fast-growing HasOffers raises $9.4M, promises to keep ‘bootstrapper spirit’ alive

HasOffers built a pretty impressive business over the past four years, using the company’s revenue to fuel expansion as it… Read More

How Silicon Valley VCs would react to a pitch from the greatest geek ever, Nikola Tesla

GeekWire’s Greatest Geek of All Time is making headlines again, and this time it relates directly to the startup world. Palo… Read More

Nike Accelerator Spotlight: FitDeck turns exercise into a card game

Editor’s note: Nike Accelerator Spotlight takes a look at the ten startups participating in the Nike+ Accelerator, a three-month startup program based… Read More

You did what? Why we chose debt over venture capital

If you’re an entrepreneur, there’s a good chance that many of your conversations — and a good chunk of your… Read More

Digital marketing firm AudienceScience trims staff

AudienceScience is cutting staff again. The Bellevue digital marketing company, formerly known as Revenue Science and digiMine, has laid off… Read More

Bootlegs 2.0: Lively app allows you to take concert memories home for $9.99

Has this ever happened? You just saw an amazing musical performance at one of your favorite concert venues, and you’d… Read More

Dogfooding: Find a way to be your own customer

In early ‘90s, while working on Windows NT, Microsoft popularized an idea to make everyone on the team use early… Read More

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GeekWire Radio: Startup Weekend CEO Marc Nager spreads the startup gospel

This week on the GeekWire radio show we speak to Startup Weekend CEO Marc Nager who is building a global… Read More

Startup Spotlight: Localblox is like Facebook, but for your neighborhood

Facebook is nice and all, but with one billion users, it’s hard to feel like there’s any more than a… Read More

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